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Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026 (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-7-8 Amazon

DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block video ads by default, particularly those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists (www.engadget.com)
2026-7-8 IOS YouTube Browser

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, with $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-8 Jeff Bezos

DuckDuckGo browser now blocks YouTube video ads (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8 YouTube Browser

Filing: Chinese AI model maker Z.ai is seeking to raise ~$4B from the sale of 19.8M shares at ~$202 to ~$216 each, after its stock jumped 1,500% since January (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-8 China AI

Israeli startup Velocity, which helps place targeted ads on consumer and B2B AI platforms, raised a $27M seed led by NFX and Red Dot, and serves 20 clients (www.axios.com)
2026-7-8 Israel Startup AI

CISA orders feds to patch max severity ColdFusion flaw by Friday (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8

Cancel monthly fees and get this PDF editor for life on sale for $40 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8

CISA orders feds to prioritize patching Langflow auth bypass flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8

Ubiquiti warns of new max severity UniFi OS vulnerability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8

Telco giant KDDI says data breach affects over 12 million people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8

Superconducting Thruster Harnesses Earth's Magnetic Field In First Orbital Test (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-8

Omdia expects a 22% YoY drop in global smartphone shipments priced below $400 for 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND costs; Q1 memory costs were ~60% of materials (omdia.tech.informa.com)
2026-7-8

Sources: Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model, dubbed M3 Pro and set for release as early as Q3, and plans to open-source it (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-8 China AI

Apple says it reached a $30B+ deal with Broadcom to produce 15B chips on US soil in the next five years, its largest pledge as part of its $600B US investments (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-8 Apple

South Korea's Kospi index is down 20%+ from its record high in June, falling 5%+ on Wednesday; Samsung and SK Hynix fall 5%+ amid long-term chip deal concerns (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 Korea Samsung

France's competition watchdog orders Meta to negotiate in good faith with news organizations over copyright payments, after two groups filed complaints in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-8 France

China's CNVD says it found “security backdoor vulnerabilities” in Claude Code that “send sensitive information” like “location and identity to remote servers” (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-8 China

The EU General Court dismisses Apple's legal challenges against its designation as a DMA “gatekeeper” for its App Store and iOS; Apple filed the case in 2024 (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-8 IOS Apple

Chip startup SambaNova raised a $1B Series F led by General Atlantic at an $11B valuation and signs JPMorgan as a customer to deploy its chips for in-house AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-8 Startup AI JPMorgan

Sources: Apple begins testing CXMT's DRAM chips for devices sold in China; Apple's interest thrusts CXMT and its relationship with Beijing into the spotlight (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 China Apple

US lawmakers are considering strategies to curb US companies' growing adoption of Chinese AI models, as a House committee investigation investigates the risks (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-8 China AI

Japan Releases Snowman-Like Asteroid Image After Flyby (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-8 Japan

A look at effective altruism's fall after SBF's arrest and how the soon-to-be rich from upcoming AI IPOs give the movement a chance to return larger than ever (nymag.com)
2026-7-8 IPO AI

Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 Trump

The global AI boom has thrust CPUs back into the spotlight as Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and others challenge Intel and AMD in the AI data center CPU market (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-7-8 Intel AI Nvidia AMD

Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a $300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures (thequantuminsider.com)
2026-7-8 Quantum

A look at Chinese lidar maker Hesai, blacklisted by the US DOD in 2024, as it expands in the US; Hesai says it has ~33% of the global automotive lidar market (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-8 China

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos In AI Images (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-8 AI Instagram

Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion (www.eu-startups.com)
2026-7-8 Europe AI Paris

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