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Google-Backed Satellites For Wildfire Detection Launch As Smoke Chokes US, Canada (news.slashdot.org)
11 days ago Google Canada

A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops (www.theverge.com)
11 days ago Microsoft

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home (science.slashdot.org)
11 days ago

Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 (www.aisi.gov.uk)
11 days ago

SEC filing: GameStop says it owns 9.8% of eBay, signaling its intent to press ahead with a bid for the company after its unsolicited $56B offer was rejected (www.reuters.com)
11 days ago eBay

Feathery, which develops an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including a recently completed Series A (fintech.global)
11 days ago AI

China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024 (www.scmp.com)
11 days ago China AI

London-based Risk Ledger, which helps organizations manage supply chain cyber risks, raised a £24M Series B led by Axiom Equity, taking total funding to £33.8M (www.securityweek.com)
11 days ago Equity London

Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M (www.calcalistech.com)
11 days ago Startup AI

Sources: China's National AI Industry Investment Fund gained voting rights in DeepSeek by joining its $7.4B round; other investors like Tencent and JD got none (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago China AI Tencent

Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona (www.geekwire.com)
11 days ago Startup AI

Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Japan AI Robot Sony Nvidia

Australia To Put Environmental Brakes On AI Data Centers (slashdot.org)
11 days ago Australia AI

Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits from July 20 and via usage credits for Pro and Team Standard users (x.com)
11 days ago

China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated “brain-to-robot” platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset (www.scmp.com)
11 days ago China Robot

Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago Startup AI

Memo: the DOJ says federal employees can now download TikTok on government devices, citing ByteDance's transfer of control of US operations to TikTok USDS (www.reuters.com)
11 days ago

Steve Wozniak's Foundation Partners With Realbotix To Build AI Teacherbot (hardware.slashdot.org)
11 days ago AI

Sources: the Trump administration is considering plans for an independent regulator to vet the safety of AI models; the regulator would report to the SEC (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Trump AI

Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (www.reuters.com)
11 days ago Trump

Xi Vows to Make AI for All in Debut at China's Top Tech Summit (slashdot.org)
11 days ago China AI

Filings: a group of major music publishers has agreed to end a copyright infringement dispute with X over the use of their music on the social media platform (www.reuters.com)
11 days ago

The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index sank ~10% for the week, its largest weekly fall in over a year, and is now down ~20% from its late-June all-time high (www.reuters.com)
11 days ago

Billing Software Error Sends Billion-Dollar AWS Estimates (news.slashdot.org)
11 days ago

Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software startup at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago Startup

Sources: Valar Atomics, which makes small nuclear reactors intended to power data centers, is in talks to raise $1B at a ~$5B pre-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
11 days ago

Apple raises iPhone prices in Japan by up to 11%, likely due to the Japanese yen's depreciation against the US dollar over the past year (www.macrumors.com)
11 days ago Japan iPhone Apple

Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to “an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem” (www.theguardian.com)
11 days ago Amazon

Abbott Laboratories probes two cyber incidents amid extortion claims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
11 days ago

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says after the summer the bloc is set to propose a “social media start date for minors” with “gradual access” (www.ft.com)
11 days ago Europe

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