July 08, 2026

Apple to produce Made in America wireless chips with Broadcom: Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products.  Read More

Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app: The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product. Read More

Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models: Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending. Read More

General Compute raised $15m to build the worlds first ASIC cloud. By removing the GPU bottleneck, it runs frontier LLMs up to 16x faster than standard GPU clouds. ASIC silicon is also far more energy efficient, so it deploys in air-cooled data centers, making growth and expansion dramatically easier.

Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation: Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation from Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself and other big-name investors, the New York Times reported. Read More

Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images: The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem. Read More

Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos: The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising and decorating, and creator-based opportunities. Read More

Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine: Build a new kind of rocket engine, and the world will beat a path to your door. Read More

Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips: ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly. Read More

Thinking about stretching your PC fleet to wait out the price spike? The research says that's backward. Organizations that handle AI PC transitions best refresh consistently — not with a one-time buy. Join us for a free online webinar on July 29th at 10am PT/1pm ET to learn how to spec smarter for what's coming.

Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space: Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley. Read More

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July 07, 2026

Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app: The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product. Read More

Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others: Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety. Read More

Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: The worst breaches of 2026 so far: From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026. Read More

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This startup pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car: Bidbus, which lets dealerships bid on used cars, has raised $15 million in a Series A round that was led by early-stage mobility fund Ibex Investors. Read More

Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models: Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending. Read More

Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images: The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem. Read More

The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine: Forterra has deployed more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs in conflict zones in Ukraine. Read More

AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation: AI law startup Norm has raised a $120 million Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, valuing the startup at $1.2 billion.  Read More

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web: With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed.  Read More

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