July 06, 2026

Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code: Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software. Read More

Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year: The hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top allies. Read More

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk: These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. 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.

This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn't promising a robot in your home anytime soon: While other humanoid startups chase sky-high valuations, Agility Robotics is betting its future on execution — and a SPAC. Read More

Trump memecoin investors lost $3.8 billion, analysis finds: Nearly 1 million people have lost a total of $3.8 billion after buying President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin, while Trump made $636 million. Read More

5 desk gadgets that can make your workday better: The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day. Read More

Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups: Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups. Read More

How to reserve and change your WhatsApp username: WhatsApp now lets users reserve usernames ahead of the feature’s full rollout, making it possible to connect without sharing a phone number once usernames go live. 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.

New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI: Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? Read More

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July 05, 2026

Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code: Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software. Read More

Chevy built an all-American EV truck — why is nobody buying it?: The Chevy Silverado EV is a solid first draft of an EV pickup truck. Here's what could make it better. Read More

New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI: Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? Read More

5 desk gadgets that can make your workday better: The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a little extra convenience to your day. Read More

Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are: With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month.  Read More

What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public: Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people. Read More

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor: Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.” Read More

The browser wars aren't about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari: We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari. Read More

Oct 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, 10,000 founders, investors, and operators gather for high-signal insights, curated connections, and real momentum.

Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage: As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves. Read More

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