July 15, 2026

Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models: Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption. Read More

A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era: Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites. Read More

India bets billions on breaking China's grip on smartphone manufacturing: New Delhi announced a $6.5 billion smartphone manufacturing program and a $13.3 billion semiconductor push to deepen India's electronics supply chain. 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.

US charges Russian 'bulletproof' web hosts over cyberattacks that netted $62M from cybercrime victims: The 2024 indictment, now unsealed, accuses three Russians and two web hosts of aiding hackers and profiting from cybercrime. Read More

OpenAI's first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move: The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT." Read More

Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse: Co-founded by serial entrepreneur Shai Morag, Israeli identity management startup Oak is emerging out of stealth with $60 million in seed funding.  Read More

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B: The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences. Read More

Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet: The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild. Read More

Spotify expands parent-managed accounts to users on its free tier: The feature was previously only available to paid subscribers. Read More

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July 14, 2026

Lucid Motors denies report it's considering bankruptcy: The company said the "rumors are completely false" after its stock sank more than 50% on a report that it was weighing the option. Read More

DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI: DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release. Read More

Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out: Anthropic has consistently attempted to depict itself as the ethical foil to other AI companies. This latest marketing stunt — which leans into criticism of AI as a way to make Anthropic seem aware of the responsibility it carries — would appear to be more of the same. Read More

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Iran abused mobile networks' vulnerabilities to locate US military in the Middle East, report says: The Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginning of the war. Read More

Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer: Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools. Read More

OpenAI's new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning: A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June. Read More

Telegram's shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirmed an outage in a tweet, saying that shortlinks to the messaging app had "stopped working." Read More

Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta: If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software’s official launch this fall. Read More

Pinwheel launches a retro-inspired landline phone for kids: Kid-friendly tech company Pinwheel announced the launch of a new landline phone designed to let children stay connected without the distractions of a smartphone. Read More

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