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- University of Tennessee Research Foundation sues Anthropic in Delaware for allegedly infringing neural network patents, the first such case against Anthropic (Blake Brittain/Reuters) [9m]
- OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says Sam Altman plans to brief the Trump administration and US lawmakers next week on the company's upcoming generation of models (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) [24m]
- Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its "most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4 (Tulsee Doshi/Google) [39m]
- Google says Gemini 3.6 Flash delivers better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance while reducing output token usage by up to 17% vs. 3.5 Flash (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC) [39m]
- Nvidia details its Vera CPU, its first CPU with a custom core design, featuring 88 cores and 176 threads, and set for general availability in H2 2026 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware) [44m]
- Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a leasing program for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, in partnership with Klarna in the US next week (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [54m]
- Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to models like Mythos, available first to governments and some partners (Emma Roth/The Verge) [1h]
- Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its "most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4 (Abner Li/9to5Google) [1h]
- Augustus, which is building a federally chartered "AI-native" clearing bank designed around stablecoins, raised $180M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) [1h]
- Sources: after it closes a round at a $31.5B valuation, Moonshot plans a final raise at a $50B valuation to capitalize on Kimi K3 buzz before a Hong Kong IPO (Pei Li/Bloomberg) [1h]
- Docs: AI data startup Mercor had $614M in gross revenue in H1 2026, up 70% from all of 2025, with ~91% from foundation model makers like OpenAI and Anthropic (The Information) [1h]
- US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration is looking into Chinese AI models over distillation claims and it could "sanction them" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [2h]
- Intel and Fortinet partner to co-develop the Fortinet Security Processor 6, making Fortinet the first named external customer for the Intel 4 process node (Luke James/Tom's Hardware) [2h]
- Garmin launches the Cirqa Smart Band, a $200 screenless fitness tracker that monitors 80+ activities with an up to 10 day battery life, to compete with Whoop (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg) [2h]
- OpenAI says it now has 10M people using Codex and ChatGPT Work, nearly doubling usage from earlier this month when the company announced ChatGPT Work (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) [3h]
- Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestration startup SkyPilot, which aims to be neutral across hardware and cloud vendors, raised a $20M seed led by Lux (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) [3h]
- Microsoft and Mistral sign a multibillion-dollar deal to build European data centers and integrate Mistral models into Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal) [3h]
- Samsung plans to launch its AI-powered Samsung Health Assistant and new heart metrics tools like Vitals for overnight metric tracking in beta in August (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) [3h]
- Iran's IRGC claims it targeted and "destroyed" Amazon's central data infrastructure in Bahrain using several cruise missiles; Amazon has not acknowledged it (Babak Kamiar/Euronews) [3h]
- Gritt, which is developing an AI system that helps build infrastructure like solar panels, emerges from stealth with a $26M Series A and $34M in total funding (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) [4h]
- UK PM Andy Burnham abolishes the Department for Science, Innovation, and Tech and elevates UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, who oversees AISI, to attend cabinet (Philippa Wain/BBC) [4h]
- Kimi K3 marks the arrival of frontier open-weight models, and the Kimi team has incredible culture and freedom of expression within a GPU-limited environment (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI) [5h]
- Sources: the US and China plan to hold AI talks in September when President Xi visits the US, realizing a significant outcome of the Trump-Xi summit in May (Laurie Chen/Reuters) [5h]
- Memo: the Army CIO reinstates limits on Army members' AI token usage; docs show the DOD's Ask Sage tool can access 100M tokens via an annual "enterprise pack" (Vittoria Elliott/Wired) [5h]
- Sources: BlackRock leads a $12B+ debt sale for Meta's new El Paso data center, as Meta signs a lease for a BlackRock-backed data-center project in Pennsylvania (Wall Street Journal) [6h]
- A Washington judge grants a request to temporarily block Kalshi from offering sports-related bets in the state, citing a breach of the state gambling law (Timmy Shen/The Block) [6h]
- Sources: China is weighing tightening AI and chip tech export controls and is consulting leading domestic AI companies, in a bid to slow advanced tech exports (Financial Times) [6h]
- Sources: TSMC plans to hike advanced and mature node prices by up to 10% in 2027, plus a 10%-15% premium for advanced chip orders exceeding original forecasts (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia) [7h]
- A profile of Sarah Guo, Greylock's youngest GP before founding Conviction in 2022, which has since backed six of the 21 AI-native companies now worth over $10B (Dom Cooke/Colossus) [7h]
- GitHub says individuals and orgs have invested $100M+ in open source maintainers and projects via GitHub Sponsors since 2019, with $10M in the past five months (Stephanie Lincoln/The GitHub Blog) [9h]
- Sony Music files a second copyright suit against Udio, alleging the AI music company copied 30,117 recordings without permission to train its AI models (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide) [10h]
- Singapore-based Ant International, a payments company which spun out of Ant Group in 2024, raised $1.2B from investors including Ant Group and Alibaba (Reuters) [11h]
- '$3.7B lost to deepfakes' — Why social media is the perfect launchpad for AI fraud [8m]
- Little House on the Prairie season 3 and beyond would be a 'dream come true' for one Netflix star — and we can even guess season storylines way before they're renewed [10m]
- Pop singer Lorde slammed Spotify’s AI ‘About the Song’ feature, claiming it’s full of nothing but false details — and now subscribers are starting to catch on [11m]
- Best Buy takes up to $500 off Apple tech in its latest sale — I've picked the 10 best deals on MacBooks, iPads, Apple Watches, and AirPods [14m]
- 'A reveal later this year has been planned' — Hold on to your sabers fellow Star Wars fans, a new report claims Knights of the Old Republic remake will finally be re-revealed soon [38m]
- 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling [42m]
- Arozzi Arena Nordico Electric Standing Desk review: minimalist design with maximum appeal, but key accessories cost extra [48m]
- Fake FBI social media scams are on the rise — here's what to look out for [59m]
- 10 tech deals for professionals I actually recommend from Best Buy's Black Friday in July sale [1h]
- Is your college laptop struggling? This Intel i5 and 16GB RAM-powered Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 will get you back up and running for £499.99 [1h]
- Exclusive: 'I will always say' — Marvel star Tom Hiddleston reveals whether you 'need to watch' Loki on Disney+ before Avengers: Doomsday is released [1h]
- Universal has dropped a terrifying trailer for new movie Other Mommy — and I can't wait for Jessica Chastain's return to horror [1h]
- ‘The closest thing to an iPad Air in Android form’ — I was impressed by the Samsung Galaxy Tab S11, but there’s one area where it can't beat Apple [1h]
- Canva wants you to have full control over the design – Code 2.0 just does the heavy lifting for you [1h]
- I asked AI for financial advice on everyday money decisions — and now I understand why regulators are worried [1h]
- Protecting creative storytelling in an AI-first marketing world [1h]
- The best budget OLED TV you can buy just had its price slashed to under $600 at Best Buy [2h]
- Estée Lauder says it was hit by data breach caused by Oracle E-Business issue [2h]
- The agent problem nobody budgeted for [2h]
- Experts warn millions of WordPress websites could be at risk following reveal of worrying bugs [3h]
- With wonderfully designed missions and a plethora satisfying progression systems, Splatoon Raiders is a must-play for Nintendo Switch 2 owners [3h]
- I gave ChatGPT’s new Work mode my most annoying life-admin tasks — and it handled them like a pro [3h]
- Industry analyst reports only 7 PlayStation games 'have sold more than 100,000 physical units year-to-date' in the US, as fans demand Sony kill its plan to end the production of discs [3h]
- 'I can assure you, Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution are not the only titles we're planning' — Xbox's chief strategy officer confirms the company wants to make more exclusives, but 'large live-service titles' will be multiplatform going forward [3h]
- Geekom AX8 Max vs Geekom A9 Max: Which mini PC deal should you buy from $619? [3h]
- HP’s Smart Tank 5101 drops to $170 for back-to-school — and includes 2 years of ink free in the box [3h]
- Ill-fated Companion Cube case for Steam Machine returns as a 3D-printed effort — and it's not the only striking DIY project around Valve's gaming PC [3h]
- 'The trust problem with agentic AI is really a data problem': New report shows rushing into AI deployment could cost your business big time [4h]
- 5 questions to ask before choosing a robot lawn mower, according to a lawnbot exec [4h]
- The MacBook Air config you should actually buy just got cheaper: Apple's 'best ultraportable' with an M5 chip, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD is $100 off at Best Buy [4h]
- It’s officially the end of the road for the Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro — but here are 6 clever ways to reinvent your old Android phone [4h]
- Philips Hue’s rumored TV camera would be a huge shift for the smart lighting giant — but rival brands Govee and Nanoleaf have been doing it for years [4h]
- A new Google Home Display is reportedly on the way — but what our smart homes actually need in 2026 is a proper Pixel Tablet successor [4h]
- Starlink Mini 2 may come with a major speed downgrade, according to a new leak —and that’s bad news for some users [4h]
- Top AI coding agents can be easy victims to sandbox escapes, showing they aren't as secure as they claim to be [4h]
- How to watch World Matchplay Darts 2026: Free Streams & Schedule [5h]
- AI in orbit: The next evolution of compute infrastructure [5h]
- 'A clever concept, and for those with a video or photo editing workflow, it's genuinely useful': The TobenONE 11-in-1 USB-C Docking Station is 36% off — now just $82.79 [5h]
- What the 2026 World Cup is revealing about the future of product identification [5h]
- Score a Minisforum Ryzen 5 or Ryzen 7 mini PC from $600 in Best Buy's big sale [5h]
- Agentic AI in the enterprise: Why architecture matters more than marketing claims [6h]
- Over half of all new music on streaming sites is now AI-generated, and the number is growing rapidly — but one platform is bringing the hammer down hard [6h]
- UK AI data centers could be given water priority during heatwaves and hosepipe bans — trade body warns that usage hasn’t been factored into AI growth zone projections [6h]
- Samsung Galaxy Unpacked [6h]
- How to watch The Hundred 2026: Free Streams & TV Channels [6h]
- Lenovo’s new Yoga might be the thinnest laptop I’ve ever tested — but there’s one spec that impressed me even more [6h]
- Why AI is re-designing data center architecture [6h]
- New data claims small businesses haven't expanded their use of AI in the past few years [6h]
- Why AI is rewriting the rules of team structure in SaaS [7h]
- Heartstopper: Ending on a Hi release date and time on Netflix — how to stream movie 'companion' in the US, UK and Australia [7h]
- The hidden tax on your AI ambitions [7h]
- Insta360 says it wants to replace photographers with an ‘intelligent photography robot’ that will become ‘imperceptible’ — and it sounds like a nightmare for privacy and creativity [7h]
- Adobe Firefly AI video editor review [10h]
- Watt a load of crap: UK start-up is turning number twos into number one with shockingly superior sewage battery tech [11h]
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