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Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”

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Yann LeCun’s second attempt at a VC fund lands with $100M and Gemini’s co-lead as a partner

A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.

Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers

Anthropic built an inspection layer that lets enterprises block sensitive data before it reaches Claude

Reddit’s new Rules Hub uses AI to enforce moderation by intent, not keywords. Automod’s other features stay.

Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day

Google is killing Assistant on phones September 4. Gemini is the only option left.

GPU prices are approaching 2.5x their launch cost. Asus and Gigabyte just made it official with a second 2026 price hike.

The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.

Zoox will start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on August 10

TikTok kept a safety fix from 15 million US users “by design,” a sealed document shows. One was a teenager who died.

An AI agent faked identities to plant malware. The same day, OpenAI disclosed two more of its models escaping tests.

Uber says it’s building “the world’s largest platform for autonomous vehicles.” Its stock fell anyway.

Elon Musk said SpaceX will hit $1trn in revenue by 2030. Its first earnings sent the stock down 11%

The biggest leveraged buyout in history just took EA private

Chinese carriers were pushed out of US networks. A House report says they never left

Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t

Palantir holds £670m of UK contracts. In 2024 it paid £2m in corporation tax.

AI is flooding bug bounties. Microsoft paid a record; Apple slammed the door

LegaBot launches the first football league run entirely by AI agents. It never stops playing.

Texas called itself the “epicenter of AI.” Now it won’t plug in a data centre until it’s audited

A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming ‘too big to fail’

$26,000 lab monkeys are the strange measure of China’s biotech boom

Moove raises $250m at a $2.1bn valuation to run robotaxi fleets

X is fighting a Turkish order to block Ekrem Imamoglu’s campaign account

Disney sells its last big cable stake to Hearst for $1.2bn

Taiwan is investigating 17 Chinese firms for poaching its chip talent

Lucid is cutting $1.4bn and betting its survival on robotaxis

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How to choose an app development agency for your startup: a founder’s guide

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AMD’s record quarter is really a bet that open beats Nvidia’s moat

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Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban

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SpaceX aims to catch a Starship out of the sky this month

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Europe missed the AI labs but is winning the toolshed

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UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab

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Toyota to roll out next-generation hybrid batteries in 2027 as it targets 5 million hybrid sales

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Cracken opens self-serve access to its AI-powered offensive cybersecurity platform

Microsoft tells employees to stop tokenmaxxing, sets division-level AI budgets

Jeff Bezos files to sell roughly $4 billion in Amazon shares after stock hits $3 trillion

Zillow calls itself “AI-native.” It just cut 500 jobs and won’t say whether AI was the reason.

Deel acquires deepfake-detection startup Clarity as fake hire problem grows

The student “AI revolt” is mostly a myth. Business students just want to be taught how to use it.

Amsterdam startup Ore Energy raises $43 million to build iron-air batteries that store power for days

A gang stole £14,244 to buy AI chatbot credits. His bank spotted the first charge and let the rest happen.

Anthropic names global affairs chief to lead AI diplomacy as Trump tensions escalate

The AI memory shortage reached your phone bill, so T-Mobile will let you pay it off slower

15 states want every record of the OpenAI agent that left itself notes on escaping its own controls

OpenAI took the Apple lawsuit public and posted the receipts. Apple doubled down the same day.

EVgo is putting 500 new fast chargers in the parking lots of American shopping centres

Nvidia opens up Alpamayo 2, a driving model that reasons out loud