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Beacon Security, which offers an agentic security platform, raised a $13M seed and says it has "tens" of large enterprise customers including Cerebras (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Meta will now notify parents if teens discuss suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and is working on alerts to emergency services for users at risk of self-harm (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Vital Signals launches the $399 Signal Ring, which provides systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings without the need for the traditional arm cuff (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

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Filings: Dario Amodei gave $1M in May to Public First, a super PAC advocating for AI safety regulations, seemingly his first seven-figure political donation (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

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Alpaca, which offers brokerage and financial infrastructure, raised $135M in equity and $300M in debt, following a $150M Series D in January (Bernard Goyder/Bloomberg)

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Ofcom report: VPN users in the UK jumped to 2.2M, up from 1.2M before the introduction of laws enforcing age limits on pornography sites in July 2025 (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

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Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei have published detailed memos in recent weeks, basically agreeing on the need for a US-led AI regulatory framework (Axios)

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Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs launch a bioresilience program to leverage AI models for pathogen surveillance, vaccine design, and outbreak response (Madison Mills/Axios)

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Ofcom launches a probe into TikTok over Online Safety Act compliance, citing doubts about the effectiveness of using age inference to determine users' ages (Mizy Clifton/Politico)

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A US official says TSMC plans to spend an additional $100B to build four new US chip fabs, bringing total pledge to $265B as part of a broader US-Taiwan deal (Bloomberg)

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TSMC raises its 2026 capex projections from $52B-$56B to $60B-$64B, and ups revenue growth projection from 30%+ to 40%+ YoY in USD terms, citing "AI megatrend" (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

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Uber agrees to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal that values the German food delivery company at ~$14.8B, offering €41.50 per share and buying out Prosus' stake (Bloomberg)

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A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

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xAI sues a South Carolina man for allegedly using Grok to generate CSAM, in one of the first cases of its kind brought by an AI company against one of its users (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$39.45B, net income up 77.4% YoY to ~$21.9B, both above est., and says chips 7nm or smaller were 77% of its wafer revenue (Jenny Lee/CNBC)

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Data center company Csquare raises $1.05B in its US IPO, selling 50M shares at $21 each, below its marketed range of $23 to $27, valuing the company at ~$3.25B (Reuters)

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Hyundai says it would make Boston Dynamics a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring SoftBank's ~10% stake; Hyundai bought an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics in 2021 (Reuters)

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Filing: AST SpaceMobile delays the launch of its satellite-to-phone service to 2027 after the Blue Origin mishap and plans to raise $1B in convertible notes (Michael Kan/PCMag)

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AI execs are bolstering personal security amid rising AI opposition; Liferaft: digital threats against execs and data centers grew 7x from late February to May (Wall Street Journal)

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Filing: Elon Musk quietly bought Jacksonville, FL-based APR Energy, which operates mobile gas and diesel turbines similar to those used in Colossus 2, for ~$1B (Fred Lambert/Electrek)

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SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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Cadence unveils AuraStack AI Super Agent, an AI platform for PCB and advanced chip packaging design, with Nvidia, TSMC, and Schneider Electric among early users (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)

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Sources: Microsoft security chief Hayete Gallot, who took over in February, has prioritized AI tools, cut several hundred roles, replaced senior execs, and more (The Information)

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Venture funding of fintech startups grew 22.7% YoY in H1 2026 to $28.6B globally, but deal count fell 25.7% and funding fell 17.3% vs. H2 2025's $34.6B funding (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says Jordan Fish, aka "Cobie", will now lead the Base app team after acknowledging some of Base's bets on social features fell short (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

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SpaceX shares fell for a fourth-straight session on Wednesday, briefly dropping below their $135 IPO price for the first time before closing at $135.27 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Apple publishes a policy for upcoming Maps ads, says home services ads are banned, medical services ads will be "evaluated on a case-by-case basis", and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI details GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery so it can fix bugs before wider deployment (OpenAI)

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Uber and Waymo are engaged in a DC lobbying battle over AV legislation, with Uber supporting a hybrid human-robotaxi model and Waymo pushing for pure robotaxis (Liam Denning/Bloomberg)

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Dave Brown, AWS SVP of Compute, AI, and Platform, is leaving the company after 19 years for a new job; he is a member of the S-team that advises CEO Andy Jassy (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)

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Apple raises its AppleCare+ prices for Macs and iPads by $0.50 per month and $5 per year; the increases are exclusively for new sign-ups (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area (Thinking Machines Lab)

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Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's $1.5B AI implementation company, announced in May, launches with the name "Ode with Anthropic" and 100 engineers (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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Lumin Digital, which provides cloud-based digital banking software to banks and credit unions, raised more than $115M at a $1.6B post-money valuation (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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OpenAI employees donated a combined $215K+ to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC seeking stricter AI rules and opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

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OpenAI launches Codex Micro, a $230 desktop keypad built in collaboration with keyboard maker Work Louder, with backlit keys, a rotary knob, and a tiny joystick (Megan Morrone/Axios)

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Sources: ASML has discussed raising prices for its EUV systems with TSMC and plans to charge 10% more for its DUV systems; TSMC is resisting ASML's price plans (Qianer Liu/The Information)

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Source: OnePlus will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week and Realme will exit China as part of a restructuring by parent Oppo (Bloomberg)

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Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of it deploying Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot in factories (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Apple is looking to acquire chip companies to boost its AI server efforts, as it struggles with AI server chip upgrades and M2 Ultra server performance (The Information)

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Spectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised a $100M Series D from AMD, LG, others at a $1B+ valuation, up from $750M in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

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How TikTok Shop sellers are using AI creators and AI twins to boost affiliate sales; eMarketer: US sales on TikTok Shop will grow 48% YoY to $23.41B in 2026 (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)

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Israel-based Hemispheric, whose AI model can analyze brain activity measured non-invasively and turn it into quantitative metrics for diagnoses, raised $52M (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes)

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Amsterdam-based Monumental, which develops autonomous robotics and software for the construction industry, raised a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Miami-based Cyclops, which sells an infrastructure platform that bundles crypto and stablecoin services to payments companies, raised a $20M Series A (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)

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Rime, which helps companies field calls using AI voice models trained on conversational data it records in a studio, raised a $24M Series A led by M13 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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How Anthropic is pursuing a state-by-state push for ever-tougher AI safety laws, in contrast with OpenAI's "reverse federalism" strategy for common state rules (Politico)

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Sources: the EU is set to fine Google hundreds of millions of euros over alleged self-preferencing of its services in Search and restrictions on app developers (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

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American Growth Insurance, which aims to acquire struggling independent insurance firms and transform them using AI, raised almost $70M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Gavin Newsom is tempering his pro-tech instincts with economic populism ahead of a likely presidential bid, proposing giving Americans equity in AI companies (Jeremy B. White/Politico)

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