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XCures, which uses AI to streamline patient data and medical records, raised a $46M Series B at a $127M post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $76M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised $100M led by Summit Partners at a $1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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NYC-based Taktile, which helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows, raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, and plans a São Paulo office (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)

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Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to help take them down (Lorelei Smillie/Bloomberg)

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Chinese cybersecurity company 360 unveils new AI tools: Tulongfeng, which it claims is "China's version of Mythos", and Yitianzhen, to automate cyber defense (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

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OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models (OpenAI)

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Google Home Speaker review: the $100 speaker, the company's first such device in six years, works for Gemini power users but has underwhelming music playback (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

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Amazon plans to expand Amazon Now to 300+ Indian cities and towns, up from 100 at present, as CEO Andy Jassy visits India; a source says he is set to meet Modi (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

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Qualcomm says it will acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026 (Lauren Goode/Wired)

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Rockstar says physical GTA 6 copies will contain a download code, not a disc; physical copies will be available from November 12, before the November 19 launch (Tom Phillips/IGN)

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The US FDA drops an enforcement complaint against Whoop over its blood pressure tracking tool, reversing a July 2025 warning letter; Whoop is modifying the tool (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

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An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning responses to political prompts (Kevin Schaul/Washington Post)

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How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became especially wealthy; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household incomes of $146K+, ~5x the average (New York Times)

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Rockstar sets the release date for GTA VI for November 19 and says it will cost $79.99, or $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; preorders start at midnight tonight (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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How Chicago is betting on quantum computing, including turning the site of its former US Steel mill into a campus, after largely missing the digital revolution (Jeanne Whalen/Wall Street Journal)

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Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, entry-level jobs changing, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing Agility at ~$2.5B, listing under ticker symbol AGLT (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

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Filing: SK Hynix is seeking to raise ~$29.4B in a US listing, expects trading to start on July 10, and intends to use the funds to build additional capacity (Bloomberg)

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An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Disney's CEO, his legacy, new CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Chapek, Apple, Disney+, acquiring Pixar, AI tools, and more (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

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Sources: Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, based partly on connectivity tech from Alphawave Semi, which Qualcomm acquired in June 2025 (Reuters)

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SK Hynix overtaking Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company is the culmination of 14 years of bets on HBM, which paid off as the AI boom took off (Reuters)

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Sources: India drives 50%+ of WhatsApp's global revenue, or $1B+ annually, largely via business messaging, which likely helped Kunal Shah get WhatsApp's top job (Moneycontrol)

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London-based Isometric, which develops AI agents that work with human verifiers to automate industrial certification, raised a €34M Series A led by AVP (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)

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New York-based Probook, which is building an AI operating system for home service businesses, raised a $34M Series A led by a16z and a $6M seed led by Sequoia (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

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AI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $83M and claims to have 30M users, releases the open weights for its image model Krea 2 under a custom license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Sources: Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar Hong Kong share sale after its stock surged 2,000% since its January IPO, pushing its market cap above $128B (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)

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Customer engagement service MoEngage acquires Aampe, whose AI agents help brands personalize messaging, for "tens of millions", per a source; Aampe raised ~$28M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Sources: prices for Nvidia's AI chips on China's black market have more than doubled amid a US export crackdown; its flagship DGX B300 server has risen to $1.1M (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

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Flipkart says it plans to expand its network of micro-fulfillment centers in India to 1,500 by the end of 2026, as it also claims orders have grown ~400% YoY (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero, which has 19M+ registered users and $30M in annual recurring revenue; PitchBook: GPTZero is valued at $88M+ (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)

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Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate who argued for AI safeguards, lost to Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary, which drew millions in AI PAC spending (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)

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Sources: the NSA was red-teaming Mythos 5 before losing access amid the Anthropic dispute; the tests showed Mythos identified flaws in classified systems (New York Times)

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Orderful, which offers AI-powered tools to automate supply chain data management, raised a $35M Series C led by KDT, bringing its total funding to $85M (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

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xLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for EUV machines, told investors that it is in talks to raise $350M led by Boardman Bay and Bain Capital (The Information)

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Micron and Sandisk led a tech selloff on Tuesday, falling more than 13%; Western Digital fell 8%, Marvell 9%, Seagate 5%, Qualcomm 8%, and Applied Materials 8% (Britney Nguyen/MarketWatch)

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YouTube settles a lawsuit ahead of a second California trial over social media harms to minors; Meta, TikTok, and Snap remain defendants (Hillel Aron/Courthouse News Service)

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Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review; Meta is the only major US AI developer without an agreement (New York Times)

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Cerebras reports Q1 revenue up 94% YoY to $193.4M, net loss down 41% to $14M, and forecasts core gross margin to shrink in Q2; CBRS drops 8%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Mistral debuts OCR 4, a model featuring structured document extraction with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores, in 170 languages (Mistral AI Blog)

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Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce space and defense parts, is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$7.5B post-money valuation (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Miami-based cybersecurity company Varonis is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest; VRNS jumps 6%+ (Bloomberg)

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The FCC says an auction of wireless mid-band spectrum raised $3.5B+, which will largely be used to fund the replacement of Chinese telecom equipment in the US (David Shepardson/Reuters)

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Walmart acquires Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and buy ads on CTVs, sources say for $1.4B cash; top executives get $180M to stay for four years (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)

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Alibaba sues the DOD, seeking removal from a blacklist of companies supporting China's military, says the decision is a violation of constitutional due process (Bloomberg)

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On the first day of their trial, two members of Scattered Spider plead guilty in the UK to charges stemming from a 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

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Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI coworker for Slack that can learn context, give suggestions, and more, in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise tiers (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

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Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers (New York Times)

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SpaceX raised $25B in its debut US bond sale; sources: the offering drew nearly $90B of orders at its peak, falling to $73B by the time the deal priced (Bloomberg)

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Stark, which has a deal to supply "kamikaze" drones to the German military, raised €500M from Founders Fund, Sequoia, others; it faced criticism over Thiel ties (Financial Times)

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LastPass notifies customers that their personal information and customer support case records were stolen during a hack at Canadian market research company Klue (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

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