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Sources: Kalshi is in advanced talks to raise $750M+ co-led by Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management at a $40B valuation; Kalshi was valued at $22B in May (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

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Sources detail moves behind Google's AI reshuffle; Sergey Brin urged key staff to go all in on Gemini, and some teams shifted from DeepMind to corporate Google (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)

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Sources: Apple hired Nate Gatten, an American Airlines exec with GOP ties, as government affairs VP, seeking someone who could align with Trump administration (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: the UK government is planning to regulate the use of AI in gene synthesis to prevent terrorists and other bad actors from using AI for bioweapons (Ellen Milligan/Bloomberg)

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Bank of America says it plans to deploy $250B by July 2027 to support US digital and infrastructure projects, including data centers and energy infrastructure (Reuters)

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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, saying it matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and prices it at $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens (xAI)

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Silicon Data, which offers real-time compute pricing data to financial institutions and exchanges, raised a $30.5M Series A led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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ClearJet, whose AI-enabled logistics service connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on commercial flights, raised a $25M Series B led by Edison Partners (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

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FlightAware withdraws its Kalshi lawsuit, after alleging Kalshi used its data to let users bet on flight cancellations; Kalshi no longer names it as a source (Sumedha Mukherjee/Reuters)

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Google's Pixel 11 introduces Camera Looks, a total rethink of how the camera captures and styles an image, as users seek "more authentic or traditional" photos (David Imel/The Verge)

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Google says the Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL are its most durable Pixel phones yet, using spacecraft-grade aluminum frames and a twice as scratch-resistant coating (Mariella Moon/Engadget)

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Google DeepMind launches SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model debuting on the Pixel 11 in Gboard and Live Transcribe, first for ASL to English text (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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Google is cutting the Google One AI Pro trial bundled with the Pixel 11 Pro and other handsets from 12 to six months and removes the free trial for the Pixel 11 (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)

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Google introduces an insulin-resistance trend feature that uses AI, an accelerometer, and other sensors, launching first on the Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit devices (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

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Google says Android's AirDrop-like Quick Share will now let some devices exchange files and contact info when tapped together, starting with the Pixel 6 and up (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Google raises Pixel and Watch prices by $100 and $50 for 2026's models; the base Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL have 12GB of RAM, down from 16GB in previous models (Kris Holt/Engadget)

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Google says the Pixel Buds Pro 2 will get new features, including dynamic ANC and sleep sync, via a software update in September, and adds a new Olive color (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)

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Google Pixel 11 series hands-on: few design changes, a HiLight status light on the rear camera bar, new colors, and small camera and performance improvements (Max Buondonno/The Shortcut)

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Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold hands-on: a letdown after Samsung released the Galaxy Z Fold 8, with few design changes, and it feels like Google is coasting this time (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)

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Google unveils the $399 Pixel Watch 5 with a satin pyrite case finish, offline Gemini, proactive AI suggestions, better GPS maps, and insulin resistance trends (Victoria Song/The Verge)

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Google plans to launch the $29 Pixel Tag on November 11, with a four-pack priced at $99, matching AirTag 2's pricing, offering UWB, Find Hub support, and more (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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Google unveils the $899+ Pixel 11, $1,099+ 11 Pro, and $1,299+ 11 Pro XL, with a Tensor G6, new Gemini features, Magic Capture to pick the best frames, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Google unveils the $1,899+ Pixel 11 Pro Fold, with a stronger hinge, inner and outer displays that are 20% brighter, Tensor G6 chip, and an updated 48MP camera (Jessica Conditt/Engadget)

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AT&T says open models currently account for ~25% of its AI usage, and it targets 70% to 80% over time; AT&T uses an average of 45B AI tokens per day (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

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AI code review startup CodeRabbit raised a $143M Series C co-led by Atomico and Smash at a $1.5B valuation, after raising a $60M Series B in September 2025 (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)

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Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings, which acquires traditional service businesses and adds AI, raised $2B from SoftBank, D1, and others at a $12B valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

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Amsterdam-based neocloud Nebius reports Q2 cloud revenue up 514% YoY to $575M and total revenue of $582M, above $557M est.; NBIS jumps 15%+, and is up 145%+ YTD (Paula Doenecke/Bloomberg)

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Skan AI, which is building a "context graph of work" by observing staff using enterprise software, raised a $63M Series C co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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A look at AI news website RuntimeWire, which costs $100/day to run and "beat" human reporters to OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure, favoring quantity over quality (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

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African e-commerce company Jumia raised $50M, including ~$25M from the World Bank; its US-listed shares are down from $60+ in 2021 to $6, valuing Jumia at $743M (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)

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The NYC Council sent letters to Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase, and Gemini Titan to investigate alleged deceptive marketing practices and targeting minors (Wall Street Journal)

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AI code-testing startup Blacksmith raised a $45M Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550M valuation, up from $60M after it raised a $10M Series A in 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Q&A with Redwood Research Chief Scientist Ryan Greenblatt on AI R&D, RSI, whether human expert data bottlenecks AI progress, token prices, alignment, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

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A look at the challenges facing incoming Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu, who joined DeepMind in 2012 and will oversee Gemini and frontier AI research (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

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Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin launches Shanghai-based Pragmatik Labs to build digital and physical AI agents; Pragmatik hit a $2B valuation in June (Juro Osawa/The Information)

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Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 41% YoY to ~$78.4B, with cloud and networking products contributing 50%+ for the first time, and net profit up 35% YoY to ~$1.86B (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)

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Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$30.4B, above ~$30B est., driven by surging WeChat advertising and resilient game spending, and net income of ~$8.3B (Bloomberg)

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Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation, up from $6.6B in December 2025, becoming one of Europe's most valuable startups (Ben Dummett/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: AI coding startup Cognition is in early talks with investors to raise $1B+ at a $40B+ valuation, after raising $1B at a $26B valuation in May (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

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Some health and fitness obsessives are using AI for hyperpersonalized training, building custom dashboards and tools to analyze their sleep, workouts, and diet (Wall Street Journal)

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Briter: Africa-focused startups raised $3.3B in H1 2026, up 73% YoY, driven by Zipline's $950M raise; US- and UAE-incorporated entities raised half the capital (Nduka Orjinmo/Bloomberg)

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Bengaluru-based Yulu, which gets ~95% of its revenue from renting e-bikes to gig workers, raised a $93M Series C, sources say at a ~$170M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Sources: Singapore-based data center operator DayOne confidentially files for a US IPO, aims to list as soon as next quarter, and is considering raising ~$5B (Bloomberg)

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Researchers say suspected Chinese hackers used open-source AI agents to build an autonomous hacking tool that compromised Taiwanese government websites in July (Tom Wilson/Financial Times)

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OpenAI VP of Global Policy Ann O'Leary says AI policy in the US is anchored in the states and informed by California's AI transparency law passed in 2025 (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)

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A look at Candy Crush's continued popularity 15 years after its launch, with an estimated 81.5M MAUs and in-app revenue of $876.5M in FY 2025 (Alanna Okun/Bloomberg)

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A profile of Suno, which has been used by more than 100M people since 2023 and has 2M+ paid subscribers, as it faces copyright lawsuits from UMG and Sony Music (Bloomberg)

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OpenAI launches a ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview, supporting ChatGPT Work, Codex, and more; Computer Use outside the in-app browser is not available (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)

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The US CFTC uses its "emergency authority" to order Kalshi to continue operating in New York after the state filed a lawsuit in July seeking to shutter Kalshi (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Source: Kalshi's annualized revenue topped $4B in July, up from $2B+ two months earlier, and its operating expenses totaled $300M in June (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

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