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Amazon drops the $19.99 fee for Alexa+ on Fire TV, opens it to non-Prime users
Every current Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Cube, and Alexa+-enabled smart TV in the US gets the AI assistant auto-upgraded — no app, no sign-up, no Prime.
TerraPower's molten-salt reactor pitches AI data centers on stored heat
The Bill Gates-founded startup will announce its first data center customer this year, betting a 345-MW reactor with thermal storage beats rivals on load-following.
Marvell jumps 6% on Google deal for up to $12.2B stake tied to AI chips
Google gains the right to buy 58.9M Marvell shares at $206.58 apiece through fiscal 2033, expanding its custom silicon push beyond Broadcom.
Samsung raises chipmaking prices up to 15% as AI demand tightens supply
The world's largest memory maker is passing AI-driven scarcity through to foundry and memory customers in the steepest hike since the 2021 shortage.
Vivodyne bets AI can't cure cancer without human tissue data
The Khosla-backed startup opened a robotic lab growing 20 human tissue types to feed AI models the causal biology they lack.
Flock's new AI tool tracks drivers by movement patterns, not plates
OS Investigate ships with 69 prewritten prompts and taps 45 tools spanning arrest records, 911 logs, and commercial identity databases.
Karpathy's LLM wiki idea spawns a cottage industry of personal knowledge bases
A single April tweet from Andrej Karpathy sent thousands of researchers building Markdown wikis maintained by Claude and GPT-5.5.
Cursor launches Origin, a GitHub rival, as outages mount
The AI code editor now hosts repos, arriving the same day GitHub suffered a six-hour worldwide outage with a 20% error rate.
OpenAI overhauls training security after model hacked Hugging Face
A two-week RL training pause, tighter sandboxes, and 30-minute alert windows follow the July incident that also snared Anthropic and Meta.
Robin Williams' children reactivate his Instagram to counter AI deepfakes
Zelda, Zak, and Cody Williams say the account will host authentic clips of their father as AI-generated videos of the late actor proliferate.
Etched hits $21B valuation as Jane Street leads $700M round
The AI inference chip startup doubled its price tag in a month after the quant fund tested its hardware and bought a rack.
Microsoft Copilot leaked its own bypass parameter, letting researchers steal passwords
Varonis got Copilot to disclose an undocumented ?autorun=1 flag that skipped user consent and exfiltrated inbox data on a single click.
Palantir moves in on FAA air traffic overhaul after DOGE cuts 400 staff
After Musk's DOGE fired 400 FAA employees and delivered no upgrades, Peter Thiel's Palantir is lined up for a chunk of $12.5B in new funding.
Anthropic tells investors revenue run rate hit $65B in July
A sevenfold jump in a year puts Anthropic ahead of OpenAI's $40B run rate as it preps a confidential IPO at a $965B valuation.
Firefox's Smart Window adds live web search and cited AI answers
Mozilla is betting an opt-in, model-agnostic AI browser can beat Google's Chrome integration on privacy and user choice.
Perplexity's Airtel giveaway added millions of India users, and some are paying
Downloads collapsed 90% after the free offer closed, but monthly revenue hit $156,000 in July 2026 — more than four times January 2025.
Warp launches Factories, a turnkey AI software factory for smaller shops
The system packages agent orchestration, evals, and CI-style tooling into a single layer aimed at teams that can't build Stripe's setup from scratch.
Google's Pet Memory can't tell three cats apart after two weeks of testing
Gemini for Home's new $20-a-month feature promises per-pet recognition on Nest cameras, but labels every cat as the first one you name.
Stanford's AI Observatory finds Anthropic filters out 48% of Claude conversations
A new independent dataset shows sensitive AI use — companionship, health, harassment — runs far higher than company reports admit.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with parental controls and healthy-use limits
A dedicated teen product arrives as OpenAI faces mounting scrutiny over how minors interact with its chatbot.
Z.ai releases GLM 5.3, an open-weight model matching Claude on cyber tasks
The Chinese lab's new model nears frontier scores on CyberGym and ships with OpenVuln, a code-scanning service, on a staged two-week release.
Ex-SpaceX engineers launch 1872, an AI-run robotic factory for steel skids
Backed by $15M in seed funding, 1872 is automating steel fabrication for AI data centers as US welding shortages hit 320,500 by 2029.
Groq raises $350M at $3.5B valuation to pivot from chips to neocloud
The Nvidia-backed round marks a new valuation floor after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal stripped out Groq's founding team.
Amazon is cutting up rare books to feed its AI models
A tracker planted by 404 Media traced a rare book to Amazon's VGT3 facility in Las Vegas, where spines are cut and pages scanned.
Nvidia guarantees $105B financing for OpenAI's Ohio AI data center
SB Energy builds, SoftBank powers, Nvidia backstops the debt — a 20-year lease locks in up to 8 gigawatts of compute for OpenAI.
DiG-bench and Faraday mark AI's slow climb toward recursive self-improvement
New benchmarks show frontier models cracking discovery games and replicating research papers, with Opus 5 and a 27B scientist model leading the way.
Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation, pushes past dictation into meetings
Menlo Ventures leads a Series B less than 10 months after the last round, as Wispr ships a new Canto model to fix quality complaints.
Nvidia backs 4.25 GW Ohio AI factory for OpenAI in $600B compute deal
Jensen Huang commits Nvidia's balance sheet to secure land, power and shell at PORTS-Pike, with OpenAI as the tenant through 2030.
OpenAI disbands preparedness team as IPO nears
The team that assessed catastrophic model risks was dissolved in July; its work has been scattered across bio, cyber, and other existing groups.
Stripe nears $7B+ deal to buy AI gateway startup OpenRouter
The payments giant is paying more than 5x OpenRouter's May valuation to own the routing layer between apps and 400+ AI models.
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