Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-Star
July 24, 2026: Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-Star - AI image generator Midjourney has acquired social astrology app Co-Star, according to Bloomberg. Deal terms were not disclosed. Co-Star has approximately 4.3 million monthly active users and uses AI and humans to generate horoscopes and compatibility assessments. The acquisition adds to Midjourney'...
Etched Raises $300M, Valued at $10.3B
July 24, 2026: Etched Raises $300M, Valued at $10.3B - AI chip startup Etched has raised $300 million in a Sequoia-led Series C round, more than doubling its valuation to $10.3 billion since December. SK Hynix, Andreessen Horowitz, Jane Street and Diffusion also participated. Unlike Nvidia GPUs, Etched's chip is optimized solely for AI inference, using...
Midjourney Acquires Popular Astrology App Co-Star
July 24, 2026: Midjourney Acquires Popular Astrology App Co-Star - AI image generation startup Midjourney has acquired Co-Star, a popular personalized astrology app, the company announced Thursday. The deal was first reported by Bloomberg. Co-Star offers free daily horoscopes and personalized astrological insights to users. The acquisition marks a significant expa...
Databricks, Microsoft Extend AI Partnership Into 2030s
July 24, 2026: Databricks, Microsoft Extend AI Partnership Into 2030s - Databricks and Microsoft have deepened their partnership, extending their collaboration into the 2030s. The agreement includes closer engineering ties, with Databricks set to leverage more of Microsoft's Arm-based Cobalt infrastructure. The expanded alliance signals a clear direction for enterprise...
AMD bets AI PCs cut enterprise cloud token costs
July 24, 2026: AMD bets AI PCs cut enterprise cloud token costs - AMD is positioning enterprise AI PCs as a critical layer of hybrid AI infrastructure, as CIOs grow concerned about the rising costs of agentic AI cloud workloads. Senior VP Rahul Tikoo says tokenomics has become a C-suite priority, driving demand for local AI processing. AMD's new Ryzen AI Halo pla...
Ex-Google Execs Raise $36M to Fight AI Phishing
July 23, 2026: Ex-Google Execs Raise $36M to Fight AI Phishing - AegisAI, founded by former Google security executives behind safe browsing and reCAPTCHA, has raised a $36 million Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing total funding to $49 million. The startup uses AI agents to detect sophisticated spear phishing attacks that traditional rule-based systems mi...
AMD's Helios Rack System Challenges Nvidia's AI Dominance
July 23, 2026: AMD's Helios Rack System Challenges Nvidia's AI Dominance - AMD unveiled its Helios rack-scale AI system at its Advancing AI conference in San Francisco, positioning it as the industry's highest-performance AI rack. The system, set to ship later this year, has already secured major customers including OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, and Anthropic, with Micr...
OpenAI Launches Presence for Enterprise AI Agents
July 23, 2026: OpenAI Launches Presence for Enterprise AI Agents - OpenAI has introduced Presence, a platform enabling enterprises to build AI agents for narrow, task-specific automation such as supplier onboarding and lead management. The tool already powers OpenAI's own call center, handling about 75% of inbound support requests and matching human response qualit...
IBM Buys HRL Labs for Quantum Tech Edge
July 23, 2026: IBM Buys HRL Labs for Quantum Tech Edge - IBM has announced plans to acquire HRL Laboratories from General Motors and Boeing for an undisclosed sum, with the deal expected to close by end of quarter. The 80-year-old Malibu-based lab is known for contributions in optics, AI, and satellite propulsion, but IBM is primarily after its spin qubit...
Databricks, Microsoft Extend Azure AI Partnership to 2030s
July 23, 2026: Databricks, Microsoft Extend Azure AI Partnership to 2030s - Databricks and Microsoft have expanded their strategic partnership into the 2030s, targeting enterprises building AI applications on proprietary data. Databricks will deepen its use of Azure infrastructure, including Microsoft's Arm-based Cobalt processors, while running core operations on Azure Dat...
OpenAI Brings Hands-Free Voice Control to Coding
July 23, 2026: OpenAI Brings Hands-Free Voice Control to Coding - OpenAI has integrated GPT-Live, its full-duplex voice AI model, into the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS and Windows. The update connects the conversational audio layer directly to agentic tools like Codex and ChatGPT Work. Developers can now orchestrate multi-threaded coding jobs, review pull reques...
OpenAI Launches Health Feature Amid Lawsuit
July 23, 2026: OpenAI Launches Health Feature Amid Lawsuit - OpenAI launched Health in ChatGPT on July 23, allowing U.S. users to connect medical records and Apple Health data to the chatbot. The feature rolled out one day after a lawsuit sought to block it, with free and paid tiers offering different AI models for health queries. OpenAI says connected data i...
Ropedia Raises $22M for Robot Training Data
July 23, 2026: Ropedia Raises $22M for Robot Training Data - Singapore-based Ropedia has secured $22 million in Pre-Series A funding to scale its real-world data collection infrastructure for embodied AI and robotics development. The company addresses a critical shortage of diverse, high-quality training data by capturing human activity through its lightweigh...
NVIDIA RTX Spark Laptops Launch Fall 2026
July 23, 2026: NVIDIA RTX Spark Laptops Launch Fall 2026 - NVIDIA has confirmed its RTX Spark platform will launch in fall 2026, with ASUS and MSI leading the first wave of systems, followed by Acer, GIGABYTE, HP, and Microsoft. The platform was developed in partnership with MediaTek and announced at SIGGRAPH 2026. RTX Spark combines a 20-core NVIDIA Grace...
Google adds selfie video for account recovery
July 23, 2026: Google adds selfie video for account recovery - Google has launched an opt-in selfie video feature for account recovery, allowing users to record a short clip with guided head movements to verify their identity when standard sign-in methods fail. The video is stored encrypted, can be deleted anytime, and is used solely for identity verification u...
Anthropic Upgrades Claude Voice Mode With App Integration
July 23, 2026: Anthropic Upgrades Claude Voice Mode With App Integration - Anthropic has updated Claude's voice mode, allowing users to choose between Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models. The update defaults to the fastest version of whichever model a user last used in text chat, enabling longer, more complex conversations. A key differentiator from OpenAI's voice mode is Clau...
Microsoft's New AI Models Cut Costs 89% vs OpenAI
July 23, 2026: Microsoft's New AI Models Cut Costs 89% vs OpenAI - Microsoft AI has launched two new in-house models into public preview: MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model for enterprise workloads. The company claims cost savings of up to 89% compared to OpenAI models. The models are already deployed acr...
GitHub Slashes Bug Bounty Payouts Amid AI Report Flood
July 23, 2026: GitHub Slashes Bug Bounty Payouts Amid AI Report Flood - GitHub is overhauling its bug bounty program from July 27, cutting public rewards significantly and introducing an invite-only tier for proven researchers. Critical vulnerability payouts drop from $30,000 to $10,000 for public submissions, while invited elite researchers can still earn $30,000 or mo...
AMD Ventures Bets Big on Physical AI
July 23, 2026: AMD Ventures Bets Big on Physical AI - AMD Ventures is shifting focus toward physical AI, identifying industrial robotics and embedded AI deployment as the next major investment frontier. Sagi Paz, head of AMD Ventures, described the space as largely untapped, with no company yet deploying at scale. AMD Ventures operates stage-agnostica...
ChatGPT Health Launches Amid Medical Advice Lawsuit
July 23, 2026: ChatGPT Health Launches Amid Medical Advice Lawsuit - OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to all U.S. users over 18 across free and paid plans, one day after a Florida pastor sued the company for allegedly advising him not to see a doctor. The feature lets users integrate health data from Apple Health, MyFitnessPal, Epic, and other platforms, with wee...
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