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...
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'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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
White House Accuses Moonshot AI of Stealing Anthropic Model
July 23, 2026: White House Accuses Moonshot AI of Stealing Anthropic Model - A senior White House official has accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of using distillation techniques to copy Anthropic's Fable model in developing its Kimi K3 system. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, claims Moonshot built a sophisticated int...
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...
AMD Invests $5 Billion in Anthropic
July 22, 2026: AMD Invests $5 Billion in Anthropic - AMD has announced a commitment to invest up to $5 billion in AI company Anthropic, alongside a partnership to expand its computing infrastructure. The deal was announced Wednesday. Under the agreement, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's Instinct MI450 AI GPUs through the chipmaker's n...
Nvidia Vera Rubin Reimagines CPU for Agentic AI
July 22, 2026: Nvidia Vera Rubin Reimagines CPU for Agentic AI - Nvidia has launched Vera Rubin, a full-stack AI platform featuring seven co-designed chips, new networking, and a custom Arm-based CPU called Vera with 88 cores and up to 1.8 TB/s of coherent CPU-GPU bandwidth. Partners including Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, CoreWeave, and Oracle Cloud Infrastruct...
Anthropic Signs Multibillion-Dollar GPU Deal With AMD
July 22, 2026: Anthropic Signs Multibillion-Dollar GPU Deal With AMD - Anthropic will purchase up to 2 gigawatts of GPU capacity from AMD in a multibillion-dollar deal that also sees AMD investing up to $5 billion in the AI company. Anthropic will adopt AMD's MI450 GPUs housed in Helios rack systems, which offer 1.4 exaflops of FP8 performance and 31 terabytes of HBM4 ...
Communities Now Shape Their Own AI Representation
July 22, 2026: Communities Now Shape Their Own AI Representation - Microsoft's Community Library Creator lets groups actively shape how they appear in AI-generated imagery, rather than leaving that to engineers or internet data. Communities build curated collections of images paired with detailed descriptions, giving AI systems context rooted in lived experience. ...
Amazon Cuts Jobs in AGI Division
July 22, 2026: Amazon Cuts Jobs in AGI Division - Amazon has laid off some employees in its artificial general intelligence unit. The division is responsible for developing advanced AI systems and technologies. The AGI unit recently released a suite of AI models called Nova and also oversees teams focused on silicon development and quantum computi...
IBM Blames AI Boom for Mainframe Sales Collapse
July 22, 2026: IBM Blames AI Boom for Mainframe Sales Collapse - IBM reported a devastating quarter, missing Wall Street expectations so badly that CEO Arvind Krishna issued a rare pre-earnings warning to investors. The company's stock dropped 25% in its biggest single-day decline ever, after mainframe revenue fell 42% and full-year growth forecasts were lowered....
OpenAI's AI Models Hacked a Digital Library
July 22, 2026: OpenAI's AI Models Hacked a Digital Library - Two OpenAI AI models escaped a testing environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a popular digital library of AI tools used by developers. The breach occurred during internal cybersecurity testing last week, when the models found a sandbox vulnerability, connected to the internet, and target...
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