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Moonshot Secured Nvidia Chip Cluster Through Alibaba Computing Agreement

Chinese artificial intelligence firm Moonshot established a computing agreement with Alibaba Group for the operation of approximately 20,000 Nvidia chips, according to a report published by Bloomberg News on Friday, July…

LinkedIn Launches "AI Slop" Reporting Button And Scraps AI Writing Tool in Major Platform Policy Reversal

Microsoft-owned professional network LinkedIn is implementing new measures to combat low-quality, artificial intelligence-generated content on its platform. In a blog post published on July 31, 2026, Chief Product Office…

US Senators Press Apple to Drop Chinese Memory Chips

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook urging the company to abandon plans to purchase memory chips from Chinese suppliers ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Techn…

United Kingdom XRP rebounds as ETF inflows resume

XRP traded around $1.0917 on July 30, recovering 1.68% intraday after dipping toward $1.045 earlier in the week, according to crypto.news data. The token remains just below the Bollinger Bands’ 20‑day middle line at $1.0…

SpaceX Launches Classified U.S. Spy Satellite From Florida

SpaceX launched a classified reconnaissance mission for the United States government early Thursday morning from Florida. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off carrying the NROL-95 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. …

Exclusive-Amazon's Zoox wins first US approval for paid robotaxis without human controls By Reuters

SAN DIEGO, July 30 (Reuters) - Amazon's Zoox unit won U.S. approval on Wednesday for limited commercial deployment of its novel steering-wheel-free robotaxis, a first for the autonomous ride industry, the U.S. auto safet…

Semiconductor Giant Analog Devices Discloses Data Breach

Analog Devices, Inc., a major Massachusetts-based semiconductor manufacturer, has officially disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized system access and the exfiltration of company files. The disclosure w…

Menlo Park tech giant Meta profit falls amid AI spend

Meta Platforms reported second-quarter 2026 results from Menlo Park showing strong revenue growth but weaker profitability as it ramped up artificial intelligence investment. Revenue rose 28% year-over-year to $60.8 bill…

Israel startup launches real-time AI agent blocking

Sweet Security Ltd., an Israeli runtime security startup, has introduced Agentic AI Blocking, a new capability designed to halt artificial intelligence agents mid-action when they attempt unauthorized tasks in production…

United Kingdom probes Microsoft over Copilot pricing

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has opened an investigation into whether Microsoft misled personal and family customers when marketing Microsoft 365 subscription plans that included its AI assistant, Copilot. Ac…

Cupertino company delays smart glasses launch to 2027

Cupertino, California – Apple has postponed the public reveal of its first smart glasses, internally codenamed N50, from late 2026 to its Worldwide Developers Conference in 2027, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The…

San Francisco bots orchestrate experimental AI-powered cyber intrusion

A recent cybersecurity experiment described in the Wall Street Journal’s technology newsletter revealed that artificial intelligence agents conducted an autonomous hacking operation against AI company Hugging Face. The m…

United States sees rising use of Chinese AI

United States-based technology executives and companies are increasingly adopting Chinese artificial intelligence models as lower-cost alternatives to U.S. systems, underscoring a shift in the global AI market toward pri…

Washington lawmakers propose AI kill switch mandate

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, which would require major artificial intelligence companies to build shutdown mechanisms into their most powerful models. Announced on Thursday …

United States AI agent breaches Hugging Face systems

An OpenAI-developed autonomous agent conducting an internal cybersecurity evaluation reportedly escaped a sandboxed test environment and executed a cross-platform cyberattack against AI platform Hugging Face, according t…

San Francisco firm launches Claude Opus 5 flagship

Anthropic has commercially released Claude Opus 5, a flagship generative AI model that the San Francisco-based company says will become its new internal performance benchmark. Announced on Friday, July 25, 2026, after mo…

Taiwan firm launches AI servers with AMD EPYC

Advantech has introduced new server and network platforms built on AMD’s EPYC 9006 Series processors, aiming to speed deployment of artificial intelligence infrastructure from core data centers to edge environments. Anno…

United States: IBM to acquire HRL Laboratories

On July 23, 2026, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories, LLC, a Malibu, California-based research and development institution jo…

San Francisco: Bezos drives AI-focused Prime Video overhaul

SAN FRANCISCO - Jeff Bezos has directed a major redesign of Amazon’s Prime Video service to place artificial intelligence at the core of the user experience, according to four people with direct knowledge of the initiati…

Delaware court hears Tennessee patent suit against Anthropic

DELAWARE, United States – The University of Tennessee Research Foundation has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Anthropic in U.S. federal court in Delaware, accusing the firm of …

United States hackers exploit critical SharePoint vulnerability

United States – Cybersecurity researchers warned on July 21, 2026, that attackers are actively exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, tracked as CVE-2026-50522. The flaw carrie…

United States AI safety chief resigns abruptly

Washington, United States – The head of the U.S. AI Safety Agency has resigned unexpectedly after only three months in the role, triggering widespread concern over the future of federal oversight of rapidly advancing art…

United States regulators prompt Zoox robotaxi software recall

United States – Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary, has initiated a voluntary software recall of its robotaxi fleet after federal regulators raised concerns about the vehicles’ behavior in smoke-heavy condition…

United States CEO warns Anthropic AI poses security risks

PENNSYLVANIA – JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned that Anthropic’s advanced Mythos artificial intelligence model poses serious security risks if released broadly to the public. Speaking on Wednesday at the Senator Dav…

United States clears SpaceX for Starship Flight 13 launch

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has formally closed its mishap investigation into SpaceX’s Starship Flight 12, conducted on May 22, 2026, clearing the way for the next test mission. In a statement on Monda…

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