Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati's AI startup that launched only in February, raised $2B led by a16z; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, and AMD also invested (Aditya Soni/Reuters)
Aditya Soni / Reuters: Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati’s AI startup that launched only in February, raised $2B led by a16z; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco,
xAI apologizes for Grok's "horrific behavior" when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames "an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: xAI apologizes for Grok’s “horrific behavior” when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames “an update to a code
Sources: Apple is planning the first Vision Pro upgrade later in 2025, with an M4 chip and a new strap, and a lighter, redesigned version for 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning the first Vision Pro upgrade later in 2025, with an M4 chip and a new strap, and
Former Google staffers and others detail why Google’s 2013 effort to build Motorola smartphones in Texas failed, as Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the US (Verne Kopytoff/Fortune)
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CoreWeave receives Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra servers built by Dell, becoming the first cloud provider to install systems based on Nvidia's latest AI chips (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Kif Leswing / CNBC: CoreWeave receives Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra servers built by Dell, becoming the first cloud provider to install systems based on Nvidia’s latest
Google announces 30+ Gemini AI tools for educators, like "Gems" which help students on specific subjects, included with Google Workspace for Education accounts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google announces 30+ Gemini AI tools for educators, like “Gems” which help students on specific subjects, included with Google Workspace for
Anthropic launches the Anthropic Economic Futures Program to bolster research on the impacts of AI and encourage new proposals on how to mitigate the downsides (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Anthropic launches the Anthropic Economic Futures Program to bolster research on the impacts of AI and encourage new proposals on how
Roblox says it is on track to pay out $1B to creators in 2025, as it revamps its rewards program to encourage creators to bring more players onto the platform (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox says it is on track to pay out $1B to creators in 2025, as it revamps its rewards program
Sources: the White House recently rejected the DOD's recommendation to nominate Army Lt. Gen. Richard Angle as director of the NSA and head of US Cyber Command (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
John Sakellariadis / Politico: Sources: the White House recently rejected the DOD’s recommendation to nominate Army Lt. Gen. Richard Angle as director of the NSA
Google rolls out the ability to have back-and-forth voice conversations with AI Mode, available in the Google app by tapping the Live button (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google rolls out the ability to have back-and-forth voice conversations with AI Mode, available in the Google app by tapping the
