Showrunner, an Amazon-backed AI streaming service, launches Thursday, letting users paying $10-$40/mo. to create their own animated shows or build on others' IP (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
Lucia Moses / Business Insider: Showrunner, an Amazon-backed AI streaming service, launches Thursday, letting users paying $10-$40/mo. to create their own animated shows or build
Rune Technologies, which is developing AI-enabled software to transform manual processes in military logistics, raised a $24M Series A by Human Capital (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Rune Technologies, which is developing AI-enabled software to transform manual processes in military logistics, raised a $24M Series A by Human
C3.ai founder and CEO Thomas Siebel steps down due to health issues related to an autoimmune disease that resulted in visual impairment in early 2025 (Hanh Truong/Silicon Valley Business …)
Hanh Truong / Silicon Valley Business Journal: C3.ai founder and CEO Thomas Siebel steps down due to health issues related to an autoimmune disease that
Google says an advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 "exceptionally difficult" problems (Google DeepMind)
Google DeepMind: Google says an advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 “exceptionally difficult”
Google files a lawsuit in the US against 25 unnamed individuals in China, accusing them of operating the BadBox 2.0 botnet, compromising 10M+ devices worldwide (Jessica Lyons/The Register)
Jessica Lyons / The Register: Google files a lawsuit in the US against 25 unnamed individuals in China, accusing them of operating the BadBox 2.0
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
