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Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures (TechCrunch)

Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes,...

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Sources: Trump admin and industry groups have discussed streamlining releases of US open models of equal or lesser capability than leading Chinese open models (Benjamin Guggenheim/Washington Post)

Sources: Trump admin and industry groups have disc...

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Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the public debut of the new Siri AI (Will Shanklin/Engadget)

Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, i...

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Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the public debut of the new Siri AI (Will Shanklin/Engadget)

Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, i...

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Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul t...

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Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia,...

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Doc: DHS analysts twice dismissed signs of intruders inside the DHS' network, first detected in May, as harmless activity before confirming a breach in June (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)

Doc: DHS analysts twice dismissed signs of intrude...

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A coalition of 12 states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

A coalition of 12 states led by California files a...

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London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

London-based Valarian, which allows companies to u...

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Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered "Smartbadges" worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)

Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered "Smartbadg...

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Gauntlet, which helps institutions and crypto companies allocate their digital assets, raised a $125M Series C from Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Gauntlet, which helps institutions and crypto comp...

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Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to the lowest Q2 levels since 2013 amid the DRAM and NAND shortage; Samsung returns to #1 with a 24% market share (Shilpi Jain/Counterpoint Research)

Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to ...

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Apple's stock is up 15% since June 25, adding nearly $600B in market value and pushing shares back to record territory, as investors flee an AI stock selloff (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

Apple's stock is up 15% since June 25, adding near...

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Sources: US officials estimate unauthorized distillation costs US AI labs up to $6B/year; Silicon Valley told the Trump admin it could be an existential threat (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Sources: US officials estimate unauthorized distil...

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Source: OpenAI still believes it is on track to unveil its first device in 2026 and release it in 2027; Apple's lawsuit may complicate hiring and supply chains (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Source: OpenAI still believes it is on track to un...

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Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder and one of the biggest names in UK tech, to join its compute team; he is taking a leave of absence from YC (Robert Scammell/Business Insider)

Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder ...

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Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufacturing at its Leixlip facility in Ireland; in 2025, Intel canceled a planned €30B factory in Magdeburg, Germany (Financial Times)

Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufactu...

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Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement (Ben Casselman/New York Times)

Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureate...

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