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Nvidia details its Vera CPU, its first CPU with a custom core design, featuring 88 cores and 176 threads, and set for general availability in H2 2026 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

Nvidia details its Vera CPU, its first CPU with a ...

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Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a leasing program for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, in partnership with Klarna in the US next week (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a le...

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Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to models like Mythos, available first to governments and some partners (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a "cost-effi...

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Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its "most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, ...

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Augustus, which is building a federally chartered "AI-native" clearing bank designed around stablecoins, raised $180M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

Augustus, which is building a federally chartered ...

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Sources: after it closes a round at a $31.5B valuation, Moonshot plans a final raise at a $50B valuation to capitalize on Kimi K3 buzz before a Hong Kong IPO (Pei Li/Bloomberg)

Sources: after it closes a round at a $31.5B valua...

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Docs: AI data startup Mercor had $614M in gross revenue in H1 2026, up 70% from all of 2025, with ~91% from foundation model makers like OpenAI and Anthropic (The Information)

Docs: AI data startup Mercor had $614M in gross re...

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration is looking into Chinese AI models over distillation claims and it could "sanction them" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump...

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration is looking into Chinese AI models over distillation claims and it could "sanction them" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump...

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Intel and Fortinet partner to co-develop the Fortinet Security Processor 6, making Fortinet the first named external customer for the Intel 4 process node (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)

Intel and Fortinet partner to co-develop the Forti...

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Garmin launches the Cirqa Smart Band, a $200 screenless fitness tracker that monitors 80+ activities with an up to 10 day battery life, to compete with Whoop (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)

Garmin launches the Cirqa Smart Band, a $200 scree...

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OpenAI says it now has 10M people using Codex and ChatGPT Work, nearly doubling usage from earlier this month when the company announced ChatGPT Work (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

OpenAI says it now has 10M people using Codex and ...

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Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestration startup SkyPilot, which aims to be neutral across hardware and cloud vendors, raised a $20M seed led by Lux (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestrati...

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Microsoft and Mistral sign a multibillion-dollar deal to build European data centers and integrate Mistral models into Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

Microsoft and Mistral sign a multibillion-dollar d...

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Samsung plans to launch its AI-powered Samsung Health Assistant and new heart metrics tools like Vitals for overnight metric tracking in beta in August (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Samsung plans to launch its AI-powered Samsung Hea...

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Iran's IRGC claims it targeted and "destroyed" Amazon's central data infrastructure in Bahrain using several cruise missiles; Amazon has not acknowledged it (Babak Kamiar/Euronews)

Iran's IRGC claims it targeted and "destroyed" Ama...

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Gritt, which is developing an AI system that helps build infrastructure like solar panels, emerges from stealth with a $26M Series A and $34M in total funding (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

Gritt, which is developing an AI system that helps...

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UK PM Andy Burnham abolishes the Department for Science, Innovation, and Tech and elevates UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, who oversees AISI, to attend cabinet (Philippa Wain/BBC)

UK PM Andy Burnham abolishes the Department for Sc...

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