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At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and its reorganization was not as "clean" as it could have been (Katie Paul/Reuters)

At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI age...

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Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~$2B valuation, six months after raising $75M at a $1B valuation (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mes...

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Travel app Hopper agrees to a $35M FTC settlement over allegations the company misled users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Travel app Hopper agrees to a $35M FTC settlement ...

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Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a $200-per-week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6; the tally excludes beta versions of xAI products (Grace Kay/The Information)

Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a $200-per-we...

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Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~$22B; it was valued at $11B in February (Bloomberg)

Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investor...

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UK-based StirlingX, which develops secure data intelligence systems for defense and critical infrastructure, raised a $20M Series A, following a $11M seed (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)

UK-based StirlingX, which develops secure data int...

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Memo: Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot chatbots into a single app featuring AI agents dubbed AutoPilot and coding tools (The Information)

Memo: Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterp...

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Tripo AI, which is developing 3D foundation models and world models for use in games, raised $150M, a month after it said it raised $200M (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)

Tripo AI, which is developing 3D foundation models...

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Emails disclosed in a court filing detail the uneasy back-and-forth between Dario Amodei and DOD's Emil Michael and how Anthropic's relationship with DOD soured (Wall Street Journal)

Emails disclosed in a court filing detail the unea...

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Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank is in talks to raise money at an $8B+ valuation, up from $4.35B in 2025; its deposits grew from $1.1B in March to $4B now (Bloomberg)

Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank is in talks t...

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Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised $2B at a $15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as $3B (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off...

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Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip (Qianer Liu/The Information)

Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage devel...

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Global VC funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217B, or 43% of the total; in Q2, VCs put $205B into 5K+ startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

Global VC funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026, w...

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Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to support businesses with AI deployments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 s...

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Sam Altman proposes a "US-led international forum" to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies (Sam Altman/Financial Times)

Sam Altman proposes a "US-led international forum"...

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SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by 2030 (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)

SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to off...

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Z.ai launches ZCode, an "Agentic Development Environment" optimized for its new GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan costs from $16.20 to $144 per month (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Z.ai launches ZCode, an "Agentic Development Envir...

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Filings: President Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day as his AI action plan (New York Times)

Filings: President Trump purchased up to $5M each ...

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