Will Knight / Wired: A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI model Mirage that manipulates live video in real time and can potentially shake up livestreaming — A startup called Decart has developed an AI model that can transform live footage. The results are mind-bending—and poised to take over streaming.
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Vultron, which makes AI tools for federal contractors, raised $22M from investors including David Sacks' Craft Ventures, raising ethical questions — When Vultron announced its $22 million funding round earlier this week, the AI startup made sure to highlight a key investor: Craft Ventures …
Eleanor Hawkins / Axios: Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after a video of him cuddling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral — Astronomer CEO Andy Byron has resigned from the company after a video of him canoodling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral.
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple was exempted from the EU's Corning deal to end exclusivity terms with OEMs, after finding products designed exclusively for Apple fall outside the market — The European Commission has concluded an antitrust investigation into Corning's glass supply deals. And for once, Apple just watched from the sidelines.
Washington Examiner: Sources: UK plans to designate Apple and Google as holding a “strategic market advantage” over rivals, subjecting them to new regulations and potential fines — EXCLUSIVE — The United Kingdom is preparing to designate Apple and Google as holding a “strategic market advantage” …
Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: after Trump let Nvidia resume H20 chip sales to China, Nvidia told Chinese customers it has limited stocks and doesn't plan to restart production — President Donald Trump's recent decision allowing Nvidia to resume sales of the H20 artificial intelligence chips to China sent its Chinese customers …
Alexander Wei / @alexwei_: [Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad — 1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO). [image]
New York Times: How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between “Islamists” and “Muslims” — Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray.
South China Morning Post: How an open-source approach helped DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies; Hugging Face: Alibaba's Qwen is now the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem — July 9, 2024, may be remembered as a day of humiliation for China's artificial intelligence community.
Jeff Wang / @jeffwsurf: Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded — To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports …
Financial Times: How AI is reshaping higher education, as institutions grapple with the pace of change and technology companies move quickly to offer custom learning products — While institutions grapple with the pace of change, technology companies are moving quickly to offer custom learning products
Kasha Patel / Washington Post: Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200+ earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice — An early-warning system on Android phones has detected more than 1,000 earthquakes worldwide since 2021, sometimes giving people 15 …
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation — Big Tech's growing reliance on licensing deals to scoop up top talent from AI startups risks leaving many rank-and-file workers in limbo.
The Economic Times: Reliance Retail launches Ajio Rush, a four-hour fashion delivery service live in six Indian cities, to take on Myntra and other fashion quick commerce startups — Reliance Retail has launched Ajio Rush, a four-hour fashion delivery service now live in six cities. It follows Myntra and others exploring ultra-fast delivery.
Bloomberg: Sources: at least six of China's biggest VC firms are targeting a combined $2B in new USD-denominated funds to allow overseas investment in Chinese startups — China's largest venture capital houses are tapping the market for at least $2 billion in new funds, re-engaging with the country's startups …
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Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Ring reinstated its mission to “make neighborhoods safer” and reintroduced video sharing with police in April, as its founder led an overhaul since his return — - Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has led a broad overhaul of the company since his return in April.
Ari Levy / CNBC: S&P Global says Block will join the S&P 500 on July 23, after announcing Monday that ad tech firm The Trade Desk will also be added; XYZ jumps 9%+ after hours — Block shares jumped more than 10% in extended trading on Friday, as the fintech company get set to join the S&P 500, replacing Hess.
Eleanor Hawkins / Axios: Source: the CEO and the chief people officer of Astronomer were put on leave after a video of them cuddling on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert went viral — Astronomer — the software company that made headlines after a video of its CEO Andy Byron and chief people officer Kristin Cabot canoodling …
Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: Adobe updates its Firefly video model and adds a beta Generate Sound Effects tool that can create custom sounds from text prompts and the user's voice — Just a year and a half ago, the latest and greatest of Adobe's Firefly generative AI offerings involved producing high-quality images …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere acquired Koala, an AI-powered CRM startup that raised a $15M Series A five months ago; Koala plans to shut down in September — The startup behind the viral AI coding app Cursor is snapping up top talent from AI enterprise startups in a bid to bolster …
Larry Neumeister / Associated Press: Clothing inventory monetization startup CaaStle's ex-CEO Christine Hunsicker is charged with defrauding investors of more than $300M over the past six years — A former chief executive of two clothing technology companies who was once portrayed as an on-the-rise fashion entrepreneur …
Bloomberg: President Trump signs the GENIUS Act, and says the first federal bill to regulate stablecoins will “secure the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency” — President Donald Trump signed the first federal bill to regulate stablecoins, hailing it as a “giant step …
Lucinda Shen / Axios: SPAC Insider: SPACs are booming in 2025, with 74 blank check companies going public so far in 2025, raising about $14.7B and beating 2022 total of $13.4B — SPACs are reaching heights not seen since 2021, despite their reputation as a symptom of an overly frothy market. … - And its been accelerating.
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 botnet, compromising 10M+ devices worldwide — Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too — Google has filed a lawsuit …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: BrightAI, an AI-powered service using custom chips and devices to monitor critical infrastructure, raised a $51M Series A, source says at a $300M valuation — BrightAI raised $51 million to sell sensors and software that monitor infrastructure. — While many artificial intelligence tools …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft shuts down the Movies & TV storefront on the Microsoft Store on Windows and Xbox; users will continue to be able to access their past purchases — After 12 years, Microsoft is shutting down its storefront that let Windows and Xbox users buy or rent Movies & TV shows natively on the platform.
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Germany-based Q.ANT, which is developing energy-efficient photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, raised a €62M Series A — Q.ANT is a photonic deep-tech scale-up developing photonic processing solutions that compute natively with light and deliver a scalable alternative to transistor-based systems.
Bloomberg: SEC Chairman Paul Atkins says the GENIUS Act is a “historic step” and the SEC is weighing an “innovation exemption” from regulations to incentivize tokenization — The Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing an innovation exemption from regulations to incentivize tokenization …
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Total crypto market value surpassed $4T for the first time, driven by altcoin rallies and US legislative momentum; Ether jumped 22% over the past five days — The total market value of cryptoassets surged past $4 trillion for the first time, driven by a rally in altcoins and momentum …
Osmond Chia / BBC: Ted Sarandos says The Eternaut featured the first GenAI final footage in a Netflix original and that the VFX costs would have been too high otherwise — Netflix says it has used visual effects created by generative artificial intelligence (AI) in one of its original TV shows for the first time.
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Reuters: The US House passes the GENIUS Act, sending the stablecoin bill to Trump for his signature, and advances two other crypto bills to the Senate for consideration — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to create a regulatory framework for U.S.-dollar-pegged cryptocurrency tokens known …
Bloomberg Law: A federal judge reinstates FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, months after President Trump sought to fire her and Democratic colleague Alvaro Bedoya — A federal judge reinstated FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter in a Thursday ruling, months after President Donald Trump sought …
Emma Roth / The Verge: Netflix says it's on track to double its advertising revenue this year and that it will roll out interactive ads in the second half of 2025 — Older Netflix shows like Orange is the New Black and Ozark have racked up over 100 million hours so far in 2025, as its Q2 revenue passed $11 billion.
Financial Times: Sources: Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that would open up 401(k) plans to cryptocurrency and other alternative investments — President preparing executive order to allow 401k plans to tap broad pool of alternative assets
Sarah Whitten / CNBC: Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $11.08B, vs. $11.07B est., net income of $3.13B, and forecasts 2025 revenue of $44.8B-$45.2B, up from $43.5B-$44.5B — Netflix posted an earnings beat Thursday, as revenue grew 16% during the second quarter of 2025.
Axios: Stablecoin regulation bill heads to Trump's desk — The House passed legislation Thursday establishing the first-ever regulatory framework for issuers of stablecoins, sending the landmark GENIUS Act to President Trump for his signature. … - The vote was 308-122, with 102 Democrats joining …
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google's Veo 3 video generation model launches on the Gemini API, with an eight-second video costing $6, making it one of the most expensive AI video options — Google's Veo 3 video generation model is now available through the Gemini API, with a price point that puts it among the more expensive options for AI video.
Financial Times: Sources: Perplexity jumped to a $18B valuation two months after it raised at $14B; its annualized revenues jumped from $35M in August 2024 to $150M this month — Artificial intelligence-powered search engine lures new investors to back higher price tag — Artificial intelligence search …
Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Hadrian, which is building largely automated factories to produce space and defense parts, raised a $260M Series C, bringing its total funding to ~$500M — Investors are continuing to rally behind the call to reindustrialize American industry, this time by building out a $260 million war chest …
Emma Roth / The Verge: The News/Media Alliance says the webhost of 12ft.io, which helped users bypass paywalls, took down the site on July 14 following the trade association's efforts — The News/Media Alliance says it will take action against similar tools in the future.
Michael Teo Van Runkle / Ars Technica: Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: currently exclusive to Aston Martin, enhances center console integration, works smoothly with driver assist systems, and more — CarPlay Ultra takes over the main instrument display as well as the infotainment. — For the 2025 model year …
Dan Shipper / Every: Hands-on with ChatGPT Agent: combines OpenAI's Operator and deep research tools and is incredibly simple to use, but less customizable than Claude Code — It's launching today! Here's our day-zero, hands-on report. … Surprise! Operator and deep research had a baby, and it's called ChatGPT Agent.
Reece Rogers / Wired: ChatGPT Agent uses a virtual browser to do tasks such as filling online forms and calling public APIs, and generates downloadable PowerPoint and Excel files — It's a PowerPoint generator! It's a date-night planner! It's ... another agent from OpenAI. — Isa Fulford, the research lead …
Hayden Field / The Verge: OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent, which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step tasks, powered by a new dedicated model, rolling out to paid users — One employee uses it to automate his weekly parking requests at OpenAI's San Francisco office.