Travis Kalanick’s robotics company, Atoms, has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz will join the company’s board following…
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China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
The AI industry is not quite experiencing a DeepSeek 2.0 moment, but it feels very close. The leading Chinese AI labs have been on a…
Science Corporation's vision-restoring chip wins EU approval |
Science Corporation, a startup developing novel brain-computer interfaces (BCI), won approval from Europe’s medical device regulator to begin selling a device that restores vision lost…
Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI |
In Brief Posted: 10:54 AM PDT · July 22, 2026 Israeli workplace software maker Monday.com is laying off hundreds of employees as part of a…
Google is making it easier to switch from iPhone to Android |
In Brief Posted: 10:08 AM PDT · July 22, 2026 Google announced on Wednesday a new migration experience built directly into Android 17 that should…
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous |
As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments about what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch.…
OpenAI's AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B |
9:13 AM PDT · July 22, 2026 OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, some 25% more than it…
If you pay a hacker's ransom, chances are that they'll come back for more |
8:29 AM PDT · July 22, 2026 Governments have long warned not to pay a hacker’s ransom demands, arguing that doing so only lets criminals…
Cascade raises $3.5M to help construction firms find and win projects |
Cascade, a startup building a platform to help architecture, engineering, and construction firms find and win projects, has raised a $3.5 million seed round from…