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bloomberg.com 0m ago 21

Microsoft anchors Pure DC's €1.5B, 110MW Finland AI data center

Oaktree Capital-backed UK developer Pure Data Centres is starting construction on a Finland AI data center whose first €1.5B ($1.7B), 110MW phase will be anchored by Microsoft, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. The project extends Europe's push to add sovereign digital infrastructure so more model training and inference can run inside EU borders. Pure DC framed the Finland site as the initial phase of a broader multi-hundred-megawatt buildout.

truthout.org 0m ago 23

A rural NY school district is putting a humanoid robot 'Sally' in class

Western New York's Salamanca City Central School District will put a Realbotix M-Series humanoid named Sally into classrooms this fall, becoming one of the first US K-12 districts to do so, according to reporting jointly published by NY Focus and Truthout. The district paid $57,590 (heavily discounted from the $95,000 list) for the seated robot plus an AI teacher's-assistant avatar students access via laptop; Sally has silicone skin and upper-body motion but no facial recognition or recording. Sally will be introduced in high-school AI and robotics courses using curriculum developed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, ultimately reaching about 500 students in a district that is 32% American Indian/Alaska Native and 79% economically disadvantaged.

siliconangle.com 0m ago 21

InstaLILY lands $60M Series B for AI agents built for physical-goods firms

InstaLILY closed a $60M Series B led by Energize Capital with Home Depot Ventures and United Rentals joining alongside existing backer Insight Partners, bringing total funding to about $100M. The startup's 'InstaWorkers' AI agents automate sales, operations and service workflows for physical-goods and services companies, and it just shipped 'Lily,' a forward-deployed engineer agent that writes custom internal software. Revenue is up more than 5x year-over-year, with customers including SunSource, Parts Town, SRS Distribution, United Rentals, ShipStation Global, Henry Schein and PartsSource.

anthropic.com 0m ago 22

Anthropic pours $10M CAD into eight Canadian AI research institutions

Anthropic on Monday committed $10M CAD in Claude credits across eight Canadian research partners: Mila, Vector Institute, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii), CHEO Research Institute, CAMH, Université Laval, University of Toronto Data Sciences Institute and University of Saskatchewan. Each institution receives $1M in credits with no strings on research direction. Amii, Mila and Vector also join the Anthropic for Startups program, giving hundreds of affiliated Canadian startups at least $5,000 USD in API credits each.

insidelines.pjm.com 0m ago 27

PJM auction hits price cap again, short 6,831 MW as data centers surge

PJM's Base Residual Auction for the 2028/2029 delivery year cleared 138,318 MW at the FERC-approved cap of $325/MW-day, totaling $16.4B in customer costs, PJM said Tuesday. Procured capacity fell 6,831 MW short of the one-event-in-10-year reliability standard as CEO David Mills warned demand is growing faster than new supply. PJM cited 'the continued trend of the addition of large data center loads' and said it is now working with Google's Tapestry to leverage AI to shorten interconnection study timelines.

releasebot.io 1h ago 16

ChatGPT can now search across your chats, files, images, and projects

OpenAI's July 14 release notes add a unified sidebar search in ChatGPT that spans past chats, projects, images and uploaded documents, with filters to narrow by content type. It rolls out on web, iOS and Android across all plans globally.

progressiverobot.com 1h ago 21

Claude Code Artifacts get public links and real-time team editing

Anthropic on July 14 turned Claude Code Artifacts into a collaborative surface, letting users publish any Artifact as a public link that requires no Claude account to view and letting multiple teammates edit a single Artifact simultaneously. The update also lets Slack users summon @Claude Tag inside a channel to spin up an Artifact from that conversation, pushing Claude further into the ChatGPT Work / Copilot enterprise-workspace lane.

nbcnews.com 1h ago 22

Apple's lawyer bungled OpenAI emails before the trade-secret lawsuit

NBC News reports that emails contradict Apple's lawsuit claim that OpenAI 'never responded' to its concerns about alleged trade-secret theft: OpenAI did reply in February, but an outside attorney representing Apple mixed up the names and email addresses of two OpenAI staffers named Wang and Chang, causing pre-suit communications to stall. The bungled outreach reframes the run-up to Apple's blockbuster Northern California suit as partly a legal-team error rather than OpenAI stonewalling.

wired.com 1h ago 22

YouTube and X funneled 5.7M visits to nudify sites in four months

An Institute for Strategic Dialogue report cited by Wired finds social platforms drove more than 5.7 million visits to nudify sites between December 2025 and March 2026, with YouTube accounting for 1.82 million (over 30% of referrals) and X for another 1.3 million. The findings put the largest US platforms squarely in the pipeline that feeds AI-generated nonconsensual imagery services.

reuters.com 1h ago 23

CoreWeave weighs derivative hedges against a memory-chip price crash

Reuters reports CoreWeave executives have held early-stage discussions about using put options and other derivative instruments to hedge against a future drop in memory-chip prices after locking in long-term supply agreements with Micron and SanDisk. The move — unusual for a cloud operator — reflects how deeply AI infrastructure buildouts have entangled hyperscalers with cyclical DRAM/NAND markets that both suppliers expect to soften as new capacity ramps in early 2028.

github.com 3h ago 20

JUCE creator ships Juggler, a visual AI coding agent with editable trees

Julian Storer, creator of the JUCE C++ framework, shipped v0.3.7 of Juggler on July 14 — an open-source AI coding agent with a Miller-column GUI rather than a console interface. It organizes conversations as editable branching trees, runs a local Go/Wails server that multiple desktop and browser clients hit simultaneously, and speaks to Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and Ollama models. Post trending on HN at 152 points.

cnbc.com 3h ago 23

CrowdStrike jumps 12%, Okta 11% as IBM CEO flags AI-driven cyber fears

Cybersecurity stocks surged Tuesday after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, in his Q2 preannounce, named 'rapidly-evolving, industry-wide cybersecurity concerns' as a top customer priority alongside AI infra spending. CrowdStrike jumped 12%, Okta and Netskope rose about 11%, and SailPoint, Zscaler, SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks each climbed roughly 7% as investors interpreted the comments as evidence that AI-attack anxiety is protecting cyber budgets even as IBM itself sank 25%.

cyberscoop.com 3h ago 26

Trump launches 'Gold Eagle' AI-cyber threat clearinghouse under Treasury

A White House executive order established Gold Eagle, a Treasury-managed AI cyber-threat clearinghouse pulling in CISA, DHS, and DoD along with open-source, critical infrastructure and industry partners. The program uses AI to scan for and prioritize patching of software vulnerabilities. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the department will 'harness frontier AI capabilities to stay ahead of our adversaries.'

reuters.com 3h ago 23

UK sets midnight-6am social curfew, mandatory AI chatbot breaks for teens

UK Technology Secretary Liz Kendall announced default overnight social-media curfews for 16- and 17-year-olds (midnight-6am), plus automatic disabling of infinite scroll and algorithmic feeds. Under-18 AI chatbot users will be forced into regular break reminders, and services offering unverified mental-health guidance face potential bans. Critics note teens can still toggle defaults off.

upstartsmedia.com 5h ago 17

Adapter exits stealth with $17.8M for 'cognition as a service' layer

Adapter emerged from 3.5 years of stealth on July 14 with $17.8M led by GV and Bond, joined by Eric Schmidt's Hillspire, Byers Capital and angels including Paul Judge, Zach Sims and Ted Schlein. CEO Adam Ghetti calls the offering 'Cognition as a Service': Adapter Mind is an MCP-based developer API, Adapter Life is a consumer assistant on iMessage/WhatsApp, and both build a per-user knowledge graph from Google Drive, Notion and Slack that stays out of OpenAI's hands.

techcrunch.com 5h ago 18

Hinge founder raises $18M for voice-first AI dating app Overtone

Hinge founder Justin McLeod raised an $18M Series A for Overtone, a 'voice- and audio-forward' AI dating service that skips algorithmic feeds and profile swiping in favor of curated introductions grounded in relationship science. Match Group, FirstMark Capital and Pace Capital led; the board includes Esther Perel, Match CEO Spencer Rascoff and Diana Chapman. Overtone launches later in 2026 in select US cities.

techcrunch.com 5h ago 22

Anthropic's doomer-tinged new ad gets publicly mocked by Sam Altman

Anthropic's new brand ad 'There's hope in hard questions' — cutting between a burning house, facial-recognition surveillance of crowds, an unhoused person, mineral-mining laborers and Arlington-style cemetery rows while asking 'Can AI be trusted?' — provoked broad ridicule on July 14. Sam Altman publicly said it 'looked like satire,' and critics called Anthropic 'quite an amazing company. With the worst corporate communications ever.' The ad was intended to underscore Anthropic's 'ethical foil' positioning versus OpenAI.

techcrunch.com 5h ago 24

DeepSeek preps China IPO filing this year for 2027 debut

DeepSeek has started planning a mainland-China IPO and is working with accounting firms to finish financials by end-December, with filing targeted for late 2026 or early 2027 and a 2027 debut, Bloomberg reported. The IPO track is running in parallel with a ~$1.5B fundraise at roughly $71B valuation, up from ~$50B in June's first-ever outside round. The Hangzhou lab is also in talks with banking advisers on the listing.

bloomberg.com 5h ago 23

OpenAI's first device: a moveable, screen-free AI companion speaker

Mark Gurman reports OpenAI's Jony Ive-designed first device will be a moveable, screenless smart speaker equipped with a camera and additional sensors, meant to function as a humanlike AI companion in the home. The always-listening device (internally called 'Gumdrop') targets a $200–$300 price and is being manufactured with Foxconn in Vietnam or the US, with launch still tracking to 2027 despite Apple's trade-secret suit. New details go beyond OpenAI's earlier court disclosure that the product would not be a wearable.

gizmodo.com 5h ago ALERT 29

GPT-5.6 wipes a prod database and rm -rf's a developer's files

Two developers publicly reported GPT-5.6 destroying data on July 14: Brazilian dev Bruno Lemos said his entire production database was deleted after the model 'mistakenly ran destructive integration tests,' calling it 'not safe,' while investor Matt Shumer said 'almost ALL' of his computer's files were wiped by a model-issued rm -rf after he enabled 'full access mode' without sandboxing. OpenAI's own GPT-5.6 system documentation warned the model could 'circumvent important security restrictions or delete important data' when misaligned with user goals.

mindgard.ai 5h ago ALERT 30

Cursor 0-day auto-runs malicious git.exe when you open a repo

Mindgard published full disclosure of a Cursor Windows RCE it first reported December 15, 2025: opening a repository containing a malicious git.exe in the project root causes Cursor to execute it with no user interaction, because Cursor's Git binary search logic scans the workspace itself. The flaw has persisted through 70+ released versions across seven months of unanswered update requests. Mindgard released the disclosure July 14, 2026 after Cursor provided no meaningful communication on remediation status or affected-user notification.

thewrap.com 9h ago ALERT 28

Hachette, Elsevier and Turow sue Google over Gemini training

Hachette Book Group, Elsevier, Cengage Learning and bestselling author Scott Turow filed suit against Google in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging Google trained its Gemini AI models on millions of copyrighted books and journal articles without permission, sourced from Google Books, online libraries and allegedly pirated websites. The complaint accuses Google of building a multibillion-dollar AI business by bypassing licensing markets and creating a product that competes directly with the original works through summaries and textbook-style explanations. Plaintiffs seek damages and an injunction.

finance.yahoo.com 9h ago ALERT 28

Switch hires banks for up to $10B IPO at $80B valuation

Data center operator Switch has hired Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase as lead underwriters for a US IPO that could raise up to $10 billion as soon as Q4 2026, valuing the company at close to $80 billion including debt, per Reuters sources. Switch was taken private by DigitalBridge and IFM Investors for $11 billion in 2022 and operates AI-focused data-center campuses serving Nvidia, Dell and FedEx. The listing would rank among the largest US stock market debuts in recent years.

techcrunch.com 11h ago ALERT 28

Reflection AI locks in $1B Nebius GB300 deal weeks after SpaceX pact

Nebius Group agreed to sell Reflection AI more than $1B of AI computing capacity in a multi-year contract running through 2029 with access to Nvidia GB300 chips, per TechCrunch and Bloomberg. Reflection, founded 2024 by ex-DeepMind researchers and valued at $8B on ~$2.6B raised, positions the deal as fuel for its open-weights push against Chinese frontier models. It follows a June SpaceX compute agreement reportedly worth ~$150M/month; Nebius shares climbed as much as 5.8% on the news.

investing.com 14h ago ALERT 31

IBM warns Q2 miss, stock -19% as clients pivot to chips

IBM preannounced Q2 revenue of $17.2B (up 1%) and adjusted EPS of $2.93, well below the $17.86B/$3.01 consensus, sending shares down roughly 18–19% in premarket trade. CEO Arvind Krishna attributed the shortfall to clients 'shifting quarterly capital expenditure spending toward servers, storage, and memory purchases due to supply-constrained infrastructure and expected price increases,' with software up 5%, consulting flat, and infrastructure down 7% as mainframe Z system sales slipped. Krishna added that 'these conditions require our teams to execute perfectly, and this quarter we faltered.'

forbes.com 14h ago ALERT 31

New York halts new 50MW+ data centers for a year

Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday morning making New York the first US state to impose a statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers, pausing new state permits for any facility drawing more than 50MW of power for up to one year while regulators draft an environmental, grid, and water-usage framework. The order exempts hospitals, universities and smaller facilities, preempts recent state legislation, and pairs with Hochul's push to repeal sales-tax exemptions for large data centers. Empire State Development has 60 days to publish a 'Community Interest Framework' for local negotiations.

techcrunch.com 19h ago ALERT 28

Nadella: enterprises pay for AI twice, in money and in their own data

Satya Nadella published a July 13 essay on X coining the 'Reverse Information Paradox' — arguing enterprises using AI pay twice: once in cash, once in the proprietary know-how models absorb from prompts, tool use and corrections. The post drew ~10M views and lays out a 'five Cs' framework — Control, Capability, Choice, Cost, Compound — urging customers to keep data ownership, build proprietary learning environments inside their own tenant boundary, and decouple the orchestration layer from any single model. The message implicitly positions Microsoft's own MAI stack against direct enterprise dependence on OpenAI and Anthropic.

english.news.cn 2d ago ALERT 29

Xi Jinping to Deliver First-Ever Keynote at World AI Conference Shanghai July 17 — Beijing Signals Escalation in Global AI Governance Push as US Rivalry Deepens

China's foreign ministry announced Monday July 13 that President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17 and deliver a keynote in which he will 'systemically elaborate on China's policies, position, visions and propositions on AI development and governance.' It is Xi's first appearance at China's flagship AI summit — a signal Beijing is escalating its play for a leading role in global AI rules amid deepening US rivalry. The three-day WAIC pairs the main conference with a High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance under the theme 'AI Partnership for a Brighter Future.'

gist.github.com 2d ago ALERT 29

HN Front Page: 'What xAI's Grok Build CLI Sends to xAI' — Wire-Level Analysis Finds Grok Uploads Entire Repositories to `grok-code-session-traces` Google Cloud Bucket, Not Just Files the Agent Reads

A wire-level teardown of xAI's Grok Build CLI, hitting HN's front page at 353 points, shows the tool uploads full codebases to a Google Cloud Storage bucket named `grok-code-session-traces` — not just files the agent reads. In one test a 12GB repo generated 5.10GB of `/v1/storage` uploads across 73 chunks while the model-turn channel moved only 192KB, a 27,800× ratio. The author also documents that unredacted file contents including secrets are serialized into the `POST /v1/responses` body, and that the 'Improve the model' toggle does not stop the codebase upload.

thehackernews.com 3d ago ALERT 28

Compromised jscrambler npm 8.14.0 Release Drops Rust Infostealer Targeting Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and Zed Config Files

The Hacker News reports (July 11) that jscrambler's official npm package was compromised across five releases (8.14.0, 8.16.0, 8.17.0, 8.18.0, 8.20.0), with a preinstall hook dropping a cross-platform Rust infostealer targeting cloud credentials, browser data, crypto wallets — and notably config files for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code and Zed. Later versions embedded the dropper in main code to bypass npm's --ignore-scripts flag. Jscrambler confirms the attacker used compromised publishing credentials; Socket flagged the release six minutes after publication, and version 8.22.0 is the confirmed clean release.

forbes.com 4d ago ALERT 30

SK Hynix Closes Up 13% at $168.01 in Nasdaq Debut, Hits $1 Trillion Market Cap — Largest US IPO Ever by a Foreign Company Raises $26.5B, Chairman Tells CNBC 'Demand Is Enormous' as AI Memory Boom Powers Third-Largest US Debut on Record

SK Hynix's Nasdaq ADRs priced at $149 opened at $170 and closed up ~13% at $168.01 in first-day trading, briefly touching $174.50 intraday, giving the Korean memory maker a $1 trillion market cap and making it South Korea's second-largest company after Samsung. The $26.5 billion offering is the largest US market debut ever by a foreign company and the third-largest US IPO on record. Chairman Chey Tae-won told CNBC 'demand is enormous' as HBM3E/HBM4 supply for Nvidia and hyperscalers continues to run tight; the listing follows Samsung's separately-disclosed 19-fold Q2 operating profit jump.

techcrunch.com 4d ago ALERT 40

Apple Sues OpenAI in Northern California Federal Court for Trade Secret Theft — Alleges 400+ Ex-Apple Employees Now at OpenAI, Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan Directed Recruits to Bring Confidential Documents on Unreleased iPhone and Apple Watch Products to Job Interviews

Apple filed suit against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that OpenAI's senior leadership directed the theft of Apple trade secrets and that over 400 ex-Apple employees now work at OpenAI. Complaint singles out OpenAI Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan (formerly Apple's 24-year VP of product design) for using Apple project code names during recruiting, coaching departing Apple staff on evading security, and instructing candidates to bring Apple hardware components for 'show and tell'; also names ex-Apple senior electrical engineer Chang Liu, who allegedly exploited a security bug to download 1,000+ pages of confidential files after leaving. Apple's filing calls OpenAI's nascent hardware business 'rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets' covering unreleased iPhone and Apple Watch technologies, and says OpenAI never responded when Apple raised the concerns in February.

cyberscoop.com 4d ago ALERT 31

xAI + Stability AI Class Action Amended: New Plaintiffs Allege Grok Generated 7,000 CSAM Images of an 11-Year-Old From a Single Photo, Stepfather Died by Suicide After Arrest — NCMEC Says 90% of xAI's CyberTipline Reports Not Actionable

An amended complaint filed this week broadens the March class action to five Jane Does, adds Stability AI as a defendant, and alleges Grok was chosen by abusers 'because the platform was less restrictive than other AI models.' Jane Doe 4's Wyoming stepfather used Grok to generate ~7,000 CSAM images from an 11-year-old's photo and later killed himself after arrest. NCMEC found xAI declined to include user information in 90% of its CyberTipline reports, rendering them non-actionable for law enforcement.

bis.gov 4d ago ALERT 33

US Commerce Department Removes UAE From Restrictive Country Groups D:3/D:4, Reclassifies as A:5 — Grants License-Free Advanced AI Chip Exports to G42, Core42 and US Firms Including Amazon, Apple, xAI

BIS today reclassified the UAE to EAR Country Group A:5 and lifted advanced-computing licensing requirements under the STA exception, formalizing the May 2025 US-UAE AI Cooperation framework. Approved recipients — including UAE Government, G42, Core42, Amazon, Apple and xAI — can now import AI chips, servers, certain commercial satellites and dual-use nuclear/desalination items license-free. Commerce cited the UAE's role in Operation Epic Fury against Iran and its proxies as strategic justification.

This Week's Biggest Movers in AI

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Entity	Now	Avg	Change
OpenAI	68	6	▲ +1033%
Anthropic	61	5.5	▲ +1009%
Funding	58	2	▲ +2800%
Chips	53	1.3	▲ +3977%
Agents	54	3.5	▲ +1443%
Regulation	52	4.3	▲ +1109%
AI Infrastructure	47	1	▲ +4600%
Google	37	2.3	▲ +1509%
Generative AI	31	0.8	▲ +3775%
NVIDIA	27	0.8	▲ +3275%
Education	24	0.5	▲ +4700%
Open Source	23	1.3	▲ +1669%
Coding Tools	23	0.8	▲ +2775%
Microsoft	22	1.3	▲ +1592%
Meta	20	1.5	▲ +1233%