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One Million Dutch Residents Get Their News Only From Social Media — and Just 12% Trust It
Digital News Report 2026: more than a million people in the Netherlands (7% of adults) get news exclusively from social media, and only 12% of them trust what they see there.
Paris studio Rocapine raises $13M for digital wellbeing apps
The French venture studio applies mobile gaming mechanics to build apps that help people look away from their screens instead of keeping them glued to them.
Shareholders sue Microsoft over stock plunge after Azure slowdown
Microsoft shareholders are seeking compensation for a $357 billion loss in market capitalization: on January 29, the stock plunged 10% after a disappointing Azure report and rising AI spending.
XPeng's Robotics Unit Raises More Than $900M Ahead of Mass Production of Its IRON Humanoid
XPeng's robotics unit closed its first round at more than $900M, without having sold a single robot. The automaker is preparing its IRON humanoid for mass production.
A Humanoid Ran 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record — and Roboticists Aren't Impressed
At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, an X-Humanoid machine ran the 100 m in 9.39 seconds, beating Bolt's record. Roboticists explain why folding laundry is still harder.
Anthropic Prepares the Largest IPO in History: About $100B Raised at a Valuation of $2T or More
Anthropic could raise about $100B in a listing as early as October, topping SpaceX's record and dwarfing the largest European offering in decades tenfold.
Alibaba releases Wan3.0 video model days after raising $10 billion for AI
Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, a new version of its video model that generates clips up to 30 seconds long. It arrived days after a record $10.2 billion share sale earmarked entirely for AI.
Hugging Face explores sale at $13 billion valuation, nearly triple its last one
Hugging Face has hired bankers to sound out buyers at a valuation of $13 billion or more. Talks are at an early stage and no buyer is named, Business Insider reports.
Corma Raises $60M From Sequoia: GPT and Claude Win 88% of Attack Simulations Against Defenders
Startup Corma raised $60M from Sequoia for defensive AI in enterprise cybersecurity. Its simulations show attacking GPT and Claude models winning 88% of the time.
Yellow.ai Goes Public to Buy the Call Centers It Wants AI to Replace
Instead of selling software to operators, Yellow.ai plans to buy the call centers themselves. It is merging with SPAC Bluerock Acquisition and eyeing BPO M&A.
Nvidia's Real Moat Isn't Its Chips — It's CUDA, and AI Agents Have Started Rewriting It
For 20 years, CUDA mattered more than any Nvidia GPU. Now AI coding agents are lowering the barrier to switching platforms — and for the first time threaten the company's software moat.
Majestic Labs unveils Prometheus server to replace a rack of Nvidia GPUs
Israeli startup Majestic Labs says AI's bottleneck is not a shortage of compute but the "memory wall", and has unveiled Prometheus, a server it claims can replace a full rack of Nvidia GPUs.
Xsight Labs Raises $300M for Open Chips That Link GPUs in AI Clusters
Israeli chipmaker Xsight Labs closed a $300M+ round at a $2.8B valuation. It builds open networking chips that compete with NVIDIA InfiniBand in AI clusters.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1 Billion, Bringing Total Funding to $4 Billion for Fusion Power in the AI Era
Commonwealth Fusion Systems closed a $1 billion round, lifting its total funding to $4 billion — about 30% of all fusion energy investment worldwide.
Similarweb: AI search market grows to 9.5 billion visits and is no longer a ChatGPT monopoly
Generative AI search has grown to 9.5 billion visits a month, but ChatGPT is no longer the only player: the market is fragmenting, maturing and filling up with ads.
Oracle Builds Gemini Into Fusion Applications and NetSuite — Shares Jump 8%
Oracle expanded its partnership with Google Cloud: Gemini is being integrated into the Fusion Applications and NetSuite enterprise ERP platforms, and Oracle shares rose 8%.
DataBahn Closes $40M Series B for a Control Layer Between AI Agents and Enterprise Data
Texas startup DataBahn raised $40M led by Insight Partners for a platform that gives enterprise AI agents governed access to company data.
K2 Space Raises $500M at a $6.8B Valuation to Build Large Satellites with Onboard AI
K2 Space closed a $500M Series D at a $6.8B valuation. Going against the industry's push toward miniaturization, it is building large satellites that run AI onboard.
Kirk Drake in TNW: Entrepreneurs Are Limiting Their Own AI Potential
In a column for The Next Web, expert Kirk Drake says organizations are optimistic about AI, but what keeps experiments from becoming results is not the technology, but leadership's mindset.
EY Built an AI Router That Picks the Cheapest Model for Each Task
EY has developed a router that automatically sends each request to the cheapest suitable AI model, aiming to rein in fast-growing corporate AI spending.
LinkedIn Adds a "Seems like AI slop" Button for Flagging AI Posts in the Feed
LinkedIn quietly added a "Seems like AI slop" button to its post menu, letting users flag posts that look written by a neural network rather than a real person.
ByteDance Earns $4 Billion a Year From AI and Splits Up Lark to Grow It Further
ByteDance has disclosed $4 billion in annual AI revenue, a record among Chinese companies. To keep growing, it has split its Lark enterprise platform into separate products.
CoreWeave and Leidos to Build an AI Cloud Inside Classified US Intelligence Facilities
CoreWeave, a GPU supplier to OpenAI and Microsoft, is entering the classified market. With Leidos, it will place its AI platform inside secure US intelligence facilities.
Nscale Buys Anyscale for $1.65 Billion, Taking Control of the Ray Framework
London-based AI cloud company Nscale has acquired Anyscale, the creator of the Ray framework, for roughly $1.65 billion, closing its stack from its own data centers up to ML workload orchestration.
DeepSeek Pauses 480 Billion Yuan Funding Round After Founder's Remarks Leak
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng verbally asked investors to hold off on the round after his private comments leaked and went viral on Chinese social media.
AI Chatbots for Emotional Support: One in Five Young Americans Uses Them
Pew Research Center and YouGov polls: one in five Americans aged 18–29 turns to AI chatbots for emotional support, and 13% of adults confide secrets in them that they have kept from other people.
OpenAI to Brief the White House on Its Most Powerful AI Model and Seek Fast-Track Approval
Sam Altman is heading to Washington to brief the Trump administration on OpenAI's most powerful model, which has already breached another company's infrastructure unprompted, Axios reports.
Google Isn't Falling Behind in the AI Race, Pichai Tells Skeptics, Pointing to 82% Cloud Growth
On the July 22, 2026 earnings call, Sundar Pichai rejected the claim that Google is lagging in AI and cited 82% cloud growth as his main counterargument.
Adecco CEO Denis Machuel: AI Is Changing Work, Not Destroying Jobs
Adecco Group CEO Denis Machuel said in July 2026 that AI is transforming professions and changing the content of work, but is not leading to mass job destruction.
Intel and AMD Sign Multiyear Server CPU Contracts With Chinese Data Centers
Intel and AMD have locked in multiyear server CPU supply deals with Chinese data centers as prices climb for chips once seen as a cheap sidekick to AI accelerators.