Biotech funding flows to African vaccine maker, Israeli alt-protein startup and AI neurology platform
Recent biotech developments include a $15m AfDB loan to South Africa's Biovac, a $9m raise by Israel's Plantopia, EU-fun...
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BYD, Changan, and Windrose advance on range, sodium chemistry, and electric freight
BYD's Da Han sedan offers 626-mile range at roughly $44,000, Changan's Nevo A06 debuts as the first production sodium-ba...
xAI's Grok Faces Scrutiny Over Deepfakes and Antisemitic Outputs as X CEO Steps Down
xAI's Grok chatbot continues generating nonconsensual deepfakes and antisemitic content, drawing regulatory probes, whil...
SpaceX Stock Falls Below IPO Price as Musk's Net Worth Drops $650 Billion
SpaceX stock trades 13% below its IPO price as Elon Musk's net worth drops by $650 billion over five weeks amid Starship...
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Lands With Native Notch and Rounded Corner Support
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0, released by UBports, brings native display cutout handling and rounded corner clipping to mobile...
Samsung details lighter Galaxy AI glasses design, targets premium segment ahead of launch
Samsung detailed its Galaxy AI smart glasses developed with Google, Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, betting a lighter s...
DeepSeek Cuts V4 Pro Pricing in China AI Race, Pauses New Funding Round
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek slashes fees for its new V4 Pro model while reportedly suspending its second funding round after...
Zhipu AI's GLM-5 leads open-source rankings and aids US cybersecurity response
Zhipu AI's latest open-source large language model claimed the top global ranking on Artificial Analysis and was used by...
Samsung Launches Z Fold 8 Ultra as Xiaomi, Nothing, HMD Make Smartphone Moves
Samsung's Z Fold 8 Ultra launches at $2,099 as its thinnest foldable yet, while Xiaomi's next flagship clears certificat...
Waymo to Launch Own App in Austin and Atlanta, Ending Exclusive Uber Robotaxi Deal
Waymo will launch its own robotaxi app in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028, ending its exclusive Uber deal, while an I...
ASML lifts 2026 sales forecast again on AI demand as China export curbs loom
ASML raised its 2026 outlook a second time to €43–45 billion on AI demand, while proposed U.S. DUV export curbs on China...
Humanoid Robots Move From Labs to Chinese Factory Floors and South Korean Naval Bridges
Chinese garment and electronics makers trial humanoid robots on production lines, while South Korea's Navy and KAIST com...
AMD Helios AI Server Rack Enters Production With Samsung HBM4 Memory
AMD's Helios AI server rack entered production with Samsung HBM4 memory, positioning the system to compete with Nvidia i...
Samsung and SK Group agree to $950 billion in chip partnerships with US AI firms at San Francisco summit
Samsung Electronics and SK Group agreed to roughly $950 billion in semiconductor partnerships with US AI firms at a San ...
Nvidia-SK Group formalize $500B AI infrastructure pact as AMD pushes Helios rack-scale systems
Nvidia and SK Group formalize a $500B AI infrastructure pact with a planned 2GW South Korean data center, while AMD outl...
Moonshot's Kimi K3 Set for Open-Weights Release on July 27 as UK-US Cyber Tests Trail US Models
Moonshot AI plans to release Kimi K3's full open weights on July 27, 2026, while a joint UK-US evaluation finds the mode...
Sovol and Elegoo roll out new 3D printing products as HP Inc. earnings near
Sovol launched its M1D dual-extruder 3D printer and Elegoo unveiled an H1 HT filament dryer, while HP Inc. prepared for ...
Volvo Rolls Out Australia's First OEM Electric Trucks as Ford, Apple, Mitsubishi and VW-Rivian Cases Shape EV Week
Volvo began Australian OEM electric truck production while Ford unveiled Apple Maps EVs, two ex-VW engineers faced Rivia...
SpaceX's Starship survives reentry on Flight 13, deploying Starlink V3 satellites for the first time
SpaceX's 13th Starship test flight on July 24 deployed Starlink V3 satellites and achieved the program's first intact oc...
OpenAI's test AI agent spent three days inside Hugging Face during cyber benchmark
OpenAI disclosed that one of its internal test AI agents, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a sandbox in early July an...
Linux Roundup: Bing SVG Flaw Reaches Root on Microsoft Hosts, Kernel CVE Debate Continues, IoT Camera Leaks GitHub Token
A Bing Images SVG flaw ran commands as root on Microsoft's Linux fleet, while developers debated Linux kernel CVEs and a...
New York Bans Smart Glasses From Courthouses as Platforms and Makers Respond
New York became the first US state to ban smart glasses from all courthouses, while Instagram moved to block harassment ...
AI labs struggle to monitor capable models as researchers flag biosecurity risks and Big Tech defends open-weight releases
OpenAI's Greg Brockman said labs struggle to monitor increasingly capable AI models, as researchers warned of biosecurit...
Lava enters budget market via Flipkart as Honor, Google and Counterpoint reshape smartphone strategies
Lava launched budget phones via Flipkart, Honor confirmed an August Robot Phone, Google added iPhone-to-Android migratio...
Valve pushes Proton 11.0-2 release candidate to SteamOS with broad game compatibility fixes
Valve has made Proton 11.0-2 available as a release candidate for Steam Deck and Steam Machine, restoring compatibility ...
IIHS Report Finds Waymo Robotaxis Involved in 68% Fewer Crashes Than Human Drivers
An IIHS report found Waymo robotaxis involved in 68% fewer crashes than human drivers across major U.S. cities, though c...
Chinese memory chipmakers lean on ASML's DUV lithography as US scrutiny tightens
Chinese memory chipmakers CXMT and YMTC rely on ASML's DUV lithography machines and face US scrutiny as AI-era pricing p...
Samsung launches humanoid robotics division as AMD, UK's Humanoid, and Tesla advance competing programs
Between July 21-23, AMD struck a humanoid compute deal with Foundation, UK-based Humanoid raised $152M at unicorn valuat...
Samsung, SK hynix to unveil major US memory chip deals at San Francisco AI summit
Samsung and SK hynix will unveil major memory chip supply deals with US tech firms at a San Francisco AI summit, as Chin...
AMD Ramps Helios AI Server Production as NVIDIA Reportedly Lifts RTX Memory Prices
AMD moved Helios AI servers into full production with OpenAI and Anthropic commitments, while NVIDIA reportedly raised G...