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Brookfield and NextEra partner to develop a $100B, 1.2GW+ AI data center campus at a former DOE uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky, set to open in 2032 (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-29 AI

A look at OpenAI's open-source agent harness that now powers Codex and ChatGPT Work, as the company works to optimize the harness to cut runaway token usage (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-7-29

Eliyan, which aims to license tech and make physical “chiplets” to ease AI chip data transfer bottlenecks, raised a $145M Series C at a $1B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-29 AI

More Than 30 Minnesota Water Systems Targeted In Cyberattack (it.slashdot.org)
2026-7-29

X settles a long-running legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a case that accused brands like Mars and Shell of illegally boycotting X (www.ft.com)
2026-7-29

Windows 11 KB5101684 update released with 42 changes and fixes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-29

Your AI Agents Are Guessing at Scale: Permissions Decide the Damage (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-29 AI

DoorDash says the FAA granted it Part 135 air carrier certification to operate a drone delivery service and it plans to launch drone deliveries in the fall (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-29 Drone

Source: OpenRouter was recently generating ~$140M in annualized revenue, or ~$12M per month, up nearly 3x since April, making Stripe's $10B offer a big premium (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-29

GlobalFoundries says the US plans to award it $300M in CHIPS Act funding to bolster R&D of silicon photonics tech to power more efficient AI data centers (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-29 AI

Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not ban Chinese AI models and that AI model peer reviewing or vetting could be positive if “done well with thoughtful people” (www.ft.com)
2026-7-29 China AI Ban Zuckerberg

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: comfortable when shut, 4:3 inner display is great, and impressive battery life, but no telephoto or IP68 and some app errors (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-29 Samsung Battery

The UK CMA launches an investigation into Microsoft over potential consumer law breaches involving Microsoft 365 subscription renewals that added Copilot (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-29 Microsoft

New York-based AI detection startup Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo, and releases Pangram 4.0 and its first AI image detection model, claiming 99.5% accuracy (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-29 Startup AI New York

BNY, the world's top bank for safeguarding assets, plans to use blockchain tech for its transfer agency record-keeping systems, which service $8.6T in assets (www.ft.com)
2026-7-29 Blockchain Asset

These near-mint ASUS Chromebook refurbs are only $145 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-29

OpenAI, Google, Meta, BlackRock, and others are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands, with some of the highest pay the industry has ever seen (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-29 Google

Freehand, which builds AI agents to manage supply chain spend and operations for Fortune 500 companies, raised a $75M Series B, after a $25M Series A in 2024 (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-7-29 AI

Lake Mary, Florida-based Spur Intelligence, which helps distinguish human and bot traffic to find fake users and threats, raised $200M led by Insight Partners (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-29 Intelligence

London-based Agon, which is developing sovereign AI training infrastructure for European defense, emerges from stealth with a $7M pre-seed and a $23M seed (resiliencemedia.co)
2026-7-29 Europe AI London

Sources: Moonshot AI hit a $35B valuation after closing a $3.5B round, exceeding its initial target of $1B to $2B, and plans a Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-29 Hong Kong IPO AI

Your Brain Can Rewire Itself To Allow True Multitasking (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-29

CXMT's IPO prospectus showed Alibaba had a ~5% stake, which is now worth $20B+, a nearly 20x return, based on CXMT's ~$464B closing market cap on July 28 (www.scmp.com)
2026-7-29 IPO Alibaba

Russia's FSB charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities, including by Ukraine, and issues an international arrest warrant (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-29 Russia Ukraine Terrorism

A look at Kioxia, the Japanese memory chipmaker that went from being cash-strapped in 2023 to an expected 30-fold jump in operating income in Q1 FY 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-29 Japan

GPTZero finds AI hallucinations in four PwC Middle East reports; GPTZero's earlier investigations led EY and KPMG to retract reports with similar issues (www.ft.com)
2026-7-29 AI KPMG

ETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ, which is developing trapped-ion quantum computing processors based on a 2D architecture, raised a $25.5M seed led by Quantonation (tech.eu)
2026-7-29 Quantum ETH

Trump Administration Bans New Chinese Humanoid Robots (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-29 Trump China Robot

Workplaces Look For Cheaper AI As 'Tokenmaxxing' Fades As a Corporate Fad (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-29 AI

Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time authors have left (www.ft.com)
2026-7-29 Google

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