Tech

Garmin launches the Cirqa Smart Band, a $200 screenless fitness tracker that monitors 80+ activities with an up to 10 day battery life, to compete with Whoop (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-21 Battery

OpenAI says it now has 10M people using Codex and ChatGPT Work, nearly doubling usage from earlier this month when the company announced ChatGPT Work (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-21

Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestration startup SkyPilot, which aims to be neutral across hardware and cloud vendors, raised a $20M seed led by Lux (fortune.com)
2026-7-21 Startup

Iran's IRGC claims it targeted and “destroyed” Amazon's central data infrastructure in Bahrain using several cruise missiles; Amazon has not acknowledged it (www.euronews.com)
2026-7-21 Amazon Iran

Microsoft and Mistral sign a multibillion-dollar deal to build European data centers and integrate Mistral models into Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-21 Europe Microsoft

Samsung plans to launch its AI-powered Samsung Health Assistant and new heart metrics tools like Vitals for overnight metric tracking in beta in August (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-21 Samsung AI

10 Film Productions That Went Too Far (listverse.com)
2026-7-21

Gritt, which is developing an AI system that helps build infrastructure like solar panels, emerges from stealth with a $26M Series A and $34M in total funding (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-21 AI Solar

UK PM Andy Burnham abolishes the Department for Science, Innovation, and Tech and elevates UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, who oversees AISI, to attend cabinet (www.bbc.com)
2026-7-21 AI

US seizes over 1,000 websites in FIFA World Cup piracy crackdown (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-21

A lifetime of Koofr 1TB storage is on sale for one $160 payment (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-21

US Police Now Armed With Israeli Spy Vans Simulating Mobile Phone Towers (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-7-21 Israel Mobile

Kimi K3 marks the arrival of frontier open-weight models, and the Kimi team has incredible culture and freedom of expression within a GPU-limited environment (www.interconnects.ai)
2026-7-21

Sources: the US and China plan to hold AI talks in September when President Xi visits the US, realizing a significant outcome of the Trump-Xi summit in May (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-21 Trump China AI

Memo: the Army CIO reinstates limits on Army members' AI token usage; docs show the DOD's Ask Sage tool can access 100M tokens via an annual “enterprise pack” (www.wired.com)
2026-7-21 AI

Critical Palo Alto VPN bug now exploited by Qilin ransomware gang (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-21 VPN

Sources: BlackRock leads a $12B+ debt sale for Meta's new El Paso data center, as Meta signs a lease for a BlackRock-backed data-center project in Pennsylvania (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-21

A Washington judge grants a request to temporarily block Kalshi from offering sports-related bets in the state, citing a breach of the state gambling law (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-21

Sources: China is weighing tightening AI and chip tech export controls and is consulting leading domestic AI companies, in a bid to slow advanced tech exports (www.ft.com)
2026-7-21 China AI

Microsoft shares manual fix for WSUS sync delays and timeouts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-21 Microsoft

A profile of Sarah Guo, Greylock's youngest GP before founding Conviction in 2022, which has since backed six of the 21 AI-native companies now worth over $10B (colossus.com)
2026-7-21 AI

Sources: TSMC plans to hike advanced and mature node prices by up to 10% in 2027, plus a 10%-15% premium for advanced chip orders exceeding original forecasts (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-7-21

Windows LegacyHive zero-day flaw gets free, unofficial patches (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-21

Drinking 5 Cups of Coffee a Day Could Reduce Heart Risk (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-7-21

GitHub says individuals and orgs have invested $100M+ in open source maintainers and projects via GitHub Sponsors since 2019, with $10M in the past five months (github.blog)
2026-7-21 GitHub

Sony Music files a second copyright suit against Udio, alleging the AI music company copied 30,117 recordings without permission to train its AI models (www.musicbusinessworldwide.com)
2026-7-21 AI Sony

Singapore-based Ant International, a payments company which spun out of Ant Group in 2024, raised $1.2B from investors including Ant Group and Alibaba (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-21 Alibaba Singapore

Hackers Are Exploiting Recently Patched WordPress Bugs, Putting Millions of Websites at Risk (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-21 WordPress

Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle grew an est. ~8x since 2022 to ~$1.65T, eclipsing ~$1.35T in balance sheet debt (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-7-21 Amazon Microsoft Oracle Alphabet

South Korea reports that, for the first 20 days of July, chip exports climbed 180.6% from the same period in 2025; computer-related product shipments grew ~232% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-21 Korea

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