Tech

Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~$22B; it was valued at $11B in February (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-3 Startup

Godot Game Engine No Longer Accepts AI Code (games.slashdot.org)
2026-7-3 AI

UK-based StirlingX, which develops secure data intelligence systems for defense and critical infrastructure, raised a $20M Series A, following a $11M seed (tech.eu)
2026-7-3 Intelligence

Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-3

A one-time $20 gets you lifetime access to 1,000+ StackSkills courses (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-3

Memo: Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot chatbots into a single app featuring AI agents dubbed AutoPilot and coding tools (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-3 Microsoft AI chatbot

Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI models available to allies (www.ft.com)
2026-7-3 AI

Tripo AI, which is developing 3D foundation models and world models for use in games, raised $150M, a month after it said it raised $200M (gamesbeat.com)
2026-7-3 AI

Emails disclosed in a court filing detail the uneasy back-and-forth between Dario Amodei and DOD's Emil Michael and how Anthropic's relationship with DOD soured (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-3

OpenAI 'In Early Talks To Give 5% Stake To US Government' (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-3

WhatsApp Usernames Are Already Raising Impersonation Red Flags (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-3 WhatsApp

Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank is in talks to raise money at an $8B+ valuation, up from $4.35B in 2025; its deposits grew from $1.1B in March to $4B now (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-3

Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised $2B at a $15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as $3B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-3 AI

Google loses final appeal to overturn €4.1 billion EU fine (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-3 Google

OnePlus Is Quietly Steering Customers Toward OPPO Products (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-7-3 OPPO

ConsentFix and ClickFix: How Microsoft 365 Accounts are Hijacked in 3 Seconds (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-3 Microsoft

Global VC funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217B, or 43% of the total; in Q2, VCs put $205B into 5K+ startups (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-7-2 Startup

Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-2 Samsung AI Manufacturing

Sources: OpenAI has discussed giving a 5% stake to the US government, seeking to clear political obstacles by securing buy-in from the Trump administration (www.ft.com)
2026-7-2 Trump

Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to support businesses with AI deployments (www.geekwire.com)
2026-7-2 Microsoft AI

Microsoft fixes bug that removed Copilot buttons in Outlook (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-2 Microsoft

SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by 2030 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-2 AI

Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies (www.ft.com)
2026-7-2 AI

The Space-Based Data Center Hype Machine Is Already In Orbit (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-2

Cisco finally confirms attackers exploiting Unified CM flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-2 Cisco

Sources: Meta plans a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI compute and models, to compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; META jumps 9% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-2 Google AI

Z.ai launches ZCode, an “Agentic Development Environment” optimized for its new GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan costs from $16.20 to $144 per month (venturebeat.com)
2026-7-2 AI

Opera rolls out Paste Protect feature to fight ClickFix attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-2

Just 3 more days to kick off summer with a $15 Sam's Club membership (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-2

CISA: Microsoft SharePoint RCE flaw now actively exploited (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-2 Microsoft

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