Tech

Filing: Chinese chipmaker CXMT seeks to raise ~$9.8B in an IPO on Shanghai's chip-heavy STAR Board (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-15 China IPO Shanghai

Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M (www.geekwire.com)
2026-7-15 Drone Seattle

AI startup Reflection says it has signed a $1B+ deal to secure computing capacity from Nebius, including access to Nvidia chips, following a deal with SpaceX (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-15 Startup AI Nvidia SpaceX

Kalshi launches a forward curve tool for AI compute, using event contracts to track the future rental costs of GPUs, storage, and memory (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-15 AI

Flex, which offers AI-based payment tools, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $70M Series B1 led by Halo Fund, a source says at a $1.2B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-14 AI

Custom AI chip design startup TYLsemi raised $43M in early-stage funding led by Matter Venture Partners to build modular chips thanks to packaging tech advances (siliconangle.com)
2026-7-14 Startup AI

Discount airline Frontier partners with Starlink to offer Wi-Fi for the first time from early 2027, as it targets customers willing to pay for premium travel (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-14

Analysis: xAI has installed far more gas turbines without permits at Colossus 2 than it has publicly acknowledged, impacting Black neighborhoods the hardest (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-14

Sources and telecoms data: a coordinated campaign of SS7 pings was used to track the locations of US personnel during the US-led strikes on Iran in February (www.ft.com)
2026-7-14 Iran

The European Commission approves €659M in German state aid to support four first-of-a-kind chip facilities in Germany, saying they will strengthen EU autonomy (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-14 Germany Europe

AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it positions its Chai models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceuticals (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-14 Startup AI

IBM reports preliminary Q2 revenue of $17.2B, below $17.9B est., as CEO Arvind Krishna says customers are holding back spending; IBM falls 17% pre-market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-14 IBM

Indian Scientists Produce Most Detailed 3D Atlas of the Human Brainstem (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-14 India

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new permits for hyperscale data centers exceeding 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-14 New York

Survey: 57% of US women and 47% of men ages 18 to 29 say they get health and wellness information from influencers; women say they see such content more often (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-7-14

Nikita Bier says X made a “tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals”, or those who users follow back, to avoid replies becoming a “battleground” (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-14

Demis Hassabis proposes a US-based Standards Body for “Frontier-class” AI, modeled after the FINRA; labs would voluntarily share models 30 days before release (x.com)
2026-7-14 AI

Sources: DeepSeek is in preliminary talks with investors about raising new funds at a ~$71B valuation, after raising ~$7B at a ~$52B valuation at the end of May (www.ft.com)
2026-7-14

A look at AI world models, including how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled, as startups led by tech leaders like Yann LeCun raise billions (arstechnica.com)
2026-7-14 Startup AI

China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments (www.idc.com)
2026-7-14 China Apple

eMarketer: chatbots like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode will generate less than $1B in ad revenue in 2026; OpenAI projected $2.5B in ChatGPT ad revenue this year (www.adweek.com)
2026-7-14 Google AI chatbot

10 Bizarre Viral Trends That Took Things Too Far (listverse.com)
2026-7-14

Scientists Find Sugar Deep In Our Galaxy (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-14

Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029 (www.ft.com)
2026-7-14 Google Energy Solar

Researchers detail “context bombing”, where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% (arstechnica.com)
2026-7-14 AI

Over 200 Economists Say 'We Must Act Now' On AI's Economic Impact (slashdot.org)
2026-7-14 AI

Sources: Nvidia intensified due diligence and cut its authorized AI chip customers in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan by 50%+ to prevent China diversions (www.ft.com)
2026-7-14 China Japan AI Singapore Malaysia Nvidia

In the wake of China's “embodied AI” push, there's an urgency among China's 100+ humanoid startups to launch IPOs; LimX Dynamics raises $200M in a pre-IPO round (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-14 China IPO Startup AI

Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-14 Alibaba Startup Singapore

Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude's expressed values and behaviors vary across models and languages (decrypt.co)
2026-7-14

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