Tech

Valve Releases Proton 11 With Huge Linux Gaming Improvements (games.slashdot.org)
2026-7-9 Linux

Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-9 AI

Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 Ventures (www.tectonicdefense.com)
2026-7-9 Startup

China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to raise around $890.37M in its Hong Kong share sale by offering 216.2M shares at ~$4.12 per share (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-9 China Hong Kong

Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-7-9 Israel Startup AI

Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta saw a muted trading debut in its Hong Kong IPO, valuing the company at ~$9B, after raising $751M (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-9 China Hong Kong IPO

Sources: China plans to let some of the country's major AI companies buy a small number of Nvidia's H200 chips to alleviate a domestic computing shortage (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-9 China AI Nvidia

Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that utilizes a single camera and language prompts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-9 Robot

Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its third fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, including AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-9 AI Robot

Nvidia lost $1T in market value over the past two months, dropping 16% from its May all-time-high, trading at 18x forward earnings, its lowest level since 2019 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-9 Nvidia

Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people in 2026, as AI companies expand their NYC presence (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-9 AI

3 Ways AI Powers Service Desk Attacks and How to Prevent Them (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-9 AI

The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro (www.axios.com)
2026-7-9 AI

Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds using its AI-based FlowGPT and Emochi tools, raised $60M from B Capital and others, and says Emochi has 2M DAUs (variety.com)
2026-7-8 AI

Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia (www.zdnet.com)
2026-7-8 Australia Decentralize GitHub

SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to raise ~$28B on the Nasdaq: highly leveraged to HBM, extensive ties to China, and health and safety issues (www.culpium.com)
2026-7-8 China IPO

Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026 (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-7-8 Amazon

DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block video ads by default, particularly those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists (www.engadget.com)
2026-7-8 IOS YouTube Browser

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, with $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-8 Jeff Bezos

DuckDuckGo browser now blocks YouTube video ads (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8 YouTube Browser

Filing: Chinese AI model maker Z.ai is seeking to raise ~$4B from the sale of 19.8M shares at ~$202 to ~$216 each, after its stock jumped 1,500% since January (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-8 China AI

Israeli startup Velocity, which helps place targeted ads on consumer and B2B AI platforms, raised a $27M seed led by NFX and Red Dot, and serves 20 clients (www.axios.com)
2026-7-8 Israel Startup AI

CISA orders feds to patch max severity ColdFusion flaw by Friday (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8

Cancel monthly fees and get this PDF editor for life on sale for $40 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8

CISA orders feds to prioritize patching Langflow auth bypass flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8

Ubiquiti warns of new max severity UniFi OS vulnerability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8

Telco giant KDDI says data breach affects over 12 million people (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-8

Superconducting Thruster Harnesses Earth's Magnetic Field In First Orbital Test (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-8

Omdia expects a 22% YoY drop in global smartphone shipments priced below $400 for 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND costs; Q1 memory costs were ~60% of materials (omdia.tech.informa.com)
2026-7-8

Sources: Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model, dubbed M3 Pro and set for release as early as Q3, and plans to open-source it (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-8 China AI

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