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A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% (www.insidehighered.com)
2026-7-9 AI

Companies are mobilizing internal groups of “AI champions” to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-9 AI

AI Dominated the Fed's Meeting as Driver of “Persistent Inflationary Pressures” & Demand Growth (wolfstreet.com)
2026-7-9 AI

Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~$750M in two phases, at valuations of $3.5B in the first tranche and ~$5B in the second (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-9 Startup AI

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

Claude AI evolved its own human-like thinking space – Anthropic (www.rt.com)
2026-7-9 AI

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chip startup SambaNova raised a $1B Series F led by General Atlantic at an $11B valuation and signs JPMorgan as a customer to deploy its chips for in-house AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-8 Startup AI JPMorgan

US lawmakers are considering strategies to curb US companies' growing adoption of Chinese AI models, as a House committee investigation investigates the risks (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-8 China AI

A look at effective altruism's fall after SBF's arrest and how the soon-to-be rich from upcoming AI IPOs give the movement a chance to return larger than ever (nymag.com)
2026-7-8 IPO AI

The global AI boom has thrust CPUs back into the spotlight as Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and others challenge Intel and AMD in the AI data center CPU market (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-7-8 Intel AI Nvidia AMD

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos In AI Images (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-8 AI Instagram

Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion (www.eu-startups.com)
2026-7-8 Europe AI Paris

Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 AI

Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their hardware in a new system to power AI models, the latest example of Nvidia partnering with rivals (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-8 Startup AI Nvidia

Apple's interest in buying CXMT chips has thrust the Chinese memory chip maker and its relationship with Beijing into the AI supply chain spotlight (www.ft.com)
2026-7-8 China AI Apple

Meta says Muse Image includes an invisible watermarking system called Content Seal and previews a web tool to check whether an image was generated with Meta AI (www.engadget.com)
2026-7-8 AI

As part of Meta's Muse Image rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content by other users (www.wired.com)
2026-7-8 AI Instagram

Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people this year, as AI companies expand in the city (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-8 AI

Memo: SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, after pushing back the launch to improve model efficiency (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-8 AI

Meta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews Muse Video, the first media generation models from its Superintelligence Labs (ai.meta.com)
2026-7-8 AI Instagram WhatsApp

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