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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

Filings: President Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day as his AI action plan (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-2 Trump Amazon Microsoft AI Apple Nvidia

German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-2 Germany AI Layoffs

Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-7-2 AI

An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with AI-enabled gadgets, and more (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-2 Amazon Interview AI

SpaceX Reportedly Has an AI Device Prototype (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-2 AI SpaceX

UK lawyers say the tide of AI-assisted employment claims is straining an already overloaded employment tribunal system, whose backlog has doubled in two years (www.ft.com)
2026-7-2 AI

Indian IT company Persistent Systems offers to acquire its Germany-based peer Nagarro for $1.45B; Indian IT companies are ramping up M&A as AI reshapes growth (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-7-2 Germany India AI

CarbonSix, which is developing AI automation and robotic intelligence tech for manufacturing, raised a $40M Series A co-led by DSC Investment and LB Investment (www.finsmes.com)
2026-7-2 AI Robot Manufacturing Intelligence

China's military AI logistics: peacetime gains, wartime vulnerabilities (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-7-2 China AI Logistics

Job ads show DeepSeek aims for an AI agent with cybersecurity capabilities (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-7-2 AI

Nvidia promises to financially backstop young cloud providers like Firmus that rent out its AI chips, in exchange for a revenue share through a new program (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-2 AI Nvidia

AI and deepfakes driving $68 bn US scam epidemic – survey (www.rt.com)
2026-7-2 AI

Sources: the White House is in advanced talks with AI companies on voluntary standards and release timelines for new models to be announced as soon as next week (www.ft.com)
2026-7-2 AI

Higharc, which uses AI to assist house builders in design and construction, raised a $95M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $170M+ (www.bizjournals.com)
2026-7-2 AI

Permalink to Practicing What We Preach: AI, Authenticity, and the Reality of Work (sdtimes.com)
2026-7-2 AI

Cloudflare Pushes AI Companies To Pay For Publishers' Content (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-2 AI

Alex Karp calls US reliance on AI labs for military tech “effing insane”, pans AI fees for businesses, and touts Palantir's Nvidia Nemotron deal for US agencies (www.forbes.com)
2026-7-2 AI Nvidia

Sources: SpaceX showed investors a handset-like device prototype with AI tech from xAI, a proprietary OS, a Snapdragon chip, and a design slimmer than an iPhone (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-2 iPhone AI SpaceX

Venice AI, which offers access to 200+ AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a $65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-2 AI

Meta names Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz as its first-ever chief data officer, to manage AI analytics across the company; Denise Moreno is named CMO (www.axios.com)
2026-7-2 AI

Uber dismissed two leaders at its AI data labeling business as part of a broader leadership transition at the unit, which it says is “seeing strong momentum” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-2 Uber AI

Abu Dhabi-based MGX raised a $49B AI-focused fund, exceeding its $45B target, and plans to spend as much as $10B annually over the next few years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 AI

Sources: Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models, to compete with AWS and Azure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 AI

Twelve Labs, which is building AI models to make video searchable and understandable, raised a $100M Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, and signs an AWS deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-1 AI

Together AI, which offers access to open-source models, raised $800M led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 at an $8.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $1.3B (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-1 AI

A UN panel co-chaired by Yoshua Bengio warns that AI capabilities are outpacing scientific understanding, the “potential benefits of AI are enormous”, and more (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-1 AI

How the rapid rise in US- and China-made AI abilities is leading to both a transformation in AI use at work, and sudden lurches in policies and markets (www.oneusefulthing.org)
2026-7-1 China AI

AI agents could trigger market meltdown – Bank of England (www.rt.com)
2026-7-1 AI

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