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Crusoe and Aalo Atomics plan a reactor-powered data centre at Idaho National Laboratory. The test reactor produces 10 megawatts of electricity, the commercial version 50, and the deployment target is the end of 2029.
Jul 30, 2026
Freeway driving resumes in Phoenix, then Los Angeles and the Bay Area — two months after a June recall covering roughly 4,000 vehicles, the company's sixth, over at least 13 drives into closed construction zones.
Jul 30, 2026
A widely repeated report described a $600 million OpenAI markdown in Microsoft's fourth quarter. Microsoft's own reconciliation shows the opposite — a $480 million gain — and the Anthropic windfall sits inside the adjusted earnings that beat consensus.
Jul 30, 2026
Zhongji Innolight raised $6.8 billion selling the optics that connect AI clusters, then opened below its HK$980 offer price, fell as far as 10.2%, and closed down 2.04%. Its Shenzhen shares dropped 9.15% the same day.
Jul 30, 2026
AlphaFold's researchers have been reassigned to Gemini-era projects and Isomorphic Labs. The database and servers stay online, and DeepMind's research vice-president says only that 'the strategy has evolved'.
Jul 30, 2026
The Modular acquisition closed at roughly $3.1 billion, not the $3.9 billion widely printed — Qualcomm's stock fell between signing and completion. Chris Lattner is now an executive vice president.
Jul 30, 2026
Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute gave an agent the central question of an unpublished NeurIPS submission, then had the paper's real authors grade the result as reviewers. Both attempts were unambiguous rejections.
Jul 30, 2026
Andon Labs ran Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol and Kimi K3 as vending operators for a simulated year. Opus 5 set the balance record — and defected from price agreements five times more often than either rival.
Jul 30, 2026
Elevated errors hit claude.ai, the API and Claude Code at 19:49 UTC on Wednesday, returning '529 Overloaded' to users and developers alike until full restoration at 22:36. No cause has been given.
Jul 30, 2026
Unit 42 traced a Chinese-speaking operator running intrusions through a Telegram-orchestrated agent built on open Chinese model weights. It enumerated targets and launched exploits without human intervention — and mostly failed.
Jul 30, 2026
One unauthenticated HTTP request to Ruflo's MCP bridge reached a shell and 233 exposed tools. The patch shipped on 1 July — but it does not remove poisoned patterns already written into the agent's learning store.
Jul 30, 2026
Håkon Måløy reported a cross-domain prompt injection to Microsoft on 6 March. After 144 days, several mitigations and a model upgrade, modified payloads still reproduced the self-propagating behaviour on 28 July.
Jul 30, 2026
ChatGPT and Roblox have crossed the Digital Services Act's 45-million-user threshold. Designation could come as soon as August, bringing risk audits, transparency reports and exposure to fines of up to 6% of global revenue.
Jul 30, 2026
The Energy Department picked Brookfield and NextEra to develop a data centre campus on 3,556 acres at Paducah. Nothing is contracted yet — no executed lease, no named tenant, no state approval and no construction.
Jul 30, 2026
Seven CHIPS research awards worth $874 million were signed as letters of intent. For a $300 million silicon photonics award, the Commerce Department is taking roughly 1% of GlobalFoundries.
Jul 30, 2026
EuroHPC's call went live on Thursday morning with a 12 November deadline. The public half of the money depends on a 2028–2035 budget member states have not agreed, and the chips will come from AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm.
Jul 30, 2026
Revenue hit a first-quarter record of $1.29 billion, free cash flow rose 343%, and infrastructure royalties more than doubled year over year. Then Arm cut its full-year royalty growth outlook to the high teens, and the market priced that instead.
Jul 30, 2026
Operating profit rose more than eighteenfold to 89.5 trillion won, with the semiconductor division supplying 89.2 trillion of it. The Galaxy mobile unit posted the first operating loss in its history, squeezed by the component prices its own colleagues are charging.
Jul 30, 2026
Revenue topped $60 billion. Operating margin fell from 43% to 31%, net income dropped 14%, and free cash flow — normally around $12 billion a quarter — came in at $784 million, against $24.9 billion of newly issued debt.
Jul 30, 2026
Fourth-quarter revenue reached $90.0 billion and Copilot hit 30 million paid seats. Microsoft also extended the useful life of its data centres from 15 years to 25, cutting its calendar-2026 capex headline by about $15 billion without changing what it intends to build.
Jul 30, 2026
Zhejiang Lab's Three-Body Computing Constellation has 12 satellites and a combined 5 quadrillion FLOPS. The reason is arithmetic: a single remote-sensing satellite generates 0.1 petabytes a day.
Jul 29, 2026
AgiBot says WITA-Omni Preview scored 85.21 on DailyOmni and won six of eight sub-metrics, ahead of entries from Qwen, Gemini, Doubao and Nvidia. Parameters, licence and availability are all undisclosed.
Jul 29, 2026
More than 150 seed rounds, on track for an all-time high — and three of them were large enough to pass for Series As. Two more landed the day the numbers were published.
Jul 29, 2026
Jess Asato filed her claim in June. On Tuesday the filings went further: permanent technical measures so the model cannot make sexualised images of her, and removal of the ones still online.
Jul 29, 2026
Ten days ago Grok 4.6 was going to be the 2-trillion-parameter model. On Tuesday it became the 1.5T model again, with the bigger one renamed 4.7.
Jul 29, 2026
A $563 million severance charge landed in the same release as 14% revenue growth. Visa's internal memo calls AI an accelerant of the change, not the reason for it.
Jul 29, 2026
Recursive Superintelligence is spending most of what it raised in May on compute for a system meant to improve itself. Its co-founder calls it one of the smallest deals the company will sign.
Jul 29, 2026
The 28 July revision removes the initialize handshake and the session header, deprecates HTTP+SSE and lets any request land on any server instance. It is the largest change since the protocol launched.
Jul 29, 2026
Cyera says non-human identities inside Fortune 500 companies grew nearly 500% in six months. Its answer is to buy Oasis Security — though nothing is binding yet.
Jul 29, 2026
A fifteen-year colocation deal worth more than $14 billion in potential revenue — plus 30 million shares of Core Scientific at $23.47, vesting by the megawatt.
Jul 29, 2026
