Blackstone, Apollo, KKR Invest $5.34B in Williams' AI Power Plants
A Blackstone-led investor group is funding 49% of five natural-gas power plants that pipeline giant Williams is building largely to supply electricity to AI data centers.
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Daniel Ek's Neko Health Raises $700M, Nears $7B Valuation
Neko Health, the AI-assisted preventive health-scanning startup founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, raised $700 million in Series C funding as it prepares to open its first US clinic in New York.
Read more →PrismML's Bonsai 27B Becomes First 27B AI Model to Run on a Phone
PrismML has released Bonsai 27B, a 27-billion-parameter open-weight model compressed to under 4GB, small enough to run natively on a phone while keeping most of its reasoning ability.
Read more →Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling, an Open-Weight AI Model
Mira Murati's startup released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight model built for developers to fine-tune and adapt, rather than to top leaderboards.
Read more →Waze Adds Gemini AI Search, Motorcycle Mode to App
Google's Waze app now lets drivers search for stops in natural language via Gemini, adds a motorcycle-specific routing mode, and can dial down voice alerts.
Read more →Anthropic Recruits Monzo Co-Founder to Tackle Compute Crunch
Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield is taking leave from Y Combinator to join Anthropic's compute team, as the AI lab races to secure the computing power it needs to keep scaling Claude.
Read more →Xi Jinping to Headline China's World AI Conference for First Time
Chinese President Xi Jinping will personally address the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17-20, his first appearance at the event since it began in 2018.
Read more →AI Drug-Design Startup Chai Discovery Raises $400M Series C
Chai Discovery, an AI startup that designs antibodies and other molecules from scratch, raised a $400 million Series C led by Index Ventures at a $3.8 billion valuation.
Read more →200+ Economists, 16 Nobel Laureates Warn on AI's Economic Speed
Over 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed a Stanford-organized statement warning that AI's economic impact could outpace society's ability to adapt.
Read more →Cloudflare Launches Precursor to Detect AI Bots by Behavior
Cloudflare has rolled out Precursor, a tool that watches mouse movement, typing rhythm and other signals across a whole browsing session to catch AI bots that slip past one-time CAPTCHA checks.
Read more →Anthropic Launches Claude for Teachers for US K-12 Educators
Anthropic is giving verified K-12 teachers in the US a free year of premium Claude access, curriculum-aligned lesson tools, and classroom integrations through June 2027.
Read more →New York Enacts First-in-Nation Freeze on Hyperscale Data Centers
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing new hyperscale data center permits for up to a year, citing rising electricity bills and grid strain from AI-driven demand.
Read more →Montefiore Lays Off 12 Nurses, Shifts to AI for Insurance Reviews
A Bronx hospital eliminated 12 utilization-review nursing jobs and moved insurance-approval work to AI software, prompting a union grievance over a newly signed labor contract.
Read more →Dongfang Suanxin Unveils DF1000 AI Chip to Skirt US Chip Curbs
Shanghai startup Dongfang Suanxin unveiled its DF1000 AI chip on July 13, bypassing US export curbs with 3D memory stacking instead of banned high-bandwidth memory.
Read more →Anthropic Adds Team Editing and Public Sharing to Claude Artifacts
Claude's Artifacts pages now support named editors, simpler public links open to anyone online, and creation via Claude Tag in Slack, according to Anthropic's documentation.
Read more →Supply Chain AI Startup Auger Raises $50M Series B
Auger, the AI-driven supply chain startup led by former Amazon executive Dave Clark, has raised a $50 million Series B, bringing its total funding to $150 million.
Read more →UK Safety Institute Finds Universal Jailbreak in OpenAI's GPT-5.6
OpenAI's newly published GPT-5.6 system card discloses that UK AI Security Institute testers built a universal jailbreak within hours, unlocking the model's cyber-attack capabilities.
Read more →DeepSeek in Talks for New Funding at $71 Billion Valuation
DeepSeek has opened talks for a new funding round valuing the Chinese AI lab at $71 billion, just weeks after its first outside round closed near $50 billion, the Financial Times reports.
Read more →Intel Commits €5 Billion to Expand Chip Plant in Ireland
Intel will invest €5 billion to expand its Leixlip campus in Ireland, adding capacity for Xeon server processors as AI data center demand strains chip supply.
Read more →Innovative Eyewear Adds Claude AI to All Lucyd Smart Glasses
Nasdaq-listed Innovative Eyewear is rolling out free Claude AI access across its Lucyd smart eyewear lineup, letting wearers switch between Claude and ChatGPT mid-conversation.
Read more →European Defense AI Startup Helsing Raises $1.8B at $18B Valuation
German defense-AI company Helsing raised $1.8 billion in a Series E round, valuing it at $18 billion — Europe's largest-ever defense-startup funding round.
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