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Thinking Machines Inkling Open-Weights AI for Enterprise

Thinking Machines Lab unveiled Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight model led by Mira Murati, designed for enterprise customization with downloadable weights and a Tinker platform for fine-tuning; it uses a mixture-of-experts architecture to balance efficiency and task-specific performance while signaling uncertainty. The company positions Inkling as a flexible alternative to closed models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, and as a competitive option against Chinese open models.

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Microsoft funds Mistral Europe expansion

Microsoft and French AI firm Mistral are expanding a multibillion-dollar partnership to deploy Mistral’s Europe-based GPU infrastructure and open models across Azure, Azure Local, and Foundry, boosting European capacity while preserving access to U.S. software and security features. The deal aims to reduce reliance on U.S. technology, support regulated industries, and accelerate broader deployment of Mistral’s Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 models, with Nvidia GPUs and European data sovereignty at its core.

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AI Presentations Depend on Humans; Sydney Melbourne Demand

Professionals are flocking to Michelle Bowden’s Persuasive Presentation Skills Masterclasses in Sydney and Melbourne as AI transforms the workplace, with experts noting AI can assist in research and structure but cannot replace credibility, reading the room, or audience engagement. The programs emphasize combining AI prompting with strong human communication to gain trust, influence decisions, and present confidently across a wide range of industries.

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NVIDIA Expands Vera Platform With Spectrum-X6 and Rubin

NVIDIA’s Vera CPU, with Olympus cores on a monolithic die and interconnected via NVLink, is engineered for agentic AI workloads that demand high per-core performance and low memory latency rather than just high core counts. Early benchmarks and disclosures show Vera delivering notable gains in agentic AI throughput and efficiency when paired with Vera Rubin GPUs, highlighting a system-level focus on streamlined CPU-GPU data movement and software optimization over traditional cloud-centric chiplet designs.

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South Korea's carriers launch Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses

South Korea’s three major mobile carriers began selling the Ray-Ban Meta second-generation AI glasses, pairing device discounts with smartphone plans to push Meta’s AI ecosystem beyond smartphones. Shinsegae I&C also announced distribution of Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta through domestic channels, expanding partnerships to bring the AI glasses to a wider market.

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Anthropic $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Approved

A San Francisco federal judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement with authors over Anthropic's use of pirated books to train Claude, marking the largest U.S. copyright settlement and covering roughly 480,000 works at about $3,000 per title. The deal ends the case but leaves questions about outputs, requires destruction of pirated files, and drew objections from some authors who say it may not fully compensate or preclude further claims.

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Codeifai Secures $770,000 Share Placement

Codeifai announced a $770,000 equity placement of 110 million shares at $0.007 with free attaching options exercisable at $0.02 to fund product and business development, working capital, and expansion into high-value AI use cases such as geospatial and subsurface workflows, with Oakley Capital listed as lead manager. Separate updates preview a major capital raise on July 28, 2026 issuing another 110 million shares and 110 million unlisted options to bolster AI infrastructure, subject to shareholder approval and meeting outcomes, aiming to accelerate growth.

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Core AI expands HomeGPT with multimodal design

Core AI Holdings is expanding HomeGPT into a multimodal home design, renovation visualization, and AI-powered residential decision platform, turning a single home photo into interior, exterior, and garden design concepts plus features like item swaps, style matching, and AI video walkthroughs to aid planning before major purchases. The move aims to position HomeGPT as a vertical AI layer for renovation and purchasing decisions amid rising mortgage costs and housing-market uncertainty, with monetization expected through subscriptions and collaboration tools for professionals and designers.

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Google Images Launches Pinterest-Style Redesign with AI

Google Images is undergoing a Pinterest-style redesign that turns the site into a browsable, real-time gallery with personalized collections, while also adding built-in AI image generation in AI Overviews to support prompt-based creation. The updates are part of a broader 25th-anniversary overhaul that emphasizes discovery and staying within Google’s ecosystem for image inspiration.

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Markets

E2E Networks posts 334% Q1 revenue surge

E2E Networks reported a dramatic Q1 FY27 performance with revenue of ₹1.57–1.57 billion, EBITDA of ₹1,179 million and a 75.2% margin, PAT of ₹439 million and earnings per share of ₹2.10, driven by the B200 cluster deployment and an expanded GPU fleet to about 5,100 units. The company also announced strategic moves, including the incorporation of Sovcloud Technologies Limited as a subsidiary and progress on listing on major exchanges, signaling scale-up in both operations and corporate structure.

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News Corp

News Corp Sues Brave Over AI Article Theft

News Corp has filed countersuits against Brave Software accusing it of distributing and selling Wall Street Journal and New York Post articles to AI companies without permission, seeking injunctive relief and up to $150,000 per infringement as part of a broader clash over AI training content. Brave had previously sued News Corp claiming its practices were legal fair use, while News Corp argues Brave’s scraping and bundling exceed fair use, illustrating a surge of litigation between publishers and technology firms over copyrighted news content used for AI.

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Substack launches AI detector across platform

Substack has launched an AI-detection tool developed with Pangram to estimate how much of a post was AI-written, available for content longer than 100 words on web and iOS with Android coming later; creators can also publish a 'How I make this' note and scan drafts. The move aims to boost transparency and reader trust amid concerns about AI-generated content, though critics note Pangram readings are not perfect and the feature invites scrutiny of practices such as 'Claudefishing.'

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OpenAI Reports 10 Million Agent Users

OpenAI says 10 million people are using Codex and ChatGPT Work, signaling a rapid shift from prompt-based use to embedded, paid workflow automation across enterprise apps. The surge, aided by GPT-5.6, reshapes monetization and cloud dynamics after Microsoft’s exclusivity was loosened, intensifying competition with Anthropic and Salesforce as organizations pay for integrated agents rather than standalone tools.

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Halliday Gen 2 AI Glasses for Meetings

Halliday’s Gen 2 smart glasses drop cameras and adopt a bright monochrome green HUD with a lightweight build, marketed for work and meetings rather in entertainment, with a September ship date and a $599 price. The core feature, Meeting Flow, uses AI to follow conversations, surface action items, provide real-time transcription and quick research, and even offer a 30-second rewind, all while preserving privacy compared with camera-enabled rivals.

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IQE lifts 2026 revenue growth forecast

IQE lifted its 2026 revenue growth forecast to more than 30% driven by accelerating demand for Indium Phosphide optical photonics in AI and data-centre infrastructure, anchored by first-half revenues of at least £64m and a debt-free balance sheet. Despite 2025 weakness in wireless and ongoing margin pressures, management expects continued momentum across photonics, aerospace/defense, and 3D sensing to sustain growth into the latter half of 2026.

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Samsung, LG Sweep Energy Winner Awards, Set Record

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics dominated the 29th Energy Winner Awards, with Samsung winning the Energy Grand Prize for an eighth consecutive year and LG securing a record-tying 12 awards including three grand prizes; both firms highlighted AI-driven, energy-saving technologies across appliances from air conditioners to dishwashers. The ceremony, organized by the Consumer Citizens' Association and supported by the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment and the Korea Energy Agency, showcased Samsung's Bespoke AI WindFree Combo Gallery Pro and Infinite Line hood-integrated induction, and LG's Whisen AI Object Collection Tower and other energy-efficient products as leaders in cutting power use.

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Startups

30 Sundays reports $6.7 million Series A to fund AI travel expansion

Gurugram-based travel tech startup 30 Sundays has raised about ₹61 crore ($6.7 million) in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Info Edge Ventures and Eximius Ventures, boosting its total funding to around $7.5 million. The funds will accelerate AI-driven itinerary planning, product development, and brand-building while expanding into new international markets such as Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and the Philippines, following recent launches in New Zealand and Mauritius, and a reported annualised gross booking value of roughly ₹200 crore across Bali, Vietnam, the Maldives, and Thailand.

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Startups

Dimension Capital closes $800M third fund

Dimension Capital closed its third fund at $800 million, a 60% increase from its prior $500 million vehicle, underscoring strong investor appetite for deep‑tech ventures at the biology-software intersection. Its portfolio highlights include Chai Discovery, New Limit, Modal Labs and stakes in Anthropic, reflecting rapid market validation through high‑growth seed and later-stage rounds.

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WiseTech plans FRDM.ai acquisition to power VerifyWise

WiseTech Global has agreed to acquire FRDM.ai for US$10 million upfront plus up to US$14.31 million in earn-outs, with completion expected on August 3, 2026, to power its VerifyWise AI-enabled compliance platform across multi-tier supply chains. The deal moves WiseTech from transaction-level screening to network-wide risk verification, leveraging FRDM.ai’s real-time risk scoring and billions of trade records, while financing details include issuing up to 192,150 new shares and a 12-month escrow arrangement.

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Nvidia launches Spectrum-6 for AI data centers

Nvidia unveiled Spectrum-6, a 102.4 Tbps Ethernet platform for the Vera Rubin AI supercomputer, doubling capacity to speed training and inference for large-scale AI workloads, with early adopters including CoreWeave, Microsoft, Nebius, SpaceXAI, and Tesla. The announcement saw Nvidia stock rise about 2%, while AMD touted its rival Helios Rackscale Solution with Microsoft and other big players joined by Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle.

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iPower Plans AI Hardware Leasing Subsidiary

iPower Inc. is forming a dedicated AI subsidiary, iPower AI LLC, to pursue AI hardware leasing and compute resource distribution with preliminary customer interest but no definitive agreements yet. The filings also indicate the subsidiary joining a guaranty tied to its senior secured convertible note facility as part of ongoing financing arrangements.

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US China plan September AI safety talks

U.S. and China are moving toward formal AI talks in September, led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, to set guardrails for frontier models and address risks to security, cyber threats, and labor markets following the May Trump-Xi summit. The discussions, aimed at establishing intergovernmental governance on AI before Xi’s September 24 U.S. visit, signal a continued effort to manage rivalry while keeping lines of communication open.

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Natural Raises $30M to Rebuild AI Agent Payments

Natural raised $30 million in a Series A to build payments infrastructure for AI agents, enabling autonomous payments and positioning itself to challenge Stripe. The round drew lead investor Forerunner and other tech founders, fueling development of the platform’s wallets, payments, and related tools for agentic finance.

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KIDZ AI Signs $44.6M AI Compute Deal With Canopy Wave

KIDZ AI has signed a 60-month, $44.6 million enterprise AI compute services agreement with Canopy Wave, contingent on Catalyst Compute ordering 256 NVIDIA HGX B300 GPUs to support open-weight AI inference as part of its neocloud strategy. The deal highlights a push into enterprise AI compute infrastructure amid mixed signals on the company’s financial strength, with a GF Score of 8/100 and liquidity concerns such as a current ratio of 0.94.

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