Month: July 2026

Microsoft Swaps Its Own AI for OpenAI in Some Apps
Microsoft has begun swapping OpenAI and Anthropic models out for its own in-house MAI (Microsoft Arti…

Waymo’s robotaxis stall and catch fire on July 4th
Waymo’s driverless cars had a rough Fourth of July. In San Francisco they ran out of charge, blocked traffi…

Meta Debuts Muse Image: Its First AI Image Model
Meta launched Muse Image , its first image-generation AI model developed under Alexandr Wang’s Superintellig…

The Pentagon vs. Hesai: A Chinese Lidar Maker in the US Self-Driving Landscape
The Pentagon has blacklisted Hesai, a Chinese lidar maker, as a military compan…

ECB Tells Europe’s Big Banks to Plan for AI Cyber Threats
The ECB’s top supervisor has ordered euro-area banks to submit plans for the cyber threat from front…

Norm Ai Raises $120M at $1.2B Valuation to Build AI-Native Law Firm
Norm Ai has raised a $120M Series C at a $1.2bn valuation, led by Khosla Ventures. Its twi…

Quaise Energy Raises $134M for Deep Geothermal Drilling with Microwaves
Quaise Energy has secured a $134 million first close on its Series B round, led by P…

Hud CEO Roee Adler: Runtime Intelligence to Define the Next Era of Software Operations
July 7, 2026 – 4:35 pm
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Artificial intelligence has dr…

Romania Leads First Private ESA Mission with CyberCUBE Launch
A shoebox-sized satellite built to probe how European spacecraft get hacked is now in orbit, wit…

SpaceX’s Biggest Bull Sees a $10.5tn Valuation
As SpaceX joined the Nasdaq 100, Raymond James slapped a Street-high $800 target on it, implying a $10.5tn val…