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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Sources: Salesforce and ServiceNow are in talks to invest ~$750M each in Genesys, which uses AI to automate customer service functions, valuing Genesys at ~$15B (Bloomberg)
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The US SEC launches Project Crypto, an initiative to "modernize" securities regulations to allow for crypto-based trading (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
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Figma opens at $85 on the NYSE, after selling shares at $33 in its IPO, hitting a ~$50B valuation, more than a year after Adobe's $20B failed acquisition (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg says "We'll need to be rigorous about mitigating" new risks posed by superintelligence and "careful about what we choose to open source" (Michael Kan/PCMag)
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In a report, Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets urges regulators to clarify digital asset trading rules and ease adoption of new financial products (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)
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Google plans to roll out ML-powered age estimation in the US over the next few weeks to detect whether users are under 18 and then enable existing protections (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Wag, the pet care tech company once valued at ~$650M following a $300M investment from SoftBank Vision Fund in 2018, has filed for bankruptcy (Stephen Council/SFGATE)
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Runway and Luma AI say they are talking to robotics and self-driving car companies about their video models and expect these revenue sources to eclipse studios (Rocket Drew/The Information)
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Monday, July 28, 2025

Cadence Design agrees to plead guilty and pay more than $140M to resolve US charges for selling its chip design products to a Chinese military university (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
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EssilorLuxottica says sales of Ray-Ban Meta more than tripled year-over-year in the first half of 2025, and it expects "a very fast ramp-up" of Oakley Meta (Bloomberg)
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Faculty and students on Chinese campuses are enthusiastically embracing AI, and the level of public excitement for AI in China is far greater vs. the US and UK (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Q&A with SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary on the Alphabet spinoff's partnership with Aramco, how quantum AI can help turn captured CO2 into valuable products, and more (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
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Samsung announces a $16.5B deal to produce chips that runs through the end of 2033 and boosts its underperforming foundry unit; source: Tesla is the customer (Bloomberg)
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AI tools like ChatGPT are helping neurodivergent individuals navigate social encounters with real-time guidance, though some experts warn of overreliance (Hani Richter/Reuters)
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AIUC, which offers enterprises insurance policies and audits for AI agents, emerges from stealth with a $15M seed led by Nat Friedman at NFDG (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Germany-based Makersite, which helps clients like Microsoft improve product sustainability during the design process, raised a €60M Series B (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)
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The Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors' books to train AI models, citing concerns that "the window may be closing" for making AI deals (Ellie Wolfe/The Baltimore Banner)
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A look at the tensions between Meta, Apple, and Google on whether apps or app stores should check if a user is a minor, as states work on age verification bills (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
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Sources: KKR is in talks to buy ST Telemedia Global Data Centres in a deal that could value the Asian digital infrastructure provider at more than $5B (Bloomberg)
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Friday, July 25, 2025

Intel plans to spin off its Network and Edge Group into a standalone company and says it will seek outside investment for the business unit (Dylan Martin/CRN)
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Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity companies let Chinese hackers exploit SharePoint flaws (Bloomberg)
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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Trunk Tools, which provides AI services to organize construction documentation, raised a $40M Series B led by Insight, bringing its total funding to $70M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
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Walmart consolidates its AI agents into four "super agents", for customers, staff, engineers, and sellers/suppliers, using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
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Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue rose 13% YoY to $9.8B, vs. $9.56B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $71.3B, up from $64.6B a year ago (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
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