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Recursive Superintelligence signed a $410M multi-year compute deal with AWS, the bulk of its $650M funding after emerging from stealth in May 2026. CEO Richard Socher says it’s compute/“agent count” rather than headcount, with AWS co-developing infrastructure.
AI coding startup Cursor introduced a India-specific subscription plan in July 2026, pricing it at ₹649 per month (about $7) — well below its standard $20-per-month Pro tier — as the company moves to…
Over July 26–27, 2026, “site:claude.ai/share” reportedly let Google surface shared Claude chats and Artifacts, including health records, private documents, and children’s names/phone numbers. Anthropic traced it to its share-chat URL feature (“Anyone with the link can view”) and says it doesn’t share chat directories or sitemaps for indexing; Google says site owners control indexing.
A July 2026 suit in N.D. California says Apple allowed a fake iOS Sparrow Wallet on the App Store, costing plaintiffs James Ramirez (~$875k), Christopher Ellis (~$840k) and Jalen Delgado (~$120k) $1.8M+. Apple says impersonators violate its guidelines and are removed quickly.
Microsoft unveiled its first cybersecurity-specialized AI model and a new agentic security platform at a small event in San Francisco on Monday, July 28, 2026, entering a field that already includes…
Meta began rolling out its Meta AI chatbot to Threads direct messages on Monday, July 28, 2026, giving users a private way to interact with the AI assistant within the app. While Threads users in…
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, announced in July 2026 a long-term partnership with Nvidia that includes a multi-billion dollar investment…
Nvidia announced in July 2026 that it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools through a new initiative called the Open…
Robotics startup Enigma emerged from stealth in July 2026 after raising a $70 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo’s Conviction Partners. The…
Snapchat’s “Now Playing” rolls out July 27, 2026, streaming users’ live Spotify listening to Snap Map only during an active past-24-hour window: sharing auto-pauses if Snapchat hasn’t been opened in 24 hours and can be paused for 3 hours, 24 hours, or indefinitely. Users must link Spotify to show what’s playing to friends in real time, and Spotlight discoveries can be saved to Spotify or opened via the track page; Canada is listed as coming soon.
Monday.com said it will lay off ~600 employees (~20%) in July 2026, citing an AI-driven growth strategy and projecting $45M–$55M in restructuring charges. It still forecasts up to 20% YoY revenue growth, as >20 U.S. tech firms cut nearly 140,000 jobs this year.
Cognition bought Poke in a “low nine-figure” deal announced July 24, 2026, aiming to bring Poke’s interaction style and personality to its coding agent Devin. Poke, launched in March 2026, chats via iMessage, SMS, Telegram, and WhatsApp, and users exchanged over 100 million messages in the past three months.
Meta is rolling out a significant update to its AI chatbot in July 2026, adding productivity features designed to help it compete with rivals including Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The updated Meta…
Anthropic launched Opus 5 on July 25, 2026, two months after Opus 4.8 (May 28), positioning it as a cheaper, less restrictive pick than Fable 5. It can self-verify iteratively, skips Fable’s 30‑day retention, and uses safety classifiers 85% less often; binary vuln scanning remains blocked.
Federal prosecutors charged Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick, alleging his GrapheneOS duress passcode wiped his phone after CBP demanded a passcode during a Jan. 24, 2025 inspection at Hartsfield‑Jackson—the first known U.S. criminal case over duress passwords. Tunick pleaded not guilty and moved to suppress evidence.
Midjourney acquired Co-Star, a social astrology app with about 4.3M monthly active users, in a July 2026 deal; financial terms weren’t disclosed. Co-Star’s ~two dozen employees join Midjourney, bringing an app that generates birth charts, horoscopes and compatibility advice using AI and human-written copy.
Bluesky has expanded its AI assistant Attie with a new feature called Quests, allowing users to ask open-ended questions about news, trends, and conversations across the Bluesky network and any app…
A coalition of major AI companies signed an open letter in July 2026 urging U.S. policymakers to avoid imposing sweeping restrictions on open-weight AI models, as Washington debates how to respond to…