Startups
TwelveLabs Raises $100M and Signs AWS Trainium Deal to Scale Video AI
TwelveLabs raised $100M Series B with Amazon signing on as preferred cloud partner - new models will optimize for AWS Trainium and launch there first.
AI
Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models - from research labs to real-world products.
Industry
UN Convenes 193 Countries in Geneva for First Global AI Governance Dialogue
UN AI governance talks opened July 6 in Geneva. 193 countries. Big Tech CEOs. A scientist warning of catastrophic harm. No binding rules from this week.
Industry
Amazon Mechanical Turk Closes to New Customers July 30 After 21 Years
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new customers July 30. No new features planned. Existing users keep access to the 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform.
Tech
Google's Declaration of Independence Ad Puts Gemini in 1776. Bluesky Calls It Tone Deaf.
Google's July 4 ad imagines the Founding Fathers drafting the Declaration in Workspace with Gemini's help. YouTube cheered. Bluesky called it tone deaf.
Apps
Google Maps Is Testing a Gemini Feature That Places Your Dinner Order Before You Arrive
Google Maps is building a Gemini food ordering mode inside Ask Maps. An APK teardown found UI strings describing the feature. No launch date confirmed.
Security
Alibaba Bans Claude Code After Reverse Engineers Find User-Detection Code in April Release
Alibaba classified Claude Code as high-risk software and will ban it from July 10, after researchers found code that could identify Chinese users of the tool.
Tech
LongCat-2.0: Meituan Open-Sources a 1.6T Coding Model Trained Entirely on Chinese Chips
LongCat-2.0 is a 1.6T open-source coding model from Meituan, trained on 50,000 domestic Chinese ASICs. MIT license, 1M context, SWE-bench Pro 59.5.
Tech
GLM-5.2: 1M Tokens, MIT License, and Better Coding Scores Than GPT-5.5 at One-Sixth the Cost
GLM-5.2 is the best open-weight AI model on earth right now. MIT license, 1M-token context, and coding benchmarks that beat GPT-5.5 at one-sixth the cost.
Startups
Together AI Raises $800 Million at $8.3 Billion to Run Open-Source Models at Enterprise Scale
Together AI raised $800 million in a Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation. Customers including Cursor and Cognition report 6x to 60x cost savings over closed models.
Security
Anthropic Published Fable 5's Cybersecurity Rulebook and a Scale for Grading Every AI Jailbreak
Anthropic published the four-tier Fable 5 cybersecurity safeguards framework and proposed the CJS scale for scoring AI jailbreak severity, developed with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Hardware
SpaceX Showed Investors an AI Device Prototype. Musk Says the Report Is Utterly False.
Wall Street Journal reported SpaceX showed investors a handset-like SpaceX AI device prototype before its $75 billion IPO. Musk denied it. Stock fell 8%.
Tech
Microsoft Frontier Is a $2.5 Billion Bet on Enterprise AI Deployment With 6,000 Engineers
Microsoft launched Frontier Company today - 6,000 engineers and $2.5 billion focused on getting enterprise AI past the proof-of-concept stage.