Synthesia rolled out Roleplay Sessions in July 2026 for enterprise conversation practice: AI avatars reply in real time, challenge responses, and score people with a rubric. Scenarios include sales pitches, performance reviews, and customer complaints, with performance data and analytics for managers.
New York venture firm Dimension Capital announced an $800 million third fund on Tuesday, July 22, 2026 — its largest to date and 60% bigger than the $500 million second fund it closed just 18 months…
France passed a July 21, 2026 law banning social media for kids under 15, possibly taking effect Sept. 1, and extending its school phone ban to high schools. Australia rolled out its under-16 ban in Dec. 2025 across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X, with penalties up to $49.5M AUD ($34.4M USD).
Einride will buy EV charging software startup Flipturn for a $38M all-stock deal announced in July 2026, expected to close this month—its first acquisition since going public on Nasdaq in June 2026. Flipturn (founded in 2022) uses the Open Charge Point Protocol and has 17 employees.
Jack Dorsey announced a new workplace chat application called Buzz on July 21, 2026, positioning it as a direct competitor to Slack and GitHub. Built by Dorsey’s company Block — which also operates…
Meta announced in July 2026 that it is rolling out parental supervision tools for Threads, giving parents and guardians new controls over how teens use the platform.
Through Family Center — Meta’s…
Instagram’s new “Replace Audio” tool (July 21, 2026) lets you swap music on published feed posts and carousels without deleting them, keeping existing likes, comments, shares, and reach. Use the two-line menu on the post: Edit > replace audio.
Google DeepMind launched three Gemini “Flash” models on July 21, 2026—still no Gemini Pro update after teasing and reported delays. Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts token use up to 17%; Flash-Lite is lowest-cost, and Flash Cyber targets security fixes in a limited government/trusted-partner pilot.
A cyberattack on AI music generator Suno in November 2025 resulted in the theft of personal data belonging to more than 55.3 million people, according to data breach notification service Have I Been…
Snap reached a tentative settlement in a children’s social media harm lawsuit, confirmed by Bloomberg with no financial terms disclosed, ahead of a jury trial in Los Angeles later this month. TikTok and YouTube also settled, leaving Meta as the only defendant after its 2026 New Mexico child-safety loss and a March LA jury award of $6M for Kaley (“K.G.M”).
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. will review Chinese open source AI models for IP theft and could sanction firms if confirmed, per Bloomberg. He cited Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and the distillation debate, which Satya Nadella says is often mislabeled as theft.
A federal judge gave final approval on Monday, July 21, 2026, to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors and book publishers — believed to be the…
