General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has secured a $400 million loan from tech investment firm Upper90, in what may be the first financing deal to use inference-specific chips as…
Roblox announced on July 16, 2026, a new mobile feature called “Build” that lets users generate basic games from a single text prompt, no programming experience required.
With Build, a user can type…
Google announced in July 2026 an update to Google Vids that allows users to create a custom digital avatar modeled on their own appearance and voice. By uploading a selfie and a voice recording,…
In 2026, X’s upgraded Grok AI flags duplicated posts at 3× its previous rate, finding 1.5M stolen posts and redirecting $1M+ in creator payouts to original uploaders. Watermarks or edits won’t help, and follow/reply begging 3+ times can remove users from the creator program.
Newsletter platform Beehiiv announced in July 2026 a set of new features aimed at expanding the platform beyond newsletters, including a community discussion tool, an AI assistant called Copilot, and…
Sheryl Sandberg has led a $10 million investment into Self Inspection, a San Diego-based startup that uses AI and smartphone cameras to assess vehicle body damage and generate detailed inspection…
Google announced in 2026 that it is renaming its AI-powered research tool NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, continuing the company’s pattern of folding its AI products under the Gemini brand. The change…
Scattered Spider members Owen Flowers (18) and Thalha Jubair (20) were sentenced to five years and six months on July 16, 2026, for a TfL attack that cost about £29 million. In summer 2024, they disabled TfL’s ticketing and real-time arrival systems for weeks; the FBI alleged Jubair targeted 120+ companies via social engineering.
Google announced on Thursday, July 16, 2026, that users can now link and interact with select third-party apps directly within AI Mode, its conversational search experience. The initial rollout…
Meta will notify parents when teens discuss suicide or self-harm with Meta AI starting July 16, 2026, via Instagram Parental Supervision in the US, UK, Australia and Canada. It flags chats with a clear self-harm reference for manual review, applies Instagram’s “Limited Content” to Meta AI, and plans global rollout before year-end.
Applied Computing, a London-based startup, announced in July 2026 that it has raised a $20 million Series A to expand its foundation AI model for the oil, gas, and petrochemical industry. The round…
Microsoft patched a remastered Age of Empires II invite flaw (CVE-2026-50663) on Patch Tuesday, July 15, 2026, that could enable remote code execution if a victim joins an attacker’s lobby and accepts user-created content. Rapid7 flagged it, and Rick de Jager demoed it on X; no in-the-wild attacks were found.
