Monthly Archives: July 2025

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says that her new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, was valued at $12 billion in its seed round.

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Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines

As publishers fret about decreased traffic from Google, the search giant has begun rolling out AI summaries in Discover, the main news feed inside Google’s search app on iOS and Android. Now, instead of seeing a headline from a major … Continue reading

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Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund

The Bezos Earth fund has disbursed roughly $2.3 billion in grants to “preserve and protect the natural world” since launching in 2020.

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AMD to resume MI308 AI chip exports to China

The U.S. Commerce Department told AMD that it will resume reviewing license applications required to send its MI308 products to China.

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Lucid Motors will roll out hands-free highway driving this month

Lucid Motors joins the likes of Ford, General Motors, and Tesla in offering an advanced driver assistance system that allows for hands-free driving.

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Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed servers of Russian drone maker

A coalition of Ukrainian hackers breached and wiped systems belonging to Gaskar Group, a Moscow-based drone maker.

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Bitcoin is nearly double where it was a year ago. This is what’s behind the run

Firms like GameStop and Trump Media are following the Michael Saylor playbook and treating bitcoin as a strategic reserve.

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Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model

French startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with Voxtral, its first open model, aiming to challenge the dominance of walled-off corporate systems with open-weight alternatives. 

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It’s a huge week for crypto in D.C. But the industry may not get everything it wants

The market structure package called the CLARITY Act could be held up as Democrats have concerns about President Trump’s growing crypto empire.

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Coreweave stock pops after company announces $6 billion AI data center in Pennsylvania

CoreWeave, which rents out access to Nvidia AI chips, has been on a tear since it went public at the end of March.

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