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Wultra raises €6.8M to help banks fight AI identity fraud with post-quantum authentication

Daniel Levi Posted On July 1, 2026

Banks are facing a new security challenge. AI can now generate convincing deepfakes, clone voices, and help attackers bypass traditional identity checks at a time when organizations are already preparing for a future in which quantum computers could break today’s […]

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Meta makes cloud push to sell excess AI compute, following SpaceX’s playbook as Big Tech seeks returns on AI spending

Daniel Levi Posted On July 1, 2026

For the past two years, Big Tech has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into AI chips, data centers, and computing infrastructure with one goal in mind: to build enough capacity to stay ahead in the AI race. Now, a […]

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Raja Koduri’s AI startup Oxmiq raises $35M to build AI chip architecture that cuts the cost of custom AI silicon

Daniel Levi Posted On July 1, 2026

Former Intel architect Raja Koduri’s AI startup Oxmiq raises $35 million to reshape custom AI chip design and lower the cost of AI infrastructure. Building a new AI chip has become one of the most expensive bets in technology. It […]

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Microsoft plans to lay off thousands as AI spending reshapes its workforce

Daniel Levi Posted On July 1, 2026

Microsoft is preparing another round of job cuts that could affect thousands of employees, according to a new report. The layoffs, which could be announced as early as next week, come as the software giant continues to pour tens of […]

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Anthropic’s Claude Code accused of hiding proxy fingerprints inside system prompts to identify China-linked users

Daniel Levi Posted On June 30, 2026

Developers trust AI coding assistants with some of their most sensitive work. They grant access to source code, project files, shell commands, and, in many cases, credentials needed to build and deploy software. That level of access rests on one […]

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Amazon launches $1B AI engineering unit to help customers build agentic AI faster

Daniel Levi Posted On June 30, 2026

Amazon is putting $1 billion behind a new AWS engineering organization that will place AI experts directly inside customer teams for weeks at a time, betting that hands-on support will speed up enterprise adoption of agentic AI. The initiative, announced […]

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China’s open-source AI models gain ground as U.S. frontier AI faces new rollout restrictions

Daniel Levi Posted On June 30, 2026

Just a day after Western companies began shifting AI workloads to cheaper Chinese models to cut costs, a new challenge has emerged for America’s frontier AI developers. Fresh rollout restrictions on leading U.S. models are giving Chinese open-source rivals another […]

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Anthropic CEO warned that open-source AI could become “very dangerous” as Western companies quietly switch to Chinese AI models

Daniel Levi Posted On June 29, 2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei cautioned Congress that releasing powerful AI models without centralized oversight could create irreversible risks. Nearly three years later, enterprises are increasingly adopting open-weight Chinese models that are closing the gap with America’s leading AI systems. For […]

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Western companies are quietly switching to Chinese AI models as U.S. frontier AI prices rise

Daniel Levi Posted On June 29, 2026

A year ago, the biggest question in enterprise AI was which frontier model delivered the best results. Today, a different question is driving boardroom conversations: Which model delivers the best results for the lowest cost? That shift is pushing a […]

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Ford rehires 350 veteran engineers after AI fails to match human expertise

Daniel Levi Posted On June 29, 2026

For the past few years, the AI industry has repeated a bold promise: machines will replace much of the work once reserved for highly experienced professionals. Ford Motor Company just delivered a reality check. After investing heavily in AI-powered quality […]

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DeepSeek unveils DSpark, an AI breakthrough that delivers responses up to 85% faster, challenging OpenAI and Google on cost

Daniel Levi Posted On June 29, 2026

The AI race is no longer just about building smarter models. It is becoming a race to make those models cheaper and faster to run. Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has introduced DSpark, a new inference framework that it says can […]

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Rocket Lab to acquire Iridium in $8 billion deal to challenge SpaceX and create new space communications powerhouse

Daniel Levi Posted On June 29, 2026

Rocket Lab is making the biggest move in its history with an $8 billion acquisition that could reshape its future far beyond rocket launches. The California-based space company said Monday it will acquire satellite communications provider Iridium Communications in a […]

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Swatch seeks record $170M in damages from Samsung in UK’s biggest watch trademark lawsuit

Daniel Levi Posted On June 26, 2026

Swiss watchmaker Swatch is seeking a record $170 million in damages from Samsung after winning a landmark trademark infringement case in the UK, setting the stage for one of the most significant legal battles yet between the luxury watch industry […]

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The Best Cloud Network Security Solutions for Multi-Cloud Enterprises in 2026

Daniel Levi Posted On June 26, 2026

Migrating enterprise workloads to public clouds has fundamentally broken the traditional network perimeter. Today, large organizations rarely deploy on a single infrastructure; they routinely split assets across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This multi-cloud footprint introduces […]

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OpenAI may delay IPO until 2027 as $1 trillion valuation faces market reality

Daniel Levi Posted On June 26, 2026

OpenAI was preparing to go public as early as this fall. Bankers had been hired. Lawyers were in place. CEO Sam Altman was pushing advisers to find a path to a $1 trillion valuation, up from the company’s last private […]

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Om Malik dies at 60 after long heart illness; tributes pour in for GigaOm founder and tech journalism pioneer

Daniel Levi Posted On June 25, 2026

Tech journalism lost one of its defining voices this week. Om Malik, the veteran technology journalist, investor, and founder of GigaOm, died on Wednesday, June 24, at Stanford Hospital after what his family described as “a long health journey with […]

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Anthropic and OpenAI customers overcharged by $1.7M in billing errors, startup audit finds

Daniel Levi Posted On June 25, 2026

Anthropic and OpenAI are helping companies automate code, customer support, research, and internal workflows. Now some of those same companies are finding they may have been paying too much for the privilege. A startup called Vaudit says it found roughly […]

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Upside raises $20M to tackle housing instability before it becomes a healthcare crisis

Daniel Levi Posted On June 25, 2026

Housing is one of healthcare’s most expensive blind spots. When someone loses stable housing, the fallout rarely stays confined to rent payments or a missed mortgage. It shows up in emergency rooms, missed prescriptions, preventable hospital stays, and rising claims […]

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Bitcoin crashes to $58,000 in sharp selloff as price nears two-year low

Daniel Levi Posted On June 25, 2026

Just two weeks after Bitcoin fell to $59,000 in its worst weekly stretch since 2022, the world’s largest cryptocurrency is back under pressure. On Thursday morning, Bitcoin plunged as much as 5% to roughly $58,000, its weakest level since 2024, […]

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IBM unveils world’s first sub-1nm chip with 100 billion transistors, cuts power use by 70%

Daniel Levi Posted On June 25, 2026

For years, the semiconductor industry has lived with a looming question: what happens when chips get so small that shrinking them further stops making sense, or stops working at all? IBM says it has an answer. On Thursday, the company […]

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