Florida plans to build air taxi pads using $200M intended for EV chargers
Florida wants to use federal EV charger funds to build an air taxi network connecting golf courses, luxury apartment buildings, and airports.
LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It’s also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.
Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A
Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile
Spotify launches ‘User notes’ to let users add memories to songs
Spotify says the new feature is designed to let users add personal captions to their favorite songs, such as noting why a track was added to a playlist or when they first discovered it
Aviva Investors launches tokenized fund after Central Bank of Ireland approval
The new XRPL-based share class gives eligible investors blockchain-based access to a regulated US dollar liquidity fund while keeping traditional custody arrangements.
Bitcoin Quantum Threat Inches Closer as IBM Claims ‘Trusted Quantum Advantage’
The advance reflects IBM’s continued progress toward machines powerful enough to challenge today’s cryptography.
Global banks test tokenized money for cross-border payments in $1 million BIS pilot
Twenty-eight banks, including JPMorgan, Citi and UBS, moved real money across borders in a live test of blockchain-based settlement.
Deploying Kimi K3 on AWS
Open weight models have become powerful enough to handle complex tasks such as multi-step agentic workflows, advanced reasoning, and long-horizon coding. However, as these models grow in capability, they also grow in size and hosting multi-trillion parameter architectures requires purpose-built infrastructure, high-end GPU compute, and optimized serving frameworks. On July 27, 2026, Moonshot AI released … Read more
NASA’s Curiosity rover found a ‘sea of polygons’ on Mars
The latest discovery from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is a field of honeycomb-shaped polygons covering a Martian valley called Valle Grande. As Gizmodo reports, Curiosity has snapped pictures of the unusual terrain texture before, called polygonal fractures, each about 1.5 to 3 inches wide, but NASA says it’s previously only found them in small patches, … Read more
Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body
Apptronik’s Apollo 2 robot takes a baseball glove off of a shelf. | Image: Google Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can “control entire humanoid robots.” While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot’s upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports “whole-body motions” ranging from its feet … Read more
ABC demands FCC drop its ‘punitive’ early license renewal of its stations
ABC filed its formal opposition to the Federal Communications Commission’s effort to force it to submit to an early renewal of its broadcast station licenses, calling it an effort to chill the speech of broadcasters across the country. In a new filing with the FCC, ABC charges that the agency’s willingness to pursue the early … Read more
Canadian crypto ownership increases to 25%: Ontario survey
A survey of more than 2,000 Canadians in late 2025 and early 2026 showed an increasing awareness of risk around the crypto industry and higher ownership of assets.
Google is working on Chrome updates that don’t require restarts
Google is working on a way to apply Chrome updates without requiring you to restart your browser. In a post on Thursday, Google outlines its approach to bug fixes in the age of AI, while noting that it’s trying to make updates less disruptive by “investing in ‘dynamic patching’ that will eliminate the need for … Read more
Pixel 11 Pro Fold design leaks ahead of Google launch event
Weeks ahead of Google’s next Pixel hardware event, Leaker Evan Blass has shared what appear to be marketing renders of the unannounced Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold in a post on his Substack. The renders, if accurate, show that the new foldable will look fairly similar to last year’s model – it has a tall … Read more
Your ‘Sexual Wellness’ Pills Order Info From Hims Got Shared With Meta, Says FTC
Regulators accuse the telehealth company of sharing sensitive health information with advertising platforms including Meta and Snap despite promising users privacy.
How Yahoo enhances search retargeting using Amazon Bedrock
Connecting user search intent with relevant ad experiences across channels is a longstanding challenge in digital advertising. Advertisers need sophisticated ways to reach audiences based on their demonstrated interests and behaviors, particularly their search activity, which is one of the strongest signals of user intent. Traditional keyword expansion approaches often struggle with outdated vocabulary, limited … Read more
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest Sells Bitmine While Adding to Coinbase and Circle Holdings
Ark Invest sold shares of Bitmine, Robinhood, Bullish, and Block during Wednesday’s pullback in crypto equities, while continuing to add to Coinbase and Circle.
Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price
Do you remember Friend? The Friend that launched an AI pendant, spent $1.8 million of its $2.5 million to acquire friend.com, and plastered the NYC subway with ads promoting artificial companionship? Yeah well, if you didn’t remember, Friend is back. And now, it’s twice the price. Introducing friend. pic.twitter.com/T5vUCj7iqv – friend (@friend) July 30, 2026 … Read more
Bitcoin stable as Fed fave PCE inflation sees first monthly drop in six years
Bitcoin and US stocks enjoyed a relief bounce as the South Korea semiconductor rout eased and US PCE inflation data conforms to year-on-year expectations.
Inference meta-monitoring for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints with Amazon Quick
Without the ability to track machine learning (ML) model prediction quality, organizations only realize they have issues when their customers complain or when they conduct spot checks, which jeopardizes customer trust. This post introduces inference meta-monitoring for Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints. It provides a governance layer that sits above production ML inference pipelines to continuously … Read more
Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M
The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.
Ondo Finance weighs acquisition worth up to $500 million
The tokenized-assets firm is considering an acquisition valued at $250 million to $500 million as consolidation accelerates across crypto infrastructure.
Introducing explicit prompt caching for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock
This post is co-written with Chris Dickens from OpenAI. OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. With GPT-5.6 on Amazon Bedrock, you get the newest generation of OpenAI frontier models with pay-per-token pricing, AWS security and governance controls, and usage that counts toward your existing AWS commitments. The family … Read more
Tesla made its 10 millionth EV
The milestone means Tesla is halfway to accomplishing one of the four core product goals Elon Musk has to hit to unlock his full $1 trillion pay package.
Building for Shipaton 2026? Share Your Journey on HackerNoon and Compete for an Extra $2,500
Most hackathons end with a prototype and a presentation. Shipaton 2026 is doing things a little differently by challenging builders to go one step further: release a real app to real users. From August 1 through September 30, developers, founders, designers, and student builders worldwide are challenged to launch a brand-new mobile app on the … Read more
Prompt Engineering Is No More – Strategic Thinking Has Returned
When it came to using Large Language Models (LLMs), it used to be all about prompt engineering, which was seen as the silver bullet to obtain the best possible answers with the help of generative AI. The limitations of this belief became apparent soon enough, and one began to turn to what has been termed … Read more
Migrate your prompts to new models and optimize them on Amazon Bedrock
The problem: Prompt engineering at scale is still painful Migrating prompts to new models on Amazon Bedrock, or optimizing them for your current model, is still one of the most manual parts of building a generative AI application. Say you have built a deployed generative AI application. It works. Your prompts are tuned, your outputs … Read more