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AI chip maker Groq has raised $650 million in a funding round led by Disruptive and Infinitum. The capital will fuel the expansion of its AI inference cloud business, following a significant licensing agreement with NVIDIA.
Tech Industry
Nonprofit Current AI is developing a decentralized, open-source artificial intelligence platform intended to function as a "World Wide Web of AI." The initiative aims to democratize AI access and prevent any single entity from controlling its development or deployment.
Tech Industry
Chinese AI firm Moonshot AI has launched its Kimi K3 model, featuring 2.8 trillion parameters and advanced capabilities. The release has ignited discussions about the future of AI development and its geopolitical implications, particularly concerning open-weight models and state control.
Tech Industry
Patreon has partnered with Cloudflare to implement AI Crawl Control technology, actively blocking AI bots from scraping creator content for training purposes. This move shifts from relying on robots.txt files to a more direct network-level blocking system, aiming to give creators more control over how their work is used by AI companies.
Tech Industry
The European Commission has mandated Google to provide rival AI assistants greater access to Android features and share anonymized search data with competitors. These measures, enacted under the Digital Markets Act, aim to foster competition and user choice in the EU.
Tech Industry
Major publishers Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier, along with author Scott Turow, have filed a class action lawsuit against Google. They allege the company used millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its Gemini artificial intelligence models, calling it a prolific infringement of copyrighted material.
Tech Industry
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence company of stealing trade secrets. The iPhone maker alleges that OpenAI orchestrated a campaign to poach Apple employees and acquire confidential information to accelerate its own hardware development.
Tech Industry
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order enacting a one-year moratorium on new data center construction. This move aims to establish stronger regulatory standards for the industry and could serve as a model for similar initiatives elsewhere.
Tech Industry
Twenty-six former Meta employees have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the company of using AI systems to disproportionately select workers on medical or family leave for layoffs. The suit claims Meta's AI relied on performance metrics that did not account for protected leave, effectively penalizing employees for taking time off.
Tech Industry
New York has enacted the first statewide moratorium on new data center permits, pausing projects over 50 megawatts for up to a year. This move aims to address concerns over rising energy prices and environmental impacts.
Tech Industry
SK Hynix completed its initial public offering in the United States, raising $26.5 billion and marking the largest foreign IPO in U.S. history. Following the offering, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged the company to build new fabrication plants within the United States.
Tech Industry
Apple filed a lawsuit on July 10, 2026, accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets to develop its own hardware. The iPhone maker alleges that former Apple employees, now working for the artificial intelligence company, engaged in a coordinated campaign to acquire confidential information about upcoming products and manufacturing processes. The suit names OpenAI, its chief hardware officer Tang Tan, former Apple engineer Chang Liu, and io Products, a hardware startup acquired by OpenAI, as defendants. Apple contends that OpenAI encouraged Apple employees to share proprietary details, components, and designs, forming the basis of its nascent hardware business.
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