Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Dorsey's Block launches Buzz, AI chat rival
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Buzz puts employees and AI agents in one open-source group chat, with agents holding their own identities and permissions, not a shared bot.
OpenAI adds two bank CEOs to its boards
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Nubank's David Vélez and BNY's Robin Vince join the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC boards as the company builds out governance ahead of a potential IPO.
Glow launches at $1.2B for AI endpoints
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A security startup founded by ex-Meta, Snowflake, and Claroty engineers raised $180M to rethink endpoint protection as AI agents change what runs on a laptop.
SkyPilot raises $20M to unify AI compute
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A Berkeley spinout backed by Databricks and Google's leadership exits stealth with a control layer that routes AI workloads across clouds and GPU generations.
US threatens sanctions over China AI
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Treasury says China AI sanctions are on the table after the White House named Moonshot, alleging it distilled Anthropic's Fable and used banned Nvidia chips.
OpenAI lifts compute spending plan to $750B
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OpenAI raised its infrastructure spending plan through 2030 to roughly $750 billion, up from about $600 billion earlier this year, as new cloud deals stack up.
OpenAI launches Presence for agents
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A new platform pairs voice and chat agents with company policies, permissions, and escalation rules; OpenAI says it runs most of its own support calls.
Google ships Gemini 3.6 Flash, skips 3.5 Pro
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Three new Gemini models land with big efficiency gains on coding and agentic benchmarks, but the Pro tier everyone expected did not ship this round.
NTT DATA cuts an incident fix to 30 minutes
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NTT DATA says Codex cut a five-engineer, three-day incident analysis to 30 minutes, and 95%+ of its 9,000 ChatGPT Enterprise users report productivity gains.
Monday.com cuts jobs to refocus on AI
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The work-management platform is cutting staff to redirect investment toward AI, a clear case of AI being cited directly in a headcount decision.
NVIDIA open-sources a physics simulator
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A new open framework brings GPU-accelerated simulation to medical physics research, a niche but concrete addition to NVIDIA's open-source science tooling.
Wistron opens Texas plant for NVIDIA
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A new advanced manufacturing facility in Fort Worth adds US-based production capacity for NVIDIA's AI server hardware.
Claude can now query Anthropic's usage data
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A new connector lets Claude answer questions directly from the Anthropic Economic Index, showing which occupations and tasks use AI most.
Google adds $40M to DOE's Genesis Mission
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Google is expanding free access to DeepMind's science AI tools and Gemini seats across US national labs, part of a White House push to speed discovery.
OpenAI to self-build a $20B data center
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Project Camellia in Effingham County is OpenAI's first data center as principal designer and builder rather than a leased-capacity deal with a cloud partner.