Japan defense AI command and control moves toward Palantir and Anduril as Tokyo pairs US systems with homegrown AI oversight.
White House finalized its voluntary AI oversight framework by the Aug 1 deadline; thresholds stay classified as Anthropic reviews the text Tuesday.
Foundation Future Industries turned $24M in Pentagon research and a Ukraine field test into a humanoid robot soldiers roadmap with lethal capabilities planned.
How the AI infrastructure pulse economy shifts from discrete milestones to continuous synthesis across compute, energy, and regulation.
The Valar Atomics $1B raise, led by Sequoia, funds factory-built SMRs after its Ward 250 reactor powered an Nvidia Blackwell system.
The Anthropic Volta compute deal commits $10B to an Nvidia-backed startup and a bitcoin miner for 133MW of Vera Rubin capacity in Norway. Analysis inside.
Visa job cuts of 2,600 roles, about 7% of the workforce, target tech and product teams as CEO Ryan McInerney's AI efficiency push reshapes the payments giant.
The Xbox 25th anniversary brings a free profile badge, fan-made gamerpics and themes, Game Pass collections, and six new FanFest stops.
ShinyHunters leaked 41GB after the Brinks Home ransom deadline expired. The claimed Brinks Home data breach involves 4.9M records, including support chats.
The smart glasses sticker bypass hides the recording LED on Ray-Ban Meta frames while the camera keeps filming. Meta's firmware fix hits a physical limit.
Huawei Watch GT 7 Pro: 46mm titanium case, sapphire glass, pine green colorway, ECG and PPG sensors via X-Tap button. Launch event August 5 in China.
Google's $150B Anthropic chip financing machine leases TPUs to Anthropic at 5.75%, undercutting Nvidia's ecosystem by 2.2 points and forcing Nvidia to become a lender.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, the official budget MoE release, beats V4-Pro on all nine agent benchmarks, including a 645% DeepSWE jump, at $0.14/M input tokens.
Rolls-Royce's SMR data center deals are accelerating: another hyperscaler framework agreement is due within days and power orders are up 50%.
Palantir Q2 earnings arrive August 3 with eight straight beats, 80% growth, and a 61x sales multiple. Can defense-AI momentum hold the valuation?
