Google says its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite has reached orbit.
Chinese fabs reportedly acquired ~343 DUV lithography tools, enough to support 7nm chips and HBM production.
Howard Liu / South China Morning Post : Center for Technology & Statecraft: Chinese fabs had acquired ~343 DUVi tools by early 2026, with ~270 from ASML; DUVi can be adapted to make 7nm chips and HBM — DUV tools, though not as advanced as EUV, can be adapted to manufacture 7-nm logic chips and advanced memory for AI processors, report says.
Nebius reportedly acquired GPU-optimization startup Inferize for $100M–$150M.
Meir Orbach / CTech : Nasdaq-listed neocloud Nebius acquires Inferize, whose tech helps optimize GPU utilization and reduce AI request costs, sources say for $100M to $150M — The Israeli startup, which was founded by former Granulate executives and employs 17 people, built technology designed to reduce idle GPU capacity when AI demand changes.
Supabase announces its acquisition of Turso, a database provider optimized for AI-agent workloads.
TSMC is reportedly exploring work with Elon Musk's Terafab project in Texas.
Tim Culpan / Culpium : Sources: TSMC is exploring plans to work with Elon Musk's Terafab project as it mulls a presence in Texas, adding to its existing plans to expand in Arizona — [Exclusive] Taiwanese foundry giant may use Terafab as anchor client for a future Texas semiconductor factory.
A US judge found Flock license-plate searches constituted indiscriminate mass surveillance violating the Fourth Amendment.
Jason Koebler / 404 Media : A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of “indiscriminate mass surveillance”, and violated the Fourth Amendment — Flock's nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
Meta's Muse Gadgets releases ESP32 firmware and a Linux SDK for running Muse on user hardware.
Redis creator's ds4 offers a new way to run LLMs locally.
Greg Kroah-Hartman examines software security implications of the LLM age.
MIT Technology Review scrutinizes claims that LLMs reason.
A Wagtail developer reports one month of production coding with GLM 5.3 Flash.
Agent-WoW demonstrates GPT-6 Astra playing World of Warcraft autonomously for the first time.
Amazon says it stopped using county-official NDAs for data centers amid mounting local backlash and moratoriums.
Molly Taft / Wired : Amazon says it has stopped using NDAs with county officials for data center projects and acknowledges community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums — In a blog post published Friday, CEO Matt Garman detailed the steps the company says it's already taking around data centers.
Leaked Slack messages detail OpenAI employee pushback over Greg Brockman's political-group ties.
Garrison Lovely / Semafor : Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation — THE SCOOP — On June 1, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon gave employees a preview of a blog post denying the company …
Nvidia introduces a 64GB DGX Spark for $4,999 amid the memory shortage.
Michael Kan / PCMag : Nvidia announces a version of DGX Spark with 64 GB of unified memory for $4,999, or $1,000 more than the 128 GB version at launch — The ongoing memory shortage has prompted Nvidia to create a 64GB version of its DGX Spark mini PC, which runs AI models locally. The only problem?
Reuters reports Amazon is seeking to offload $8B in Nvidia chips to investors.
AI-agent security company Reco raises a $55M Series B extension, bringing total funding to $140M.
Ram Iyer / TechCrunch : Reco, whose tech helps enterprises secure and govern AI agents across SaaS environments, raised a $55M Series B extension, taking its total funding to $140M — Terms like “AI sprawl” have become common fare on tech social media and in thought leadership as enterprises start deploying AI agents en masse.
This essay argues SaaS products are becoming workflow harnesses around foundation models.
An analysis identifies four recurring failure modes in agentic coding.
Wired reports ICE has been adding protester photos to a Palantir database.
Cloudflare launches an Oblivious HTTP gateway for privacy-preserving request relay.
Apple details changes to Full Disk Access in macOS for developers and security tooling.
Zig 0.17.0 ships a major new release of the systems programming language.
A technical investigation explores Linux's CPU-state problems on Apple M4 hardware.
GrapheneOS reports a fix for Android 17 QPR1's kernel performance regression.
Halide presents a memory-safe approach to decoding WebP images.
A rendering-engine deep dive revisits techniques for drawing billions of triangles.
OKI announces 124-layer PCB technology, pushing high-density board manufacturing.
Kagi provides an update on bringing its Orion browser to Linux and Windows.
Onsemi revises its Synaptics bid to a roughly $5.7B all-cash offer after a competing bid emerged.
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal : Onsemi revises its Synaptics acquisition to a ~$5.7B all-cash offer, down from the ~$7B all-stock deal announced in June, after Synaptics received another bid — ON Semiconductor says it will pay $123 a share for Synaptics, giving the deal a value of around $5.7 billion
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal : A look at the Swarmchasers forum, which has 400 members, including the Nightingale Collective and Transluce, who comb the web for traces of rogue AI agents — Swarm chasers hunt for clues of bad behavior. Their work is our starkest understanding yet of what happens when AI goes wrong.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Relay, which develops cloud-hosted, AI-powered smart radio communicators for frontline workers, raised $36M to help businesses capture “frontline intelligence” — The business communications startup Relay Inc. says it's trying to capture “frontline intelligence” …
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Supabase raised $150M led by Singapore's GIC and agrees to acquire Turso, which offers a database optimized for AI agents, for an undisclosed sum — Supabase Inc., a startup that commercializes the open-source PostgreSQL database, has raised $150 million in funding. — Singapore's GIC sovereign wealth fund led the deal.
Stephen Council / Business Insider : David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week — David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, has resigned from the company. — An OpenAI spokesperson told Business Insider on Friday that Robinson left last week …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement — Apple has confirmed an issue causing a “small number” of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular service.
Karissa Bell / Engadget : Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5 — The company created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link — We still don't know too much about Meta's tamagotchi-like AI device …