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Stripe is reportedly negotiating to buy OpenRouter, a two-year-old startup that routes developer requests across 400+ AI models, at nearly eight times the $1.3 billion valuation it raised at in May.
GitHub's Dependabot now waits 72 hours before adopting new package versions, and PyPI blocks new file uploads to releases older than 14 days — both measures aimed at the wave of malicious package attacks that hit npm and PyPI over the past year.
More than two dozen companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Mistral, signed a letter warning lawmakers against 'premature restrictions' on open-weight AI models, as the White House weighs action against Chinese labs like Moonshot AI.
Roku has quietly increased prices across its entire US streaming lineup, with the Streaming Stick 4K jumping from $50 to $80. The company blames a global DRAM shortage driven by AI data center demand.
The Boston-based 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals declined to revive Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, leaving a lower court's June ruling in place while the administration's appeal continues.
OpenAI's new Presence platform lets enterprises deploy managed AI agents for voice and chat, backed by policies, guardrails, and a Codex-powered improvement loop. It already resolves 75% of OpenAI's own customer support calls without human assistance.
The German AI lab behind the FLUX image generation architecture launched FLUX 3, a unified multimodal model that generates 20-second video clips with native audio from a single prompt. Limited early access is now open.
The European Commission sent TikTok preliminary findings on July 24 concluding that default settings on minors' public accounts expose their content too broadly, in violation of the Digital Services Act — a finding that could lead to a fine of up to 6% of TikTok's global turnover.
AI image generator Midjourney announced its first acquisition since founding in 2021, acquiring astrology app Co-Star and its 4.3 million monthly users as it expands beyond generative art into standalone consumer apps.
A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Alibaba's Fastjson 1.x library, tracked as CVE-2026-16723, is being actively exploited against Spring Boot applications, and no official patch exists for the affected 1.x branch as of July 25, 2026.
SK Group and NVIDIA announced a partnership worth more than $500 billion covering a 2-gigawatt AI factory in South Korea and a long-term deal that gives SK Hynix roughly 70% of NVIDIA's HBM4 allocation for its Vera Rubin platform.
Samsung Electronics and Broadcom signed a memorandum of understanding at San Francisco's AI Summit covering HBM memory supply and 2-nanometer foundry manufacturing through 2030, as both companies race to meet surging AI accelerator demand.