Tesla’s Cybercab Moves From Pilot to Paid Service in Florida
The two-seat vehicle with no steering wheel and no pedals pulled into service in Orlando and Tampa this week, and with it, Tesla’s robotaxi business crossed a line it had…
SpaceX Deploys First V3 Starlinks, Booster Recovery Fails Again
The booster was supposed to slow down, hover over the Gulf of Mexico and splash down under control. Instead, on July 24, the Super Heavy stage of SpaceX’s Starship came…
Anduril in Talks to Raise at $100 Billion Valuation
The number that has circulated through Silicon Valley for weeks is finally attached to a negotiation. Anduril Industries is in discussions with investors for a funding round that would value…
Anthropic’s Opus 5 Prizes Cost Control Over Raw Power
The new model arrived on July 24 with a price tag that did not move: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, identical to the Opus…
Samsung Lands $200 Billion Broadcom Order in Foundry Push
The purchase order, if it converts into a formal contract, would rank among the largest in the history of chip manufacturing. Samsung Electronics has won an AI chip foundry deal…
Nvidia, SK Group Forge $500 Billion AI Infrastructure Pact
The letters of intent were signed at an AI summit in San Francisco on July 24, but the groundwork took months of quiet meetings between two families of companies that…
Waymo Weighs Exit From Uber Partnership
The notice arrived in late July, and it was polite but unambiguous: Waymo told Uber it intends to operate independently in Austin and Atlanta starting in January 2028, when the…
Intel Pulls 14A Manufacturing Forward a Year
On the same earnings call where Intel reported its fastest revenue growth in 15 years, executives delivered another piece of news that has been years in the making: the company’s…
BlackRock Raises $12.3 Billion for Meta’s Data Centers
BlackRock’s capital markets unit launched a $12.3 billion bond sale on July 24 to finance Meta’s data center buildout, one of the largest single financing packages for data center infrastructure…
Singapore’s GIC Piles Into Anthropic at $900 Billion Valuation
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has invested in Anthropic three times in the past year, backing the AI company at a valuation that has climbed to S$1.2 trillion, about $900…
