In-depth stories, expert insights and practical guides for what's next.
The July 15, 2026 ground lease agreement between SES, Airbus Netherlands and the Municipality of Noordwijk secures the site for the optical ground station supporting Europe’s first satellite-based QKD demonstration through the EAGLE-1 project.
The lipstick index never disappeared; it simply evolved. Today it wears wellness gear, carries a padel racket, and sips ceremonial-grade matcha.
The open-source AI community just received a major efficiency upgrade. T-Tech has released T-Search, an agentic retriever purpose-built for difficult multi-step search tasks in both English and Russian.
Wonder Family, an Amazon e-commerce aggregator that raised millions including from AI investor No Cap, has ceased operations and is preparing for bankruptcy in Delaware.
Ledger released the Agent Stack on July 15, 2026, an open-source toolkit that lets AI agents prepare crypto actions while requiring explicit hardware approval on Ledger devices.
Alpaca announced a $135 million equity raise led by Peak XV Partners plus $300 million in debt on July 16, 2026, for a total of $435 million to scale agent-first brokerage for tokenized assets and AI-native services.
NVIDIA released updates on July 15, 2026, packaging more than 80 new skills in VSS Blueprint 3.2, DeepStream 9.1, TAO 7, and Physical AI Data Factory to help build vision AI agents up to 6x faster.
NVIDIA announced partnerships in July 2026 with Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, and Fujitsu to advance physical AI and robotics. The Tokyo event focuses on technologies like Cosmos and Isaac for applications in manufacturing, healthcare, and finance.
EOR services let companies hire AI talent abroad compliantly in days by using existing infrastructure, unlike the months needed to build a legal entity, based on Remote's July 2026 data.
Wolfspeed filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Navitas on July 7, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for Delaware, alleging infringement of five patents by Navitas GaNFast, GaNSlim, GaNSafe and GeneSiC products. Navitas disputes the allegations and states it will defend its products.
Character AI, the popular platform known for its vast library of conversational AI characters, is expanding into one of entertainment’s fastest-growing formats: microdramas.
The transaction, expected to close in the next financial year, represents far more than a simple corporate sale.
Apple has finally cleared a major regulatory hurdle for its generative AI platform in China.
Pinokio v8 adds a redesigned interface, Autolaunch orchestration, network sharing controls, and resource monitoring to simplify management of local AI tools such as ComfyUI for creators.
AGI promises to transform civilization on a scale that dwarfs the Industrial Revolution.