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Stories covered on 2026-07-13

  1. Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-13

    The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.

  2. Skyfall AI Releases MORPHEUS: A Persistent Enterprise Simulation Benchmark That Makes Continual Reinforcement Learning Necessary Under Structured Non-Stationarity

    MarkTechPost · 2026-07-13

    MORPHEUS from Skyfall AI is a persistent enterprise simulation platform for continual reinforcement learning.

  3. New Mountain Capital CEO: AI SaaSpocalypse Is Overstated

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-13

    Steve Klinsky, Founder and CEO of New Mountain Capital, discussed the current state of private markets.

  4. AI-Fueled Rally to Continue Into 2027, Analyst Luria Says

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-13

    Gil Luria, D.A. Davidson technology and research head, says the fundamentals are still looking good for semiconductor and AI-related stocks. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (

  5. Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-13

    Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley

  6. Public betas for iOS 27, macOS 27 and more Apple platforms are now available

    Engadget · 2026-07-13

    Try the new Siri AI and system-wide performance improvements.

  7. Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets

    Ars Technica · 2026-07-13

    OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.

  8. AI Selloff, Apple vs. OpenAI & the Future of Defense Tech | Bloomberg Tech 7/13/2026

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-13

    Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down why an AI-fueled stock rout in South Korea spilled over into the US market Monday, sending SK Hynix ADRs falling in their second US trading day.

  9. Palantir Co-Founder Joe Lonsdale on the AI Investment Boom

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-13

    AI is fueling a new era of venture investing. Joe Lonsdale, managing partner at 8VC and co-founder of Palantir, discusses the firm's record $1.5 billion fund

  10. Lonsdale Suggests Forgoing Patents to Avoid China Taking IP

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-13

    China is actively appropriating intellectual property developed by US-based artificial intelligence and life-science startups, 8VC founder Joe Lonsdale told Bloomberg TV Monday.

  11. Building a VideoAgent-Style Multi-Agent System: Intent Parsing, Graph Planning, and Tool Routing for Video Editing Tasks

    MarkTechPost · 2026-07-13

    In this tutorial, we reconstruct the VideoAgent workflow as a runnable, API-key-free multi-agent pipeline.

  12. The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-13

    Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were

  13. OpenAI's new prompting guide tells users to stop overthinking and start with the result

    The Decoder · 2026-07-13

    OpenAI has released a prompting guide for everyday users, not developers. Instead of rigid formulas, it suggests four optional building blocks: goal, context, format

  14. What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

    MIT Technology Review · 2026-07-13

    This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here.

  15. TV-logging app TV Time is functionally relaunching as parent company pivots to AI

    Engadget · 2026-07-13

    Bingers is expected to launch by the end of July as a replacement for TV Time.

  16. Sunrun Offers Solar Users Hundreds Per Month in Compute Program

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-13

    Sunrun Inc. is piloting a program aimed at enabling customers to earn hundreds of dollars per month that would use electricity from rooftop solar and battery installations to power

  17. Windows questions? How Copilot can analyze your PC settings now

    ZDNet · 2026-07-13

    Now rolling out to the Copilot Windows app, the new PC Insights skill can answer questions about your Windows system, settings, and more.

  18. More Than 200 Experts Urge Action to Steer AI for Society’s Good

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-13

    A group of top economists and artificial intelligence researchers called for more study of the technology’s likely impact

  19. The 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI

    The Verge · 2026-07-13

    When Apple employees interviewed for jobs at OpenAI, the AI startup's hardware head allegedly asked them to show up with something unusual: components they were working on and

  20. Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own

    The Decoder · 2026-07-13

    Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in Toronto.

  21. SK Hynix ADRs Tumble in Second Trading Day After Korea Selloff

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-13

    An AI-fueled stock rout in South Korea spilled over into the US market Monday, as SK Hynix Inc.

  22. Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-13

    What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?

  23. Agentic RAG: Let the Agent Search

    Towards Data Science · 2026-07-13

    A minimal OpenAI Agents SDK implementation where retrieval becomes a search-read-decide loop

  24. The AI Arms Race in Technical Interviews Is Escalating

    IEEE Spectrum · 2026-07-13

    Software engineering jobs are under threat from AI. Some applicants are fighting back by using AI in the interview process

  25. Nobel laureates and AI leaders warn the window to prepare for AI's economic impact is closing fast

    The Decoder · 2026-07-13

    More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates and representatives from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic

  26. Lazard's Bilicic Sees 'Tremendous' Demand for AI Data Center Power

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-13

    George Bilicic, Lazard's global head of power, energy and infrastructure, says we're a long way from solving the issue of energy demand for AI data center power and expects upward

  27. Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US

    TechCrunch · 2026-07-13

    Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

  28. Sunrun's Experiment to Turn Homes Into AI Hubs

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-13

    Sunrun CEO Mary Powell joins Open Interest to explain how the company plans to transform homes with solar and batteries into AI computing hubs.

  29. General Fusion Soars After Nasdaq Debut

    Bloomberg · 2026-07-13

    General Fusion CEO Greg Twinney joins Open Interest after the company's Nasdaq debut, explaining why going public accelerates its fusion roadmap

  30. Albanese to compare pivotal moment in AI to renewable energy transition as he outlines approach

    The Guardian AI · 2026-07-13

    Labor sources say the PM will discuss safety concerns in speech this week but will not provide an update on copyright reforms to protect artists Get our breaking ne