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Ben Lamm and George Church raised $20mn at $3.8bn for Astromech, an AI that reads 3.8 billion years of evolution to predict where biology will fail.

Robots running peaqOS can now verify they are interacting with a real human through World ID's zero-knowledge proofs, without learning the person's identity. The integration is available through robotic.sh with no API key or per-verification fee.

Walmart starts accepting tap to pay on 24 August, eleven years after cutting off Apple Pay. Its announcement never names Apple Pay or Google Pay.

Google's new Preferred Sources button lets readers pick a publisher without leaving the page. It buys placement in Top Stories and AI Mode.

Apple paid Ireland $17.1bn last year, about 40% of its worldwide tax. Most of the excess is the back taxes Ireland fought for eight years not to collect.

MIT researchers found that LLM-assisted writers showed lower brain engagement and performed worse once the tool was removed. Dr. Vishal Kapoor argues organizations need to measure not just what AI automates, but whether their people can still reason ...

Apple Music is making its AI Transparency Tags mandatory and will show Made With AI labels later this year. It has not said how it will enforce them.

The Dutch regulator fined Uber 825 million euros for deactivating driver accounts by software without telling them. Only Meta's has been bigger.

Starcloud raised $250mn at $2.3bn to run AI inference in orbit. Nvidia joined. The hard part is booking launches once Falcon 9 retires in 2028.

Micron is putting $10bn into a Boise research lab on a ten-year horizon. Its CEO says AI changed what memory is worth. Its shares fell 29% in July.