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Balaji Srinivasan paused US$500m and sought an Anwar meeting after Malaysian officers inspected 266 residents of his Forest City network-state commune.

Netflix posted a slight Q2 2026 beat but guided third-quarter revenue below Wall Street, and the stock fell about 9% after hours.

Moonshot AI says its 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 is the largest open-weight model yet, closing on US frontier labs. Weights land 27 July.

Shanghai surgeons implanted Neuracle's NEO, the first commercially approved brain-computer interface. It sits on the brain rather than piercing it.

Z.ai, formerly Zhipu, is set to be the first independent Chinese AI firm with $1bn in annual sales, monetising while open-sourcing its models.

A KAIST and Stanford team unveiled SWAG, a soft robotic garment that climbs onto its wearer using vine-robot mechanics, aimed at elderly and disabled users.

Eoptolink, the Chinese optical-transceiver maker wiring AI data centres, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn.

Fora hit a $1bn valuation by signing up 15,000 humans as travel agents and giving them an AI assistant for the boring parts. The augment bet.

Roblox's new Build tab lets anyone create a game from a text prompt on mobile, with alpha testing starting July 28 in New Zealand for users nine and older.

1Password for Claude uses a zero-exposure architecture so Anthropic's AI agent can use your logins without the credentials ever reaching the model.