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Anthropic and Blackstone have launched Ode, a $1.5bn AI implementation firm betting the next fortune in AI is deployment, not better models.

Vint Cerf, a father of the internet, is joining a project to build a durable identity layer for AI agents so the web knows who stands behind them.

Hemispheric, a NeuroAI startup co-founded by a Face ID pioneer, raised $52M for Descartes, a 6B-parameter model that reads the brain non-invasively.

Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday fixed a record 622 flaws, and it credits AI-powered discovery for the surge. Two zero-days were already being exploited.

Oracle is the front-runner to build Japan an air-gapped cloud, cut off from the internet, as Washington pushes Tokyo to counter Chinese hacking.

Nokia and Nvidia have built the first commercial AI-RAN platform, promising to double network capacity from existing spectrum, with a 2027 launch.

Google will carry third-party app stores inside Google Play in the US from 22 July, after it and Epic dropped their bid to soften the court order.

AGCOM fined Google 750,000 over gambling videos on YouTube. Google invoked the hosting shield. The creator was on a vetted revenue-share deal.

Noetra, a consortium owned by SoftBank, NEC, Sony and Honda, will run 27,500 Rubin GPUs for Japan's FRONTia physical AI project. No price disclosed.

microagi raised $55m led by Hummingbird. Its data arm pays 20,000 people in 15 countries to film themselves working. Robots have no internet to learn from.