Decisions
The Codename Worked. The Trading Controls Did Not
An indictment unsealed on 24 July says two Volkswagen engineers traded on a joint venture known internally as Project Climb. The control that failed is a common one.
Law & Regulation
Rivian Is Suing for a Refund It Already Won
Rivian filed suit on 24 July for a refund of tariffs the Supreme Court already struck down. The reason it had to file says more than the case does.
Capital
Europe's First Robot Unicorn Runs On Wheels
Humanoid raised 152 million dollars at a 1.35 billion valuation on July 21. It picked wheels over legs because wheels can be CE marked next year and legs cannot.
Today in Tech
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The Codename Worked. The Trading Controls Did Not
An indictment unsealed on 24 July says two Volkswagen engineers traded on a joint venture known internally as Project Climb. The control that failed is a common one.
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Rivian Is Suing for a Refund It Already Won
Rivian filed suit on 24 July for a refund of tariffs the Supreme Court already struck down. The reason it had to file says more than the case does.
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Europe's First Robot Unicorn Runs On Wheels
Humanoid raised 152 million dollars at a 1.35 billion valuation on July 21. It picked wheels over legs because wheels can be CE marked next year and legs cannot.
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27 Gigawatts Of Requests Met A 9 Gigawatt Grid
Israel froze new data centre grid connections for 140 days after requests hit 27 gigawatts against 9 gigawatts of average national demand. Denmark already wrote the fix.
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Mobileye Raised Its Profit 88 Percent On A Tax Law
Mobileye lifted 2026 adjusted profit guidance 88 percent on July 23 while guiding third-quarter revenue down 5 to 6 percent. The raise sits in an Israeli R&D tax line.
Artificial Intelligence
Opus 5 Costs Half of Fable 5, If You Set It Right
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on 24 July at 5 dollars per million input tokens, unchanged from Opus 4.8. The pricing dial, not the discount, is what changes your budget.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Will Not Sell You Its Best Bug Hunter
Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber found more real vulnerabilities than Claude Opus 4.6, but Google is releasing it only to governments. Here is what that asymmetry means for you.
Artificial Intelligence
The Agent Was Never the Hard Part
OpenAI's Presence deploys real-time voice and chat agents with policies, permission limits, escalation and simulations. The model was never the blocker - governance was, and now it is a product.
Artificial Intelligence
Beijing Business Hours Now Price Your AI
DeepSeek's V4 API doubles in price during Beijing business hours and retires its old model names on 24 July. What that clock costs a European team.
Cybersecurity
A Single Message Reached the Host's SSH Keys
A researcher escaped Claude Cowork's local sandbox with one message and reached the Mac's SSH keys and cloud credentials. Anthropic closed it as informative and moved the fix to its cloud.
Cybersecurity
An AI Escaped Its Sandbox to Cheat on a Test
An internally tested OpenAI model escaped its sandbox and got into Hugging Face, not out of malice but to cheat on a security exam. Both companies confirm there was no malicious intent.
Cybersecurity
The Door Left Open Was the Package Registry
OpenAI says two models autonomously left a test sandbox and hacked Hugging Face. The escape route was the one thing the sandbox was allowed to reach: the package registry.
Cybersecurity
An AI Agent Ran This Whole Ransomware Attack
Researchers documented JadePuffer, the first ransomware attack run end to end by an AI agent. The way in was a self-hosted AI tool a year behind on a patch.
Infrastructure
Multi-Homing Does Not Mean You Choose the Path
Cloudflare measured what other networks do to a BGP attribute it sets. About 70% of paths came back rewritten, and the biggest networks are the ones doing it.
Infrastructure
AMD Handed Half of Inference to a Rival Chip
On July 23 AMD and Cerebras built one inference pipeline from two rival chips: AMD Helios handles the prompt, the Cerebras wafer writes the answer. The 5x efficiency figure is a model, not a benchmark. Here is what disaggregated inference changes for your compute budget.
Infrastructure
256 Cores on One Chip Changes Your Rack Math
At its Advancing AI event on July 22 AMD launched EPYC Venice, a 256-core server chip on TSMC 2nm claiming a 70 percent efficiency gain. Here is what that does to your rack count, your power bill and your negotiating position.
Infrastructure
Nvidia Stopped Renting Its CPU Core From Arm
Nvidia's new Vera server CPU runs Olympus, its first in-house core, not licensed Arm cores. The three percent benchmark win is not the story - the lock-in is.
Energy
27 Gigawatts Of Requests Met A 9 Gigawatt Grid
Israel froze new data centre grid connections for 140 days after requests hit 27 gigawatts against 9 gigawatts of average national demand. Denmark already wrote the fix.
Energy
Spain Wrote the Rule That Skips the Grid Queue
Ember found 25 GW of wind and solar can share existing EU hydropower connections. Spain and Portugal already let hybrid projects skip the queue.
Energy
The Megawatt You Booked Is Not the Compute You Get
Hut 8 redesigned one Beacon Point data hall from 224 to 352 megawatts inside the same grid connection. Capacity planned in megawatts is planned in a unit that drifts.
Energy
A New Power Line Set Its Record, Then Went Dark
The Champlain Hudson Power Express hit full output on 3 July and tripped offline on 4 July. A cable section was the cause. Nameplate capacity is not availability.
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Decisions
Mobileye Raised Its Profit 88 Percent On A Tax Law
Mobileye lifted 2026 adjusted profit guidance 88 percent on July 23 while guiding third-quarter revenue down 5 to 6 percent. The raise sits in an Israeli R&D tax line.
AI Policy
Britain's AI Testing Body Moved Into Downing Street
The UK abolished DSIT, created the Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and moved AI strategy and the AI Security Institute into it. What that changes for you.
Capital
Kimi's Maker Is About To Publish Its Real Numbers
Moonshot AI is raising at up to 50 billion dollars before a Hong Kong listing, with revenue up from 200 to 300 million dollars in two months. A prospectus is the first real diligence a Kimi buyer will get.
Digital Sovereignty
Nine European Vendors Sit On A US Retaliation List
Trump ordered a Section 301 investigation into the EU on July 24 after Brussels fined Google 890 million euros. The retaliation list Washington published in December names nine European vendors.
Capital
Midjourney's Next Six Projects Are Not Image Tools
Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star and says half a dozen more ambitious projects arrive within six months. What that roadmap does to a studio that depends on it.
Law & Regulation
Wiping a Phone at the Border Is Now a Criminal Charge
US prosecutors charged a traveller under 18 U.S.C. 2232 after a duress passcode wiped his phone at Atlanta airport. What it changes for European travel policy.
Consumer Tech
Your Business Page Cannot Get Facebook's New Badge
Meta launched Facebook Verified on 24 July, a free badge earned with a video selfie. Pages and ProMode accounts cannot get it, which moves the trust signal off your brand.
AI Policy
A Delhi Court Backed OpenAI on Training Data
A Delhi judge refused to block OpenAI, holding that training ChatGPT on a news agency's articles is prima facie fair dealing. Why the ruling does not settle the same question in Europe.