2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1122+ words) On the morning of July 6, 2026, JB Pritzker stood in his West Loop office in Chicago and signed a bill that could someday cost the AI industry millions of dollars. In the room were the two state lawmakers who wrote it,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1031+ words) That company is Persona. It now holds a growing share of the government IDs and facial biometrics collected from one of the most-used AI products on Earth. Persona is backed by Founders Fund, the venture firm Peter Thiel co-founded. Thiel…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (572+ words) GitHub said on **July 8, 2026** that enterprise administrators can now enforce **GitHub Copilot** settings and telemetry export behavior across VS Code and Copilot CLI. The release lets organizations deliver managed settings through MDM, server-managed settings, or a locked file, while a companion…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (213+ words) The useful lesson for AI builders is that marketing automation adoption follows measurement quality. Channels with richer first-party signals and standardized APIs tend to absorb AI faster, while influencer and CTV workflows expose the messy edge cases around brand safety,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (286+ words) The important signal for AI infrastructure teams is that data-center demand has moved from a sector cost issue into the Federal Reserve's inflation discussion. That does not mean AI buildouts are the sole inflation driver, but it makes compute, power…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (472+ words) QAI Ventures said on **July 9, 2026** that it launched the first cohort of its **Singapore Quantum Accelerator**, selecting **four startups** from 63 applications across 12 countries. The five-month program is supported by Enterprise Singapore and gives each selected quantum or advanced-computing venture an…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (741+ words) For AI, ad-tech and analytics teams, OpenAI extending its ad pilot into additional European markets raises questions about localization of ad formats, measurement and privacy compliance as monetization rolls outward. Digiday reports that OpenAI is recruiting a regional manager, ads…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (224+ words) Interactive data science learning platform with 1,625 SQL and Python coding problems across 15 industry domains. LDS Mentor is a built-in AI with two modes: Learn Mode uses the Socratic method to guide you to the answer, Interview Mode gives direct patterns,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (624+ words) In These Times profiles tech workers challenging **military and surveillance contracts** at major AI/cloud companies, including organizer **Hossam Nasr** and the **No Azure for Apartheid** campaign at Microsoft. The piece is an advocacy feature, so claims about specific military…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (611+ words) Prime Intellect raised **$130 million** on **July 8, 2026** to scale a platform for enterprises training and evaluating their own AI agents. The company says Radical Ventures led the Series A, with NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital and existing investors participating;…...