Qualcomm has finished buying Modular, the AI infrastructure company behind the Mojo programming language, closing the transaction on July 29, 2026, roughly five weeks after the two sides announced it. Chris Lattner, Modular’s co-founder and chief executive, takes on the role of executive vice president of advanced AI software and platforms at the chipmaker. The…
MoonPay has put a payment vault inside Claude and ChatGPT. PayBox is live as of July 29, 2026, and it lets a user tell an AI assistant to swap tokens, fund a wallet, pay a merchant or hold a dinner reservation, with the money moving from the user’s own wallet or card after a passkey…
Eliyan Corporation says it has closed a $145 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, with the round led by Seligman Ventures and joined by two new strategic investors drawn from optical networking: Cisco Investments and Lumentum. The Santa Clara company announced the financing on July 29, 2026, and said the capital will fund…
Before the advancement of scientific data storage and collaboration via the cloud, medical investigators seeking health research breakthroughs had to overcome significant obstacles to collaboration and key clinical data gathering. Data were siloed and difficult to distribute, so those looking to undertake research had no option but to gather them themselves. This not only made…
Eolian said on July 29, 2026 that construction has started on Flint Grid, a 200-megawatt battery storage plant in Jersey Township, Licking County, Ohio, built to hold 5.3 hours of output, or roughly 1.06 gigawatt-hours of electricity. The site sits inside the New Albany data center and industrial corridor east of Columbus and ties into…
ThreatLocker has raised $190 million in a Series F round led by Elephant, with a significant new investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies, the Orlando-based Zero Trust security company said on July 29, 2026. Existing backers D. E. Shaw Ventures and Arthur Ventures also took part. The company says the capital will fund continued development of…
The debate around AI in elder care often starts with the wrong fear: that technology will replace human caregivers. Emotionally, it is a powerful argument, but it rests on a false premise. It assumes there is a trained, available, fairly paid person ready to support every older adult who needs help, and that AI is…
Enterprise AI is entering a new phase. After several years of pilots, proofs of concept and experimentation, organizations are shifting their focus from what AI can do to how it can become a reliable part of everyday business operations. That shift reflects a broader evolution in how business leaders evaluate AI. Early conversations centered on…
UK subscribers who watched their Microsoft 365 bill climb after Copilot turned up in Word and Outlook are now the subject of a formal consumer-law investigation. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority opened a case against Microsoft on July 27, 2026, made public two days later, over whether Personal and Family customers were given clear enough…
Moonshot AI has closed a $3.5 billion financing round that values the Beijing lab at $35 billion, well above the $1 billion to $2 billion it originally set out to raise, Bloomberg reported on July 29, 2026, citing people familiar with the private deal. The company is already approaching investors about a follow-on round at…