Capital One releases VulnHunter: an AI code security agent, open source
Capital One is launching VulnHunter, an agentic security tool, on July 17 - the bank is contributing to the sec + agents ecosystem.
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How Uber Builds Fault-Tolerant OpenSearch Clusters Across Zones
Uber shares its recipe for keeping OpenSearch running when an AZ goes down. No magic AI - just topology, shard placement, and regular drilling.
12 h ago 9 10
Tencent SkillHub launches SkillPay: monetization of agent skills enters the catalog
Tencent SkillHub opens SkillPay to sell AI agent skills. An agentic plugin marketplace, made in Shenzhen.
17 h ago 11 9
Csquare IPOs at $1bn: another pure-play data center comes to market for the AI infra wave
After CoreWeave (March 2025), the compute layer continues to productize at the capital-markets layer. What matters isn't the raise.
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Xiaomi opens Robotics-U0: a unified embodied 38B model, open source
Xiaomi publishes an open-source embodied generative model with 38 billion parameters that unifies four robotic tasks into a single architecture. The race for embodied backbones takes a step towards openness.
Jul 15, 2026 at 12:34 9 10
The first hardware from OpenAI would be a screenless smart speaker
Voice-first, no screen: the device of the agent era is taking shape, and it doesn't look like a phone.
Jul 15, 2026 at 10:14 9 8
CXMT Raises $8.5B: China Lists Its Memory at the Peak of the Shortage
Largest semiconductor IPO ever in China. The timing is no coincidence: DRAM is the rare resource of the AI era, and Beijing is turning scarcity into capital.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:32 10 6
Elevation Capital raises $500M to bet on Indian AI startups
Indian VC Elevation Capital launches a $500M fund focused on seed and Series A AI startups - the "AI-native > SaaS + wrapper" thesis becomes actionable capital-side in the domestic market.
Jul 14, 2026 at 15:44 7 8
Korea: "big money" exits Samsung/SK Hynix - HBM peak signal?
ETNews reports net institutional outflows from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, presented as a signal of a peak in the AI memory cycle. To be contrasted with TSMC's +68%.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 8 7
The quantum capital wave: Oratomic at $300M, Singapore launches QAI Ventures
Quantum has yet to have its "ChatGPT moment," but capital is already flowing in: Arch and Khosla are leading a $300M Series A round for Oratomic, and Singapore is formalizing its first QAI cohort. Two signals, one thesis.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:19 11 7
Doubao Phone Gen 2 - the Chinese agent smartphone arrives at WAIC 2026
Nubia (ZTE) and ByteDance announce the imminent release of a smartphone whose OS is structured around the Doubao agent. This is not a skin - it's an architectural bet.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:19 14 14
Legacy nodes, sovereign compute: China's parallel chip stack takes shape
Nexchip's $891m Hong Kong raise and Sugon's 100,000-card Dawn 8000 milestone are the same story: China's response to export controls isn't leading-edge - it's mature-node yield and cluster parallelism. Different playbook, same destination.
Jul 11, 2026 at 11:41 13 7