Starcloud's Series A extension values the orbital data center startup at $2.3B. Nvidia and Cisco joined Manhattan West on a round meant to fund manufacturing, launches, and the Vera Rubin Space-1 chip partnership.
Apple filed for a preliminary injunction to block two ex-employees and OpenAI from using alleged stolen secrets. Here is what the motion reveals about who might build the post-smartphone AI device.
Apple's MacBook Air is slipping into late-August delivery windows as AI hyperscalers soak up DRAM supply. Gartner forecasts 17% higher PC prices in 2026 and says sub-$500 laptops may vanish by 2028. If you build or buy AI infra, memory is now a strategic constraint.
The Institute of Plasma Physics accepted a toroidal field coil for China's CRAFT fusion program that is 1.3 times the volume of ITER magnets and stores three times the energy. Full-load testing passed in Hefei. Fusion power by 2030 is still a bet, but the hardware stack is real.
Airbus test aircraft F-WULR (Vega) flew Melbourne to Toulouse in 24 hours and 24 minutes on July 28, 2026, breaking the 2005 Boeing 777-200LR distance record. The flight certifies the A350-1000ULR for Project Sunrise Sydney-London service targeted for October 2027.
Maxime Rivest's open-source Riddle app sends handwritten pages to a vision LLM and animates replies on e-ink. No chat box. Just pen, pause, and flowing script.
Midjourney Medical unveiled a full-body ultrasound scanner with 500,000 transducers and a 2027 SF spa launch. The twist: no generative AI in the imaging pipeline, and no FDA clearance yet.