Microsoft

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) comment period on proposed rules under the GENIUS Act, which would extend anti-money laundering and sanctions standards to stablecoin issuers, ends July 24.

Jeff Bezos and the UK government have invested in CuspAI, a British artificial intelligence startup valued at £2bn ($2.6bn) that aims to become the 'search engine for rare materials.' The Cambridge-based company raised $450m (£330m) in series B funding from investors including Bezos and the government's sovereign AI fund, valuing the two-year-old business at $2.6bn.

Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview on July 19, 2026, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal model that it claims is 'second only to Fable 5' among benchmarked systems.

OpenAI's Strategic Future Lead Dean W.

A new open-source tool called Castor enables users to cast web videos to smart TVs directly from the terminal, bypassing the limitations of traditional streaming protocols like Chromecast and AirPlay.