Author: Geek Planet

Together AI raises $800M Series C at $8.3B valuation led by Aramco Ventures, bringing total compute commitments to 500+ MW.

The biggest cybersecurity breaches of 2026 include Conduent (potentially largest in US history), Instructure hit twice by ShinyHunters, and 149 million credentials exposed.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra launches July 22 at Unpacked alongside the Z Fold 8 Wide and Z Flip 8, starting at ,999.

Ollama raises $65M from Theory Ventures, grows to 8.9M monthly developers running open-source AI models on local machines.

OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice model that listens and speaks simultaneously, making ChatGPT conversations feel natural.

Reddit deployed AI tools that reduced spam exposure by 20%, revoked 2 million fake votes daily, and cut enforcement time on harmful content to under 5 seconds.

Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 matches top US AI models at a fraction of the cost, and Chinese models now account for 30-46% of US enterprise token usage.

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk on July 30, 2026, putting the 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform on life support.

Figma acquired the team behind Bud, a Y Combinator-backed vibe coding and AI agent platform, as it pushes to become more than a design tool.

Meta launched Muse Image, letting anyone generate AI images from your public Instagram photos. Here’s how to opt out and protect your content.