Natural raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner to build agentic payments rails, so AI agents can hold wallets and move money. It is taking on Stripe.

A BlackRock and MGX consortium closed its $40bn takeover of Aligned Data Centers, the largest deal ever, then added $5bn to expand AI capacity.

NATO allies launched HALO at the Ankara summit to network national military satellites for comms, intelligence, and missile tracking across the Alliance.

A Nikkei study found Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle carry $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet debt for AI, more than they report. It is all legal.

Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and a cyber model aimed at Anthropic’s Mythos, but its flagship 3.5 Pro is still delayed. Gemini 4 is teased.

Fortinet will build its next security chip in an Intel fab, making it Intel's first named foundry customer under Lip-Bu Tan. Real win, not the big one.

Garmin’s $199.99 CIRQA is a screen-free fitness band tracking sleep, HRV and recovery, taking on Whoop with no mandatory subscription fee.

VW's n+-built e-bike puts a rear camera and radar between the handlebars, pairs with an LED smart helmet, and offers HUD glasses for navigation alerts.

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked is on 22 July in London. Leaks point to a wider Galaxy Z Fold 8, a second foldable, a rugged watch and AI glasses. What is coming.

Researchers escaped the sandboxes of Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and Antigravity without breaking them. Three vendors patched; Google downgraded its two.

Google has connected Nuvem, a 384Tbps subsea cable from Sines, Portugal to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to feed its AI and cloud demand.

OpenAI says its agentic products, Codex and ChatGPT Work, passed 10 million weekly users, but the self-reported figure counts less than the headline suggests.