Balaji Srinivasan built Network School as a working prototype of the “network state,” his theory that an internet country of engineers and founders can eventually do the work of a real one. This week ...

Moonshot AI says its 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 is the largest open-weight model yet, closing on US frontier labs. Weights land 27 July.

Fora hit a $1bn valuation by signing up 15,000 humans as travel agents and giving them an AI assistant for the boring parts. The augment bet.

A KAIST and Stanford team unveiled SWAG, a soft robotic garment that climbs onto its wearer using vine-robot mechanics, aimed at elderly and disabled users.

Moia is now offering free autonomous rides in Hamburg using VW ID Buzz vans with safety operators, with US launches via Uber and Beep planned for later in 2026.

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen dismissed physical game sales as irrelevant on Bloomberg TV as collectibles hit 41 percent of revenue and he pushes his eBay bid.

Roblox's new Build tab lets anyone create a game from a text prompt on mobile, with alpha testing starting July 28 in New Zealand for users nine and older.

Google is rebranding NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook, expanding its code execution features to Pro subscribers and bringing notebooks into AI Mode in Search.

An AI brain implant called the double neural bypass restored movement and touch to a paralysed man, and the gains lasted years, per Nature Medicine.

The EU has ordered Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share its search data with competitors under the Digital Markets Act.

Israeli startup Oak has raised $60M for an AI-native identity platform that governs every user, machine, and AI agent from a single control plane.

Hummingbird. Its data arm pays 20,000 people in 15 countries to film themselves working. Robots have no internet to learn from.