Month: July 2026

Mark Zuckerberg predicts that in five years billions of people will have personal AI agents Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that over the next five years billions of people will have their own personal AI agents.  TechCrunch reports on this. According to him, these assistants will operate 24/7 to achieve

EU opens applications for €10bn AI gigafactory scheme Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/eu-opens-applications-for-e10bn-ai-gigafactory-scheme

VCs are taking on operator roles. Why? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/vcs-operator-roles-podcast

Adyen is coming for agentic payments. Can startups keep up? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/adyen-agentic-payments

AI startup Corgi to open 24/7 cafe in London Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/corgi-cafe-london-24-7

Why European VCs are quietly cheering the chip rout Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/european-vcs-chip-rout

Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests After OpenAI’s models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/anthropic-says-its-own-ai-models-breached-three-companies-during-security-tests/

Apple stockpiles inventory as it braces for ‘significant supply constraints’ Apple is worried enough about supply shortages that it reported about $11.1 billion in inventory, which is almost double the $5.7 billion it reported last September. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/apple-stockpiles-inventory-as-it-braces-for-significant-supply-constraints/

AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/ai-hedge-fund-situational-awareness-may-have-sold-its-public-portfolio-but-it-still-has-its-anthropic-shares/

Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact Reddit’s financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirring market concerns. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/reddit-reports-a-solid-quarter-but-shows-signs-of-ais-impact/