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Big Tech earnings week puts 725 billion dollars of AI spending on trial
Microsoft and Meta report July 29 with Apple and Amazon on July 30, as the four hyperscalers defend a combined 725 billion dollars of 2026 AI capital spending, up 77 percent from a year earlier. Investors want proof that AI revenue is growing fast enough to justify the buildout.
read →DeepSeek halts its second fundraising round after founder remarks on China-US AI gap go viral
The Chinese AI lab told prospective investors it is suspending a deal that targeted a pre-money valuation of roughly 480 billion yuan ($68 billion), following leaked comments attributed to its founder on China's dependence on Nvidia chips for compute. A first $7 billion round closed in June, and the company is separately preparing for an IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market.
read →Siemens expands NVIDIA collaboration to bring self-verifying AI agents into semiconductor and PCB design
Siemens extended its Fuse EDA AI Agent system with NVIDIA NeMo Gym, Nemotron models, and CUDA-X libraries, letting long-running agents reason through chip and PCB designs while continuously validating decisions against physics-based EDA engines. The approach targets improved result quality, faster tape-out cycles, and reduced silent errors in high-stakes design workflows.
read →Kimi K3 full weights publish at midnight UTC: 2.8-trillion-parameter model under Modified MIT
Moonshot AI's 2.8T mixture-of-experts model releases to HuggingFace at 00:00 UTC July 27, the largest open-weight release in AI history at 1.4TB in BF16. A Modified MIT license allows self-hosting, letting organizations avoid routing queries through Moonshot's Chinese-based inference infrastructure.
read →EU AI Act Digital Omnibus enters force July 27: high-risk deferrals confirmed, August 2 transparency deadline stands
Regulation EU 2026/1744, published July 24 in the Official Journal, defers high-risk AI compliance for standalone systems to December 2027. Article 50 transparency obligations and GPAI enforcement powers, including fines up to 3 percent of global turnover, still activate on August 2 as originally planned.
read →Model Context Protocol final spec ships July 28: stateless core, Tasks and MCP Apps extensions land
The biggest revision to MCP since launch finalizes Monday, dropping the session handshake so servers run behind plain load balancers. Tasks and MCP Apps become official extensions, adding long-running work and server-rendered UIs; deprecated features get a 12-month compatibility window.
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Caylent builds its own agent orchestrator and cuts a 2,600-hour migration to 220
Instead of buying a migration tool, Caylent built a multi-agent orchestrator on the Claude Agent SDK that runs inside the customer's own cloud and cut one engagement from 2,600 engineering hours to about 220.
Eve makes the buy-a-vertical-vendor case for small plaintiff law firms
Plaintiff firms with no in-house ML team buy their agents off the shelf, and Eve customers report large jumps in lead conversion, case value, and drafting speed.
Suzano puts a natural-language-to-SQL agent in front of 50,000 staff
A Brazilian pulp-and-paper maker built a Gemini agent that turns plain-language questions into SQL, which Google Cloud says cut query time by about 95 percent for 50,000 employees.
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MomMe, a lifestyle community, web & iOS
A full lifestyle community platform, web portal and native iOS app, taken end to end, with an AI moderation flow keeping the community safe at scale.
- MomMe web portal + iOS application
- Full lifestyle community with 3,000+ registered users
- AI moderation flow
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