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Apple is in early settlement talks with the DOJ over its iPhone antitrust case

Apple and the US Department of Justice are in early discussions about settling the 2024 antitrust lawsuit that alleges Apple violated competition law through its iPhone ecosystem, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Apple has made multiple offers this year to close the case. The discussions are active but there is no guarantee of an agreement, and […]

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Agentic AI is moving from drafting doctors’ notes to routing their patients. Bunkerhill just raised on it.

A healthcare AI startup has raised fresh funding to push AI agents deeper into hospital operations. Bunkerhill Health closed a Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to $55m, HIT Consultant reports. The pitch is a platform, not a product. Its Carebricks system lets health systems build and run their own AI agents, rather […]

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a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents

AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round, which values Runta at more than $100 million, The Information reported. ‘Parenting’ AI […]

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An FCC plan could end the anonymous burner phone in the US

The US telecoms regulator wants ID checks before you can buy a phone. Privacy groups say the plan would end anonymous burner phones and tie every American’s identity to a number. Buying a phone without handing over your identity could soon be impossible in the US. A Federal Communications Commission proposal would force providers to […]

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Coca-Cola halted fairlife’s US production after a ransomware attack

Coca-Cola says its fairlife dairy unit was hit by ransomware, and has suspended all US production while it investigates. A ransomware attack has stopped production at one of Coca-Cola’s biggest dairy brands. The company said fairlife found unauthorised access to part of its systems, including production systems, in a statement. Coca-Cola disclosed the breach to […]

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Mamdani wants NYC landlords to label the AI in their apartment photos

The apartment in the StreetEasy photo is bright, airy, and a shade roomier than the walls actually permit. Under a plan from New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, that listing would soon have to confess the touch-up. On 16 July his administration published the Rental Ripoff Report, a 23-point agenda drawn from the testimony of more […]

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AI and a brain implant restored a paralysed man’s movement and touch

Researchers have restored hand movement and the sense of touch to a man paralysed from the chest down. The results, published in Nature Medicine, suggest the technology partly rewired his nervous system. The system, called a “double neural bypass,” comes from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of Northwell Health, the team […]

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29 countries sign a treaty to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization

Twenty-nine countries signed an agreement on 16 July to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), Reuters reported. China says the intergovernmental body aims to promote international cooperation and global governance in AI. China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, signed on behalf of Beijing. UN Secretary-General António Guterres attended the ceremony. The founding members include Russia, […]

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Fireworks raised $1.5bn on a bet that companies will build AI, not rent it

The AI economy has run on a simple habit: rent a model from a big lab. Fireworks just raised $1.5bn to argue the opposite, that every company will build intelligence of its own. The Series D values the San Mateo startup at $17.5bn, it said. Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV led the round. Nvidia, […]

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Bunkerhill Health raised $55M to put AI agents to work inside hospitals

The hard part of medical AI was never the model. It was getting a hospital to actually run it. Bunkerhill Health has raised fresh money to close that gap. The startup closed a $25m Series B led by Khosla Ventures, it told Fortune in an exclusive. That takes its total funding to $55m. Sequoia, Felicis, […]

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