Here are the top 15 technology and business news, updates, and the latest AI developments, and trending tools this week in July:
This Week’s Tech and Business News
- Cognition, an AI applied lab, announced the acquisition of Windsurf.
- OpenAI has launched its own ChatGPT agent to help you with tasks.
- Sameer Samat, the president of Google’s Android ecosystem, allegedly plans to merge Android and ChromeOS.
- OpenAI announced on X that it supports a new research paper on Chain of Thought (CoT), highlighting its focus on AI safety.
- Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announced on LinkedIn that they are delivering the world’s first deployment of a level 2 quantum computer.
- MP Materials partnered with Apple to make a $500 million deal to produce recycled rare earth magnets in the United States.
- Nvidia: After meeting with President Trump, Nvidia will resume selling H20 AI chips to China to ensure that America maintains the lead in AI worldwide.
- Google introduced Featured Notebooks – an update for NotebookLM that gives users access to high-quality sources to help them with research.
- Scale AI will lay off 14% of its staff following Meta’s $14.3 billion investment.
- Lucid announced that it added hands-free drive and lane change assist, taking bigger steps towards autonomous driving.
- Zuckerberg and his top Meta executives have reached a settlement in a Facebook privacy case worth $8 billion.
- Uber is investing millions into Lucid and Nuro to expand its robotaxi services.
- Discord has officially launched its virtual reward, Orbs. This virtual currency can be earned by interacting with ads and sponsored content.
- Mistral has launched Voxtral, its first AI audio model.
- Microsoft Copilot launched Desktop Share, a new feature that allows Copilot to see what you see and discuss it in real time.
This Week’s Trending AI Tools
- Higgsfield – provides cinematic video generation with camera motion control for creators.
- Quack AI – an AI-powered platform designed to enhance collaborative software development with automation.
- Question AI – provides instant, accurate answers and step-by-step explanations for homework across various subjects.
- Claude – a conversational AI model and chatbot designed for natural language tasks.
- Outlier – connects freelance experts to train and evaluate AI models.
- Viggle – an AI-powered tool that animates static images into dynamic videos.
- DomoAI – transforms videos, texts, and images into animations with AI-powered tools for editing.
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