Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
Meta launched an AI advertisement featuring David Bowie's 'Five Years,' a song about impending human extinction, sparking criticism.
TechCrunch AI·23 Jul 2026
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Meta launched an AI advertisement featuring David Bowie's 'Five Years,' a song about impending human extinction, sparking criticism.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey sent a letter to the Daily Mail regarding AI and cyber-attacks.
Databricks claims their specialized data agent outperforms general coding agents in quality and cost for data-specific tasks.
Sequoia Capital invested in Etched, a company focused on building specialized inference hardware for large language models.
Microsoft reports a Q2 2026 decline in phishing due to Tycoon2FA disruption, alongside a rise in Teams-based social engineering and automated attacks.
AI chip startup Etched, valued at $10.3B by investors, claims to have developed chips for faster AI inference without GPUs.
Google's Gemini model approached 1 billion monthly users in February, indicating significant consumer adoption of the multimodal LLM.
Databricks introduced AI Spend Controls in its Unity AI Gateway to help manage LLM inference costs and rate limits across providers.
Microsoft expands its Mistral partnership, Intel gains a new chip customer, and Microsoft addresses admin issues; OpenAI's security, Google Cloud's quarter, and 'Verse' are noted.
STMicroelectronics' Q3 sales forecast missed analyst expectations, raising doubts about the extent of the AI spending boom for chipmakers.
LangChain published a benchmarking framework for deep agentic architectures, focusing on multi-step reasoning and tool-use evaluations.
UK NCSC and partners exposed Russian state-backed 'LAUNDRY BEAR' for a new 'zero-click' phishing campaign targeting Western organizations.
CISA issued a cybersecurity advisory for Weintek cMT3092X firmware vulnerabilities (CVSS 8.8) allowing privilege escalation and credential viewing.
Russian state-supported cyber actors are conducting a phishing campaign targeting organizations using Zimbra Collaboration Suite software.
CISA issued an advisory for Johnson Controls XAAP Android <1.53, citing a cleartext storage vulnerability risking confidential data.
CISA warns of critical vulnerabilities in Panduit IntraVUE industrial control system software, allowing remote manipulation of devices.
Cockroach Labs CEO discusses Bring Your Own Cloud, agentic AI economics, and database wrappers, implying trends in enterprise data infrastructure.
IBM states enterprise software deals were delayed, not cancelled, by customers prioritizing hardware investments for AI initiatives.
Trade unions are forming alliances and expressing concerns over potential job displacement due to AI, seeking collective strategies to address the impact.
Report explores how LLMs are being used by some companies to address technical debt and manage large, legacy codebases.
Experts suggest Kimi K3's rapid advancement likely involved more than mere distillation from Anthropic’s Fable model, indicating substantial independent development.
IBM's CFO states mainframe deals are closing despite short-term CapEx accounting impacts, affirming continued client interest.
SK Hynix's highly attractive convertible bond arbitrage opportunity is limited by a strict conversion cap, preventing full exploitation.
The Financial Times reports on Japan's AI strategy and Taiwan's aerospace initiatives, focusing on broader Asian tech trends.
Chinese AI models narrowed the performance gap with US counterparts to 6% in June from 9% in May, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
ServiceNow invested $40 million in BusinessNext, an Indian banking software specialist, to expand its AI-powered financial services offering.
Thailand received $40.6 billion in foreign direct investment applications in H1 2026, up 80% year-on-year, driven by AI and data center projects.
Laguna S 2.1 model released, claimed to be cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash and to outperform Deepseek v4 Pro in benchmarks.
STMicroelectronics forecast Q3 sales below analyst expectations, leading to a stock drop and dimming hopes for AI data center-driven recovery.
Poolside AI claims to have developed a 'model factory' capable of training custom 118B MOE models that outperform larger open-source alternatives.