2026-07-30
Amazon Engineers Move to Cap AI Spending After Cost Overruns
Amazon's engineering teams have found cases where moving work from hand-written code to AI models blew through project budgets, including $1.8 million spent running Anthropic's Claude Sonnet on a job that never shipped. Senior engineers laid the cases out for staff at an internal meeting on July 28, 2026 and described the results as "catastrophically expensive," the Financial T [...]
2026-07-30
Five Underappreciated Truths About the AI Economy: Learnings From DVC’s State Of AI Report
At DVC, we've spent a decade watching the AI market up close — backing companies and working closely with the portco founders. This year, we decided to share the framework we’ve built with the world. This is how the State of AI Report was born: a living, continuously updated analysis of the AI economy across every layer, from silicon and energy to foundation models and applications. We up [...]
2026-07-30
Your next privacy breach might not leak any data at all
For decades, protecting privacy has meant one thing: stop personal data from leaking out. Gartner thinks that idea is about to break. By 2029, most privacy incidents will come not from leaked personal data but from what AI infers about people, the research firm predicted this week. The risk is no longer only the records […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-30
Disney’s new CEO wants to turn Disney+ into a ‘super app’ to take on Netflix
Disney’s new chief executive wants to rebuild its streaming service into something bigger than a place to watch films. Josh D’Amaro, who took over from Bob Iger in March, is exploring turning Disney+ into a “super app” that would fold streaming together with theme-park tickets, cruise bookings, games, and merchandise, Bloomberg reported. The ambition is […]<br /> This story continu [...]
2026-07-30
Everyone’s building a ‘GPT for cells.’ Relation’s bet is manufacturing the data to train it.
The race to build an AI “foundation model of the cell” has a fuel problem. The biological data needed to train one is scarce, messy and inconsistent. Relation Therapeutics thinks the answer is to manufacture that data itself, and GSK is paying up to $110m to help. The London startup unveiled two things at once […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-30
AI agents are about to run the enterprise. Onyx raised $113M to keep a human in the loop.
Enterprises are handing more of their work to AI agents. Onyx Security just raised $113m to make sure a human can still say no. The Israeli startup’s Series B, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, values it at about $640m, Calcalist reported. That is a several-fold jump, and it lands just four months after Onyx came […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-30
Procore’s AI could read the blueprints. For $845M, it just bought eyes on the site.
Procore’s AI can read a construction project’s paperwork. Now it is paying $845m to give that AI eyes on the actual site. The construction-software company said it will buy DroneDeploy, a reality-capture and robotics firm, for about $845m in cash, Procore announced. DroneDeploy’s drones, ground robots and cameras are used on more than 3 million […]<br /> This story continues at The N [...]
