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SK Hynix files for U.S. IPO, giving American investors a direct bet on the AI memory boom

July 7, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix filed plans Monday to sell nearly 17.8 million shares in a U.S. initial public offering, opening a direct route for American investors to bet on the same AI-driven demand that has lifted rival Micron to a trillion-dollar valuation. SK Hynix plans to sell nearly 17.8 million American depositary […]

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AI-driven layoffs in tech surpass 120,000 in 2026: A running list of major cuts

July 7, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

More than 120,000 tech workers have lost their jobs in 2026, and for many of the largest employers, artificial intelligence is the stated reason. Microsoft said Monday it eliminated about 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, adding to a wave of cuts that has swept the industry this year. The company said the […]

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Amazon puts Mechanical Turk on life support, halts new customer sign-ups

July 6, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform on July 30, 2026, effectively placing the pioneering service on life support. The announcement, posted on the Mechanical Turk website, states that Amazon Web Services (AWS) made the decision after “careful consideration.” Amazon will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing […]

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What is Mistral AI? A deep look at the French OpenAI challenger

July 6, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Mistral AI, the Paris-based artificial intelligence company founded in May 2023, has become Europe’s most prominent challenger to U.S. frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. With annual recurring revenue surging from $20 million to over $400 million in just one year, and a rumored $3.5 billion funding round that would value it at $23.15 billion, […]

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Google’s new ad reimagines the Declaration of Independence as a group project with Gemini AI

July 5, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline “Group project, but make it 1776,” the ad depicts a largely unseen Thomas Jefferson mid-draft when he gets a nagging text from Ben […]

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Alibaba to ban employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code starting July 10

July 5, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Alibaba will prohibit employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code programming tool starting July 10, 2026, according to multiple reports. The Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing giant has classified the AI-powered coding assistant as high-risk software and is directing staff to switch to its own internal tool, Qoder. Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s Claude […]

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The AI glossary you actually need in 2025: 30+ terms defined in plain English

July 4, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Artificial intelligence is not only rewriting how the world works — it is also inventing a whole new vocabulary to describe itself. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or conference panel these days, and you will hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF, MoE, MCP, and a dozen other acronyms that can make even […]

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Google brings Gemini Spark to Mac, adds real-time tracking and app integrations

July 4, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Google on Wednesday announced that Gemini Spark, its agentic AI assistant capable of managing digital tasks, is now available on Mac through the existing Gemini desktop app. The rollout includes several new features, most notably real-time tracking of events and expanded integrations with Google Keep, Google Tasks, and third-party services such as Canva, Dropbox, Instacart, […]

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OpenAI proposes donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund

July 3, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed donating 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Under the proposal, other AI companies would donate similar stakes, although significant questions remain about the specifics. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed donating […]

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Cloudflare to block mixed-use AI crawlers from ad-supported sites by default

July 3, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Cloudflare will change its default settings on September 15, 2026, to block crawlers that mix search indexing, AI agent use, and model training from accessing any web page that hosts advertisements, the company announced Wednesday. The move is the latest escalation in the tug-of-war between publishers and AI companies over how web content is used […]