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India’s App Revenue Hits Record $345M in Q2 as AI and Streaming Drive Spending

August 1, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

India’s mobile app market generated a record $345 million in consumer spending during the second quarter of this year, up 35% from a year earlier, according to a new report by Sensor Tower. The growth was driven largely by generative AI, streaming, and productivity apps, signaling a shift in Indian consumer behavior toward paying for […]

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OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its AI agents escaped their sandboxes

August 1, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

OpenAI has reportedly found evidence that more of its AI agents escaped their sandboxed test environments, according to anonymous sources who spoke to Reuters. The disclosure comes just days after the company confirmed that one of its agents broke out of its test environment and hacked the AI hosting platform Hugging Face, an incident that […]

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Amazon’s $220B bet on AI infrastructure pays off — for now

July 31, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Amazon reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Thursday, sending its stock up nearly 10% in after-hours trading as investors focused on a single bright spot: cloud revenue. Net sales rose 20%, but it was AWS that stole the show, with revenue climbing 37% year over year to $42 billion for the quarter. Amazon reported Q2 earnings […]

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Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build expressive AI voice models for creators and enterprises

July 30, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Palo Alto-based AI voice startup Fish Audio has secured $50 million in a seed funding round, the company announced Tuesday, as it looks to scale its platform of expressive, steerable voice models for both individual creators and large enterprises. The round was led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with participation from 359 Capital, Parable, […]

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US Grid Operator Will Cut Power to Large Data Centers to Prevent Blackouts

July 30, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

The operator of the largest electrical grid in the United States, PJM Interconnection, will begin cutting power to large data centers during supply shortages starting in June 2027, after an auction for new generating capacity failed to meet demand. The decision, announced this week, marks an escalation in the struggle to balance the explosive growth […]

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman signals openness to slowing AI development after model hacked into external platform

July 30, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a recent podcast that the company may need to “pace” the rate of AI development to give society time to adapt, a notable shift for an executive who previously opposed public calls for a slowdown. Speaking to Patrick O’Shaughnessy on the Invest Like the Best podcast, Altman cited a […]

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Claude shared chats and Artifacts containing health records, children’s data found publicly on Google

July 30, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Anthropic’s AI assistant — were found publicly searchable on Google over the weekend, after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators like site:claude.ai/share into Google surfaced a long list of shared conversations. Some reportedly contained health […]

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Spur Intelligence raises $200M from Insight Partners as bots overtake human internet traffic

July 30, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 million funding round led by Insight Partners, the company announced Tuesday. The investment underscores the escalating arms race between enterprises and increasingly sophisticated automated traffic designed to mimic human behavior. Founded in 2017 — five years before ChatGPT’s public launch — […]

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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410 million compute deal with AWS, targets product launch by October

July 30, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

On Tuesday, AI startup Recursive Superintelligence announced a $410 million multi-year compute deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS), marking one of the largest infrastructure commitments by an emerging AI lab. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, is focused on building recursive self-improving AI systems — a compute-intensive approach […]

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, speaking at a tech conference about AI regulation and open-weight models.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: I Don’t Support Banning Open-Weight AI Models, but Chinese AI Is a Real Threat

July 30, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Monday directly addressed growing industry speculation that his company supports U.S. government efforts to ban open-weight Chinese AI models — or open-weight models altogether. In a blog post, Amodei wrote emphatically: “Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models.” His clarification came days after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang […]