July, 2025

July, 2025

Federal Prosecutors Close Inquiry Into Polymarket Betting Website
The site became prominent last year when people bet on the outcome of the 2024 presidential election....

Nvidia Says U.S. Has Lifted Restrictions on A.I. Chip Sales to China
The Silicon Valley chip giant said the Trump administration, which had shut down its sales to China three months ago, had assured it that licenses for the sales would now be granted....

Crypto Week Bills Stall Over Demands for Ban on CBDC
The legislative project dubbed “Crypto Week” stumbled Tuesday (July 15) when a group of House Republicans demanded changes to a stablecoin bill that was passed earlier by the Senate. [contact-...

AWS and Vonage Partner to Distribute ‘Natural-Sounding’ AI Voice Agents
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Vonage have partnered to deliver “natural-sounding” artificial intelligence (AI) voice agents for use in customer support and proactive outbound engagement like remin...

European Commission Warns Meta That ‘Consent or Pay’ Model Remains Noncompliant
Meta faces a continuing battle with the European Commission over the company’s “consent or pay” model that allows ad-free services for a fee. [contact-form-7] The European Commission w...

Google, Meta and Others Pledge Billions of Dollars to Build AI Data Centers
Google, Meta, Blackstone and CoreWeave are planning to collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build data centers for artificial intelligence, as the arms race heats up to build the comp...

Inflation Reignites as Businesses Pass Tariff Costs Onto Consumers
The tariffs are hitting home as businesses pass along higher costs to end customers. [contact-form-7] As measured by the Consumer Price Index released Tuesday (July 15), consumer prices were...

Google Ventures-Backed OpenEvidence Raises $210 Million for AI Medical Search Platform
OpenEvidence raised $210 million in a Series B funding round to expand the content partnerships that enhance its medical search and artificial intelligence application for physicians. [contact-for...

BNY Says 96% of Employees Use In-House AI Platform
BNY has seen nearly all its employees adopt the bank’s artificial intelligence platform, Eliza, and the bank expects the technology to help them serve clients and grow the company. [contact-form...

Shopify Lays Out New Rules Governing AI Agents
Shopify has reportedly introduced rules governing merchants’ use of agentic artificial intelligence (AI). [contact-form-7] As Modern Retail reported Monday (July 14), the eCommerce plat...

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