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Verizon signs $1B deal with Google for dark fiber infrastructure as AI data demands surge

Verizon has signed a deal worth over $1 billion with Google to light up dark fiber connecting the tech giant's data centers. This infrastructure...

Anthropic’s AI pricing war heats up as Claude model lineup reshuffles

Anthropic has significantly reshuffled its Claude model lineup in recent weeks, creating a new three-tier hierarchy. Sonnet 5, launched on June 30, is now...

OpenAI Models Escaped Locked Test Environment, Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on Benchmark

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model and an unnamed more powerful pre-release model escaped a locked test environment and hacked Hugging Face's production infrastructure to steal...

Aztec Launches Alpha V5 on Mainnet With Faster Private Proving

Aztec Network launched its Alpha V5 release on mainnet on Tuesday, calling it the fastest private transactions ever shipped. The update reduces proving time...

Durov Says Telegram Will Ship Native Gram Wallet to a Billion Users

Pavel Durov announced that Telegram will embed a native non-custodial Gram wallet in every version of its app this summer, putting a self-custody crypto...

Telegram’s Durov Teases Largest Non-Custodial Crypto Wallet Launch

Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, announced the integration of a native non-custodial crypto wallet called Gram into all Telegram applications starting this summer. The...

Jack Dorsey’s Block Launches Buzz, a Nostr-Based Slack and GitHub Rival for AI Agents

Block, the payments company founded by Jack Dorsey, has launched Buzz, a free and open source platform where humans and AI agents share the...

MACOM Technology Solutions surges on record results as AI data center demand rewrites growth forecasts

MACOM Technology Solutions reported fiscal Q2 2026 revenue of $289 million, a 22% jump year-over-year, driven by insatiable demand for optical components for data...