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TLDRs; Synopsys shares fell about 7% after Moonshot AI claimed its Kimi K3 model autonomously completed a chip design workflow. Investors questioned whether AI-powered open-source tools could eventually weaken the competitive advantage of premium EDA software providers. Despite the market reaction, Moonshot’s demonstration relied on a 45nm research process rather…

Gavin Baker says anything that increases competition and compresses margins at the model layer (foundation models) is net positive for every other layer in the AI stack — power, semiconductors, hyperscalers/neoclouds, and even software. A world with only 2–3 dominant high-margin frontier labs is bad for the rest of the…

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TLDR Visa says stablecoins suit AI agent micropayments across software networks. Artemis sees hybrid payments combining cards and stablecoins for AI. Stablecoins cut costs for frequent machine-to-machine digital payments. Visa expects cards and stablecoins to operate together in AI commerce. Legal and trust rules remain key hurdles for AI-driven payment…

TLDR Citi cut its Microsoft price target from $620 to $570, citing multiple compression across the software sector, not Microsoft-specific concerns. The Buy rating was maintained, with the $570 target still implying ~43% upside from the ~$397 current price. Microsoft reports fiscal Q4 results on July 29; analysts expect $4.24…

Applications open next week by Ollie Reynolds Wed 15th Jul 2026 Image: FromSoftware During Nintendo's most recent Direct broadcast, many were hoping for a final release date for The Duskbloods when it appeared mid-presentation. Alas, that didn't happen, but FromSoftware instead promised a network test for the summer, and now…

AI is changing how vulnerability research gets done, but most of the conversation is still theoretical: what a model might eventually be capable of, rather than what it can actually find today. We wanted to answer a more practical question: using the models already available to us right now, how…

Emergent Raises Series C at $1.5B Valuation to Help Entrepreneurs and SMBs Build the Software Their Businesses Run On Creaegis led the round, with Claypond and Sentinel Global co-leading and participation from Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed, and Y Combinator as Emergent powers a new generation of AI-native…

EvenBet Gaming, a leading developer of online poker and casino software, has secured a five-year B2B supplier licence from the Swedish Gambling Authority (Spelinspektionen), bolstering the company’s position in the highly competitive Nordic region. The licence gives partners instant access to EvenBet’s entire flagship portfolio, including its world-class poker software…

Many mainframe exit projects are projected to fail, due to an overestimation of gen AI capabilities. But the financial services company used it as the missing piece of the migration puzzle. Deluxe may have prevailed against the odds when it successfully migrated from a 50-plus-year-old mainframe recently. The company was…