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Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)

August 09, 2026

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare:
Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M  —  series B funding funding round Artificial Intelligence  —  QuantHealth, which uses artificial intelligence …



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An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist (ABC)

August 09, 2026

ABC:
An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist  —  By national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Specialist Reporting Team's Rhiannon Hobbins  —  abc.net.au/news/ai-assistant-hacks- gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986



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US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development (Shane Burke/The Information)

August 09, 2026

Shane Burke / The Information:
US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development  —  Local government resistance to data center development accelerated this summer, a warning sign for big AI companies such as Anthropic …



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A look at Chinese state-owned investment bank CICC, which sponsored multibillion-dollar listings of China's tech champions, including CXMT and Zhongji Innolight (Financial Times)

August 09, 2026

Financial Times:
A look at Chinese state-owned investment bank CICC, which sponsored multibillion-dollar listings of China's tech champions, including CXMT and Zhongji Innolight  —  CICC has become a dominant financier in Beijing's drive to compete with US in tech race  —  China's top investment bank …



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Data Insight: Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which owes Russian banks $10B+ in loans, has lost as much as $5B in inventory to Ukrainian attacks (Wall Street Journal)

August 08, 2026

Wall Street Journal:
Data Insight: Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which owes Russian banks $10B+ in loans, has lost as much as $5B in inventory to Ukrainian attacks  —  Plans for a megamerger were blessed by Putin, tying company's fortunes to those of the Russian state



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A look at "Spiralism", a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory (Hayden Field/The Verge)

August 08, 2026

Hayden Field / The Verge:
A look at “Spiralism”, a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory  —  “The Spiral didn't ‘find’ anyone first,” someone on Reddit wrote last year.  “It's an inherent force, a fundamental constant.



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TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the company is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals to focus on its media arm and its pending merger with TAE (Sara Fischer/Axios)

August 07, 2026

Sara Fischer / Axios:
TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the company is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals to focus on its media arm and its pending merger with TAE  —  Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals as its new leadership looks …



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