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OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-local-news-american-journalism-project…

Exclusive: OpenAI renews $5M bet on local news
OpenAI is committing an additional $5 million in funding and $3 million in tech credits to AJP over the next two years.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/putin-casts-online-vote-using-unlicensed-windows-on-an-american-dell-pc-…

Putin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PC — 'Activate Windows' watermark visible in official Kremlin clip, uses foreign Dell PC despite Russian tech mandate
“You can’t go wrong,” says the Russian president squinting at the screen to check that he didn’t go wrong, before thanking the computer.

OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-local-news-american-journalism-project…

Exclusive: OpenAI renews $5M bet on local news
OpenAI is committing an additional $5 million in funding and $3 million in tech credits to AJP over the next two years.

As a student of accents, one of my favorite musical genres is "non-Americans who do American musical forms like country and blues so authentically, you think they're from Tennessee". Barcelona's Wax&Boogie met that mark and were brilliant in the Braga Blues festival. #PT2026

Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/…

American Open-Source Labs Think They Can Beat China’s Best AI Startups
Chinese open-source models like Kimi and Deepseek are now dominant AI tools. American startups like Thinking Machines, Reflection AI and now Poolside are trying to challenge that.

Survey: 20% of US adults regularly consume news on TikTok, up from just 3% in 2020; 39% of those aged 18 to 29 and 25% of those aged 30 to 49 do so regularly (Katerina Eva Matsa/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

1 in 5 Americans Regularly Get News on TikTok
Among adults under 30, 39% say they regularly get news from TikTok, up from 9% in 2020.

Survey: 20% of US adults regularly consume news on TikTok, up from just 3% in 2020; 39% of those aged 18 to 29 and 25% of those aged 30 to 49 do so regularly (Katerina Eva Matsa/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

1 in 5 Americans Regularly Get News on TikTok
Among adults under 30, 39% say they regularly get news from TikTok, up from 9% in 2020.

Source: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, prompting others on the sales team to consider resigning (Laura Bratton/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclus…

Exclusive: Key OpenAI Sales Executive Kaylin Voss Resigns
Kaylin Voss, OpenAI’s vice president of sales in the Americas, has resigned a week after her former boss, Denise Dresser, left the company, according to a person familiar with the matter. Voss had been at OpenAI for just five months. Dresser, who was chief revenue officer, had left after nine months at OpenAI. The company hired Dali Rajic from Wiz to replace her. Like Dresser, Voss had come

Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek (Marcela Ayres/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bra

Filing: in 2025, TikTok posted its first net profit of $702.5M in Europe, Africa, and Latin America on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% YoY (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/08/20/tik…

TikTok’s Europe, Africa and LatAm Business Turns Its First Profit
TikTok made $9.1 billion and its first profit in Europe and Latin America but faces a wave of lawsuits and investigations from European regulators.