Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple sues Jon Prosser and Michael Ramacciotti over iOS 26 leaks, alleging a plot to access Apple employee's iPhone for trade secrets; Prosser denies the claimÿ -ÿ Earlier this year, YouTuber Jon Prosser shared multiple videos showing off what he claimed to be re-created renderings ...

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Washington Post:
Analysis: nearly 70 Trump administration officials and nominees held crypto or investments in blockchain or digital-asset firms at the time of their selectionÿ -ÿ Trump$51Mÿ -ÿ Data uses minimum assets values from nominee financial disclosures filed by July 9.

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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Lenovo Legion Go S review: SteamOS is a huge improvement over Windows, but battery life falls behind Windows-based handhelds and its touchpad is nearly uselessÿ -ÿ Valve's Steam Deck has dominated the handheld gaming PC space since its 2022 debut.ÿ But even as more powerful Windows handhelds arrived ...

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Reuters:
A Russian lawmaker regulating IT warns WhatsApp to "prepare to leave the Russian market"; Moscow recently approved development of a state-backed messaging appÿ -ÿ WhatsApp should prepare to leave the Russian market, a lawmaker who regulates the IT sector said on Friday ...

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple sues YouTuber Jon Prosser and an Apple staffer's friend over iOS 26 leaks, for allegedly accessing the staffer's iPhone; Prosser denies the claimÿ -ÿ Earlier this year, YouTuber Jon Prosser shared multiple videos showing off what he claimed to be re-created renderings of what was then presumed ...

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Reuters:
A lawmaker who regulates Russia's IT sector warns WhatsApp to "prepare to leave" Russia; Moscow recently approved development of a state-backed messaging appÿ -ÿ WhatsApp should prepare to leave the Russian market, a lawmaker who regulates the IT sector said on Friday ...

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The EU issues guidelines to help AI models with systemic risks comply with the AI Act, after criticism from some companies about lack of clarityÿ -ÿ The European Commission set out guidelines on Friday to help AI models it has determined have systemic risks and face tougher obligations ...

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Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
Joel Kaplan says Meta won't sign EU's AI code of practice, calling its guidelines overreach that will throttle development and deployment of AI models in Europeÿ -ÿ Meta Platforms Inc. said it won't sign the code of practice for Europe's new set of laws governing artificial intelligence ...

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Osmond Chia / BBC:
Netflix used AI tools for the first time in one of its TV shows, for a VFX sequence; Ted Sarandos says the VFX costs would have been too high otherwiseÿ -ÿ Netflix says it has used visual effects created by generative artificial intelligence (AI) in one of its original TV shows for the first time.

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Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
Total crypto market value surpassed $4T for the first time, driven by altcoin rallies and US legislative momentum; Ether jumped 22% over the past five daysÿ -ÿ The total market value of cryptoassets surged past $4 trillion for the first time, driven by a rally in altcoins and momentum ...

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Bloomberg:
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins says the GENIUS Act is a "historic step" and the SEC is weighing an "innovation exemption" from regulations to incentivize tokenizationÿ -ÿ The Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing an innovation exemption from regulations to incentivize tokenization ...

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Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu:
Germany-based Q.ANT, which is developing energy-efficient photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, raised a €62M Series Aÿ -ÿ Q.ANT is a photonic deep-tech scale-up developing photonic processing solutions that compute natively with light and deliver a scalable alternative to transistor-based systems.

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Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft shuts down the Movies & TV storefront on the Microsoft Store on Windows and Xbox; users will continue to be able to access their past purchasesÿ -ÿ After 12 years, Microsoft is shutting down its storefront that let Windows and Xbox users buy or rent Movies & TV shows natively on the platform.

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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
BrightAI, an AI-powered service using custom chips and devices to monitor critical infrastructure, raised a $51M Series A, source says at a $300M valuationÿ -ÿ BrightAI raised $51 million to sell sensors and software that monitor infrastructure.ÿ -ÿ While many artificial intelligence tools ...

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Jessica Lyons / The Register:
Google files a lawsuit in the US against 25 unnamed individuals in China, accusing them of operating the BadBox 2.0 botnet, compromising 10M+ devices worldwideÿ -ÿ Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, tooÿ -ÿ Google has filed a lawsuit ...

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Lucinda Shen / Axios:
SPAC Insider: SPACs are booming in 2025, with 74 blank check companies going public so far in 2025, raising about $14.7B and beating 2022 total of $13.4Bÿ -ÿ SPACs are reaching heights not seen since 2021, despite their reputation as a symptom of an overly frothy market. ... - And its been accelerating.

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Bloomberg:
President Trump signs the GENIUS Act, and says the first federal bill to regulate stablecoins will "secure the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency"ÿ -ÿ President Donald Trump signed the first federal bill to regulate stablecoins, hailing it as a "giant step ...

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Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Clothing inventory monetization startup CaaStle's ex-CEO Christine Hunsicker is charged with defrauding investors of more than $300M over the past six yearsÿ -ÿ A former chief executive of two clothing technology companies who was once portrayed as an on-the-rise fashion entrepreneur ...

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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere acquired Koala, an AI-powered CRM startup that raised a $15M Series A five months ago; Koala plans to shut down in Septemberÿ -ÿ The startup behind the viral AI coding app Cursor is snapping up top talent from AI enterprise startups in a bid to bolster ...

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Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET:
Adobe updates its Firefly video model and adds a beta Generate Sound Effects tool that can create custom sounds from text prompts and the user's voiceÿ -ÿ Just a year and a half ago, the latest and greatest of Adobe's Firefly generative AI offerings involved producing high-quality images ...

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Eleanor Hawkins / Axios:
Source: the CEO and the chief people officer of Astronomer were put on leave after a video of them cuddling on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert went viralÿ -ÿ Astronomer - the software company that made headlines after a video of its CEO Andy Byron and chief people officer Kristin Cabot canoodling ...

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Ari Levy / CNBC:
S&P Global says Block will join the S&P 500 on July 23, after announcing Monday that ad tech firm The Trade Desk will also be added; XYZ jumps 9%+ after hoursÿ -ÿ Block shares jumped more than 10% in extended trading on Friday, as the fintech company get set to join the S&P 500, replacing Hess.

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Osmond Chia / BBC:
Ted Sarandos says The Eternaut featured the first GenAI final footage in a Netflix original and that the VFX costs would have been too high otherwiseÿ -ÿ Netflix says it has used visual effects created by generative artificial intelligence (AI) in one of its original TV shows for the first time.

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Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Clothing inventory monetization startup CaaStle's ex-CEO Christine Hunsicker is charged with defrauding investors of more than $300M over the past six yearsÿ -ÿ A former chief executive of two clothing technology companies who was once portrayed as an on-the-rise fashion entrepreneur ...

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Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Ring reinstated its mission to "make neighborhoods safer" and reintroduced video sharing with police in April, as its founder led an overhaul since his returnÿ -ÿ - Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has led a broad overhaul of the company since his return in April.

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Reuters:
Source: Blackstone has withdrawn from the consortium led by Susquehanna and General Atlantic seeking to invest in TikTok US, after considering a minority stakeÿ -ÿ Private equity giant Blackstone has withdrawn from a consortium seeking to invest in TikTok's U.S. operations, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

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Bloomberg:
Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange Bullish files for an IPO, plans to trade on the NYSE, and reports a net loss of ~$349M on digital asset sales of $80M in Q1ÿ -ÿ Bullish, a digital-asset exchange operator whose backers have included billionaire Peter Thiel, filed for an initial public offering ...

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: Prosus offered to cut its 27% Delivery Hero stake to below 10% and give up its board seat to address EU concerns over its €4.1B Just Eat Takeaway dealÿ -ÿ Prosus has offered to slash its Delivery Hero (DHER.DE) stake to below 10% and give up its board seat to address EU concerns ...

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Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to provide technical support to the US military, after a ProPublica report raised security concernsÿ -ÿ Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Friday said it will stop using China-based engineers to provide technical assistance to the U.S. military ...

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10+ OpenAI researchers packages of $300M over four years, and asked OpenAI's Mark Chen if he would consider joining Metaÿ -ÿ The cutthroat recruitment efforts to land the smartest minds in Silicon Valley have hit a feverish new peak in recent days

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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The European Commission accepts Corning's offer to end exclusivity terms in its supply contracts, ending an antitrust investigation opened in November 2024ÿ -ÿ Corning Inc. has avoided the threat of European Union antitrust fines, after it agreed to end exclusivity terms in its supply contracts ...

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Ivan Levingston / Financial Times:
Sources: Vy Capital, which has ~$15B of AUM and is a top backer of Elon Musk's companies, told external investors that it will not raise further outside moneyÿ -ÿ Secretive tech investment group has racked up gains after backing companies such as SpaceX and xAI

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Bloomberg:
Sources: at least six of China's biggest VC firms are targeting a combined $2B in new USD-denominated funds to allow overseas investment in Chinese startupsÿ -ÿ China's largest venture capital houses are tapping the market for at least $2 billion in new funds, re-engaging with the country's startups ...

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The Economic Times:
Reliance Retail launches Ajio Rush, a four-hour fashion delivery service live in six Indian cities, to take on Myntra and other fashion quick commerce startupsÿ -ÿ Reliance Retail has launched Ajio Rush, a four-hour fashion delivery service now live in six cities.ÿ It follows Myntra and others exploring ultra-fast delivery.

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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensationÿ -ÿ Big Tech's growing reliance on licensing deals to scoop up top talent from AI startups risks leaving many rank-and-file workers in limbo.

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Kasha Patel / Washington Post:
Goog;e researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200+ earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' noticeÿ -ÿ An early-warning system on Android phones has detected more than 1,000 earthquakes worldwide since 2021, sometimes giving people 15 ...

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Financial Times:
How AI is reshaping higher education, as institutions grapple with the pace of change and technology companies move quickly to offer custom learning productsÿ -ÿ While institutions grapple with the pace of change, technology companies are moving quickly to offer custom learning products

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Jeff Wang / @jeffwsurf:
Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfoldedÿ -ÿ To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy.ÿ There have been a lot of different rumors and reports ...

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South China Morning Post:
How an open-source approach helped DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies; Hugging Face: Alibaba's Qwen is now the world's largest open-source AI ecosystemÿ -ÿ July 9, 2024, may be remembered as a day of humiliation for China's artificial intelligence community.

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New York Times:
How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between "Islamists" and "Muslims"ÿ -ÿ Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray.

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Alexander Wei / @alexwei_:
[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiadÿ -ÿ 1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition-the International Math Olympiad (IMO). [image]

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Qianer Liu / The Information:
Sources: after Trump let Nvidia resume H20 chip sales to China, Nvidia told Chinese customers it has limited stocks and doesn't plan to restart productionÿ -ÿ President Donald Trump's recent decision allowing Nvidia to resume sales of the H20 artificial intelligence chips to China sent its Chinese customers ...

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Washington Examiner:
Sources: UK plans to designate Apple and Google as holding a "strategic market advantage" over rivals, subjecting them to new regulations and potential finesÿ -ÿ EXCLUSIVE - The United Kingdom is preparing to designate Apple and Google as holding a "strategic market advantage" ...

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Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Apple was exempted from the EU's Corning deal to end exclusivity terms with OEMs, after finding products designed exclusively for Apple fall outside the marketÿ -ÿ The European Commission has concluded an antitrust investigation into Corning's glass supply deals.ÿ And for once, Apple just watched from the sidelines.

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Eleanor Hawkins / Axios:
Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after a video of him cuddling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viralÿ -ÿ Astronomer CEO Andy Byron has resigned from the company after a video of him canoodling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral.

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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Vultron, which makes AI tools for federal contractors, raised $22M from investors including David Sacks' Craft Ventures, raising ethical questionsÿ -ÿ When Vultron announced its $22 million funding round earlier this week, the AI startup made sure to highlight a key investor: Craft Ventures ...

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Will Knight / Wired:
A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI model Mirage that manipulates live video in real time and can potentially shake up livestreamingÿ -ÿ A startup called Decart has developed an AI model that can transform live footage.ÿ The results are mind-bending-and poised to take over streaming.

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Kim Zetter / Wired:
How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatusÿ -ÿ A new report traces the history of the early wave of Chinese hackers who became the backbone of the state's espionage apparatus.

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Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
ÿ -ÿ President Trump leans forward in a limousine, takes a long puff from a cigarette and flashes a wide grin.

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Ryan Lawler / Axios:
Austin-based CertifID, which develops tech to prevent wire fraud in real estate transactions, raised a $47.5M Series C led by Centana Growth Partners

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Alex Riehl / BetaKit:
Calgary-based GeologicAI, which uses AI and sensors to help capture data in rock and core samples faster, raised a $44M Series B led by Blue Earth Capitalÿ -ÿ Mining tech startup will use funding to scale globally as demand for critical minerals intensifies.

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Ryan Lawler / Axios:
North Carolina-based Eton Solutions, which offers wealth management ERP tools for single- and multifamily offices, raised a $58M Series C led by Navis Capital

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Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
How YouTube became the most-watched video provider on TVs in the US, with creator content tailored for family and group viewing and app features enhanced for TVÿ -ÿ A generation that grew up watching YouTubers on tablets and phones have migrated to TVs, and Hollywood is losing ground

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New York Times:
ÿ -ÿ Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray.

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Chris Metinko / Axios:
Dallas-based iCounter, which uses AI to combat cyber risks, launches out of stealth from Apollo Information Systems with a $30M Series A led by SYN Ventures

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Louis Columbus / VentureBeat:
OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like "Watch Mode Activation" and "Terminal Restrictions"ÿ -ÿ In case you missed it, OpenAI yesterday debuted a powerful new feature for ChatGPT and with it, a host of new security risks and ramifications.

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of next year's launch; sources: Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Proÿ -ÿ When the first foldable iPhone debuts next year, it will be the least Apple-like launch ever.

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Melissa Heikkil„ / Financial Times:
Companies like Scale AI are replacing low-cost data labelers with highly paid experts in fields such as finance, driven by the rise of reasoning AI modelsÿ -ÿ Industry moves away from paying gig economy workers in Africa and Asia in push to build 'smarter' models

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Bloomberg:
How UK Biobank, a government-backed cloud database of 1B+ medical images from 100,000+ participants, is fueling breakthroughs in AI-driven diagnosticsÿ -ÿ A massive database of medical images is offering an unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear.

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Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
Mustafa Suleyman, who is in charge of Microsoft's efforts to commercialize AI, says he is focused on "humanist superintelligence" to solve hard social problemsÿ -ÿ Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman is focused on solving social problems rather than racing for superintelligence

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Washington Post:
A 0-;ay flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited in RCE attacks on servers globally; no patch exists and tens of thousands of servers are at riskÿ -ÿ Unknown attackers exploited a "significant vulnerability" in Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration software, hitting targets around the world.

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Financial Times:
Sources: the UK may backtrack on its January order for Apple to create a backdoor for iCloud encrypted data after pressure from US officials, including JD Vanceÿ -ÿ Officials fear technology deals with Washington could be impeded after Trump administration weighs in

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Alex Riehl / BetaKit:
Calgary-based GeologicAI, which uses AI and sensors to help capture data in rock and core samples faster, raised a $44M Series B led by Blue Earth Capitalÿ -ÿ Calgary-based mining tech startup GeologicAI has secured $44 million USD ($60.5 million CAD) in Series B funding as the intense demand ...

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Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
ÿ -ÿ An audio-only medium spawned a giant industry that is now largely focused on video.ÿ -ÿ The following are the runtimes of some recent episodes ...

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Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
Dating apps are encouraging users to meet in person to address concerns about "dating fatigue" among Gen Z and reverse a post-pandemic slowdown in growthÿ -ÿ Matchmaking services offer double dates and initial conversations in person as alternatives to swipe-and-text culture

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Washington Post:
Glob;l hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers sayÿ -ÿ Unknown attackers exploited a "significant vulnerability" in Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration software, hitting targets around the world.ÿ -ÿ Hackers exploited a major security flaw in widely used Microsoft server software ...

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Bloomberg:
Microsoft releases a patch for a SharePoint 0-day RCE flaw exploited globally on thousands of on-prem servers, says updates for SharePoint 2016 are in the worksÿ -ÿ Microsoft Corp.'s server software is under attack from unidentified hackers, with cybersecurity analysts warning of widespread security breaches across the globe.

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Neda Ulaby / NPR:
Survey: when it comes to using AI as a companion to seek advice, flirt, or share deep conversations, ~75% of US teens say they've used AI this way at least onceÿ -ÿ Traditionally, teenagers turn to each other when it comes to seeking advice, flirting and sharing deep conversations.

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of 2026's launch; sources say Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Proÿ -ÿ When the first foldable iPhone debuts next year, it will be the least Apple-like launch ever.ÿ Also: The M5 iPad Pro is set ...

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Joseph Bernstein / New York Times:
ÿ -ÿ An audio-only medium spawned a giant industry that is now largely focused on video.ÿ -ÿ The following are the runtimes ...

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Bloomberg:
Microsoft releases a patch for a SharePoint 0-day RCE flaw exploited globally on thousands of on-prem servers and says SharePoint 2016 updates are in the worksÿ -ÿ Microsoft Corp.'s server software is under attack from unidentified hackers, with cybersecurity analysts warning of widespread security breaches across the globe.

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Neda Ulaby / NPR:
Survey: when asked about using AI as a companion to seek advice, flirt, or share deep conversations, ~75% of US teens say they've used AI this way at least onceÿ -ÿ Traditionally, teenagers turn to each other when it comes to seeking advice, flirting and sharing deep conversations.

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Financial Times:
X says France has launched a criminal investigation over "the alleged manipulation of its algorithm" and "fraudulent" data extraction; X denies the allegationsÿ -ÿ Authorities also accused social media company of 'fraudulent' data extraction

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of its 2026 launch; sources say Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Proÿ -ÿ When the first foldable iPhone debuts next year, it will be the least Apple-like launch ever.

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Bloomberg:
Microsoft releases a patch for a SharePoint 0-day RCE flaw exploited globally on thousands of on-prem servers and says SharePoint 2016 updates are in the worksÿ -ÿ Microsoft Corp.'s server software was exploited by unidentified hackers, with analysts warning of widespread cybersecurity breaches across the globe.

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Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia says CUDA will now be compatible with RISC-V's instruction set architecture, making RISC-V a viable x86 and Arm rivalÿ -ÿ Yet another alternative.ÿ -ÿ At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia announced that its CUDA software platform ...

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Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg:
TSMC closed above a $1T market cap in Taiwan on July 18, a first, up nearly 50% from an April low and the first Asian stock worth $1T+ since PetroChina in 2007ÿ -ÿ Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s market value closed above $1 trillion for the first time in Taipei last week ...

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Financial Times:
X says France has launched a criminal investigation over "the alleged manipulation of its algorithm" and "fraudulent" data extraction; X denies the allegationsÿ -ÿ Lawmaker reported allegations over moderation and rightwing content on social media platform

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Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
How Europe is seeking US tech alternatives, as lawmakers consider adding "Buy European" to future laws; Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have unveiled local cloudsÿ -ÿ The continent's dependence on US groups for digital infrastructure is causing growing concern among executives and policymakers

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Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg:
KKR acquires a significant minority in Swedish travel tech firm Etraveli, sources say valuing it at ~€2.7B; Etraveli sells plane tickets to ~50M users per yearÿ -ÿ KKR & Co. agreed to buy a significant minority stake in CVC Capital Partners Plc-backed Swedish travel technology firm Etraveli Group.

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Wall Street Journal:
Blank check company Dynamix says it plans to merge with another entity to create Ether Machine, holding $1.5B in ether, backed by $800M+ from Kraken and othersÿ -ÿ The Ether Machine plans to manage over $1.5 billion of the second-largest cryptocurrencyÿ -ÿ Blank-check company Dynamix ...

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Financial Times:
X says France's criminal probe over algorithmic "manipulation" and "fraudulent" data extraction is "distorting French law in order to serve a political agenda"ÿ -ÿ Lawmaker reported allegations over moderation and rightwing content on social media platform

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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Dell confirms extortion group World Leaks breached its Solution Centers platform, used for demos, earlier in July, stealing mostly synthetic or public dataÿ -ÿ A newly rebranded extortion gang known as "World Leaks" breached one of Dell's product demonstration platforms earlier this month ...

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Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Oakley Meta HSTN hands-on: the $399 glasses are a fun accessory and sportier, thinner, lighter, and more comfortable than previous models with a solid 3K cameraÿ -ÿ Meta Platforms Inc. is giving its smart glasses a premium, athletic twist - and a higher price tag.

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Bloomberg:
Microsoft releases a patch for a SharePoint 0-day RCE flaw exploited globally on thousands of on-prem servers and says SharePoint 2016 updates are in the worksÿ -ÿ Microsoft Corp. warned that hackers are actively targeting customers of its document management software SharePoint ...

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Niket Nishant / Reuters:
Figma prices its shares at $25 and $28 each and plans to sell nearly 37M shares to raise up to $1.03B, giving it an up to $16.4B valuation in its NYSE debutÿ -ÿ Figma is targeting a fully-diluted valuation of up to $16.4 billion in its initial public offering, as the cloud-based design software firm prepares ...

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Emilio Parodi / Reuters:
Sources: Meta, X, and LinkedIn appeal an unprecedented ~€1.04B VAT claim by Italy, which is seeking €887.6M from Meta, €12.5M from X, and ~€140M from LinkedInÿ -ÿ U.S. tech giants Meta (META.O), X and LinkedIn have lodged an appeal against an unprecedented VAT claim ...

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
T-Mobile plans to expand support for the L4S network standard in the coming weeks, helping high-priority internet packets move fast, a first for a US networkÿ -ÿ Latency hitches that can interrupt video calls or slow down browsing could be reduced with L4S, and T-Mobile is the first wireless company using it in the US.

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Bloomberg:
Polymarket says it is buying little-known derivatives exchange QCX, in a move to legally re-enter the US market; a source says Polymarket will pay $112Mÿ -ÿ Polymarket, the crypto-betting platform that was kicked offshore by federal regulators, has struck a deal to return to the US market ...

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Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:
Tesla is set to face off with the California DMV over claims it exaggerated Autopilot's and FSD's capabilities and misled consumers, in a five-day Oakland trialÿ -ÿ Tesla Inc. is set to face off with the California Department of Motor Vehicles over claims that the company has exaggerated ...

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Mike Allen / Axios:
OpenAI says ChatGPT users send more than 2.5B prompts globally each day, more than 330M of those are in US, and the platform has 500M weekly active usersÿ -ÿ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will use a swing through Washington this week to argue that AI is already making Americans more productive ...

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Alan Suderman / Associated Press:
Critics say tokenization, led by Robinhood, could undermine securities law and investor protections that have made the US financial system the envy of the worldÿ -ÿ As cryptocurrencies become more intertwined with the traditional financial system, industry heavyweights are racing ...

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Appfigures: xAI debuted Grok 4 late on July 9 and by July 11, Grok's gross revenue on iOS had risen 325% to $419K, up from $99K the day before Grok 4's launchÿ -ÿ Grok's raunchy, unfiltered AI companions may be making headlines for their unhinged and often NSFW responses, but it's Grok 4 ...

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Google DeepMind:
Google says an advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 "exceptionally difficult" problemsÿ -ÿ The International Mathematical Olympiad ("IMO") is the world's most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Appfigures: xAI debuted Grok 4 late on July 9 and by July 11, Grok's daily gross revenue on iOS rose 325% to $419K, up from $99K the day before Grok 4's launchÿ -ÿ Grok's raunchy, unfiltered AI companions may be making headlines for their unhinged and often NSFW responses, but it's Grok 4 ...

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google reveals the design of the Pixel 10 a few weeks ahead of the launch event; it strongly resembles the Pixel 9 but has a third back cameraÿ -ÿ A few weeks ahead of the Pixel 10 launch event, Google is showing off exactly what it looks like. ... Google's Pixel 10 launch event is just under ...

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Niket Nishant / Reuters:
Figma plans to sell nearly 37M shares to raise up to $1.03B, pricing its shares between $25 and $28 each, giving it an up to $16.4B valuation in its NYSE debutÿ -ÿ Figma is targeting a fully-diluted valuation of up to $16.4 billion in its initial public offering, as the cloud-based design ...

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Jay Peters / The Verge:
T-Mobile plans to expand support for the L4S network standard in the coming weeks, helping high-priority internet packets move faster, a first for a US networkÿ -ÿ Latency hitches that can interrupt video calls or slow down browsing could be reduced with L4S, and T-Mobile is the first wireless company using it in the US.

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Kylie Robison / Wired:
In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the worldÿ -ÿ Soon-to-be former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sent a memo to OpenAI staff Monday laying out her vision for how AI will change the world.

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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Source: Netflix is using Runway AI's video generation tools for production; Disney is testing out the tools and talked with Runway about possible uses for themÿ -ÿ Netflix Inc. has begun using artificial intelligence video generation software from startup Runway AI, testing the waters ...

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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers: at least 750 US hospitals faced disruptions on the day of last year's big CrowdStrike outage, and 200+ had outages related to patient care servicesÿ -ÿ Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike's disastrous crash, researchers have revealed.

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Kritika Lamba / Reuters:
NXP Q2 revenue fell 6.4% YoY to $2.93B, vs $2.90B est.; revenue from its communication and infrastructure segment fell 27% YoY to $320M in the quarterÿ -ÿ Chipmaker NXP Semiconductors (NXPI.O) posted a 6% drop in second-quarter revenue on Monday, led by weakness in communications and infrastructure segment amid broader market softness.

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Stargate has struggled to get off the ground and sharply scaled back its near-term plans, as SoftBank and OpenAI disagree on crucial terms of the dealÿ -ÿ The Stargate venture, introduced at White House event, is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Oracle is in talks with Skydance for a $100M/year deal for Paramount to use Oracle's cloud software if the Skydance-Paramount merger goes throughÿ -ÿ Oracle Corp. is in discussions with Skydance Media LLC for a major software deal once the media company's acquisition of Paramount Global is complete.

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Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters:
Seattle-based tax compliance software maker Avalara, acquired by Vista Equity Partners in a 2022 deal valuing it at $8.4B, confidentially files for a US IPOÿ -ÿ Tax software company Avalara, which went private in 2022, disclosed on Monday it had confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering ...

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Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg:
SEC filing: Ambiq Micro, which makes ultra-low power chips, is seeking to raise as much as $85M from its IPO, marketing 3.4M shares at $22 to $25 eachÿ -ÿ Ambiq Micro Inc., a maker of ultra-low power semiconductors for artificial intelligence applications, is seeking to raise as much as $85 million from an initial public offering.

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CoinDesk:
Crypto custody company BitGo confidentially files for a US IPO; it raised $100M at a $1.75B valuation in August 2023ÿ -ÿ The crypto custodian submitted a confidential U.S. listing as interest in public crypto stocks heats up.ÿ -ÿ What to know:ÿ - BitGo confidentially filed to go public ...

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Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Samsung Galaxy Watch8 review: thinner and sturdier, but its design with a square casing and a round screen is polarizing, and Gemini is useful but hit-or-missÿ -ÿ If users can tolerate the bold new look, they'll find the included artificial intelligence features are actually useful.

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Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg:
SEC filing: Ambiq Micro, which makes ultra-low power chips, is seeking to raise as much as $85M from its IPO, offering 3.4M shares at $22 to $25 eachÿ -ÿ Ambiq Micro Inc., a maker of ultra-low power semiconductors for artificial intelligence applications, is seeking to raise as much as $85 million from an initial public offering.

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Kylie Robison / Wired:
Leaked memo: CEO Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching "dictators", says a "no bad person" rule is impracticalÿ -ÿ "Unfortunately, I think 'No bad person should ever benefit from our success' is a pretty difficult principle ...

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Washington Post:
Rese;rchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerabilityÿ -ÿ Researchers say Chinese and other criminal hackers have exploited a security flaw in SharePoint software widely used by governments and businesses - and may come back.

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Reuters:
OpenAI and the UK government announce a partnership to explore AI use in justice, defense, security, and edtech, and possibly expand OpenAI's London officeÿ -ÿ Britain and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership to deepen collaboration on AI security research ...

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SemiAnalysis:
A roundup of VLSI conference 2025, including the use of digital twins for design exploration, DRAM beyond 1x nm nodes, Intel's 18A process vs. TSMC, and moreÿ -ÿ VLSI 2025 Roundupÿ -ÿ No comments on Intel 18A Details & Cost, Future of DRAM 4F2 vs 3D, Backside Power Adoption (or Not) ...

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Financial Times:
Multinational firms like McDonald's and UK insurer Bupa, struggling to hire AI talent at home, are turning to back offices in India to meet their core AI needsÿ -ÿ McDonald's, Bupa and others set up 'global capability centres' to perform core big-data tasksÿ -ÿ Krishn Kaushik and Chris Kay in Bengaluru

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Kritika Lamba / Reuters:
NXP reports Q2 revenue down 6.4% YoY to $2.93B, vs $2.90B est., and revenue from its communication and infrastructure segment fell 27% YoY to $320M in Q2ÿ -ÿ Chipmaker NXP Semiconductors (NXPI.O) posted a 6% drop in second-quarter revenue on Monday, led by weakness in communications ...

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Oracle is in talks with Skydance for a $100M per year deal for Paramount to use Oracle's cloud software if the Skydance-Paramount merger goes throughÿ -ÿ Oracle Corp. is in discussions with Skydance Media LLC for a major software deal once the media company's acquisition of Paramount Global is complete.

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CoinDesk:
Crypto custody company BitGo confidentially files for a US IPO; Palo Alto-based BitGo raised $100M at a $1.75B valuation in August 2023ÿ -ÿ The crypto custodian submitted a confidential U.S. listing as interest in public crypto stocks heats up.ÿ -ÿ What to know:

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Kylie Robison / Wired:
Leaked memo: Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching "dictators", and says a "no bad person" rule is impracticalÿ -ÿ "Unfortunately, I think 'No bad person should ever benefit from our success' is a pretty difficult principle ...

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SemiAnalysis:
A roundup of the 2025 VLSI conference: using digital twins for design exploration, DRAM beyond 1x nm nodes, Intel's 18A process compared to TSMC, and moreÿ -ÿ VLSI 2025 Roundupÿ -ÿ No comments on Intel 18A Details & Cost, Future of DRAM 4F2 vs 3D, Backside Power Adoption (or Not) ...

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Anil Ananthaswamy / Quanta Magazine:
While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex dataÿ -ÿ He and his team turned to AI - in particular, a software suite first created by the physicist Mario Krenn to design tabletop experiments in quantum optics.

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Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis:
A roundup of the 2025 VLSI conference: using digital twins for design exploration, DRAM beyond 1x nm nodes, Intel's 18A process compared to TSMC, and moreÿ -ÿ Long time readers will recall that SemiAnalysis covers more than just datacenters and AMD.ÿ Today we're back to semiconductors ...

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Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Seoul-based chip designer FuriosaAI signs a deal with LG to use its AI chip RNGD, its first major contract, after rejecting Meta's $800M buyout offer in Marchÿ -ÿ FuriosaAI Inc., the Seoul-based startup seeking to design chips to compete with Nvidia Corp., has sealed its first major contract months ...

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Melissa Heikkil„ / Financial Times:
Google, Amazon, Cohere, and Mistral are intensifying efforts to reduce AI hallucinations via technical fixes, data quality improvements, and fact-checkingÿ -ÿ Tech groups step up efforts to reduce fabricated responses but eliminating them appears impossible

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Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg:
US investment firm Carlyle agrees to acquire a majority stake in IT consultancy and services provider Adastra, sources say valuing it at $400M including debtÿ -ÿ Carlyle Group Inc. has agreed to acquire a majority stake in IT consultancy and services provider Adastra Group SE.

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Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
A London judge rules that HPE lost ~œ730M after acquiring Mike Lynch's Autonomy, after a 2022 fraud finding against Lynch, who died in 2024; HPE was seeking $4Bÿ -ÿ Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. lost around œ730 million ($985 million) after it bought Mike Lynch's firm Autonomy Corp. ...

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Bloomberg:
OpenAI and Oracle unveil plans to develop 4.5GW of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership, hitting 5GW in total and running 2M AI chipsÿ -ÿ OpenAI and Oracle Corp. announced they will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership ...

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Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
AMD and Stability AI launch the industry's first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium AI model optimized for AMD's XDNA 2 NPUs, designed to run locally on Ryzen laptopsÿ -ÿ An offline image generator for XDNA 2 NPUs.ÿ -ÿ AMD, in collaboration with Stability AI, has unveiled the industry's ...

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Brunella Tipismana Urbano / Bloomberg:
Reka AI, which aims to make more efficient LLMs, raised $110M from Nvidia, Snowflake, and others at a $1B+ valuation, up from ~$300M in 2023, per PitchBookÿ -ÿ Snowflake had previously been in talks to buy the three-year-old AI startup.ÿ -ÿ Artificial intelligence company Reka AI raised ...

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Judy Rider / Crunchbase News:
Ashby, which offers an AI-powered talent platform combining applications, CRM, search, and more, raised a $50M Series D, following a $30M Series C in 2024ÿ -ÿ In today's competitive hiring environment, the ability for companies to move quickly on talent is more paramount than ever.

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Google is seeking to recruit news organizations for a new licensing project related to AI, and plans to launch a pilot initially with ~20 US outletsÿ -ÿ The company has ramped up its overtures to news organizations in recent monthsÿ -ÿ Google is seeking to recruit news organizations ...

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Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
UK startup Inforcer, which helps SMBs automate and manage Microsoft 365, security, and more, raised a $35M Series B, a source says at a $200M+ valuationÿ -ÿ Inforcer's software helps IT shops manage security for SMB clients.ÿ Now the startup's raised $35 million in a Series B round to get them AI-ready, too.

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Google is seeking to recruit news organizations for a new licensing project related to AI, and plans to launch a pilot initially with ~20 US outletsÿ -ÿ The company has ramped up its overtures to news organizations in recent monthsÿ -ÿ Google is seeking to recruit news organizations ...

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Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg:
Miaan Group: a number of Iranians received spyware threat alerts from Apple in H1 2025 in the months prior to the Iran-Israel war, the first such cases in Iranÿ -ÿ More than a dozen Iranians' mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior to the country's war with Israel, according to new research.

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Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can "steer" laser light and is an alternative to lidar, extends its Series B from $45M to $59M, including from Amazon's IIFÿ -ÿ Programmable optics startup Lumotive has added a few more strategic backers to its recent Series B round.

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Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Philadelphia-based Asylon, which modifies Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot into DroneDog, raised a $26M Series B led by Insight, taking its total funding to $45Mÿ -ÿ Philadelphia-based robotics company Asylon announced Tuesday that it raised a $26 million Series B led by Insight Partners ...

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says it "has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting" the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilitiesÿ -ÿ Several hacking groups with ties to the Chinese government have been linked to a recent wave of widespread attacks targeting ...

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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Telegram expands access to its TON crypto wallet, integrated into the Telegram app, for its 87M users in the USÿ -ÿ Telegram is expanding access to its crypto wallet for its 87 million users in the U.S.ÿ -ÿ The TON wallet, named because it is built on the TON blockchain, is integrated directly into the Telegram app.

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The Information:
Sources: Apple's team working on AI models wanted to release several as open source, Craig Federighi disagreed, largely concerned about public perception issuesÿ -ÿ Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the company's artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software.

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Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
UK startup Inforcer, which helps SMBs automate and manage Microsoft 365, security, and more, raised a $35M Series B, a source says at a $200M+ valuationÿ -ÿ Far from Silicon Valley's heavily hyped AI companies, inforcer CEO Jamie Daum works with a very different kind of customer: IT shops.

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The Information:
Sources: Apple's AI model team wanted to release several models as open source but Craig Federighi disagreed, largely concerned about public perception issuesÿ -ÿ Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the company's artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software.

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Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
AI compliance startup Delve raised a $32M Series A at a $300M valuation led by Insight Partners with participation from CISOs at Fortune 500 companiesÿ -ÿ Karun Kaushik and Selin Kocalar weren't planning to raise a Series A so soon.ÿ Their AI compliance startup, Delve ...

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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: the EU is set to approve Apple's App Store rule and fee changes, unveiled last month, in the coming weeks, staving off a potentially hefty daily fineÿ -ÿ Apple's (AAPL.O) changes to its App Store rules and fees will likely secure the green light from EU antitrust regulators ...

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: after raising $10B, xAI is now working with a trusted financier to secure up to $12B to buy Nvidia chips, led by Elon Musk-linked Valor Equity Partnersÿ -ÿ xAI is tapping into the booming private-credit market to find the cash it needs to build massive data centers

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Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Filing: the FBI drops its probe of Kraken founder Jesse Powell and returns dozens of devices, after raiding his home in 2023 over seemingly banal allegationsÿ -ÿ Powell in a 2014 pic.ÿ -ÿ When federal agents raided the home of Kraken founder Jesse Powell two years ago ...

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Financial Times:
Sources: Microsoft has poached 24+ employees from Google DeepMind in the past six months; Gemini engineering head Amar Subramanya confirms the move to Microsoftÿ -ÿ US tech giant recruits more than 20 people from rival in push to gain edge in the fast-developing technology

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Dylan Martin / CRN:
Nvidia rival Hailo announced the general availability of its second-generation AI accelerator chip, the Hailo-10H, with HP among its early adoptersÿ -ÿ Among the companies adopting the Hailo-10H is HP Inc., which is using the chip as the basis for the HP AI Accelerator M.2 Card that can integrate ...

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Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
Poseidon, an AI-focused decentralized data layer built on the Story protocol, raised a $15M seed led by a16zÿ -ÿ - Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has invested in Poseidon, a full-stack decentralized data layer built on the IP-focused Story protocol.ÿ - The startup closed ...

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Lauren Goode / Wired:
Source: OpenAI's $40B round announced in March is reopening on July 28; SoftBank's commitment could be cut to $10B if OpenAI does not restructure by end of 2025ÿ -ÿ OpenAI, which recently announced a $40 billion round of financing, is seeking funding from new and existing investors to fulfill the deal.

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon is acquiring Bee, which sells a $50 device that resembles a Fitbit, is always listening, transcribes conversations, and serves up daily AI summariesÿ -ÿ Bee is a Fitbit-like device that transcribes your conversations and serves up daily summaries. ... Amazon is acquiring Bee, a startup that puts AI on your wrist.

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Pew Research Center:
Survey of 900 US Google users: of ~69K searches, 18% gave AI Overviews; on those searches users clicked a result link 8% of the time, vs. 15% with no AI summaryÿ -ÿ Last year, Google introduced "AI Overviews," a feature that displays an artificial intelligence-generated result summary at the top of many Google search pages.

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Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sources: dozens of xAI staff voiced concerns over a program granting xAI "perpetual" access to data like their "likeness" for training; several did not consentÿ -ÿ - xAI workers recorded facial expressions for AI training, internal documents show.

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The UK plans to ban public sector and key infrastructure orgs from paying ransoms to ransomware attackers, require others to notify the UK if they plan to payÿ -ÿ The United Kingdom's government is planning to ban public sector and critical infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms after ransomware attacks.

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Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
iOS 26 beta 4 adds more "liquid" back to Liquid Glass design, after dialing it back in beta 3ÿ -ÿ iOS 26 beta 4 has just been released, and one of the biggest question on many testers' minds has been answered.ÿ After dialing back its redesign in beta 3, Apple has now infused ...

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Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal:
SAP reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to €9.03B, vs. €9.05B est., cloud revenue up 24% to €5.13B, vs. €5.15B est., operating profit up 32% to €2.57B, vs. €2.43B est.ÿ -ÿ German business-software company said total revenue rose 9% to €9.03 billion and backed its guidance for the year

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Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Composio, which provides tools to help companies build AI agents, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $29Mÿ -ÿ Composio, a startup with a platform for building artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $25 million in funding.

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Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $4.45B, vs. $4.36B est., net income of $1.3B, and forecasts Q3 profit below est.; TXN drops 10%+ after hoursÿ -ÿ Texas Instruments (TXN.O) forecast third-quarter profit just shy of Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, as the analog chipmaker invests heavily ...

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Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
UMG has partnered with IP asset management company Liquidax Capital to "accelerate the development of UMG's music-related AI patents", already filing 15ÿ -ÿ UMG said it's filed for 15 patents through the partnership already, including one related to AI threat protection.

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Mistral AI:
Mistral releases a study on the environmental impact of its LLMs, conducting what it claims is the first comprehensive lifecycle analysis of an AI modelÿ -ÿ At Mistral AI, our mission is to bring artificial intelligence in everyone's hands.ÿ For this purpose, we have consistently advocated ...

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Qwen:
Alibaba debuts the Qwen3-Coder model for agentic coding, including a 480B-parameter MoE variant, and open sources Qwen Code, a CLI tool adapted from Gemini CLIÿ -ÿ Today, we're announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date.ÿ Qwen3-Coder is available in multiple sizes ...

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Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft launches the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 5G for business customers, featuring Intel Core Ultra series 2 processors, shipping on August 26 for $1,799+ÿ -ÿ The Surface Laptop 7 with 5G is now available to order, but only for business customers and with an Intel Core Ultra chip.

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Naureen S Malik / Bloomberg:
Businesses and households served by PJM, the US' largest power grid operator, will pay a record $16.1B for electricity supplies amid an AI-driven demand surgeÿ -ÿ Businesses and households served by the largest US power grid will spend a record $16.1 billion to ensure electricity supplies ...

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Anthropic:
Researchers detail "subliminal learning", where LLMs learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traitsÿ -ÿ James Chua2, Jan Betley2, Anna Sztyber-Betley3, Jacob Hilton4,ÿ -ÿ *Equal contribution; author order chosen randomly

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Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Source: the US National Nuclear Security Administration was among those breached by a hack of SharePoint; no sensitive information is known to be compromisedÿ -ÿ The US agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation's cache of nuclear weapons was among those breached by a hack ...

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MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
PitchBook: in H1, AI startups raised $104.3B in the US, or about 66% of all US VC funding, up from 49% last year; there were 281 VC-backed exits totaling $36Bÿ -ÿ OpenAI and Anthropic continue to lead a fundraising bonanza in artificial intelligence, raising historic rounds and stratospheric valuations.

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the Trump admin is pressuring South Korea, Brazil, the EU, and others to drop plans for new taxes on US tech firms as a part of broader trade talksÿ -ÿ Companies position their interests as 'America First' to win over the presidentÿ -ÿ WASHINGTON-The Trump administration is using ...

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Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
xLight, which is developing a new class of laser for EUV machines in partnership with ASML, raised a $40M Series B led by Playground Globalÿ -ÿ Silicon Valley startup xLight has raised $40 million, aiming to build the first prototype of a new class of laser that could shake up the global chip industry ...

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Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
BetterComp, which provides compensation management services for HR teams, raised a $33M Series A led by Ten Coves Capitalÿ -ÿ Compensation management startup BetterComp Inc. revealed today that it has raised $33 million in new funding to enhance its market pricing and pay recommendation capabilities ...

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Anthropic:
Researchers detail "subliminal learning", where LLMs learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traitsÿ -ÿ We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits.

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Financial Times:
Sources: McKinsey has stopped its China business from undertaking consultancy work related to generative AI, a move prompted by Washington's growing scrutinyÿ -ÿ Consulting firm's move follows scrutiny from Washington over US companies' involvement in sensitive Chinese sectors

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Clare Duffy / CNN:
In an interview at the Federal Reserve, Sam Altman warns of an impending "fraud crisis" because of how AI could enable bad actors to impersonate other peopleÿ -ÿ New York CNN -ÿ -ÿ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" ...

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Ryan Lawler / Axios:
Xelix, which uses AI to automate businesses' accounts payable workflows by connecting with ERP systems, raised a $160M Series B led by Insight Partnersÿ -ÿ Xelix, a software company specializing in accounts payable controls, has raised $160 million in Series B funding led by Insight Partners.

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Financial Times:
Analysis: in H1 2025, 500+ orgs lobbied the White House and Congress on AI, on par with H1 2024 but up ~2x since 2023; OpenAI spent $1.8M, up from $380K in 2023ÿ -ÿ Hundreds of organisations are seeking to influence Congress and Donald Trump's White Houseÿ -ÿ Alex Rogers and Ian Hodgson ...

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
PayPal announces PayPal World, an upcoming platform designed to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pagoÿ -ÿ PayPal announced Wednesday it has partnered with global wallet companies to create a platform called PayPal World that is designed to make cross-border commerce easier.

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Financial Times:
AWS shuts down its Shanghai AI research lab, following similar moves by other US tech groups, including Microsoft and IBM, to scale back China-based R&D effortsÿ -ÿ US ecommerce group follows IBM and Microsoft in China pullback amid geopolitical tensions

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OpenAI:
OpenAI details how its tools have boosted US worker productivity and says its chief economist is leading a 12-month study to assess AI's impact on productivityÿ -ÿ Analysis provides insights into ChatGPT's impact on the economy.ÿ OpenAI also launches new research collaboration ...

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Anthropic:
Anthropic and other researchers detail "subliminal learning", where LLMs learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traitsÿ -ÿ We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits.

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MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
PitchBook: in H1, AI startups raised $104.3B in the US, or ~66% of all US VC funding, up from 49% last year, and there were 281 VC-backed exits totaling $36Bÿ -ÿ OpenAI and Anthropic continue to lead a fundraising bonanza in artificial intelligence, raising historic rounds and stratospheric valuations.

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Financial Times:
AWS shuts down its Shanghai AI research lab, following similar moves by Microsoft, IBM, and other US tech companies, to scale back China-based R&D effortsÿ -ÿ US ecommerce group follows IBM and Microsoft in China pullback amid geopolitical tensionsÿ -ÿ Ecommerce group Amazon is shutting ...

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Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Researchers say North Korean scammers infiltrating the US workforce often reference Minions and other Despicable Me characters in GitHub and Telegram profilesÿ -ÿ References to the agents of evil and other 'Despicable Me' characters are telltale signs of swindlers infiltrating U.S. companies

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
PayPal unveils PayPal World, a platform set to launch in fall 2025 to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pagoÿ -ÿ PayPal announced Wednesday it has partnered with global wallet companies to create a platform called PayPal World that is designed to make cross-border commerce easier.

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Bloomberg:
Dell says COO Jeff Clarke will now oversee its Client Solutions Group, which includes desktop and notebook PCs; Dell's consumer PC revenue fell 19% in Q1ÿ -ÿ Dell Technologies Inc. has reorganized some of its leadership, putting Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke directly in charge ...

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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases its new Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 model on Hugging Face, improving on Qwen 3's reasoning, accuracy, and multilingual understandingÿ -ÿ Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made waves globally in the tech and business communities with its own family of "Qwen" ...

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Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg:
VenHub, which uses robotics and AI to run fully automated retail stores, confidentially files for a US direct listing, after a $715M SPAC merger failed in Mayÿ -ÿ VenHub Global Inc. plans to undertake a direct listing on a US exchange after the developer of fully automated retail stores abandoned ...

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Muvija M / Reuters:
The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google "strategic market status" in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds "opportunities for more innovation"ÿ -ÿ Britain's competition regulator said it plans to designate Apple (AAPL.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) ...

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Proton launches Lumo, an AI chatbot to summarize documents, generate code, and more and says it will protect users' information via "zero-access" encryptionÿ -ÿ Proton says it protects Lumo's chats with 'zero-access' encryption while storing them on users' devices.

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Zach Vallese / CNBC:
Meta introduces new safety features for teens, including enhanced DM protections, and removed 600K+ Instagram and Facebook accounts linked to predatory behaviorÿ -ÿ Meta on Wednesday introduced new safety features for teen users, including enhanced direct messaging protections to prevent "exploitative content."

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Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Apple launches AppleCare One, an insurance plan covering up to three devices for $20 per month, including battery replacements, accidental damage, and moreÿ -ÿ Apple Inc. is launching a new product-insurance plan that bundles coverage for as many as three devices, part of a broader effort to drum up subscription revenue.

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Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:
Compliance tech startup Vanta raised a $150M Series D led by Wellington Management at a $4.15B valuation, up from $2.45B after raising $150M in July 2024ÿ -ÿ Compliance tech startup Vanta Inc. reached a valuation of $4.15 billion in a new $150 million funding round - adding billions to its value ...

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Financial Times:
The UK partners with Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats to curb illegal food delivery work, share more data, and combat a secondary market in rider accountsÿ -ÿ Increased data sharing between government and companies follows concerns checks are being flouted

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Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
Eye Security: hackers have breached ~400 government agencies, corporations, and other groups via the SharePoint flaw, up from an estimated 60 on July 22ÿ -ÿ The number of companies and organizations compromised by a security vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s SharePoint servers is increasing rapidly ...

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Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Sonos names interim CEO Tom Conrad as CEO, effective immediately, as it works to restore confidence after its app disaster; Conrad took the job in January 2025ÿ -ÿ Sonos Inc. named interim leader Tom Conrad as its next chief executive officer, expressing confidence in the turnaround effort he's pursuing at the embattled audio brand.

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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber plans to launch a pilot ride type to match female riders and drivers in LA, San Francisco, and Detroit over the next few weeks, called "Women Drivers"ÿ -ÿ Uber Technologies Inc. is piloting a new ride type in the US that will match female riders and drivers ...

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Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Ukraine arrests the suspected administrator of Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is at the Paris public prosecutor's request, with help from France and Europolÿ -ÿ The suspected administrator of the Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is was arrested by the Ukrainian authorities yesterday ...

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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
A hacker claims to have compromised Amazon's Q coding assistant for VS Code via a GitHub pull request; Amazon says "no customer resources were impacted"ÿ -ÿ The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon's AI "security theater" ...

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Jonathan Greig / The Record:
A US federal jury gives five Nevada men varying prison sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming servicesÿ -ÿ A federal jury slapped five men from Nevada with varying sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services ...

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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
A hacker claims to have compromised Amazon's Q coding assistant for VS Code via a GitHub pull request; Amazon says "no customer resources were impacted"ÿ -ÿ A hacker compromised a version of Amazon's popular AI coding assistant 'Q', added commands that told the software to wipe users' computers ...

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Bloomberg:
The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to assert US dominance over China, including proposals to ease permitting for AI infrastructure projectsÿ -ÿ The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply ...

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Kate Knibbs / Wired:
President Trump's AI Action Plan, which has 90+ policy recommendations, explicitly seeks to roll back Biden-era measures on AI bias and cybersecurity threatsÿ -ÿ The Trump administration's new AI policy blueprint calls for limited regulation and lots of leeway for Big Tech to grow even bigger.

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Cade Metz / New York Times:
Meta debuts a prototype wristband to read electrical signals from forearm muscles, letting users control devices without touch, trained on 10K peoples' EMG dataÿ -ÿ When you write your name in the air, you can see the letters appear on your smartphone.ÿ -ÿ The prototype looks like a giant rectangular wristwatch.

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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube gives Shorts creators access to new generative AI features powered by Veo 2, including an image-to-video tool and new effectsÿ -ÿ YouTube announced on Wednesday that it's giving Shorts creators access to new generative AI features, including an image-to-video AI tool and new AI effects.

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Google DeepMind:
Google DeepMind unveils Aeneas, an AI model for contextualizing ancient Latin inscriptions, to help historians interpret and restore fragmentary textsÿ -ÿ Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts.

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Hugh Son / CNBC:
Goldman Sachs and BNY partner to let institutional investors purchase tokenized money market funds, with ownership recorded on Goldman's blockchain platformÿ -ÿ Goldman Sachs and Bank of New York Mellon are set to announce that they've created the ability for institutional investors ...

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Bloomberg:
The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to have tech dominance over China, including proposals to revamp permitting for AI infrastructure projectsÿ -ÿ The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations ...

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Financial Times:
The Trump administration plans to vet AI models for "ideological bias" and limit government contracts to tech companies whose models offer "objective truth"ÿ -ÿ Federal government will only do business with tech companies whose models offer 'objective truth'

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Alphabet:
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $96.43B, net income up 19% to $28.2B, operating income up 14% to $31.27B, and Services revenue up 12% to $82.5Bÿ -ÿ MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2025 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.

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Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue rose 13% YoY to $9.8B, vs. $9.56B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $71.3B, up from $64.6B a year agoÿ -ÿ Key Points:ÿ - YouTube ad revenue rose to $9.8 billion in Q2 2025, up 13% compared to Q2 2024.ÿ - Alphabet's total revenue climbed 14% to $96.4 billion.

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Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
IBM reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $16.98B, vs. $16.59B est., and software revenue up 10% to $7.39B, vs. $7.49B est.; IBM drops 5%+ after hoursÿ -ÿ International Business Machines Corp. reported weaker-than-expected sales in its closely watched software segment, disappointing investors ...

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Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Trump's AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against 'Bias'-and Regulationÿ -ÿ The Trump administration's new AI policy blueprint calls for limited regulation and lots of leeway for Big Tech to grow even bigger.ÿ -ÿ On Wednesday, the Trump Administration unveiled its new artificial intelligence action plan geared ...

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Google DeepMind:
Google DeepMind unveils Aeneas, an AI model for contextualizing ancient Latin inscriptions, to help historians interpret, attribute, and restore text fragmentsÿ -ÿ Introducing the first model for contextualizing ancient inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts.

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Alphabet:
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $96.43B, net income up 19% to $28.2B, operating income up 14% to $31.27B, and Services revenue up 12% to $82.5Bÿ -ÿ MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2025 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.

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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Alphabet reports Google Cloud Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $13.62B, vs. $13.11B est., and raises its 2025 capex forecast to $85B, up from $75B in Februaryÿ -ÿ Alphabet reported second-quarter results on Wednesday that beat on revenue and earnings expectations, but the company said it would raise ...

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Bloomberg:
The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to have tech dominance over China, including proposals to revamp permitting for AI infrastructure projectsÿ -ÿ President Donald Trump signed executive orders to put in motion a new White House plan to boost artificial intelligence development ...

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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube gives Shorts creators access to new generative AI features powered by Veo 2, such as new AI effects and a tool that turns photos into six-second videosÿ -ÿ YouTube announced on Wednesday that it's giving Shorts creators access to new generative AI features, including an image-to-video AI tool and new AI effects.

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Wall Street Journal:
Walmart hires Instacart CPO Daniel Danker as head of global AI acceleration, product, and design, starting next month and reporting to CEO Doug McMillonÿ -ÿ Daniel Danker will become Walmart's head of global AI acceleration, product and designÿ -ÿ Walmart is reworking its artificial-intelligence efforts ...

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Reuters:
The new AI Action Plan, which includes some 90 recommendations, aims to loosen environmental rules and vastly expand AI software and hardware exports to alliesÿ -ÿ The Trump administration released a new artificial intelligence blueprint on Wednesday that aims to loosen environmental rules ...

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Alphabet:
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to $96.43B, vs. $94B est., net income up 19% to $28.2B, operating income up 14% to $31.27B, and Services revenue up 12%ÿ -ÿ MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2025 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.

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Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
IBM reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $16.98B, vs. $16.59B est., and software revenue up 10% YoY to $7.39B, vs. $7.49B est.; IBM drops 5%+ after hoursÿ -ÿ International Business Machines Corp. reported weaker-than-expected sales in its closely watched software segment, disappointing investors ...

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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Alphabet reports Google Cloud Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $13.62B, vs. $13.11B est., and raises its 2025 capex forecast to $85B, after in February projecting $75Bÿ -ÿ Alphabet reported second-quarter results on Wednesday that beat on revenue and earnings expectations, but the company ...

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google adds new features to Google Photos, including a Veo 2-powered photo-to-video tool and a Remix tool that applies styles like anime and sketches to photosÿ -ÿ Photo-to-video lets you take an existing still image in your library and transform it into a "dynamic" six-second clip ...

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IGN:
Circana: Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest-selling video game device in US history, with 1.6M units sold in June, topping the PS4's 1.1M units in November 2013ÿ -ÿ 1.6 million units were sold during its launch month in the U.S., and 82% of buyers also got Mario Kart World.

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Dylan Butts / CNBC:
SK Hynix reports Q2 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$16.2B vs. ~$14.9B est., operating profit up 68% to ~$6.7B vs. ~$6.5B est., and expects sustained HBM demand in 2025ÿ -ÿ South Korea's SK Hynix on Thursday posted record operating profit and revenue in the second quarter on sustained demand ...

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sundar Pichai says the Gemini app has 450M+ MAUs, with daily requests up 50%+ from Q1, AI Overviews has 2B+ MAUs, and AI Mode has 100M+ MAUs in the US and Indiaÿ -ÿ Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared an update on the adoption of consumer-facing AI apps and features, including Google Search's AI Overviews, Gemini, and AI Mode.

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Deadline:
At an All-In Podcast summit, President Trump said forcing AI firms to pay for each copyrighted work is "not doable", calling for "common sense" AI and IP rulesÿ -ÿ Donald Trump said that AI companies can't be expected to pay for the use of copyrighted content in their systems ...

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Emma Roth / The Verge:
T-Mobile's Starlink-powered satellite service T-Satellite is now generally available as a standalone subscription for US users, not just T-Mobile customersÿ -ÿ The service only supports texts and location sharing over satellite for now, but more features are on the way.

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Samantha Subin / CNBC:
ServiceNow reports Q2 revenue up 22.5% YoY to $3.22B, vs. $3.12B est., and net income up 47% YoY to $385M, fueled by AI growth; NOW jumps 7%+ after hoursÿ -ÿ ServiceNow posted strong second-quarter results and lifted its guidance Wednesday.ÿ Shares climbed 7% following the report.

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Dominic Preston / The Verge:
The Wireless Power Consortium launches faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with "major Android smartphones" finally adopting the standard alongside the iPhoneÿ -ÿ But will Android support go further than the magnet-free Qi2 Ready? ... The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) ...

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Sarah Owermohle / CNN:
Sources: the US FDA's AI tool Elsa has fabricated nonexistent studies, misrepresented research, and cannot access relevant documents to assist with review workÿ -ÿ White Oak, Md. CNN -ÿ To hear health officials in the Trump administration talk, artificial intelligence has arrived ...

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Bloomberg:
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the USDT issuer is making plans to do business in the US after the passage of Genius Act, with a focus on institutional marketsÿ -ÿ The passage of landmark US crypto legislation signed into law last week by President Donald Trump is prompting the world's largest issuer ...

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Ling Xin / South China Morning Post:
China's Qianfan, the third largest satellite broadband constellation with 90 operational satellites, remains far short of its goal of 648 by the end of 2025ÿ -ÿ A Chinese mega-constellation of communications satellites is facing serious delays that could jeopardise its ambitions to compete ...

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Adani Group has shelved plans for a consumer super app amid losses and internal turmoil, as Reliance and Tata also struggle to scale their platformsÿ -ÿ The Adani Group has shelved its plans to build a consumer-facing super app after incurring significant losses and internal turmoil ...

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Ryan Browne / CNBC:
London-based stock trading app Lightyear, which operates in 25 European countries, raised $23M led by NordicNinja, sources say at a $200M-$300M valuationÿ -ÿ Some of the biggest names of Estonia's tech scene are backing Lightyear, a startup looking to become Europe's answer to commission-free trading pioneer Robinhood.

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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
CISPE files a legal complaint in the EU, arguing that the bloc's approval of Broadcom's VMware buyout failed to impose conditions to prevent market power abuseÿ -ÿ Broadcom Inc.'s $61 billion acquisition of VMware Inc. faces scrutiny from European Union judges, after a cloud computing group contested ...

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Nathan Vifflin / Reuters:
STMicro reports Q2 revenue down 14.4% YoY to $2.77B, with an operating loss of $133M, vs. $56.2M profit est., including $190M in impairment and other costsÿ -ÿ STMicroelectronics (STMPA.PA) reported a second-quarter loss on Thursday, a performance that was worse than market expectations and hit by restructuring costs.

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Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia:
Gamma Data: China's female-oriented gaming market surged 124% YoY to $1B in 2024, driven by mobile game Love and Deepspace, which earned $400M, per Sensor Towerÿ -ÿ SHANGHAI - A Chinese mobile game featuring a female hunter character who balances protecting the world from invaders ...

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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregatorsÿ -ÿ Google's AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

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Samantha Subin / CNBC:
ServiceNow reports Q2 revenue up 22.5% YoY to $3.22B, vs. $3.12B est., and net income up 47% YoY to $385M, fueled by AI growth; NOW jumps 7%+ÿ -ÿ ServiceNow posted strong second-quarter results and lifted its guidance Wednesday.ÿ Shares climbed 7% following the report.

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Ryan Browne / CNBC:
London-based stock trading app Lightyear, which operates in 25 countries, raised a $23M Series B led by NordicNinja, sources say at a $200M to $300M valuationÿ -ÿ Some of the biggest names of Estonia's tech scene are backing Lightyear, a startup looking to become Europe's answer to commission-free trading pioneer Robinhood.

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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The CISPE files a legal complaint in the EU, arguing that it approving Broadcom's $61B VMware buyout failed to impose conditions to prevent market power abuseÿ -ÿ Broadcom Inc.'s $61 billion acquisition of VMware Inc. faces scrutiny from European Union judges, after a cloud computing group contested ...

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Kate Krader / Bloomberg:
YouTube has become a valuable resource for professional chefs and, in recent years, has helped skilled amateurs build culinary reputations and open restaurantsÿ -ÿ In kitchens around the world, chefs are turning to YouTube to learn new skills and establish their culinary reputations.

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Iain Martin / Forbes:
A profile of Swedish AI coding startup Lovable, which became the fastest-growing software startup ever, reaching $100M+ in annualized revenue in eight monthsÿ -ÿ ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE |ÿ For decades coders have rushed to ship the minimum viable product.ÿ Lovable CEO Anton Osika (right) ...

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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregatorsÿ -ÿ Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found ...

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Raphael Satter / Reuters:
Microsoft says the "Storm-2603" group is now deploying ransomware via vulnerable SharePoint server versions, as the estimated number of victims hits 400+ÿ -ÿ A cyber-espionage campaign centered on vulnerable versions of Microsoft's (MSFT.O) server software now involves the deployment ...

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Annmarie Hordern / Bloomberg:
At an AI summit, President Trump says he considered breaking up Nvidia before aides told him that doing so was "very hard" and "I learned the facts here"ÿ -ÿ President Donald Trump said he considered attempting to break up Nvidia Corp. to increase competition ...

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Bethan Staton / Financial Times:
Pinterest is increasingly filled with AI interior design images, often featuring unrealistic or impossible details, complicating users' search for inspirationÿ -ÿ In a world on high alert for fake news, AI-designed interiors seem small fry.ÿ But they are fuelling the fire of everyday paranoia

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Bloomberg:
AMD CEO Lisa Su says she expects TSMC's Arizona-made chips to cost "more than 5% but less than 20%" above TSMC's Taiwan-made chips, and to arrive by 2025's endÿ -ÿ Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su said that the chips her company gets ...

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Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
The Laude Institute, a nonprofit that runs the K Prize multi-round AI coding challenge, says a Brazilian prompt engineer won with just 7.5% of the right answersÿ -ÿ A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner - and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.

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Financial Times:
Interviews with 12+ Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox executives and others show the challenges facing US robotaxis; Waymo operates 250K+ rides per week in five US citiesÿ -ÿ The concept has been proved, but scaling up services beyond a handful of cities will require tens of billions in new investment

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steamÿ -ÿ The gaming marketplace is bowing to pressure from payment providers, much like Valve and Tumblr before it.

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Reuters:
Sources and a document: China aims to build a national network to sell surplus computing power and address an oversupply caused by a three-year data center boomÿ -ÿ China is taking steps to build a network to sell computing power and curb the unwieldy growth of data centres after thousands ...

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