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Anthropic:
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4, which excels at coding, and Claude Sonnet 4, both hybrid models with near-instant responses and extended thinking  —  Today, we're introducing the next generation of Claude models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents.
Anthropic:
Anthropic releases new API features for building agents: a code execution tool, MCP connector, Files API, and extended prompt caching, all in public beta  —  Today, we're announcing four new capabilities on the Anthropic API that enable developers to build more powerful AI agents …
Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review:
Anthropic says Opus 4 marks a significant advancement in AI agents and that Rakuten deployed it to code autonomously for seven hours on a complicated project
Kylie Robison / Wired:
Interviews with Anthropic executives about Claude Opus 4, which they say was able to play Pokémon agentically for 24 hours, up from 45 minutes previously
The Mozilla Blog:
Mozilla plans to shut down Pocket, the read-it-later service it acquired in 2017, on July 8, and Fakespot, which helps identify unreliable reviews, on July 1  —  Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire and our independence shapes everything we build.
Tech Policy Press:
The US House passes the One Big Beautiful Bill, a budget bill that would ban states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years; the bill now heads to the Senate  —  The United States House of Representatives early Thursday narrowly passed a budget bill that, if enacted, would ban states …
Billy Perrigo / Time:
Anthropic releases Opus 4 under stricter safety measures than any prior model after tests showed it could potentially aid novices in making biological weapons  —  Today's newest AI models might be capable of helping would-be terrorists create bioweapons or engineer a pandemic …
Sam Bowman / @sleepinyourhat:
Anthropic says Opus 4 will use an email tool to “whistleblow” if it detects users doing something “egregiously evil”, like marketing a drug based on faked data
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple aims to release smart glasses at the end of 2026 as part of a push into AI devices, but has shelved plans for an Apple Watch with a camera  —  Apple Inc. is aiming to release smart glasses at the end of next year as part of a push into AI-enhanced gadgets …
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Leaked recording: Sam Altman told his staff that OpenAI aims to ship 100M AI “companion” devices meant for everyday life, and to release the first by late 2026  —  Idea is a 'chance to do the biggest thing we've ever done as a company here,' Altman told OpenAI employees Wednesday
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Kuo: Ive and Altman's device could be larger than Humane's AI pin, may connect to smartphones and PCs to use their computing and display capabilities, and more  —  Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is mostly known for Apple rumors, and now says users might be able to wear OpenAI's future device around their neck.
Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI partners with G42 and others to build a 1-gigawatt AI data center in Abu Dhabi called Stargate UAE, its first large-scale project outside the US  —  Stargate UAE project is part of a push by the Gulf petrostate to become a big player in artificial intelligence
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
The US DOJ charges 16 individuals allegedly linked to a Russia-based malware operation known as DanaBot that infected 300,000+ machines globally  —  A new US indictment against a group of Russian nationals offers a clear example of how, authorities say, a single malware operation can enable both criminal and state-sponsored hacking.
Wired:
A security researcher finds an exposed Elastic database with 184M records, including login credentials for Apple, Meta, Google, and others; its owner is unknown  —  A trove of breached data, which has now been taken down, includes user logins for platforms including Apple, Google, and Meta.
Josh Sisco / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US DOJ recently told Google it is examining whether Google structured an agreement with Character.AI to avoid formal government merger scrutiny  —  Antitrust enforcers have recently told Google they're examining whether it structured an agreement with the company known as Character.AI …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says it is reducing “politically focused emails” internally and externally; workers cannot send emails mentioning “Palestine”, “Gaza”, or “genocide”  —  Employees discovered that emails with a variety of terms related to Gaza and Palestine have been blocked internally.
Bloomberg:
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun unveils the Xring O1, a Xiaomi-made 3nm chip that will power three devices, including the Tablet 7 Ultra, in a bid to compete with Apple  —  The 5-meter long vehicle's top model can go 760 kilometers on a single charge and hit 100 km/h in 3.23 seconds …
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Docs: ODNI is developing a centralized portal to streamline the purchase of commercially available information, like location data, by US intelligence agencies  —  The ever-growing market for personal data has been a boon for American spy agencies.  The U.S. intelligence community is now buying …
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Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Two new books on OpenAI and the AI industry bust Sam Altman's myths around OpenAI, and highlight the pursuit of power behind the do-gooder rhetoric  —  Two timely and myth-busting books show that the AI boom is driven by the pursuit of power, wealth and hubris
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reasoning, DeepThink, AGI, and more  —  Google co-founder Brin says “anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retired right now.  They should be working on AI."

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