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Nikkei Asia:
Investigation: preprint research papers on arXiv from 14 academic institutions in eight countries had hidden prompts telling AI tools to give positive reviews  —  Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review  —  TOKYO — Research papers …
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
How Clorox is using generative AI for ad creation, brainstorming new products, and analyzing consumer reviews, as part of a five-year, $580M digital overhaul  —  Clorox employees' experiments with generative AI delivered new R&D ideas, better customer insights—and some misfires like ‘bleachless bleach’
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Source: an ongoing outage at IT giant Ingram Micro is caused by a ransomware attack from SafePay, which has become one of the more active operations of 2025  —  An ongoing outage at IT giant Ingram Micro is caused by a SafePay ransomware attack that led to the shutdown of internal systems, BleepingComputer has learned.
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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
The term “superintelligence” is becoming increasingly popular among AI leaders, even as many in the industry question whether it is ill-defined and overhyped  —  A new AI buzzword is picking up speed in Silicon Valley.  —  But first....  AGI inflation
France 24:
The Colombian navy says it has seized an unmanned narco-submarine that was equipped with a Starlink terminal, enabling the sub to be controlled remotely  —  The Colombian navy on Wednesday seized its first unmanned narco-submarine, equipped with a Starlink antenna, off the Caribbean coast.
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Over the past year, long-time Bitcoin whales have been selling off their holdings, leading to a reshaping of the market as institutions increase their buying  —  A silent transfer of control is reshaping the $2.1 trillion Bitcoin market.  —  A steady stream of sales by long-time whales …
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Two dormant Bitcoin wallets, each holding 10,000 “Satoshi era” BTC since 2011, transferred the coins to new wallets using a modern, lower-fee address format
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Cluely says its ARR hit $7M after signing a public company; a startup called Pickle says it built Glass, an open source, free product similar to Cluely  —  Cluely's revenue has skyrocketed to about $7 million in ARR since it launched its new enterprise product a week ago, founder Roy Lee told TechCrunch.
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Semafor:
An interview with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost on settling the proxy fight with Starboard Value, serving the “design and make” workforce, US reshoring, and more  —  This article first appeared in The CEO Signal.  Request an invitation.  —  THE SIGNAL INTERVIEW
Shadma Shaikh / MIT Technology Review:
A look at India's push to compete in the global AI race, as the country's vast linguistic diversity poses a core challenge to building foundational AI models  —  In Bengaluru, India, Adithya Kolavi felt a mix of excitement and validation as he watched DeepSeek unleash its disruptive language model on the world earlier this year.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
A look at the annual Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, Ethereum's flagship European event, held in Cannes this year to showcase the network's growth  —  CANNES — Wall Street's new plumbing is being built on Ethereum and this week its architects took over the same French Riviera villas …
Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph:
House GOP leaders announce a regulatory Crypto Week from July 14 to July 18 to consider three key crypto bills, including the Senate-led GENIUS Act  —  US Republican leaders say the House will look to pass bills on stablecoins, crypto market structure and CBDCs in mid-July in what they've dubbed “Crypto Week.”

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Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Five more states join the lawsuit filed last month by eight states seeking to block Nexstar's Tegna acquisition, which Nexstar said the DOJ and FCC approved

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A group of TV consumers sue in federal court in California to block Paramount's acquisition of WBD on antitrust grounds; Paramount says the suit lacks merit

Reporters Without Borders:
RSF Press Freedom Index hits a 25-year low: over 50% of the world's countries fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories; Norway holds the top spot

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Ben Geman / Axios:
Emerald AI, whose software lets AI data centers flexibly adjust power consumption, raised a $24.5M seed led by Radical Ventures, with NVentures participating

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KBKG:
President Trump signs the One Big Beautiful Bill, which allows immediate deduction of US software labor; foreign R&D still must be amortized over 15 years
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