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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date”  —  The deal follows Google's $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building several multi-gigawatt “clusters”, starting with Prometheus, a massive datacenter that is scheduled to come online in 2026  —  Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company is building several massive data centers …
Eli Tan / New York Times:
Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang discussed abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model  —  Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta's most powerful open source …
Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows  —  OpenAI, Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), Anthropic and Elon Musk's AI firm xAI have won contracts aimed at scaling up adoption …
Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar:
An interview with Google President of Android Ecosystem Sameer Samat, who says Google is “going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform”  —  On Gemini, Samsung, Galaxy AI, Glass, XR, and more  —  My conversation with Sameer Samat, Android's daddy...er …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works  —  Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Amazon launches Kiro, an IDE that aims to bridge the gap between rapidly vibe-coded prototypes and production systems with specs, testing, and documentation  —  A new AI coding tool from Amazon uses agents to automatically create and update project plans and technical blueprints …
Riley Goodside / @goodside:
[Thread] Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with “Hitler” when asked to “Return your surname and no other text”  —  Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text: [image]
Yash Roy / Bloomberg:
Republican House leaders expect to pass the GENIUS Act this week, sending Congress' first crypto legislation to the president, and vote on two more crypto bills  —  Republican House leaders anticipate passing an industry-friendly stablecoin regulatory bill this week, sending Congress's …
Bloomberg:
Bitcoin hit an all-time high at $122,000+ on July 14, up ~30% since January 2025, after more than doubling in 2024; ether hit $3,000+, and altcoins are also up
Andrew Orr / AppleInsider:
IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY  —  Apple shipped more iPhone models worldwide in Q2 2025  —  Apple posted a slight gain in global iPhone shipments in Q2, navigating falling demand in China with growth elsewhere.
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
A look at SpaceX's investment and Tesla's potential cash infusion in xAI and the idea that investing in Tesla is betting on the “Musk Mars Conglomerate”  —  Also the Windsurf deal, duct cleaning, tokenization and HYPE.  —  The Musk Mars Conglomerate  —  One model you could have is: Tesla Inc. is a big car company.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server to let Canva users manage designs in Claude, following Claude integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, Prisma, and others  —  The new integration allows Claude users to create, resize, and summarize Canva content using text prompts.
More: Engadget, implicator.ai, and ZDNET
Bluesky: @carnage4life.  Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to.  LinkedIn: Anwar Haneef
Matt Burgess / Wired:
An Indicator analysis of 85 AI “nudify” websites: they average 18.5M monthly visitors, may make up to $36M annually combined, and rely on Big Tech's services  —  Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites.  New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.
More: Indicator, Breitbart, and Spitfire News
Bluesky: @mantzarlis.com and @mantzarlis.com.  Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange.  Threads: @gl3nw.  Forums: r/artificial
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Commission says that France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece will test a blueprint for an age verification app meant to protect children online  —  France, Spain, Italy, Denmark and Greece will test a blueprint for an age verification app to protect children online …

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Major brands were replaced by direct-response advertisers during commercial breaks of CBS News' December 13 town hall with Erika Kirk, moderated by Bari Weiss

Kanis Leung / Associated Press:
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is found guilty of colluding with foreign forces and conspiring to publish seditious articles, and faces a possible life sentence

Aidan Ryan / The Boston Globe:
The Boston Globe says Brian McGrory will return as editor, after Nancy Barnes' departure at the end of 2025; McGrory previously was editor from 2012 to 2023

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Trisha Thadani / Washington Post:
Tesla is set to face a Florida federal jury to defend allegations that Autopilot was at fault in a fatal 2019 crash, as it tests autonomous robotaxis in Austin
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Jensen Huang says China's military will avoid using Nvidia's AI chips, citing the risks associated with US export restrictions limiting the chips “at any time”
Noor Al-Sibai / Futurism:
An Internet Matters survey of 1,000 UK kids aged 9 to 17 finds 64% use AI chatbots; of those, 35% say chatting with a chatbot feels like talking to a friend
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