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Nvidia plans to resume H20 sales to China after the US assured it AI chip shipments would be approved, reversing the Trump administration's stance from April — US government officials told Nvidia they would green-light export licenses for its H20 artificial intelligence accelerator …
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| Financial Times: |
The US Commerce Department opens national security probes into imports of unmanned aircraft systems and polysilicon supply chains, used in chip manufacturing — Investigations could lead to tariffs on unmanned aircraft systems and polysilicon — The US commerce department has launched …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Researcher: a DOGE employee inadvertently published a private API key for xAI on GitHub on July 13, exposing access to 52+ LLMs, like a Grok version from July 9 — Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access … | ProPublica: |
Investigation: Microsoft uses engineers in China to help maintain US DOD systems, with minimal supervision by US personnel, leaving sensitive data vulnerable — The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China …
More: Business Insider and WinBuzzer
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| Carlos Caminada / Bloomberg: |
Apple signs a $500M deal to buy rare-earth minerals from US producer MP, which secured Pentagon backing last week, as it seeks to reduce its dependence on China — Apple Inc. has struck a $500 million deal to buy rare-earth minerals from MP Materials Corp., the US producer that just last week secured backing from the Pentagon.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Services, designed to help analysts conduct market research and handle due diligence, with data from FactSet and others — Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is launching a package of new software services aimed at streamlining work for financial analysts …
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| Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
Google signs two 20-year power purchase agreements worth $3B to access hydroelectric power from Brookfield's renewables arm, delivering up to 670MW of power — Tech groups seeking renewable energy to meet huge demand from artificial intelligence — Google has reached a $3bn deal … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
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Sources: the US DOJ and CFTC ended a pair of investigations into crypto betting platform Polymarket that started in the waning days of the Biden administration — A pair of US investigations into crypto-betting platform Polymarket that went full-throttle in the waning days of the Biden administration …
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple seems to be working on adding CUDA support to open-source ML framework MLX, which may mean that code developed using MLX would work with CUDA — Nvidia's hardware is often used to process machine learning applications — A project is trying to cut the cost of making machine learning applications … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Reddit says it is now verifying UK users' ages using Persona before letting them “view certain mature content”, to comply with the country's Online Safety Act — Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them “view certain mature content” …
More: Engadget, TechCrunch, Biometric Update, Notebookcheck, Mashable, TechIssuesToday.com, Mediaweek, and BBC
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| New York Times: |
Researchers: during and after the 12-day Iran-Israel war, both sides engaged in psychological warfare that used AI content and social media to spread propaganda — The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model family, and says its API transcription offerings are cheaper than models from OpenAI and Google — As AI systems become more capable, speech is fast becoming the default way we communicate with machines.
Bluesky: @thedesk.net
| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: |
Grok's iOS app now features two AI “Companions”, or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode — Grok has just introduced a notable addition to its iOS app: AI Companions, which are fully 3D animated characters that can interact with users via voice.
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| Riley Goodside / @goodside: |
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber and Baidu announce a multi-year partnership to launch robotaxis in markets outside the US and mainland China, starting in Asia and the Middle East in 2025 — Baidu's autonomous vehicles will be available on the Uber app in Asia and the Middle East later this year, the companies said in a statement Tuesday.| Reuters: |
PitchBook: US startup funding surged 75.6% YoY in H1 2025 to $162.8B, the strongest since H1 2021, driven by AI and on track for the second-best year ever — U.S. startup funding surged 75.6% in the first half of 2025, thanks to the continued AI boom, putting it on track for its second-best year ever …
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