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July 15, 2025, 4:50 PM
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Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
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 …
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
AMD says it will restart shipments of its MI308 AI chips to China after the US Commerce Department gave assurances it would approve the sales, following Nvidia
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 …
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.
Aditya Soni / Reuters:
Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati's AI startup that launched only in February, raised $2B led by a16z; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, and AMD also invested  —  Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, said on Tuesday that it has raised $2 billion in funding.
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 …
Bloomberg:
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 …
Amy Feldman / Forbes:
Miami-based OpenEvidence, whose free AI search tool has signed up 40% of doctors in the US, raised $210M led by GV at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1B in February  —  Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research.  Now, he's raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.
Martha Muir / Financial Times:
Google signs two 20-year power purchase agreements worth $3B to access hydroelectric power from Brookfield's renewables arm, starting with 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:
CoreWeave says it plans to invest up to $6B to set up a 100MW data center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, creating 175 jobs and potentially expanding to 300MW later
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Users have uploaded 5,000 AI models, previously banned from Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to Hugging Face  —  Users have reuploaded 5,000 models used to generate nonconsensual sexual content of real people to Hugging Face after they were banned from Civitai.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Researcher: on July 13, a DOGE employee posted on GitHub a private API key meant for internal xAI use, letting anyone have direct access to dozens of xAI's LLMs  —  Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access …
Jessica E. Lessin / The Information:
Mark Zuckerberg Q&A: Meta's focus on “personal super intelligence”, how large compensation packages pale in comparison to AI infra investments, AI glasses, more  —  When I sat down with Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg to talk artificial intelligence …
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Crypto PAC Fairshake says it has raised $109M since the US elections in November 2024, and $52M in H1 2025, as it prepares for the 2026 US midterm elections  —  - Fairshake said it has raised $109 million since the elections in November and $52 million during the first half of this year, in a statement released on Tuesday.
Hugh Son / CNBC:
On stablecoins, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon says, “We're going to be involved in both JPMorgan deposit coin and stablecoins to understand it, to be good at it”  —  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says he doesn't get the appeal of stablecoins, but he also can't afford to stay on the sidelines.

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Blake Brittain / Reuters:
The NYT, the New York Daily News, and others sue browser maker Brave for allegedly scraping their articles for AI training and letting users bypass paywalls

New York Times:
A profile of Laura Belin, an openly liberal Iowa journalist long shut out by state Republicans who says Democrats also favor friendly influencers over reporters

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Netflix begins rolling out an “AI Discover” tab on TVs in the US, starting with a feature that offers recommendations based on a user's mood

More News

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open-source AI audio model family, and says Voxtral Mini Transcribe outperforms OpenAI Whisper for less than half the price
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber and Baidu announce a multiyear partnership to launch robotaxis in markets outside the US and mainland China, starting in Asia and the Middle East in 2025
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Nextdoor adds new features like an interactive neighborhood map called Alerts, partners with 3,500+ local news outlets in the US, the UK, and Canada, and more

Earlier Picks

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
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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta says it has taken down ~10M Facebook profiles so far in 2025 that impersonated large content creators or repeatedly reused their text, photos, or videos
Andrew Orr / AppleInsider:
IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic pressures and weak consumer demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, plus professors, authors, researchers, and nonprofits
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
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