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July 16, 2025, 1:35 PM
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Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
In Beijing, Jensen Huang says Nvidia will “accelerate the recovery” of its China chip sales and he expects its US export licenses “to come through very shortly”  —  Jensen Huang tells Beijing press conference it takes nine months to restart supply chain
Reuters:
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Nvidia's plan to resume its H20 AI chip sales to China is part of US trade negotiations over rare earths and magnets
Reuters:
At a supply chain expo in Beijing, Jensen Huang calls AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Tencent “world class” and says AI is “revolutionizing” supply chains
Kylie Robison / Wired:
Sources: OpenAI researcher Jason Wei, who worked on o3 and deep research models, and his colleague Hyung Won Chung are joining Meta's new superintelligence lab  —  Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI's o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta's superintelligence lab.
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Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's “personal super intelligence” push, how its pay packages pale in comparison to its AI infra investments, AI glasses, and more
Casey Newton / Platformer:
xAI's Grok is rated for kids age 12 and up in the iOS App Store, despite adding “companions”; one includes an NSFW “Bad Rudy” mode and the other becomes NSFW  —  AI companions are arriving faster than platforms can build guardrails around them.  Parents need to pay attention
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Google says its Big Sleep AI agent for finding unknown software vulnerabilities recently discovered a critical SQLite flaw that “was at risk of being exploited”  —  Google said a large language model it developed to find vulnerabilities recently discovered a bug that hackers were preparing to use.
Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg:
Europol and Eurojust disrupt pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) that has claimed responsibility for 1,000+ DDoS attacks since 2022, and make two arrests  —  - Europol, Eurojust say more than 100 attack servers disrupted  — Two arrested in France and Spain, warrants out for 6 Russians
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: OpenAI is developing ChatGPT agents that let users create Excel- and PowerPoint-compatible files, generate reports, and handle tasks involving websites
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
ASML reports Q2 net sales of €7.7B, net income of €2.29B, and net bookings of €5.5B, above €4.19B est., as tariffs have a “less negative” impact than expected  —  ASML on Wednesday warned of the possibility of no growth in 2026, even as it beat top and bottom line expectations for the second quarter.
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal:
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says “while we still prepare for growth in 2026, we cannot confirm it”, after Trump threatened 30% tariffs on the EU; ASML falls 9%+
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Google announces a Pixel event on August 20 in New York, with four new smartphones and a new watch expected  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google will debut new Pixel-branded hardware at an event on Aug. 20 in New York, with the lineup expected to include several smartphones and a smartwatch …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft begins testing a Windows 11 feature for sharing the entire desktop with Copilot Vision; it requires first entering a special mode in the Copilot app  —  First announced earlier this year, sharing your desktop with Copilot on Windows 11 is now in testing with insiders across all preview channels.
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times:
China, which pledged $8.5B for young AI startups in April, is taking an industrial policy approach to help its AI companies close the gap with those in the US  —  Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its A.I. companies close the gap with those in the United States.
Rachyl Jones / Semafor:
AWS rolls out Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, meant to help businesses create a network of AI agents that analyze internal data, write code, and take on other tasks  —  Amazon Web Services on Wednesday launched a platform to help businesses build a web of connected AI agents to analyze internal data …
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
In a paper, AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others recommend “further research into chain-of-thought monitorability” for AI safety  —  AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and a broad coalition of companies and nonprofit groups …
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets more than doubled from 2023 to 330+ incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to hacking-for-hire  —  American officials say new economic model for offense has fueled spying attacks by government agencies that have more than doubled.

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CNN:
Sources: Pete Hegseth pushed for two F-15 crew members rescued from Iran to join a 60 Minutes story; Bari Weiss lobbied Hegseth to give CBS exclusive access

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Leaked report: Paramount leaving California “would result in losses of 2,750 and 5,550 job-years”, and economic losses between $1.01B-$2.03B for the state

Sarah Rumpf / Mediaite:
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US DOJ says ex-Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pled guilty to hacking 10+ companies and to extortion; in February, he admitted he hacked AT&T and Verizon
Calvin French-Owen:
A former OpenAI engineer details his experience working at the company, its culture, codebase structure, Python, Azure, rapid growth, the Codex launch, and more
Erin Doherty / CNBC:
Several crypto regulation bills backed by Trump fail to clear a key hurdle in the US House after 13 Republicans voted with Democrats to block the legislation
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Roblox launches a licensing platform to help IP rights holders to collaborate with creators, with Lionsgate, Netflix, Sega, and Kodansha as founding partners
Financial Times:
Sources: Cantor Equity Partners 1, a SPAC backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, is in late-stage talks with Blockstream Capital founder Adam Back to buy $3B+ in bitcoin
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Hugging Face users have uploaded 5,000+ AI image models previously banned by Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to the platform
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and CLI Codex, terminal-based AI tools launched since February, have surprisingly gained ground on AI code editors with traditional UIs
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