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July 22, 2025, 1:30 PM

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says it “has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting” the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities  —  Several hacking groups with ties to the Chinese government have been linked to a recent wave of widespread attacks targeting …
Washington Post:
Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerability  —  Researchers say Chinese and other criminal hackers have exploited a security flaw in SharePoint software widely used by governments and businesses — and may come back.
Bloomberg:
OpenAI and Oracle unveil plans to develop 4.5GW of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership, hitting 5GW in total and running 2M AI chips  —  OpenAI and Oracle Corp. announced they will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Stargate has struggled to get off the ground and sharply scaled back its near-term plans, as SoftBank and OpenAI disagree on crucial terms of the deal  —  The Stargate venture, introduced at White House event, is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end
Kylie Robison / Wired:
Leaked memo: Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching “dictators”, and says a “no bad person” rule is impractical  —  “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle …
Reuters:
OpenAI and the UK government announce a partnership to explore AI use in justice, defense, security, and edtech, and possibly expand OpenAI's London office  —  Britain and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership to deepen collaboration on AI security research …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: the EU is set to approve Apple's App Store rule and fee changes, unveiled last month, in the coming weeks, staving off a potentially hefty daily fine  —  Apple's (AAPL.O) changes to its App Store rules and fees will likely secure the green light from EU antitrust regulators …
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Filing: the FBI drops its probe of Kraken founder Jesse Powell and returns dozens of devices, after raiding his home in 2023 over seemingly banal allegations  —  Powell in a 2014 pic.  —  When federal agents raided the home of Kraken founder Jesse Powell two years ago …
Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg:
Miaan Group: a number of Iranians received spyware threat alerts from Apple in H1 2025 in the months prior to the Iran-Israel war, the first such cases in Iran  —  More than a dozen Iranians' mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior to the country's war with Israel, according to new research.
Brunella Tipismana Urbano / Bloomberg:
Reka AI, which aims to make more efficient LLMs, raised $110M from Nvidia, Snowflake, and others at a $1B+ valuation, up from ~$300M in 2023, per PitchBook  —  Snowflake had previously been in talks to buy the three-year-old AI startup.  —  SUBSCRIBER ONLY  —  Get the Tech In Depth newsletter.
Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg:
A London judge rules that HPE lost ~£730M after acquiring Mike Lynch's Autonomy, after a 2022 fraud finding against Lynch, who died in 2024; HPE was seeking $4B  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. lost around £730 million ($985 million) after it bought Mike Lynch's firm Autonomy Corp. …
Dylan Martin / CRN:
Nvidia rival Hailo announced the general availability of its second-generation AI accelerator chip, the Hailo-10H, with HP among its early adopters  —  Among the companies adopting the Hailo-10H is HP Inc., which is using the chip as the basis for the HP AI Accelerator M.2 Card that can integrate …
Anil Ananthaswamy / Quanta Magazine:
While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data  —  He and his team turned to AI — in particular, a software suite first created by the physicist Mario Krenn to design tabletop experiments in quantum optics.
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