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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 …
Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Source: the US National Nuclear Security Administration was among those breached by a hack of SharePoint; no sensitive information is known to be compromised  —  The US agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation's cache of nuclear weapons was among those breached by a hack …
Qwen:
Alibaba debuts the Qwen3-Coder model for agentic coding, including a 480B-parameter MoE variant, and open sources Qwen Code, a CLI tool adapted from Gemini CLI  —  Today, we're announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date.  Qwen3-Coder is available in multiple sizes …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon acquires Bee, which sells a $50 device that resembles a Fitbit, is always listening, transcribes conversations, and serves up daily AI summaries  —  Bee is a Fitbit-like device that transcribes your conversations and serves up daily summaries. … Amazon is acquiring Bee, a startup that puts AI on your wrist.
Anthropic:
Anthropic and other researchers detail “subliminal learning”, where LLMs learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits  —  We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits.
Clare Duffy / CNN:
In an interview at the Federal Reserve, Sam Altman warns of an impending “fraud crisis” because of how AI could enable bad actors to impersonate other people  —  New York CNN —  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” …
Pew Research Center:
A survey of 900 US Google users: of ~69K searches, 18% gave AI Overviews; of those, users clicked a link 8% of the time, compared to 15% with no AI summary  —  Last year, Google introduced “AI Overviews,” a feature that displays an artificial intelligence-generated result summary at the top of many Google search pages.
Mistral AI:
Mistral releases a study on the environmental impact of its LLMs, conducting what it claims is the first comprehensive lifecycle analysis of an AI model  —  At Mistral AI, our mission is to bring artificial intelligence in everyone's hands.  For this purpose, we have consistently advocated …
Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sources: dozens of xAI staff voiced concerns over a program granting xAI “perpetual” access to data like their “likeness” for training; several did not consent  —  - xAI workers recorded facial expressions for AI training, internal documents show.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: after raising $10B, xAI is now working with a trusted financier to secure up to $12B to buy Nvidia chips, led by Elon Musk-linked Valor Equity Partners
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The UK plans to ban public sector and key infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms to ransomware gangs and require others to notify the UK if they pay  —  The United Kingdom's government is planning to ban public sector and critical infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms after ransomware attacks.
Financial Times:
Sources: Microsoft has poached 24+ employees from Google DeepMind in the past six months; Gemini engineering head Amar Subramanya confirms the move to Microsoft  —  US tech giant recruits more than 20 people from rival in push to gain edge in the fast-developing technology
Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $4.45B, vs. $4.36B est., net income of $1.3B, and forecasts Q3 profit below est.; TXN drops 10%+  —  Texas Instruments (TXN.O) forecast third-quarter profit just shy of Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, as the analog chipmaker invests heavily …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft launches the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 5G for business customers, featuring Intel Core Ultra series 2 processors, shipping on August 26 for $1,799+  —  The Surface Laptop 7 with 5G is now available to order, but only for business customers and with an Intel Core Ultra chip.
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Apple's new iOS 26 beta 4 adds more “liquid” back to Liquid Glass design, after dialing it back in beta 3 following social media criticism  —  iOS 26 beta 4 has just been released, and one of the biggest question on many testers' minds has been answered.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
PitchBook: in H1, AI startups raised $104.3B in the US, or ~66% of all US VC funding, up from 49% last year, and there were 281 VC-backed exits totaling $36B  —  OpenAI and Anthropic continue to lead a fundraising bonanza in artificial intelligence, raising historic rounds and stratospheric valuations.
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Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg:
VenHub, which uses robotics and AI to run fully automated retail stores, confidentially files for a US direct listing, after a $715M SPAC merger failed in May  —  VenHub Global Inc. plans to undertake a direct listing on a US exchange after the developer of fully automated retail stores abandoned …
Financial Times:
Analysis: in H1 2025, 500+ orgs lobbied the White House and Congress on AI, on par with H1 2024 but up ~2x since 2023; OpenAI spent $1.8M, up from $380K in 2023  —  Hundreds of organisations are seeking to influence Congress and Donald Trump's White House  —  Alex Rogers and Ian Hodgson …

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Financial Times:
Sources: WBD's board wanted a proposal it could sign immediately, and Netflix was the only bidder whose paperwork was fully executable the night of December 4

Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agree to part ways and let her contract expire at the end of the year, following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr.

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: David Ellison's interference in WBD's failed summer talks to extend HBO Max's South Park licensing deal left David Zaslav distrustful of Ellison

More News

Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
xLight, which is developing a new class of laser for EUV machines in partnership with ASML, raised a $40M Series B led by Playground Global
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Composio, which provides tools to help companies build AI agents, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $29M

Earlier Picks

Lauren Goode / Wired:
Source: OpenAI's $40B round announced in March is reopening on July 28; SoftBank's commitment could be cut to $10B if OpenAI does not restructure by end of 2025
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
Poseidon, an AI-focused decentralized data layer built on the Story protocol, raised a $15M seed led by a16z
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
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
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
AI compliance startup Delve raised a $32M Series A at a $300M valuation led by Insight Partners with participation from CISOs at Fortune 500 companies
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