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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 …
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
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Apple launches AppleCare One, an insurance plan covering up to three devices for $20 per month, including battery replacements, accidental damage, and more  —  Apple Inc. is launching a new product-insurance plan that bundles coverage for as many as three devices, part of a broader effort to drum up subscription revenue.
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.
Bloomberg:
The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to assert US dominance over China, including proposals to ease permitting for AI infrastructure projects  —  The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Ukraine arrests the suspected administrator of Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is at the Paris public prosecutor's request, with help from France and Europol  —  The suspected administrator of the Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is was arrested by the Ukrainian authorities yesterday …
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
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” …
Muvija M / Reuters:
The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google “strategic market status” in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds “opportunities for more innovation”  —  Britain's competition regulator said it plans to designate Apple (AAPL.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) …
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.
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 …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Proton launches Lumo, an AI chatbot to summarize documents, generate code, and more and says it will protect users' information via “zero-access” encryption  —  Proton says it protects Lumo's chats with ‘zero-access’ encryption while storing them on users' devices.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Meta debuts a prototype wristband to read electrical signals from forearm muscles, letting users control devices without touch, trained on 10K peoples' EMG data  —  When you write your name in the air, you can see the letters appear on your smartphone.  —  The prototype looks like a giant rectangular wristwatch.
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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.
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.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
R. Bruce Dold, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune, where he became editor-in-chief and publisher, is dead at 70

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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%+
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
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
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