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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic announces Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative that will use its Claude Mythos Preview model to help find and fix software vulnerabilities — Today we're announcing Project Glasswing1, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom …
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LinkedIn: Francis Lobo, Anthony Grieco, Rahul Patil, Nikesh Arora, George Kurtz, Nick Lewis, Daniela Amodei, and Lee Klarich
Bluesky: @ljkawa, @ericjgeller.com, @k8em0, and @caseynewton. Threads: @claudeai. Mastodon: @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser — Earlier today we announced Claude Mythos Preview, a new general-purpose language model. This model performs strongly across the board …
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LinkedIn: Rich Mogull, Rogier Fischer, David Seidman, and Ethan Mollick. Bluesky: @martin.kleppmann.com. Mastodon: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and Lobsters
| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic says it will make Claude Mythos Preview available to 40+ organizations that maintain critical software and doesn't plan to make it generally available — Anthropic on Tuesday released a preview of its new frontier model, Mythos, which it says will be used by a small coterie of partner organizations for cybersecurity work.
More: Benzinga, CNN, Barron's Online, and Fortune
X: @david_kasten, @joshkale, @anthropicai, @charlesd353, @jayair, and @alexfinn
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic's Project Glasswing launch partners include AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palo Alto Networks — ZDNET's key takeaways — AI found thousands of hidden bugs in critical systems. — Tech rivals unite to secure shared infrastructure risks.
More: Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, and ITPro
| Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations — The program comes as the tech industry races to secure software before similar AI-powered offensive capabilities become too much for defenders to handle.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic says Mythos Preview achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, compared with 80.8% for Opus 4.6, and 77.8% on SWE-bench Pro, versus 53.4% for Opus 4.6 — Anthropic on Tuesday announced Project Glasswing, a sweeping cybersecurity initiative that pairs an unreleased frontier AI model …
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| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help produce processors for robotics and data centers — Intel (INTC.O) said on Tuesday it would join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, Tesla (TSLA.O) and xAI.
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| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board — Tesla billionaire also seeks Sam Altman's removal from OpenAI nonprofit's board in amendment to suit over for-profit conversion| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A group of US agencies including the FBI and the NSA warns that Iran-linked hackers have targeted industrial control devices used in US critical infrastructure — As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
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X: @cisacyber and @ericgeller
Forums: r/PrepperIntel and r/pwnhub
| Lance Whitney / ZDNET: |
Google updates Chrome with vertical tabs, a feature that Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge have long offered, and a new full-screen layout in reading mode — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google has started rolling out vertical tabs in Chrome. — With vertical tabs, all your open web pages appear in a sidebar.
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X: @googlechrome, @newsfromgoogle, @tobi, @google, @sundarpichai, @google, @_kevintong, @tahrahoops, @jeffdean, and @collision. Mastodon: @jon@henshaw.social. Forums: r/browsers
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources say Apple will announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays — Apple Inc.'s first foldable phone is on track to arrive during the company's normal iPhone launch period later this year …
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Forums: r/technology, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license — Is China picking back up the open source AI baton? — Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, a Chinese AI startup best known for its powerful …
More: Z.ai, Simon Willison's Weblog, Z.ai on Hugging Face, and High Capacity
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic — Russian government-linked hackers are compromising popular internet routers to steal passwords for email accounts and other online services … | New York Times: |
Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T+ searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour — The company's A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.
More: The Verge, Ars Technica, Search Engine Land, and The Decoder
X: @garymarcus, @mikeisaac, @emollick, and @mikeisaac
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Forums: r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
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LinkedIn: Debbie W., Norman Paulsen, and Brandon Combs
| Filippo Valsorda: |
A cryptography engineer calls for an urgent rollout of quantum-resistant cryptography, saying the risk of inaction is now unacceptable, after Google's warning — My position on the urgency of rolling out quantum-resistant cryptography has changed compared to just a few months ago.
More: Cloudflare, SiliconANGLE, Protos, and Coin Edition
Bluesky: @johnspurlock.com, @pfrazee.com, @marypcbuk, and @matthewdgreen
Forums: Hacker News, r/crypto, and Lobsters
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands Prompted Playlists, its AI feature for creating playlists, to include podcasts, for Premium users in the US, Canada, the UK, and other countries — Spotify said today that it is expanding its AI-powered feature to create playlists, called Prompted Playlist, to include podcasts as well.
More: Spotify, The Verge, Android Authority, CNET, 9to5Google, iPhone in Canada, Engadget, PCMag, TechRadar, Thurrott, Android Police, Digital Trends, and 9to5Mac
LinkedIn: Edgar Tanaka, Maya Prohovnik, and Winstead Xingran Zhu
| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Sources: Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed “Claudeonomics” where its 85K+ employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like “Token Legend” status — Employees at Meta Platforms who want to show off their AI superuser chops are competing on an internal leaderboard …
X: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @zephyr_z9, @gergelyorosz, @metacriticcap, @aakashgupta, @mikeisaac, @ericjang11, @thdxr, @jyoti_mann1, @frank_liquid, @petergyang, @alexolegimas, @mitsuhiko, @joshgholder, @maxleiter, @theprimeagen, @thdxr, @qurrie_com, @shakoistslog, @melindabchu1, @rhorider, @kakashiii111, @theinformation, @nickwingfield, @jyoti_mann1, and @theinformation
| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Q&A with OpenAI President Greg Brockman about OpenAI's research direction, how far it can push Codex, closing Sora, betting on text vs. world models, and more — OpenAI is shifting strategies yet again. Here's the logic behind the latest moves and what they mean for the company's direction.
X: @kantrowitz
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Kalshi signs a deal with Fox Corp. to integrate its forecasts into Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox One, and Fox Weather, following deals with CNN and CNBC — The prediction market already has deals with CNN and CNBC. — The biggest prediction market in the U.S. is teaming up with the biggest TV news channel in the U.S.| John Collison / Cheeky Pint: |
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the history of Google and AI, speed and Search, Google's AI comeback, bottlenecks, capital allocation, how Google works, and more — Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet. He sits down with John and Elad Gil to discuss Google's resurgence in the AI race …
More: Stripe on YouTube, CNBC, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, and MediaPost
X: @evanotero, @collision, @stevehou, @hughlangley, @eladgil, @anishmoonka, and @onodacapital. LinkedIn: Nick Fox
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic hires Microsoft executive Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure; Boyd oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and worked at the company for 16 years — Anthropic PBC has hired a senior leader from Microsoft Corp. to lead its push to establish the infrastructure needed to support growing adoption … | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Los Angeles-based Hermeus, which aims to build unmanned hypersonic fighter aircraft, raised $200M led by Khosla Ventures and $150M in debt at a $1B valuation — Defense startup Hermeus has raised $350 million to keep developing what it calls the “fastest unmanned aircraft,” … | Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out an AI Enhance button for Photos on Android globally, offering automated lighting and contrast adjustments, and video playback speed controls — Google announced two new additions to Google Photos for all Android users, and they've already begun rolling out.
More: Android Authority, Tech Times, ZDNET, Android Police, Moneycontrol, How-To Geek, and SammyGuru
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Waterloo-based Mappedin, which uses AI and LiDAR to create and maintain 3D digital maps of indoor spaces, raised $24.5M, bringing its total funding to $35M — Mappedin, a Canadian indoor digital mapping startup, raised a US$24.5 million growth equity financing led by Edison Partners, CEO Hongwei Liu tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: Mappedin, BetaKit, Pulse 2.0, Unite.AI, Ventureburn, and Financial Post
| Annie Bang / Bloomberg: |
Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, cannot be trusted because it has no SEC definition and can be massaged — The co-founder of Cluely — an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup with the motto, “Cheat on everything” … | Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher taxes on capital gains, a public AI investment fund, bolstered safety nets, and more — ChatGPT maker put out policy proposals so consumers benefit from rapid advancements in artificial intelligence
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LinkedIn: Pragya Misra, Adrian Brown, Viviana Jordan, David Robinson, Michael Kokin, Vinod K., and Jabran Chaudhry
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