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Anthropic:
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, saying it is a “notable improvement” on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering and comes with a new “xhigh” effort level  —  Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available.  —  Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic says Opus 4.7 uses “an updated tokenizer that improves how the model processes text”, but “the tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens”
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday reported a 58% increase in first-quarter profit, beating estimates and hitting …
Wall Street Journal:
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC checked with customers about AI demand and was reassured that it was still strong amid the Iran war, as it raises revenue forecasts  —  Taiwan company expects revenue to grow by more than 30% and doesn't see material disruptions to supply chain
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes  —  All YouTube users are getting an option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes.
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple says a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content; all Apple-designed batteries now use 100% recycled cobalt  —  Apple today announced that a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content …
Bloomberg:
A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite policies prohibiting them, that have generated $122M+ in revenue  —  Apple Inc. and Google have continued to offer mobile apps that let users make nonconsensual sexualized images of people despite …
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt:
Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities”  —  Anthropic quietly published identity verification requirements for Claude this week, asking certain users to hand …
Matt Kapko / CyberScoop:
The NIST narrows its National Vulnerability Database priorities to CVEs in CISA's known exploited catalog, to deal with a backlog after its 2024 funding lapse  —  The National Vulnerability Database will now only analyze vulnerabilities in critical software, systems used in the federal government and those under active exploitation.
The Information:
Sources: Apple plans to send <200 developers from its Siri team, a group internally known as a “laggard”, to a multi-week AI coding bootcamp, as it revamps Siri  —  Apple is sending a portion of its Siri programmers back to coding school just two months before the company …
Emily Zemler / The Wrap:
A look at Doug Liman's $70M Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi movie, which uses AI for sets, lighting, and more in post-production, cutting costs from an estimated $300M  —  “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” will be looking for buyers at Cannes and is billed as the first fully-generated, studio-quality AI feature film
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
OpenAI updates its Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for frontier models to help deploy and test agents on long-horizon tasks  —  Agentic AI is the tech industry's newest success story, and companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to give enterprises …
Timmy Shen / The Block:
X launches Cashtags, a feature that shows real-time financial data on stocks and crypto directly in users' timelines, starting with iOS in the US and Canada  —  Quick Take  — Nikita Bier, head of product at X, said the team has launched the “Cashtags” feature, which enables users …
NBC News:
A US jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market, in a case brought by state AGs after the DOJ settled  —  The federal government struck a settlement with Live Nation in March, requiring Ticketmaster to divest up to 13 amphitheaters …
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Q&A with Jensen Huang on Nvidia's supply chain moat, competition from ASICs like Google's TPU, investing in AI labs and neoclouds, selling to China, and more  —  “If our next several years are a trillion dollars in scale, we have the supply chain to do it”
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
Anthropic secures new London office space for 800 people, days after OpenAI started leasing its first London office; Anthropic currently has 200+ London staff  —  Anthropic said Thursday it's expanding its presence in London with new office space for 800 people, days after rival OpenAI unveiled plans …
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more  —  The technologist and investor argues recent progress in AI is an industrial revolution-scale event but warns the ability …
Erin Woo / The Information:
Sources: Google is negotiating a US DOD deal that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing Google's previous stance  —  Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy Google's Gemini AI models …
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg:
Canva unveils Canva AI 2.0, which can generate editable layered designs from conversational prompts using Canva's foundation model built specifically for design  —  Australia's highest-profile tech unicorn is undertaking a risky transformation as it seeks to prove its relevance in the age of generative AI.
Max Filby / The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio's gambling regulator fines Kalshi $5M for operating unlicensed sports gaming, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling  —  The Ohio Casino Control Commission has fined online prediction market Kalshi millions of dollars for illegal operation in the state.

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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The European Commission grants conditional approval for Paramount's WBD acquisition as long as Paramount ends its EU distribution deal with Universal Pictures

Todd Spangler / Variety:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says ABC's decision to not carry Trump's July 16 speech about elections live will be part of its review for ABC-owned station licenses

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
A US judge rules that Trump must turn over detailed financial information of 400+ companies owned by a family trust in his defamation suit against the BBC

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