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Sources: China is weighing tightening AI and chip tech export controls and is consulting leading domestic AI companies, in a bid to slow advanced tech exports — Chinese regulators are considering tightening export controls on artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Z.ai completed construction of a 1 GW data center housing only Chinese chips; Z.ai has built or operates several computing clusters each with 10K+ chips — Z.AI has completed construction of a giant data center that houses only Chinese-made chips, a big step in Beijing's efforts …
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| Matthew Sparkes / New Scientist: |
Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5 — Levent Alpöge announced the solution on X A mathematician has cracked an 87-year-old conundrum with the help of AI and announced the solution unceremoniously in a tweet.
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OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erdos unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly found ways to act outside its sandbox — What internal use of a long-running model taught us about safety. — Summary — Long-running models can solve difficult …
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| John Velasco / Tom's Guide: |
Samsung debuts Samsung Galaxy Card, a Visa from Barclays that offers 5% cash rewards for purchases directly from Samsung, its first US credit card — You get 5% rewards when you buy stuff directly from Samsung — With Galaxy Unpacked 2026 set to kick off in a matter of days … | Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers found sandbox escapes or boundary bypasses in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity by writing files trusted tools later use; most are patched — Security researchers broke out of the sandboxes in four widely used AI coding agents, including Cursor, OpenAI's Codex … | Kate Conger / New York Times: |
How Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare says that between June 2025 and April 2026 human traffic to many businesses' websites fell ~40% — When Google prepared to go public in 2004, Larry Page, a co-founder of the company, wrote a letter to shareholders describing the internet firm's responsibility to the world.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week — Hackers are breaking into websites that run vulnerable versions of the popular blogging software WordPress, according to several cybersecurity firms.| Kohei Yamada / Nikkei Asia: |
Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle grew an estimated ~8x since 2022 to ~$1.65T, above ~$1.35T in balance sheet debt — PALO ALTO, California — Hidden debt at U.S. tech giants swelled eightfold in roughly four years to an estimated $1.65 trillion … | Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
Sony Music files a second copyright suit against Udio, alleging the AI music company copied 30,117 recordings without permission to train its AI models — Sony Music Entertainment has filed a second copyright infringement lawsuit against Udio, asserting 30,117 sound recordings …
More: The Verge, Billboard, Digital Music News, Unite.AI, and Chat GPT Is Eating the World. Bluesky: @dantalksgames
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC plans to hike advanced and mature node prices by up to 10% in 2027, plus a 10%-15% premium for advanced chip orders exceeding original forecasts — TAIPEI — TSMC is set to raise prices for both advanced and mature chip production services by up to 10% in 2027 to reflect rising costs …
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| Stephanie Lincoln / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub says individuals and orgs have invested $100M+ in open source maintainers and projects via GitHub Sponsors since 2019, with $10M in the past five months — Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day.| Maria Curi / Axios: |
CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning after taking over the federal AI testing institute in April; NIST Director Arvind Raman will serve as acting director — Chris Fall, the director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is resigning just three months after taking …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rewrite from scratch; Nikita Bier calls it “one of the largest engineering projects” in the company's history — Nearly a year ago, Elon Musk-owned X announced it would begin rebuilding the Android version of its app …
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M — AI agents are starting to execute more sophisticated tasks, such as identifying vendors that can deliver freight, comparing prices …
More: FinSMEs, Natural AI, Inc., The SaaS News, Ventureburn, PYMNTS, and Tech in Asia
| Dom Cooke / Colossus: |
A profile of Sarah Guo, Greylock's youngest GP before she founded Conviction in 2022, which has since backed six of the 21 AI-native companies now worth $10B+ — The investor closest to the AI frontier is betting against the ambitions of its biggest companies
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| Bill Gurley / Washington Post: |
Chinese open models are proper competition that should be welcomed, not something to ban or treat as a danger, and open-sourcing is an old business strategy — They aren't a security threat — they're what competition looks like. — Bill Gurley is the president and founder of the P3 Institute, and a former venture capitalist.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
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