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| Bloomberg: |
Over 1,100 staffers from AI companies, including John Schulman and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki, sign a letter requesting the US government to “pace” AI development — More than 1,100 staffers across top artificial intelligence firms have signed a petition that calls on the US government … | Mark Zuckerberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Mark Zuckerberg argues that superintelligence should be widely distributed as a tool that empowers everyone, rather than centralized in a few institutions — The history of democracy and economics has proved that centralized power stifles human potential. — We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history.
More: Washington Examiner and The Verge
| Dustin Volz / New York Times: |
Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and orchestrated another improved attack against the cryptographic system HAWK — Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions …
More: Anthropic, arXiv.org, The Decoder, Blockchain.News, RuntimeWire, Cyber Security News, and The Hacker News
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Bluesky: @davidcrespo and @chrispeikert
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
eBay and former executives agree to pay a nearly $56M settlement to resolve a 2021 civil case over the 2019 stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers — EBay and several former executives have agreed to pay nearly $56 million in a settlement with a Massachusetts couple who were the target … | Meta Newsroom: |
Meta and BlackRock form a strategic venture to develop a 1GW data center campus in El Paso, Texas, set to cost ~$14B and bring capacity online starting in 2028 — Meta and BlackRock announce a venture to finance the development and operation of a data center campus in El Paso, Texas
More: Los Angeles Times, Pulse 2.0, Reuters, The Information, Unite.AI, Capacity, Quartz, Real Assets, Forbes, and Neowin
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is preparing to debut a smart home hub with a 7" square display and facial recognition tech, a new Apple TV, and a refreshed HomePod mini in 2026 — Apple Inc., after spending years as a laggard in the smart home market, is preparing a dramatic new push into the category with fresh devices and software.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple launches Apple Upgrade, a new US leasing program in partnership with Klarna that replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program, starting at $17.99/month for iPhones — Apple today launched Apple Upgrade, a new U.S. leasing program for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
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| Invest Like The Best on YouTube: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, the concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more — Sam Altman joins us for a wide-ranging conversation about OpenAI's next chapter, the race for compute, and what happens as artificial intelligence becomes mo...
More: TechCrunch, The New Stack, Business Insider, Colossus, Tom's Hardware, and Quartz
| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $8.68B, above $8.47B est., transaction margin dollars up 1% YoY to $3.9B, and a $1.1B profit, down from $1.26B in Q2 2025 — Second-quarter revenue rose 5% to $8.68 billion — PayPal bumped up its profitability guidance and reported revenue growth … | Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Core Scientific and AMD announce a deal under which AMD will secure 500+ MW of US data center capacity starting in 2027, with the ability to scale up to 2.5 GW — Quick Take — AMD will secure more than 500 megawatts of Core Scientific data-center capacity beginning in 2027 …
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating most of its flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative — Amazon is overhauling its AI strategy, winding down many in-house models, reorganizing teams, and focusing engineers on a new strategy …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more — The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that has quietly become the connective tissue between AI agents and the world's software …
More: Model Context Protocol Blog, Techstrong.ai, The GitHub Blog, Claude, The Register, Model Context Protocol, heise online News, and The New Stack
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| Tim McLaughlin / Reuters: |
July 16 letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only to data centers and not to the public grid wouldn't be subject to federal pollution laws — Power sources providing electricity only to data centers and not the public grid may not be subject to federal pollution laws …
More: The Guardian, Engadget, DatacenterDynamics, The Hill, US EPA, E&E News, and Benzinga
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Taiwan detained an Nvidia employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China, after searching his home and office on July 24 — Taiwanese prosecutors detained an Nvidia Corp. employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China … | Matt Burgess / Wired: |
AI Forensics: seven out of the nine top AI image models on Hugging Face edited an image of a clothed woman into a topless one using a simple six-word prompt — Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes … | Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Tel Aviv-based Hush Security, which lets organizations securely control enterprise AI agents, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total funding to $41M — The startup will invest in expanding engineering and sales teams, accelerating ecosystem support, and expanding corporate partnerships.
More: FinSMEs, Hush Security, RuntimeWire, Ynetnews, Ventureburn, and Unite.AI
| New York Times: |
European police say Binance's April 2025 policy asking law enforcement to route certain requests to foreign government agencies hinders criminal investigations — Investigators in Europe said that the cryptocurrency giant Binance had made it more difficult to track down scammers and solve other crimes.| Taylor Herzlich / New York Post: |
NYC-based AI startup Runlayer sues Rippling for allegedly stealing trade secrets to “build essentially a clone” of Runlayer's safety and governance product — A New York-based AI startup is suing Rippling - a Silicon Valley software giant that got a $3 million tax break from Gov. Kathy Hochul …
More: Bloomberg Law and Law.com
| Kyle Alspach / CRN: |
Data security startup Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security, which provides non-human identity security, in a deal valued at about $1B — The $1 billion acquisition deal aims to bring capabilities for non-human identity security to the Cyera data security platform.
More: CTech, The Times of Israel, Globes, Ynetnews, Sequoia Capital, Accel, SecurityWeek, RuntimeWire, and Cyera Blogs
LinkedIn: Danny Brickman, Ankur Dar, and Yotam Segev
| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Visa is cutting ~2,600 jobs, or ~7% of staff, primarily affecting tech and product teams; source: Visa plans to reinvest in stablecoin and other offerings — Visa Inc. is eliminating about 2,600 jobs as Chief Executive Officer Ryan McInerney seeks to make the firm more efficient … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic have lobbied the Trump administration to make sure lagging competitors also have to comply with government reviews of their models — OpenAI and Anthropic are arch enemies whose leaders can't stand each other. But the two foes have formed an unholy alliance …
More: crypto.news, CoinGape, and AI Policy Daily
| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.95T market cap on Monday — The company slipped by the chipmaker Nvidia, amid growing concern about costs associated with the artificial intelligence boom.| Bloomberg: |
More: New York Times, New York Times, Dow Jones Newswires, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Benzinga, Barron's Online, Seoul Economic Daily, Korea JoongAng Daily, New York Times, and Financial Times
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Zoho:
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| Ina Fried / Axios:NEW |
Coursera is investing $100M in LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng that aims to build AI agents that function as personal tutors — Coursera is putting $100 million into LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng, a pioneer in AI and Coursera's chairman … | The Information: |
Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4's development, after training K3 on Nvidia chips, including Blackwell — Beijing-based startup Moonshot AI, flush from the breakout success of its recently released model, Kimi K3 … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases 26.6 updates for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS with a huge number of security fixes; macOS Tahoe 26.6 alone addresses 155 CVEs — Following the release of iOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6, and related software updates, Apple has detailed a huge number of security fixes included in today's new OS versions.
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