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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sources: parts of the Trump administration are reigniting efforts to implement de facto bans on foreign open-source models, as Chinese AI models gain momentum — The Trump administration is showing signs it could ban cutting-edge Chinese AI models — a momentous move that could lock in dominance by OpenAI and Anthropic.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue — There's a story I tell about my first day in STRT-431 at Kellogg School of Management, the introductory class that every …
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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.| 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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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M+ — After a decade-long comeback, chip giant Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to ship its first rack-scale system for artificial intelligence …
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| 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 … | 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.| The Information: |
Sources: Google is developing a specialized server chip, informally dubbed “Frozen v2”, that integrates its Gemini AI model blueprint into the silicon, for 2028 — Google is working on a new server chip that would directly integrate the blueprint of its Gemini AI model … | OpenAI: |
OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erdős 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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| Reuters: |
Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft platform designed for commercial and military uses, along with an autonomous attack rotorcraft called Thunder — Archer Aviation (ACHR.N) and defense technology company Anduril unveiled a co-developed autonomous aircraft platform on Monday …
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| Bloomberg: |
UK-based CuspAI, which uses AI to cut rare metal use in chipmaking, raised a $450M Series B at a $2.6B valuation, and hires ex-Apple exec John Giannandrea — Producing the world's most in-demand semiconductors requires enormous amounts of energy and access to rare minerals.| Edward Targett / The Stack: |
Hugging Face says it used GLM-5.2 hosted on its infrastructure to run a breach forensic analysis, after US frontier model safety guardrails blocked its requests — The unknown attacker “abused two code-execution paths in our dataset processing (a remote-code dataset loader and a template-injection …
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| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
The EU fines Alibaba's online marketplace AliExpress €550M for failing to prevent the sale of illegal products on its platform, the largest DSA fine to date — Record penalty under bloc's Digital Services Act comes amid broader crackdown on Chinese ecommerce platforms| Financial Times: |
As memory stocks fall, investors worry capacity expansion could lead to oversupply, while others believe AI demand will break the industry's boom-and-bust cycle — Massive investment plans lead to investor fears of a new boom and bust in memory chips — A relentless run in semiconductor stocks … | Moon Joon-hyun / The Korea Herald: |
| 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 … | Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
Sensor Tower: the number of new apps released in Apple's App Store doubled to ~560K in H1, vs. the ~600K added in all of 2025, as vibecoded apps flood the store — Mobile apps are easy to make with artificial intelligence. That doesn't mean people are excited to use them.
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| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
An interview with Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, who calls AI “a growth opportunity”, as she prepares the online travel company to face potential disruption from AI — Ariane Gorin faces battle with tech start-ups as she repositions world's second-largest travel booking company| 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 … | Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters: |
France's National Gambling Authority blocks access to Polymarket's website, citing concerns it could expose users to significant losses and manipulated trading — France has blocked access to the Polymarket betting website, the country's gambling regulator said on Friday …
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Chicago-based Empirical Security, which uses AI to help companies predict threats by monitoring exploited vulnerabilities, raised a $25M Series A — Exposure management startup Empirical Security raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Brightmind Partners, CEO Ed Bellis tells Axios Pro.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
How “synthetic insider” attacks raise the stakes for corporate cyber defense; a Verizon analysis of ~22K incidents found 12% were carried out by internal actors — Use of AI deepfake employees to infiltrate companies highlights wider risk of internal security breaches
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Sources detail Kalshi's and Polymarket's efforts to undermine each other, including lobbying regulators, trying to derail deals, and waging influence campaigns — Early one morning in November 2024, Shayne Coplan, the founder of Polymarket, awoke to an unexpected visit.| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed — AI infrastructure company Infinity announced a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation on Monday from investors including Touring Capital … | Financial Times: |
How smart home devices have given abusive partners a new tool to remotely manipulate, intimidate, and disturb their victims, in a form of tech-assisted abuse — Remote access to domestic devices is increasingly being used to manipulate, intimidate and disturb. Policymakers and tech companies are grappling with safeguards
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