DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores “far surpassing” V4 Pro Preview  —  China's DeepSeek rolled out a public beta application programming interface, or API, for its flagship artificial intelligence model …

Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident  —  In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet …

A leaked memo, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Iran  —  A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Tehran.

Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add “stronger guardrails” after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery  —  A day after Google unveiled a new feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images with the click …

Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out  —  Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund backed out of deal to sell $3.5 billion of Anthropic shares  —  Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge …

Sony reports Q1 PS5 sales of 1.38M units, down from 1.56M a year ago, taking total sales of the console to 95.3M units, and 125M PlayStation MAUs, up 2M YoY  —  Profit projects are up even as console sales are down … What comes after that is anybody's guess as the PlayStation 6 approaches amid …

New York sues Kalshi for alleged violations of its gambling laws; the CFTC files an emergency motion to stop the state's enforcement, calling it an “overreach”  —  New York's attorney general sued Kalshi on Friday, claiming that its prediction market platform violates state laws against illegal gambling.

Snap says its recommendation systems will be adjusted so only videos created by real people, not AI-generated ones, are eligible for Spotlight recommendations  —  Snapchat is the latest company to strengthen its stance against AI slop.  The social network platform will no longer reward fully …

Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop  —  Gemini Spark is getting two big updates today, starting with Chrome auto browse integration on desktop.  —  Previously, Gemini Spark had access to a remote web browser.

Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says Services surpassed 1.5B paid subscriptions, up from 1B in January 2025, but a gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt growth  —  Apple says it has now topped 1.5 billion subscribers for its services business, up from 1 billion in January 2025.

OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses  —  The announcement comes after OpenAI said earlier this week it was cutting the price of several of its models  —  OpenAI has more than one billion active users and two million businesses using its artificial intelligence models.

AI-generated images, video, audio, and text on matters of public interest designed to look authentic must be labeled in the EU under the AI Act from August 2  —  Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real

SpaceXAI says it will remove 69 gas turbines used to power the Colossus data centers near Memphis by July 2027, as it moves to a 1.2 GW natural gas power plant  —  SpaceX said on Thursday that it will remove the unpermitted turbines powering its xAI data centers near Memphis as it transitions to a permanent …

MediaTek says its board has approved a discretionary $5B financing budget to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centers  —  MediaTek (2454.TW), Taiwan's largest chip designer, said on Friday its board had approved a discretionary financing budget …

Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies  —  Chinese AI champion Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for the use of around 20,000 Nvidia Corp. chips …

SK Hynix and Samsung shares surge 20%+ in Seoul on Friday, marking a sharp reversal from this week's sell-off; Japanese stocks like SoftBank also rally  —  South Korea's chip heavyweights SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics skyrocketed in Seoul on Friday, tracking a sharp rally in U.S. technology stocks …

A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and must disclose illicit revenue after Germany's state-mandated licensing agency GEMA sued in 2025  —  Germany's state-mandated licensing agency, GEMA, says the verdict has “global significance,” as Suno is also directed to pay yet-to-be-quantified damages.

Sources: Tesla prepared to separate its China unit before a potential SpaceX merger; advisers weighed a sale, spinoff, or closure; Musk calls it “fake news”  —  The U.S. automaker could sell or spin off the business in its second-largest market over geopolitical concerns

Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities  —  Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic …

Australia's online safety regulator says social media use among under-16s fell to 81.5% in March 2026, compared to 85.9% before ban took effect in December 2025  —  Australia's social media ban for under-16s led to only a marginal reduction in underage users in its first three months …

South Korea plans to inject ~$14B into its sovereign wealth fund for strategic investments in AI, data centers, and infrastructure, after a rout in tech stocks  —  South Korea plans to inject 20 trillion won ($13.9 billion) into its sovereign wealth fund for strategic investments in AI …