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July 15, 2025, 1:30 PM
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Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
Nvidia plans to resume H20 sales to China after the US assured it AI chip shipments would be approved, reversing the Trump administration's stance from April  —  US government officials told Nvidia they would green-light export licenses for its H20 artificial intelligence accelerator …
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
AMD says it will restart shipments of its MI308 AI chips to China after the US Commerce Department gave assurances it would approve the sales, following Nvidia
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Researcher: a DOGE employee inadvertently published a private API key for xAI on GitHub on July 13, exposing access to 52+ LLMs, like a Grok version from July 9  —  Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access …
ProPublica:
Investigation: Microsoft uses engineers in China to help maintain US DOD systems, with minimal supervision by US personnel, leaving sensitive data vulnerable  —  The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China …
Carlos Caminada / Bloomberg:
Apple signs a $500M deal to buy rare-earth minerals from US producer MP, which secured Pentagon backing last week, as it seeks to reduce its dependence on China  —  Apple Inc. has struck a $500 million deal to buy rare-earth minerals from MP Materials Corp., the US producer that just last week secured backing from the Pentagon.
Bloomberg:
Sources: the US DOJ and CFTC ended a pair of investigations into crypto betting platform Polymarket that started in the waning days of the Biden administration  —  A pair of US investigations into crypto-betting platform Polymarket that went full-throttle in the waning days of the Biden administration …
Martha Muir / Financial Times:
Google signs two 20-year power purchase agreements worth $3B to access hydroelectric power from Brookfield's renewables arm, starting with up to 670MW of power  —  Tech groups seeking renewable energy to meet huge demand from artificial intelligence  —  Google has reached a $3bn deal …
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
CoreWeave says it plans to invest up to $6B to set up a 100MW data center in Lancaster, PA, creating 175 jobs and potentially expanding to 300MW in the future
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Reddit says it is now verifying UK users' ages using Persona before letting them “view certain mature content”, to comply with the country's Online Safety Act  —  Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them “view certain mature content” …
Aditya Soni / Reuters:
Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati's AI startup that launched only in February, raised $2B led by a16z; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, and AMD also invested  —  Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, said on Tuesday that it has raised $2 billion in funding.
Amy Feldman / Forbes:
OpenEvidence, whose free AI search tool has signed up 40% of doctors in the US, raised $210M led by GV at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1B in February  —  Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research.  Now, he's raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.
More: OpenEvidence

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Salon:
Salon, launched in 1995 to cover politics, culture, and more, says it is closing: “business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly”

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
LIV Golf is shutting down after five years and over $5B in Saudi backing, ending its efforts to build a TV audience on Fox and, before that, The CW

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Nexstar reports Q3 net income up 285% YoY to $250M and net revenue up 78% YoY to $2.1B, as Q3 political ads brought in $317M; results include Tegna numbers

More News

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Nextdoor unveils new features like an interactive neighborhood map called Alerts, partners with 3,500+ local news outlets, and more, to revitalize its app
Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog:
Grok's iOS app now features two AI Companions, or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
A look at SpaceX's $2B xAI investment and Tesla's possible investment in xAI, and the idea that Tesla stock is a way to invest in the “Musk Mars Conglomerate”

Earlier Picks

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta says it has taken down ~10M Facebook profiles so far in 2025 that impersonated large content creators or repeatedly reused their text, photos, or videos
Andrew Orr / AppleInsider:
IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic pressures and weak consumer demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, plus professors, authors, researchers, and nonprofits
Eli Tan / New York Times:
Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang discussed abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model
Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows
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