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July 16, 2025, 11:45 AM
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Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
In Beijing, Jensen Huang says Nvidia will “accelerate the recovery” of its China chip sales and he expects its US export licenses “to come through very shortly”  —  Jensen Huang tells Beijing press conference it takes nine months to restart supply chain
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times:
China, which pledged $8.5B for young AI startups in April, is taking an industrial policy approach to help its AI companies close the gap with those in the US  —  Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its A.I. companies close the gap with those in the United States.
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Google says its Big Sleep AI agent for finding unknown software vulnerabilities recently discovered a critical SQLite flaw that “was at risk of being exploited”  —  Google said a large language model it developed to find vulnerabilities recently discovered a bug that hackers were preparing to use.
Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg:
Europol and Eurojust disrupt pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) that has claimed responsibility for 1,000+ DDoS attacks since 2022, and make two arrests  —  - Europol, Eurojust say more than 100 attack servers disrupted  — Two arrested in France and Spain, warrants out for 6 Russians
Kylie Robison / Wired:
Sources: OpenAI researcher Jason Wei, who worked on o3 and deep research models, and his colleague Hyung Won Chung are joining Meta's new superintelligence lab  —  Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI's o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta's superintelligence lab.
The Information on YouTube:
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's “personal super intelligence” push, how its pay packages pale in comparison to its AI infra investments, AI glasses, and more  —  The Information's TITV is first in tech news and analysis from the people that break and shape the story.
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: OpenAI is developing ChatGPT agents that let users create Excel- and PowerPoint-compatible files, generate reports, and handle tasks involving websites
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
ASML reports Q2 net sales of €7.7B, net income of €2.29B, and net bookings of €5.5B, above €4.19B est., as tariffs have a “less negative” impact than expected  —  ASML on Wednesday warned of the possibility of no growth in 2026, even as it beat top and bottom line expectations for the second quarter.
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal:
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says “while we still prepare for growth in 2026, we cannot confirm it”, after Trump threatened 30% tariffs on the EU; ASML falls 9%+
Reuters:
At a supply chain expo in Beijing, Jensen Huang calls AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Tencent “world class” and says AI is “revolutionizing” supply chains  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang described artificial intelligence models from Chinese firms Deepseek …
Reuters:
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Nvidia's plan to resume its H20 AI chip sales to China is part of US trade negotiations over rare earths and magnets
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
In a paper, AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others recommend “further research into chain-of-thought monitorability” for AI safety  —  AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and a broad coalition of companies and nonprofit groups …
Calvin French-Owen:
A former OpenAI engineer details his experience working at the company, including its culture, engineering practices, rapid growth, and the launch of Codex  —  I left OpenAI three weeks ago.  I had joined the company back in May 2024.  —  I wanted to share my reflections because there's …
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Roblox launches a licensing platform to help IP rights holders to collaborate with creators, with Lionsgate, Netflix, Sega, and Kodansha as founding partners  —  Roblox is launching a new licensing platform to streamline the process for IP rights holders to partner with creators on the gaming platform.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US DOJ says ex-Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pled guilty to hacking 10+ companies and to extortion; in February, he admitted he hacked AT&T and Verizon  —  Former U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking telecommunication companies and attempting to extort …
Bloomberg:
Scale AI says it is laying off 200 full-time employees, or ~14% of its global workforce, and will stop working with 500 contractors, after Meta invested $14.3B  —  The AI data-labeling company is laying off 200 full-time employees and will stop working with 500 contractors.
Erin Doherty / CNBC:
Several crypto regulation bills backed by Trump fail to clear a key hurdle in the US House after 13 Republicans voted with Democrats to block the legislation  —  Several cryptocurrency regulation bills backed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday failed to clear a key procedural hurdle …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast plans to spin off its media and entertainment assets, including NBCUniversal and Sky, into a new publicly traded entity, set to close by mid-2027

New York Times:
Sources: CNN CEO Mark Thompson told Paramount he would not share oversight of CNN with another exec, as David Ellison weighs whether to put Bari Weiss in charge

The Intercept:
The KIDS Act, set for a US House vote as early as next week, could eliminate online anonymity, raising the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers

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Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
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Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
Unify, which offers AI-powered tools to boost revenue pipelines, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, valuing it at $260M, following a $12M Series A
Financial Times:
Sources: Cantor Equity Partners 1, a SPAC backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, is in late-stage talks with Blockstream Capital founder Adam Back to buy $3B+ in bitcoin
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Hugging Face users have uploaded 5,000 AI models, previously banned from Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to the platform
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and CLI Codex, terminal-based AI tools launched since February, have surprisingly gained ground on AI code editors with traditional UIs
Hugh Son / CNBC:
On stablecoins, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon says, “We're going to be involved in both JPMorgan deposit coin and stablecoins to understand it, to be good at it”
Reuters:
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised a $2B seed led by a16z at a $12B valuation; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD, and Jane Street also invested
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