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July 16, 2025, 11:45 AM

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Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
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:
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:
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:
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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