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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Stargate has struggled to get off the ground and sharply scaled back its near-term plans, as SoftBank and OpenAI disagree on crucial terms of the deal  —  The Stargate venture, introduced at White House event, is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end
Reuters:
OpenAI and the UK government announce a partnership to explore AI use in justice, defense, security, and edtech, and possibly expand OpenAI's London office  —  Britain and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership to deepen collaboration on AI security research …
Kylie Robison / Wired:
Leaked memo: Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching “dictators”, and says a “no bad person” rule is impractical  —  “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle …
Google DeepMind:
Google says an advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 “exceptionally difficult” problems  —  The International Mathematical Olympiad ("IMO") is the world's most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959.
Mike Allen / Axios:
OpenAI says ChatGPT users send more than 2.5B prompts globally each day, more than 330M of those are in US, and the platform has 500M weekly active users  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will use a swing through Washington this week to argue that AI is already making Americans more productive …
Kylie Robison / Wired:
In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications Fidji Simo lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world  —  Soon-to-be former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sent a memo to OpenAI staff Monday laying out her vision for how AI will change the world.
CoinDesk:
Crypto custody company BitGo confidentially files for a US IPO; Palo Alto-based BitGo raised $100M at a $1.75B valuation in August 2023  —  The crypto custodian submitted a confidential U.S. listing as interest in public crypto stocks heats up.  —  What to know:
Bloomberg:
Microsoft releases updates for all SharePoint versions to patch a 0-day RCE vulnerability exploited globally on thousands of on-prem servers
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Source: Netflix is using Runway AI's video generation tools for production; Disney is testing out the tools and talked with Runway about possible uses for them  —  Netflix Inc. has begun using artificial intelligence video generation software from startup Runway AI, testing the waters …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Researchers: at least 750 US hospitals faced disruptions on the day of last year's big CrowdStrike outage, and 200+ had outages related to patient care services  —  Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike's disastrous crash, researchers have revealed.

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Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved

The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

James Faris / Business Insider:
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Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
Polymarket says it is buying little-known derivatives exchange QCX, in a move to legally re-enter the US market; a source says Polymarket will pay $112M
Emilio Parodi / Reuters:
Sources: Meta, X, and LinkedIn appeal an unprecedented ~€1.04B VAT claim by Italy, which is seeking €887.6M from Meta, €12.5M from X, and ~€140M from LinkedIn
Niket Nishant / Reuters:
Figma plans to sell nearly 37M shares to raise up to $1.03B, pricing its shares between $25 and $28 each, giving it an up to $16.4B valuation in its NYSE debut
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Dell confirms extortion group World Leaks breached its Solution Centers platform, used for demos, earlier in July, stealing mostly synthetic or public data
Wall Street Journal:
Blank check company Dynamix says it plans to merge with another entity to create Ether Machine, holding $1.5B in ether, backed by $800M+ from Kraken and others
Financial Times:
X says France's criminal probe over algorithmic “manipulation” and “fraudulent” data extraction is “distorting French law in order to serve a political agenda”
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