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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says it “has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting” the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities  —  Several hacking groups with ties to the Chinese government have been linked to a recent wave of widespread attacks targeting …
Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Source: the US National Nuclear Security Administration was among those breached by a hack of SharePoint; no sensitive information is known to be compromised
Lauren Goode / Wired:
Source: OpenAI's $40B round announced in March is reopening on July 28; SoftBank's commitment could be cut to $10B if OpenAI does not restructure by end of 2025  —  OpenAI, which recently announced a $40 billion round of financing, is seeking funding from new and existing investors to fulfill the deal.
Bloomberg:
OpenAI and Oracle unveil plans to develop 4.5GW of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership, hitting 5GW in total and running 2M AI chips
Bloomberg:
Sources: Google is seeking to recruit news organizations for a new licensing project related to AI, and plans to launch a pilot initially with ~20 US outlets  —  The company has ramped up its overtures to news organizations in recent months  —  Google is seeking to recruit news organizations …
Pew Research Center:
Survey of 900 US Google users: of ~69K searches, 18% gave AI Overviews; on those searches users clicked a result link 8% of the time, vs. 15% with no AI summary
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon is acquiring Bee, which sells a $50 device that resembles a Fitbit, is always listening, transcribes conversations, and serves up daily AI summaries  —  Bee is a Fitbit-like device that transcribes your conversations and serves up daily summaries. … Amazon is acquiring Bee, a startup that puts AI on your wrist.
Qwen:
Alibaba debuts the Qwen3-Coder model for agentic coding, including a 480B-parameter MoE variant, and open sources Qwen Code, a CLI tool adapted from Gemini CLI  —  Today, we're announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date.  Qwen3-Coder is available in multiple sizes …
Financial Times:
Sources: Microsoft has poached 24+ employees from Google DeepMind in the past six months; Gemini engineering head Amar Subramanya confirms the move to Microsoft  —  US tech giant recruits more than 20 people from rival in push to gain edge in the fast-developing technology
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The UK plans to ban public sector and key infrastructure orgs from paying ransoms to ransomware attackers, require others to notify the UK if they plan to pay  —  The United Kingdom's government is planning to ban public sector and critical infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms after ransomware attacks.
Mistral AI:
Mistral releases a study on the environmental impact of its LLMs, conducting what it claims is the first comprehensive lifecycle analysis of an AI model  —  At Mistral AI, our mission is to bring artificial intelligence in everyone's hands.  For this purpose, we have consistently advocated …
Anthropic:
Researchers detail “subliminal learning”, where LLMs learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits  —  James Chua2, Jan Betley2, Anna Sztyber-Betley3, Jacob Hilton4,  —  *Equal contribution; author order chosen randomly
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: after raising $10B, xAI is now working with a trusted financier to secure up to $12B to buy Nvidia chips, led by Elon Musk-linked Valor Equity Partners  —  xAI is tapping into the booming private-credit market to find the cash it needs to build massive data centers
Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Sources: dozens of xAI staff voiced concerns over a program granting xAI “perpetual” access to data like their “likeness” for training; several did not consent  —  - xAI workers recorded facial expressions for AI training, internal documents show.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: the EU is set to approve Apple's App Store rule and fee changes, unveiled last month, in the coming weeks, staving off a potentially hefty daily fine  —  Apple's (AAPL.O) changes to its App Store rules and fees will likely secure the green light from EU antitrust regulators …
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
iOS 26 beta 4 adds more “liquid” back to Liquid Glass design, after dialing it back in beta 3  —  iOS 26 beta 4 has just been released, and one of the biggest question on many testers' minds has been answered.  After dialing back its redesign in beta 3, Apple has now infused …
Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $4.45B, vs. $4.36B est., net income of $1.3B, and forecasts Q3 profit below est.; TXN drops 10%+ after hours  —  Texas Instruments (TXN.O) forecast third-quarter profit just shy of Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, as the analog chipmaker invests heavily …
The Information:
Sources: Apple's AI model team wanted to release several models as open source but Craig Federighi disagreed, largely concerned about public perception issues  —  Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the company's artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software.
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Microsoft launches the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 5G for business customers, featuring Intel Core Ultra series 2 processors, shipping on August 26 for $1,799+  —  The Surface Laptop 7 with 5G is now available to order, but only for business customers and with an Intel Core Ultra chip.
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Composio, which provides tools to help companies build AI agents, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $29M  —  Composio, a startup with a platform for building artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $25 million in funding.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
PitchBook: in H1, AI startups raised $104.3B in the US, or about 66% of all US VC funding, up from 49% last year; there were 281 VC-backed exits totaling $36B  —  OpenAI and Anthropic continue to lead a fundraising bonanza in artificial intelligence, raising historic rounds and stratospheric valuations.
More: PYMNTS.com
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Filing: the FBI drops its probe of Kraken founder Jesse Powell and returns dozens of devices, after raiding his home in 2023 over seemingly banal allegations  —  Powell in a 2014 pic.  —  When federal agents raided the home of Kraken founder Jesse Powell two years ago …

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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:
Kalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal

Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Atlas Obscura's co-founders were pushed out of the company amid clashes with CEO Louise Story, who has trimmed staff and changed editorial strategy

More News

Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
Poseidon, an AI-focused decentralized data layer built on the Story protocol, raised a $15M seed led by a16z
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
AI compliance startup Delve raised a $32M Series A at a $300M valuation led by Insight Partners with participation from CISOs at Fortune 500 companies

Earlier Picks

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Seoul-based chip designer FuriosaAI signs a deal with LG to use its AI chip RNGD, its first major contract, after rejecting Meta's $800M buyout offer in March
Anil Ananthaswamy / Quanta Magazine:
While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data
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