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| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic says it will make a preview of its Mythos model available to more than 40 organizations, as part of a new Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative — Anthropic on Tuesday released a preview of its new frontier model, Mythos, which it says will be used by a small coterie of partner organizations for cybersecurity work.| Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations — The program comes as the tech industry races to secure software before similar AI-powered offensive capabilities become too much for defenders to handle.| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser — Today we're announcing Project Glasswing1, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources say Apple plans to announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays — Apple Inc.'s first foldable phone is on track to arrive during the company's normal iPhone launch period later this year …
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| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help produce processors for robotics and data centers — Intel (INTC.O) said on Tuesday it would join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, Tesla (TSLA.O) and xAI.
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| New York Times: |
Analysis: Gemini 3-based AI Overviews are accurate ~90% of the time, meaning across 5T+ searches per year, tens of millions of answers are erroneous every hour — The company's A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
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| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Sources: Meta has an internal leaderboard dubbed “Claudeonomics” where its 85K+ employees compete on AI-token usage and earn rewards like “Token Legend” status — Employees at Meta Platforms who want to show off their AI superuser chops are competing on an internal leaderboard …
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic — Russian government-linked hackers are compromising popular internet routers to steal passwords for email accounts and other online services … | Filippo Valsorda: |
A cryptography engineer calls for an urgent rollout of quantum-resistant cryptography, saying the risk of inaction is now unacceptable, after Google's warning — My position on the urgency of rolling out quantum-resistant cryptography has changed compared to just a few months ago.
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| Annie Bang / Bloomberg: |
Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, cannot be trusted because it has no SEC definition and can be massaged — The co-founder of Cluely — an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup with the motto, “Cheat on everything” … | Anthropic: |
Anthropic signs a deal with Google and Broadcom for GWs of next-gen TPU capacity, and says its run-rate revenue surpassed $30B, up from ~$9B at the end of 2025 — We have signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity that we expect to come online starting in 2027.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind “Summarize with AI” buttons — Let's pretend you work in IT and you're looking for a new digital service desk platform to help your employees reset passwords or onboard new hires.
More: Search Engine Land and Microsoft Security Blog
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems — A pilot program to support independent safety and alignment research and develop the next generation of talent
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Los Angeles-based Hermeus, which aims to build unmanned hypersonic fighter aircraft, raised $200M led by Khosla Ventures and $150M in debt at a $1B valuation — Defense startup Hermeus has raised $350 million to keep developing what it calls the “fastest unmanned aircraft,” …
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Kalshi signs a deal with Fox Corp. to integrate its forecasts into Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox One, and Fox Weather, following deals with CNN and CNBC — The prediction market already has deals with CNN and CNBC. — The biggest prediction market in the U.S. is teaming up with the biggest TV news channel in the U.S.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
The Trump administration proposes cutting CISA's budget for 2027 by $707M+ to help the agency refocus on its “core mission”, not “weaponization and waste” — The Trump administration is planning to cut the budget of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by at least $707 million for 2027.
More: Cybersecurity Dive, The Next Web, Payload, Nextgov/FCW, and Barron's Online
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands Prompted Playlists, its AI feature for creating playlists, to include podcasts, for Premium users in the US, Canada, the UK, and other countries — Spotify said today that it is expanding its AI-powered feature to create playlists, called Prompted Playlist, to include podcasts as well.
More: Spotify, CNET, Thurrott, Android Police, Android Authority, iPhone in Canada, PCMag, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, Engadget, TechRadar, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf
| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Asus Zenbook A16 review: the $1,599 laptop uses the fast and power hungry Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme with 18 cores, but a plain design and includes bloatware — It's not all about what's on the inside. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus hires xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI and has hundreds of staff across its San Francisco HQ, London, and Zurich — Kyle Kosic joins Project Prometheus, the secretive start-up working on systems that can understand the physical world
More: Silicon Republic, Sherwood News, The Decoder, and Implicator.ai
| Alistair Barr / Business Insider: |
GoDaddy integrates Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into its hosting platform, enabling site owners to block, permit, or possibly monetize automated crawler access — Follow Alistair Barr … - Cloudflare and GoDaddy are addressing AI's impact on web traffic and revenue.
More: Benzinga, Business Wire, and Adweek
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches Acrobat Spaces, a free AI-based study tool to help students generate flashcards, mind maps, quizzes, and Express presentations without logging in — Adobe Acrobat has largely catered to professionals with its recent AI features. Now, the company is turning its attention …
More: CNET, The Economic Times, 9to5Mac, The Adobe Blog, Thurrott, and Condia
| John Collison / Cheeky Pint: |
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the history of Google and AI, speed and Search, Google's AI comeback, bottlenecks, capital allocation, how Google works, and more — Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google and Alphabet. He sits down with John and Elad Gil to discuss Google's resurgence in the AI race …
More: MediaPost, Stripe on YouTube, and Glossy
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| Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: |
True Footage, which uses AI trained on years of appraisal data to generate property valuations, raised a $40M Series C led by Cox Enterprises' Socium Ventures — True Footage, a real estate appraisal platform, raised a $40 million Series C led by Cox Enterprises' Socium Ventures, CEO John Liss tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: Implicator.ai and True Footage, Inc.
| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
MLB rolls out the Automated Ball-Strike System, “robot umps” that use Sony-made advanced cameras to help officiate games, as backups to human umpires — The automated ball-strike system has often validated the judgement of the human umpires … Tech Across the Globe| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Aria Networks, which builds what it calls the world's first AI-native network to work with any AI chip, raised a $125M Series A from Sutter Hill and others — Aria Networks said on Tuesday it has raised $125 million in its first series funding round, as the startup seeks to develop …
More: CRN and The New Stack
| Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Samsung reports a record preliminary Q1 operating profit of ~$38B, up more than 8x YoY and above ~$27B est., and revenue up 68% YoY to ~$88B, amid the AI boom — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Tuesday projected a record-high first-quarter operating profit from a year earlier … Sponsor Posts
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