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Bloomberg:
DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months  —  DeepSeek rolled out preview versions of a new flagship artificial intelligence model a year after upending Silicon Valley …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input and $3.48/1M output tokens while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, both the cheapest in their class  —  Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December.  They just dropped the first of their …
South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek V4 Pro has 1.6T parameters, DeepSeek's largest model by that metric, and V4 Flash has 284B parameters; both models have a context window of 1M tokens
Reuters:
Huawei says its Ascend supernode based on the Ascend 950 AI chips will fully support DeepSeek V4, as DeepSeek launches a preview of its V4 model
Bloomberg:
Anthropic says Google is committing to invest $10B now in cash at a $350B valuation and will invest another $30B if Anthropic hits performance targets  —  Google will invest $10 billion in Anthropic PBC, with another $30 billion potentially to follow, strengthening the relationship between …
Financial Times:
Canada-based Cohere and Germany-based Aleph Alpha agree to a merger valuing the combination at ~$20B, to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal  —  Canadian and German start-ups to focus on ‘sovereign’ AI systems independent of US and China
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs  —  Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have struck a multibillion-dollar deal for the social-media giant to rent hundreds of thousands …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: JPMorgan and other banks struggled to spread the risk of billions in loans they made to build data centers leased to Oracle in Texas and Wisconsin  —  The AI boom has hit a funding snag, compounding power constraints and a growing public backlash against data centers
Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:
The DOJ joins xAI in its legal challenge to a new Colorado law that seeks to prevent discrimination by AI tools in employment and other areas  —  The Trump administration is joining Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI in its legal challenge to Colorado's new state law that seeks …
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Series, founded by two seniors at Yale to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, raised a $5.1M pre-seed from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others  —  Series, a social networking app, announced that it raised a $5.1 million pre-seed round, with investors including Venmo co-founder …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
X launches its standalone messaging app XChat on the App Store, saying it supports end-to-end encryption and has no ads  —  XChat, the standalone messaging app from X, is now available.  X's new iPhone and iPad app has officially arrived on the App Store.  —  XChat has officially launched on iPhone and iPad
Terje Solsvik / Reuters:
Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026  —  Norway said on Friday it would present a bill in parliament by year-end to ban children from using social media until they turn 16 …
Joe Wertz / Bloomberg:
France's forecasting office refers suspected weather sensor tampering at Paris airport to police, after detecting unusual readings alongside Polymarket betting  —  France's forecasting office flagged suspected tampering with weather sensors at the country's largest airport and referred the case to police …
Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman apologizes to a Canadian town for not alerting police to the activity of a mass shooting suspect when her ChatGPT account was suspended  —  Sam Altman said AI company will work more closely with governments to prevent future tragedies  —  OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman apologized …
@themidasproj:
The Wire by Acutus, an AI-generated site with articles attacking AI industry critics, appears to be funded by the OpenAI-backed super PAC Leading The Future  —  The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI's super PAC appears to be funding it.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
ComfyUI, which gives creators granular control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models, raised $30M at a $500M valuation  —  ComfyUI, a startup that helps creators control image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models with a node-based workflow …
More: Entrepreneur
Jenna Russell / New York Times:
Maine's governor vetoes a bill that would have led to US' first state pause on data centers, citing its failure to exempt a project in a distressed mill town  —  Gov. Janet Mills said she rejected what would have been the nation's first moratorium on data centers because it failed to exempt a project in a distressed mill town.

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Associated Press:
The DOJ withdraws subpoenas that would have forced three NYT reporters to testify about sources, after a federal judge criticized the DOJ for sloppy legal work

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A judge extends the temporary order pausing the Paramount-WBD merger for 14 more days and writes that the WGA can participate in a scheduled hearing on August 3

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Sony Pictures Entertainment plans to restore the Cinerama Dome and adjacent 14-screen theater in Los Angeles, reopening in 2028 and operated by Alamo Drafthouse

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Bloomberg:
Sources: in recent weeks, China told tech companies, like ByteDance and Moonshot AI, to reject US capital without state approval, after Meta's Manus acquisition

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The Information:
Sources: Cursor hit $2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a nearly $900M loss in its past fiscal year on ~$770M in revenue
Connor Stringer / Telegraph:
President Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies
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