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Katie Paul / Reuters:
At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and its reorganization was not as “clean” as it could have been  —  Meta (META.O) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told an internal town hall on Thursday that AI agent development …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft invests $2.5B and forms the Microsoft Frontier Company to embed 6,000 forward-deployed engineers with customers to help deploy AI systems  —  Microsoft is launching a new AI “company.”  It won't be a separate legal entity, and most of its 6,000 people already work at Microsoft.
Qianer Liu / The Information:
Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip  —  Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner …
Grace Kay / The Information:
Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a $200-per-week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6; the tally excludes beta versions of xAI products  —  Tesla told employees last month it would impose a $200 per week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6, according to an internal memo …
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Stephen Totilo / Game File:
Sony says all new PlayStation games will only be sold in digital formats from January 2028, as digital media preference “significantly outpaces physical discs”  —  New games sold for PlayStation consoles will only be available digitally and won't be sold on discs effective January 2028, Sony has announced.
The Information:
Memo: Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot chatbots into a single app featuring coding tools and AI agents dubbed AutoPilot  —  Microsoft is merging its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps and cutting unwanted features to ‘earn the right to exist’ in the eyes …
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Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg:
Letter: chip sector group SEMI, including Micron and Samsung, warns Scott Bessent US policies affecting prices or production capacity would worsen the shortage  —  Government attempts to address the global memory chip shortage by influencing prices or production capacity would worsen …
Bloomberg:
The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android's market power should stand  —  Google lost its long-running fight against a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine after the bloc's top judges …
Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2% in its Nasdaq debut Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.9B valuation  —  IQM, a full-stack quantum company out of Finland, went public on the Nasdaq Thursday via a SPAC merger at a valuation of about $1.9 billion.
The Information:
Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal  —  A British law firm has scored a big win: a role in the Anthropic initial public offering, expected to raise tens of billions at a valuation of more than $1 trillion.
Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI has discussed giving a 5% stake to the US government, seeking to clear political obstacles by securing buy-in from the Trump administration  —  Sam Altman's start-up in early talks for a public ownership deal as political pressure rises.  OpenAI has discussed giving …
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Lucinda Shen / Axios:
Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~$2B valuation, six months after raising $75M at a $1B valuation  —  Binance is set to lead Mesh's funding round that will value the crypto payments and settlement company at up to $2 billion, Axios Pro has learned.
Thomas Ricker / The Verge:
Amazon says Leo now has 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit, following a July 1 launch, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes”  —  Early adopters of Amazon Leo should temper expectations. … Amazon says it now has enough satellites operating …
New York Times:
President Trump says Micron will invest $250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a $250 deposit in some US states  —  President Trump said the U.S. chip maker would make a significant donation to a new type of investment account created by the administration.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Z.ai launches ZCode, an “Agentic Development Environment” purpose-built for its GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan tiers range from $16.20 to $144 per month  —  The move marks the company's most aggressive push yet into the fast-growing AI-powered coding tool market …
Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg:
SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by around 2030  —  SoftBank Group Corp. and its telecom unit will start renting AI computing resources to US companies next fiscal year …

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From Mediagazer

Adam Rose / The Intercept:
Independent reporter Carlitos Ricardo Parias, who has 100K TikTok followers, nears 300 days in ICE detention, the longest a journalist has spent in US custody

Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at Europe's wave of broadcast consolidation, seen by industry insiders as necessary to compete with global streamers but facing regulatory challenges

Bloomberg:
A look at romantasy's rise from BookTok hit to cottage industry, with efforts to bring it to Hollywood; Circana says the genre raked in ~$1B in US sales in 2025

More News

Sam Altman / Financial Times:
Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI models available to allies
New York Times:
Filings: Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day he unveiled his AI action plan
Joe Warminsky / The Record:
The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks
Samantha Elkins / NBC News:
Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked

Earlier Picks

Wall Street Journal:
Nansen: about two-thirds of Trump's memecoin investors are currently in the red, and 85% of World Liberty's $WLFI buyers on the secondary market are underwater
Phoebe Liu / The Information:
Nvidia promises to financially backstop young cloud providers, like Firmus and Sharon AI, by renting back unused GPUs, in exchange for a share of their revenues
Bloomberg:
Amazon's emissions rose 16% YoY in 2025, driven by data center construction and delivery fuel, while Google's “ambition-based” emissions jumped 18% YoY in 2025
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