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July 3, 2026, 12:55 PM

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The Information:
Sources: Alibaba banned Claude Code internally and asked its employees to remove all Claude models from their work computers due to Anthropic security concerns  —  Alibaba Group has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code, and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers …
Business Insider:
Sources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently in training, codenamed Watermelon, matches GPT-5.5 and uses an “order of magnitude more compute than Avocado”  —  Meta is making significant progress in the AI model race, its superintelligence chief Alexandr Wang told employees today.
Katie Paul / Reuters:
Divya Arya / BBC:
Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like “rape video” and “child video” and linking to Telegram channels  —  Warning: This story contains descriptions of abuse  —  Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting …
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times:
Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincided with suspicious Kalshi wagers  —  Platform removes more than 500,000 streams of Malcolm Todd track ‘Earrings’ on concern traders propelled it to number 1
Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability  —  Cath Virginia / The Verge … Twenty-five years ago today, a young, little-known programmer by the name of Bram Cohen fired off …
Dawn Lim / Bloomberg:
Blackstone's QTS abandons plans to build its portion of a 2,100-acre data center campus in Virginia, after years of organized opposition and legal challenges  —  Blackstone Inc.'s QTS is walking away from plans to build its portion of a 2,100-acre data center campus in Virginia …

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