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July 3, 2026, 7:25 PM
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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 …
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 …
Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis:
Meta could use its compute for its own models, ad scaling, SpaceX-like neocloud deals, and hosting 3rd-party models; it may be close to an Anthropic deal  —  Zuck Takes Plan B?  SpaceX 2.0, Bedrock 2.0, MSL Isn't Giving Up, Scaling RecSys by 10x... ClusterMAX ranking coming soon?
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout  —  Their need to diversify the business meets the AI build out concerns...  Meta has a problem.  Well, two of them, actually.
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:
At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's reorganization was not as “clean” as it could have been and its AI agent development has not accelerated as expected
Financial Times:
An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says “there will not be an FDA for AI” under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industry's “doomer” messaging, and more  —  Sriram Krishnan tells the FT the president is against a centralised regulator as AI backlash grows
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
How Jeff Bezos' changing relationship with President Trump has helped Amazon and Blue Origin, such as more federal contracts awarded during Trump's second term  —  Space company has booked rapid growth under this administration, after founder spent president's first term being ‘hated’
Reuters:
India's IT secretary said the country is investigating a data breach at Apple supplier Tata, which exposed files that included photos of iPhone 18 Pro models  —  India is investigating a data breach at Tata Electronics that exposed documents linked to Apple's (AAPL.O) unreleased iPhone 18 Pro …

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From Mediagazer

Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Filing: Paramount seeks a $1.88B bond from state AGs, based on its calculation of ticking fees and other costs it will have to pay due to the WBD deal delay

Michael Calderone / New York Magazine:
Q&A with WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich about her role, Trump plane swap in Turkey, why the annual dinner is important, Karoline Leavitt stepping down, and more

Max Tani / Semafor:
The Daily Mail hires Mike Rothman, most recently president of The Dispatch, as general manager to oversee its North American business and video expansion

More News

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

Earlier Picks

Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2.12% in its Nasdaq debut on July 2 after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.9B valuation
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
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
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