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Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known “agentic ransomware”, which adapts in real time by retrying steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation  —  Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer …
Anniek Bao / CNBC:
SemiAnalysis: Nvidia delays its next-gen AI rack system Kyber NVL144 by 12+ months to 2028 due to PCB manufacturing issues, and cancels its NVL72x2 architecture  —  NVIDIA's next marquee product — the Kyber rack-scale architecture designed to house its 2027 Rubin Ultra chips …
Ming-Chi Kuo:
Kuo: Apple suppliers plan to ship <1M foldable iPhones in Q3 2026, which may push the start of device preorders and sales to Q4, with weeks of delivery delays  —  My latest industry survey indicates that assembly shipments for the foldable iPhone in 2H26 will be roughly 7-8 million units …
Reuters:
SK Hynix launches a US share sale on the Nasdaq to raise ~$28B, selling 17.79M new shares; the final listing price is due Thursday before trading starts Friday  —  South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix (000660.KS) on Monday launched a U.S. share sale to raise 43 trillion won ($28.07 billion) …
David Keohane / Financial Times:
How Masayoshi Son is remaking SoftBank in his own image, betting on AI; SoftBank trades at a ~50% discount to its net asset value, as some question his strategy  —  The veteran investor has put himself at the centre of the global AI boom.  Some think he now has too much control
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
An interview with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via a SPAC, the physical layer as its core advantage, safety, and more  —  The humanoid robotics market is awash in money right now.  Last week, AI2 Robotics, a Shenzhen-based startup that makes wheeled humanoid robots …
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Brian Danga / The Block:
Ripple secures CASP authorization from Luxembourg's financial regulator, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries  —  Quick Take  — Ripple said it received CASP authorization from Luxembourg's CSSF, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries.
Eric Katz / NOTUS:
Document: a draft US Treasury Department report is set to warn about the AI market's risks, likening some key aspects to the dotcom crash in the early 2000s  —  Publicly, the Trump administration is bullish about AI.  Privately, some of its analysts are weighing AI against the dotcom bust.
Armin Ronacher / Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings:
Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 seem worse at tool calls than older models, likely due to post-training that assumes Claude Code-like harnesses as targets  —  A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days.  The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi's edit tool …
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios:
AI agent training platform Bespoke Labs raised $40M across a seed led by 8VC and a Series A led by Wing, saying the funding gives it almost two years of runway  —  Bespoke Labs, an AI agent training platform, raised $40 million across seed and Series A funding, CEO Mahesh Sathiamoorthy tells Axios exclusively.

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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
A study of 14,419 self-published novels on Amazon using Pangram's AI detection tools: in 2,168 of the books, 50%+ of prose was AI, and in 970 books, 90%+ was AI

Cameron Coats / Radio Ink:
Filing: a major Cumulus Media post-bankruptcy stakeholder is likely to be Alden Global Capital President Heath Freeman, who may hold a 31.86% voting interest

France 24:
France orders former RT journalist Xenia Fedorova to leave the country after accusations that she was spreading Kremlin propaganda on French TV and radio

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