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Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known “agentic ransomware”, which adapts in real time and retries steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation — Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer … | Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Kuo: Apple suppliers plan to ship <1M iPhone fold units in Q3 2026, which may push the start of device pre-orders 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 …
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| 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 …
More: Bloomberg, The Next Web, Seoul Economic Daily, Neowin, Blockchain.News, Sweden Herald, and Tech in Asia
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Analysis: ~1M $TRUMP retail buyers lost a combined $3.81B, while ~500K mostly-early wallets captured $4B in gains, a textbook memecoin wealth transfer — A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money …
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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) …
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, Tech Monitor, Forbes Middle East, Watcher Guru, Chip Briefing, and Coinpedia Fintech News. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| 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 …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, RuntimeWire, and OpenAI
| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
A look at Threads and an interview with Head of Threads Connor Hayes, as the platform passes 500M MAUs and increasingly resembles Reddit with a community focus — Meta's office in San Francisco. Threads aims to reach one billion users.Ian C. Bates for The New York Times| Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: |
Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$892.5M in a new share sale to boost GPU production; Biren's stock is up 150%+ since its January Hong Kong IPO — Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaking champion Shanghai Biren Technology is raising HK$7 billion (US$892.5 million) …
More: The Next Web and Tech in Asia
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Samsung union leader Choi Seung-ho, who helped win a ~$26B bonus package for chip employees, as he tries to resolve the rift over bonus gaps — Avoiding old-school labor ideology, a new generation of tech workers finds itself divided by the AI boom. — As recently as late May, Choi Seung-ho was hailed as a hero.| 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 the strategy — The veteran investor has put himself at the centre of the global AI boom. Some think he now has too much control| Jennifer Medina / New York Times: |
Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media — It takes effort to be an informed citizen. Artificial intelligence tools offer an alluring shortcut — but they're not without risk.
More: Benzinga. Bluesky: @martinsfp and @markriedl
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary 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 … Sponsor Posts
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