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| Fanny Potkin / Reuters: |
Sources: China met with Alibaba, ByteDance, Z.ai, and others to discuss potentially limiting foreign access to advanced AI models, penalties for AI theft, more — Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about potentially restricting overseas access …
More: International Business Times, Quartz, The Information, Digit, Newser, Nairametrics, and Bloomberg
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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
OpenRouter: Chinese AI models have drawn 30%+ of token use by US companies each week since February 8, peaking at 46%, up from 11% over the previous 12 months — Chinese-built AI models are gaining traction among U.S. companies as they narrow the performance gap with leading American rivals …
More: Quartz, Washington Examiner, Constellation Research, The Decoder, and Nikkei Asia
Forums: r/technology and r/LocalLLaMA
| New York Times: |
Alibaba's Qwen models, introduced in 2023, have made it an AI powerhouse, but the company has yet to turn their global popularity into a profitable business — The Chinese company's models have won over developers worldwide, but they are open source — so they can be used and modified freely.| Reuters: |
Sources: DeepSeek is at an early stage of developing its own AI chip designed for inference, in a push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips — Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter …
More: Engadget, The Information, Bloomberg, CTech, Barron's Online, The Tech Portal, ZeroHedge News, Seoul Economic Daily, The Decoder, and Benzinga
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic researchers detail J-space, a small collection of neural patterns in Claude that reveals internal thoughts that don't appear in the model's output — As you read this sentence, circuits in your brain are adjusting your posture, controlling your breathing, and transforming lines …
More: Axios, Anthropic, The Decoder, Anthropic on YouTube, The Rundown AI, The Indian Express, Business Standard, Digit, The Neuron, Gizmodo, Implicator.ai, VentureBeat, and RuntimeWire
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| Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are offering startups token credits, promotions, and one-time bonuses as they battle for lasting streams of B2B revenue — Pitched battle for business users comes as AI companies seek lasting streams of revenue — Hans Ibarra, a founder building … | Reuters: |
Samsung estimates Q2 operating profit of ~$58.44B, up 19x from Q2 2025 and above ~$57.02B est., and revenue up 129% YoY to ~$111.7B; Samsung's stock drops 6%+ — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Tuesday forecast a 19-fold jump in second-quarter operating profit from a year earlier …
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| Reuters: |
Counterpoint: China smartphone sales fell 13% YoY during the 618 shopping festival as brands raised prices to offset memory costs; Honor fell 33% and Xiaomi 24% — Smartphone sales in China fell 13% year-on-year during the month-long 618 shopping festival, as brands raised prices …
More: Counterpoint Research, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Register, iClarified, Benzinga, and TechNode
| Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: |
Court filing: Meta says four US states seek $1.4T over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict youth and misled the public; its market cap is ~$1.5T — Meta Platforms (META.O) said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over accusations …
More: Benzinga, The Independent, Fox Business, The Hans India, Quartz, Digit, Engadget, COINOTAG, Phandroid, Simply Wall St, and Blockonomi. Bluesky: @glinden
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for autonomous “killer robots” to be “banned by international law”, a central issue in the US DOD-Anthropic clash — António Guterres labels lethal autonomous weapons ‘morally repugnant,’ resurfacing issue …
More: Tech Times and NewsMax.com
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches “platform properties” in the Google Search Console, letting creators and website owners see which search terms lead to their social platforms — A new feature will let creators and publishers see what search terms take people to their social platforms.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is looking to raise at least $25B from a US dollar bond sale to fund its AI infrastructure investments; the size could increase based on demand — Amazon.com Inc. is looking to raise at least $25 billion from a US dollar bond sale, marking its latest jumbo debt offering …
More: The Information, Bloomberg, Finimize, Benzinga, The Tech Portal, NewsMax.com, and CNBC
| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Study: 50 test accounts created in Australia across nine platforms were never asked to verify their age, despite the Australian law mandating a ban on under-16s — Australia's online platforms are stumbling at the very first step in implementing age checks for users, rendering a world … | Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
EDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform, raised a $76M Series C led by SBI Holdings — EDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform, said it raised $76 million in a Series C funding round led by SBI Holdings. — The company plans to use the funds …
More: FinSMEs, EDX Markets, and Nikkei Asia
| Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Xbox Game Pass currently has ~30M subscriptions; a years-old internal doc shows Microsoft had projected Game Pass subscriptions would reach ~77M in 2026 — The videogame unit's revenue has fallen and its Netflix-like subscription service is far below expectations
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek: |
Keyfactor, which manages billions of machine identities for more than 2,500 client organizations, raised $1B+ led by Summit Partners — The investment will accelerate Keyfactor's machine identity, PKI, and cryptographic security platform as enterprises prepare for AI-driven and post-quantum threats.| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
US autonomous military vehicle startup Forterra says it has deployed 100+ Lancer UGVs, based on Polaris ATVs, in Ukraine since 2025, completing 1,100+ missions — Forterra, a US builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed today that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed … | Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
Paris-based UMA, founded by ex-Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadene and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Pierre Sermanet, demos its Northstar AI humanoid robot — A former Tesla Inc. scientist who worked on Elon Musk's Optimus robot unveiled plans to produce a lightweight humanoid robot …
More: Electrek and RoboticsTomorrow.com
| Bloomberg: |
Munich-based nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion raised €411M led by trading firm XTX and UK-based East X at a €2.4B valuation, with participation from Google — German startup Proxima Fusion has raised €411 million ($469 million) from a range of investors …
More: CNBC, Proxima Fusion, PitchBook, Telegraph, Financial Times, Neowin, RuntimeWire, Pathfounders, Ventureburn, Axios, Benzinga, Sifted, Anadolu Ajansı …, FinSMEs, and Energy Intelligence. X: @soundboy
| Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
Super.com, which offers a savings app for lower-income consumers, raised a $65M Series D led by TPG at a $1.2B valuation and says it is profitable — In 2022, Hussein Fazal flew 200 of his employees to Las Vegas to cash a $200 check at a payday loan shop. He then asked them to buy a week … | Bloomberg: |
Apple supplier Luxshare raised ~$3.1B in its Hong Kong IPO, selling 383.5M shares at ~$8 each, the top of its marketed range, and will start trading on Thursday — Apple Inc. supplier Luxshare Precision Industry Co. raised HK$24.3 billion ($3.1 billion) after pricing shares for its Hong Kong listing at the maximum amount it had set.
More: Reuters and The Next Web
| Financial Times: |
European banking watchdogs ECB and ESRB warn that frontier AI models pose “systemic risks to the financial system”, and give lenders four months to prepare — IT weaknesses could be exploited by frontier models in a ‘matter of minutes or hours’, say ECB and ESRB| Gao Yuan / Bloomberg: |
Survey: Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI accelerator budget to domestic products in the next 12 months, up from 30% today, a shift from Nvidia — Chinese companies are ditching Nvidia Corp.'s advanced accelerators in favor of domestic silicon, underscoring how tensions …
More: Barron's Online, Trak.in, and Tech in Asia
| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Solos unveils the AirGo A6 camera-less smart glasses, cutting the weight to 19g from the AirGo A5's 36g to 40g, and V2 privacy accessories like a clip-on shield — The AirGo A6 are slimmer and lighter than last year's model while still offering hands-free access to an AI assistant.
More: Gizmodo, Android Police, Android Central, and Wired
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