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| Wall Street Journal: |
Fidji Simo says she has decided to leave her full-time role at OpenAI and transition to being a part-time adviser after her medical condition worsened — The head of artificial general intelligence won't return from extended medical leave, a major leadership change as the AI giant prepares to go public
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| Axios: |
OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on macOS and Windows — - Sol is the most powerful version, while Luna is designed for speed. … - A new “ultra” mode within Sol allows the system …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app — ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI's standalone desktop browser, is being sunset in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app. — OpenAI released an all-new ChatGPT desktop app today …
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| OpenAI: |
GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.50 and $15, and GPT-5.6 Luna costs $1 and $6 — More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work.
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| Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for $149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed — SK Hynix Inc. raised $26.5 billion in its American depositary receipt offering, as the South Korean memory chipmaker powered through volatility …
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| Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post: |
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI — The billionaire investor will help shape how the Federal Reserve assesses a technology his firm has bet heavily on.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock — Streamer is rethinking some of its core strategies to compete with rivals — Top Netflix executives who gathered …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview — Muse Spark 1.1 is available to US developers through a public API preview.
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| Sam Clark / Politico: |
The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp — Top-level pressure and obscure procedures breathe new life into a controversial proposal to allow scanning for online child sexual abuse material.
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LinkedIn: Bart Preneel and Bert de Jong
Forums: r/technology, r/europe, and r/technology
| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is stepping down after six years; VP of legal Molly Abraham moves into his role with the title of general counsel — Coinbase (COIN.O)'s Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal is stepping down after six years at the U.S. crypto giant where he fought off … | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A — Brendan Foody started Mercor when he was 19 years old. Now he's 23, worth billions on paper, and running one of the fastest-growing companies in AI history.
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X: @timlupo, @imjaredz, @brendanfoody, @dkwon98, @alexisohanian, @ivanburazin, and @mercor_ai
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads — Google is rolling out a new feature aimed at helping people understand when an ad they're seeing was made using AI technology.| Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic: |
How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books — twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world's written works.
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Forums: r/IfBooksCouldKill, r/neoliberal, and r/atlanticdiscussions
| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: Manus investors and management are discussing unwinding Meta's $2B buyout at the same valuation, with Tencent in talks to become the largest investor — Chinese tech giant set to become largest shareholder in AI agent start-up after Beijing ordered reversal of US takeover
More: Blockonomi, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Benzinga
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds — U.S. venture capital deal value hit $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 30% more than investors put to work in all of last year …
More: PitchBook, Fortune, Phoenix Business Journal, and Benzinga
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fable 5 on July 12, aims to return the model to Claude's subscription plans “when sufficient capacity allows” — Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic's best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.| Gao Yuan / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with employees and insiders reveal how CXMT is amassing tech, funding, and state support to challenge top memory chipmakers and build local suppliers — Founded by a US-trained entrepreneur, CXMT is racing to catch its rivals and using a largely domestic supplier network to shield itself from Washington.
More: Chip Briefing
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
OpenAI and Google are providing advanced AI models to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, exposing a gap in US AI controls — US groups have been supplying AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent. OpenAI and Google are selling …
More: Financial Times
| SemiAnalysis: |
A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI — A top tier RL environment startup spawns out of thin air, the most aggressive compute ramp we've ever seen, 2000km+ scale-across, and some advice for Google DeepMind| Financial Times: |
Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a fivefold return for Carlyle — Deal underscores bright spot for private equity portfolio company sales amid strong demand for AI infrastructure| Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give it 25 degrees of freedom of movement, nearly the same as a human hand — The soft, weirdly sexualized home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands. — Friendly home robots have been the dream of sci-fi for a long time.
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