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| Ben Casselman / New York Times: |
Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement — Nearly 200 economists signed a letter calling for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential A.I. disruptions.
More: We Must Act Now, Wall Street Journal, Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Fortune, Quartz, Business Insider, The Decoder, and Reuters
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LinkedIn: Christie Ko, Yoshua Bengio, and Christina Langer. Bluesky: @karlbode.com. Forums: r/technology
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: OpenAI still believes it is on track to unveil its first device in 2026 and release it in 2027; Apple's lawsuit may complicate hiring and supply chains — Apple Inc.'s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of systematically stealing its intellectual property threatens to disrupt …
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its nearly 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW+ of compute, pushing its total spend beyond $250B — Meta Platforms Inc. has committed to spending an additional $40 billion on its sprawling data center campus in Louisiana …
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| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says after the summer the bloc is set to propose a “social media start date for minors” with “gradual access” — Brussels will propose gradual access for different ages in response to concerns over child safety online
| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
Apple's stock is up 16% since June 25, adding ~$650B in market value and pushing shares back to record territory, as investors flee an AI stock selloff to Apple — Investors are flocking back to Apple Inc. as nervousness about artificial intelligence spending weighs on the stocks of chipmakers and cloud-computing giants.
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| Lee Ying Shan / CNBC: |
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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US estimates unauthorized distillation costs US AI labs up to $6B/year; Silicon Valley told the White House it could become an existential threat — Anthropic and OpenAI's warnings about “adversarial distillation” are reinvigorating one of the oldest debates in Silicon Valley.
More: New York Post
| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: |
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Politico: |
The EU blacklists Russian intelligence group members it says were responsible for spying on and hacking targets across the EU and Ukraine from as early as 2010 — Moscow's Federal Security Service is behind the cyber espionage and sabotage campaigns, EU says.
More: GOV.UK, National Security …, BleepingComputer, CyberScoop, Cybersecurity Dive, BleepingComputer, Help Net Security, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Agence France-Presse, The Record, Security Affairs, UPI, The Kyiv Independent, Associated Press, Military.com, CBS News, The Economic Times, and Radio Free Europe/Radio …
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Munich-based defense tech startup Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E from Dragoneer, Iconiq, and others at an $18B valuation; Germany made €493M in orders in 2026 — Helsing has raised a financing round at a valuation of $18 billion from investors including the growth equity arm … | Robert Scammell / Business Insider: |
Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder and one of the biggest names in UK tech, to join its compute team; he is taking a leave of absence from YC — The AI talent wars aren't letting up — and neither is Anthropic's big-name hiring spree. — The AI startup has hired Tom Blomfield …
More: Sifted, The Economic Times, and Tech Funding News
| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
A coalition of 12 states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets — A coalition of 12 states filed an antitrust lawsuit on Monday to block the merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. …
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Forums: r/comicbooks, r/technology, and r/movies
| Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA — Max Buchan started advocating for infrastructure sovereignty when, as he puts it, “globalization and Davos were still cool.”
More: Telegraph
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered “Smartbadges” worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation — Augmodo, the Seattle startup that straps AI-powered cameras onto retail workers to track store shelves, has raised $21 million …
More: FinSMEs and Ventureburn
| Shilpi Jain / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to the lowest Q2 levels since 2013 amid the DRAM and NAND shortage; Samsung returns to #1 with a 24% market share — - Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 2026 reaching the lowest second-quarter levels since 2013 as the DRAM and NAND shortage intensified.
More: AppleInsider, Reuters, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Omdia, Android Authority, SamMobile, The Mac Observer, MacTech.com, and Notebookcheck
| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
A Taiwanese minister says TSMC plans two more advanced chip packaging plants in the Chiayi Science Park, with all four set to generate $9.35B+ in annual output — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) (2330.TW) will add two advanced chip packaging plants in the Chiayi Science Park … | Bloomberg: |
OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending — Three prominent artificial intelligence developers released new models over the past week. They all promise to be more advanced … | The Economic Times: |
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