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July 16, 2026, 9:40 AM
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Robert Hart / The Verge:
The EU issues two decisions under the DMA that order Google to provide rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and some Search data  —  The EU says Google must let rival search engines and AI assistants have comparable access to Android and some Search data to comply with the DMA.
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license, after the tool uploaded user repositories to SpaceXAI's Google Cloud bucket, causing a backlash  —  xai-org/grok-build, now open source (via) xAI's grok CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent …
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$39.45B, net income up 77.4% YoY to ~$21.9B, both above est., and says chips 7nm or smaller were 77% of its wafer revenue  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co on Thursday reported a 77.4% jump in second-quarter profit year on year …
Bloomberg:
A US official says TSMC plans to spend an additional $100B to build four US chip plants, bringing its total pledge to $265B as part of a broader US-Taiwan deal
Bloomberg:
Uber agrees to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal that values the German food delivery company at ~$14.8B, offering €41.50 per share and buying Prosus' 16.8% stake  —  Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to buy Delivery Hero SE in a deal that values the German food-delivery company …
Thinking Machines Lab:
Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area  —  Try on Tinker Model card Hugging Face  —  Our mission is to build AI that extends human will and judgment.
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Ofcom report: daily VPN users in the UK jumped to 2.2M, up from 1.2M before the introduction of laws enforcing age limits on pornography sites in July 2025  —  Regulator Ofcom finds evidence of children using the technology to get around age checks  —  Use of virtual private networks …
More: Telegraph
Mizy Clifton / Politico:
Ofcom opens an investigation into TikTok over Online Safety Act compliance, citing doubts about the effectiveness of age inference in determining users' ages
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple publishes a policy for its upcoming Maps ads: home services ads are banned, medical services ads will be “evaluated on a case-by-case basis”, and more  —  Apple has quietly published a rulebook for its new Maps ads, revealing a more curated approach than advertising giant Google.
OpenAI:
OpenAI details GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery so it can fix bugs before wider deployment  —  Training strong automated safety red-teamers to improve robustness.  —  Summary  —  Problem
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:
Grubhub parent Wonder raised a $650M+ Series D at a $9B valuation, bringing its total raised to $3B+ since its founding in 2018, and plans to go public in 2027  —  Marc Lore is ready to ring the bell.  The serial entrepreneur—who previously sold Jet.com to Walmart for $3.3 billion …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
TMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms  —  Trump Media & Technology Group is launching a backend interface that will allow financial services companies to access real-time Truth Social data …
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Samantha Subin / CNBC:
SpaceX shares fell for a fourth-straight session on Wednesday, briefly dropping below their $135 IPO price for the first time before closing at $135.27  —  SpaceX shares fell for a fourth-straight session on Wednesday, briefly dropping below their $135 initial public offering price …
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:
Sable, which is building an AI agent named Aiden that lives on a company's website to run live product demos and more, raised $45M from Sequoia and 8VC  —  Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire still remembers the demo that changed his mind on Sable.  —  An AI sales rep was walking a buyer through …
More: CTech
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Bunkerhill Health, which uses AI agents for hospital tasks like managing wait times, raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla, bringing its total funding to $55M  —  In 2017, Nishith Khandwala was a Stanford computer science student with an idea—that you could take existing radiology scans …
More: CNN
Joe Tidy / BBC:
Two Scattered Spider members who pleaded guilty in the UK to an August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London are jailed for five and a half years  —  Two men who carried out a cyber-attack which crippled Transport For London (TfL) when they were teenagers have both been sentenced to five years and six months in prison.

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From Mediagazer

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A US federal judge rules the White House cannot enforce President Trump's ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico in the long term pending a trial or an appeal

Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab:
State of Local News annual report: the US local news ecosystem is “in a state of precarity”, and digital readership is in “precipitous decline” for many outlets

Adam Gramegna / Military.com:
The Pentagon names public affairs official Christian Devine as acting Stars and Stripes publisher; he'll hold both his Pentagon and Stripes roles concurrently

More News

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo
Reuters:
Hyundai says it would make Boston Dynamics a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring SoftBank's ~10% stake; Hyundai bought an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics in 2021
Fred Lambert / Electrek:
Filing: Elon Musk quietly bought Jacksonville, FL-based APR Energy, which operates mobile gas and diesel turbines similar to those used in Colossus 2, for ~$1B

Earlier Picks

Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says Jordan Fish, aka “Cobie”, will now lead the Base app team after acknowledging some of Base's bets on social features fell short
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple raises its AppleCare+ prices for Macs and iPads by $0.50 per month and $5 per year; the increases are exclusively for new sign-ups
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's $1.5B AI implementation company, announced in May, launches with the name “Ode with Anthropic” and 100 engineers
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