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July 17, 2026, 8:35 PM

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New York Times:
Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years  —  A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal:
Transformer:
Kimi K3 hype shouldn't alarm the US about “losing the AI race” to China; K3 is a good model but not frontier-level and likely lacks dangerous cyber capabilities  —  Transformer Weekly: NY data center moratorium, NDAA export controls and Amodei's $1m to safety super PAC
Gavin Baker / @gavinsbaker:
Models like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers  —  Kimi K3 may be an important inflection point for AI. Potentially negative for Anthropic and OpenAI while being net positive for essentially every other company in the world. I mean that very literally. Although the real “Sputnik moment” would be an open-source frontier model that [image]
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Robert Booth / The Guardian:
Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to “an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem”  —  One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice
Reuters:
At the World AI Conference, Xi Jinping touts open-source AI, pledges to help the Global South build AI capabilities, and calls unequal AI access an “injustice”  —  Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday cast Beijing as the champion of a new global AI order, using China's premier tech conference …
Reuters:
Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others  —  Donald Trump's social media company has discussed charging Wall Street traders and investment firms as much as $100,000 a month …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, citing rising licensing costs  —  Apple has raised the price of Apple Music today in the United States and other countries.  Starting today, Apple Music's Individual plan now costs $11.99 per month, up from $10.99.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and the DOJ are in early discussions about settling a 2024 antitrust lawsuit alleging that Apple violated antitrust laws  —  Apple Inc. and the US Justice Department are in early discussions about settling a 2024 lawsuit that alleges the iPhone maker violated antitrust laws.
Reuters:
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index sank ~10% for the week, its largest weekly fall in over a year, and is now down ~20% from its late-June all-time high  —  A brutal week for chip stocks — the same names that fueled this year's blistering market rally — has left investors from Seoul …
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Sources: Apple has sent personal legal warnings to ~40 former employees who now work at OpenAI, directing them to preserve documents and meet with its lawyers  —  iPhone maker steps up aggressive tactics in trade secrets dispute with AI lab.  Apple has targeted dozens of OpenAI employees …
Matt Burgess / Wired:
San Francisco sends legal notices to Apple and Google, demanding they take down 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nude images; Google says it deleted five apps  —  The City Attorney's Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 …

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