|
July 18, 2026, 1:10 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| AI Security Institute: |
Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 — AISI has tracked the cyber capabilities of frontier AI models since 2023. On our evaluations, the most capable models …
More: Axios, Bloomberg, The Decoder, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Big Technology, and Financial Times
X: @gdb, @scaling01, @aisecurityinst, @ramez, @miles_brundage, @aisecurityinst, @aisecurityinst, @aisecurityinst, @aisecurityinst, and @gavinsbaker
Forums: r/singularity and Lobsters
| Transformer: |
More: Axios, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Semafor, Dow Jones Newswires, Washington Post, The Deep View, Faster, Please!, Forbes, Tech Brew, Decrypt, CNBC, Washington Examiner, Barron's Online, BBC, TechRadar, Techstrong.ai, Breitbart, International Business Times, New York Post, NewsMax.com, Business Standard, Verdict, The Indian Express, and Reuters
X: @deanwball, @semianalysis_, @davidsacks, @teortaxestex, @xeophon, @scmallaby, @deanwball, @scaling01, @counternotions, @shakeelhashim, @emollick, @emollick, @ctjlewis, @rsalakhu, @negligible_cap, @zephyr_z9, @agupta, and @shakeelhashim. Bluesky: @deanbaker13. Forums: r/technology
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Memo: the DOJ says federal employees can now download TikTok on government devices, citing TikTok US' transfer of control, lifting a 2022 congressional ban — The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday that federal employees can now download the short-video app TikTok on government devices.| Reuters: |
The grassroots group HumansFirst is organizing protests against the “unaccountable” buildout of data centers across 125 US locations on July 18 — Opponents of the rapid buildout of data centers plan to hold protests on Saturday in at least 125 locations across the United States … | Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops — Last year, Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop quickly became one of my favorite thin-and-light Windows notebooks.
More: Neowin and Windows Central
Bluesky: @modestholdings.com. Mastodon: @kim_harding@mastodon.scot. Forums: r/Surface and r/technology
| Claude / @claudeai: |
Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits from July 20 and via usage credits for Pro and Team Standard users — Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to
More: The Decoder, Tech Times, The Economic Times, and Simon Willison's Weblog
X: @claudeai, @trq212, @scaling01, @srpeters, @thsottiaux, @mweinbach, @maria_rcks, @benbajarin, @elliotarledge, and @deckard_the_dev. Bluesky: @elkmovie
Forums: r/singularity and r/ClaudeCode
| Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
How the Trump administration shifted from a “light-touch” approach to AI policy to an interventionist stance that led to restrictions on top AI models in the US — In January 2025, just three days after entering office for his second term, President Donald Trump signed … | Minxiao Chang / South China Morning Post: |
China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024 — Every month, a Beijing-based ByteDance employee says he burns through close to a billion units of a new corporate currency - one that cannot buy a coffee or pay rent.| Reuters: |
SEC filing: GameStop says it owns 9.8% of eBay, signaling its intent to press ahead with a bid for the company after its unsolicited $56B offer was rejected — Videogame retailer GameStop (GME.N) owns nearly 10% of e-commerce company eBay, the company said in a regulatory filing late on Friday …
More: Kotaku, Bloomberg, HotHardware, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, This Week in Videogames, and Benzinga
| Minxiao Chang / South China Morning Post: |
China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated “brain-to-robot” platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset — Hangzhou-based firm says users can control robots using only their thoughts via EEG headsets, marking a leap in embodied AI tech
More: The Indian Express and Tech in Asia
| FinTech Global: |
Feathery, which develops an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including a recently completed Series A — Feathery, an AI operating and decisioning platform for financial services firms, has secured $30m in funding as it expands …
More: Feathery, FinSMEs, Coverager, Ventureburn, and The SaaS News
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China's National AI Industry Investment Fund gained voting rights in DeepSeek by joining its $7.4B round; other investors like Tencent and JD got none — On a video conference call from Hangzhou earlier this year, one of China's hottest startups held a four-hour pitch meeting …
More: Fortune, Motley Fool, Memeburn, Wall Street Journal, The Economic Times, and Key Context
X: @saritharai and @business
| Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
London-based Risk Ledger, which helps organizations manage supply chain cyber risks, raised a £24M Series B led by Axiom Equity, taking total funding to £33.8M — The British firm has built a collaborative platform to help organizations address supply chain security risks.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M — The U.S. telemetry company will establish a Tel Aviv office after buying the AI-powered detection engineering startup.| Bloomberg: |
Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC — Japan is planning to buy 27,500 next-generation Rubin chips from Nvidia Corp. to build a homegrown foundational AI model for robots.Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Agentic AI in data & analytics: The next evolution of business intelligence — In a recent conversation, Clarence Rozario, Business Head - Zoho BI Suite, joined Ravit Jain on The Ravit Show to discuss how Agentic AI …
Agentic AI in data & analytics: The next evolution of business intelligence — In a recent conversation, Clarence Rozario, Business Head - Zoho BI Suite, joined Ravit Jain on The Ravit Show to discuss how Agentic AI …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
Kimi K3 & AI's Price War, What Happened To Google?, OpenAI's Partner Trouble
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Great Chat:
Never follow your heroes (on X)
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Hard Fork:
The A.I. Trade Secrets War + Economists Say 'We Must Act Now' + HatGPT
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Pigment's Eléonore Crespo: Building France's Next Unicorn With AI Agents And Tom Cruise
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Access:
This AI will push back if you're rude to it
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:10 PM ET, July 18, 2026.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Deadline:Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
More: Business Wire, Madrona, FinSMEs, and The SaaS News
LinkedIn: Matt McIlwain, Kurt Shintaffer, Tarek Madkour, and Sunny Gupta
| Reuters: |
More: Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, Financial Times, The Asia Business Daily, Notebookcheck, Al Jazeera, Engadget, Bloomberg, Talking Points Memo, Coinpedia Fintech News, Daily Mail, MS NOW, Fox News, Benzinga, BBC, and Baller Alert
Forums: r/politics, r/TrumpsTrades, r/smallstreetbets, r/NewsExchange, r/NewsOfTheStupid, and r/politics
Earlier Picks
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
More: iPhoneros, Bloomberg, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, Appleosophy, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, and Apple World Today
| Robert Booth / The Guardian: |
More: The Register, Wired, Engadget, PCMag, TechRadar, The Verge, TechCrunch, Newser, Barron's Online, and Cyber Security News
Forums: r/technology and r/BrandNewSentence
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
More: Music Business Worldwide, Engadget, AppleInsider, Macworld, TechRadar, The Hans India, PCMag, Deadline, Appleosophy, Cult of Mac, iThinkDifferent, CNET, Cord Cutters News, Redmond Pie, Digital Trends, The Hollywood Reporter, Android Authority, iDrop News, Variety, iPhone in Canada, iClarified, MobileSyrup, Thurrott, BGR, The Verge, Digital Music News, The Apple Post, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, and SoundGuys
Forums: r/Dynamic_Pricing, r/Music, r/apple, r/ChaseSapphire, and r/AppleMusic