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July 21, 2026, 5:50 AM
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Financial Times:
Sources: China is weighing tightening AI and chip tech export controls and is consulting leading domestic AI companies, in a bid to slow advanced tech exports  —  Chinese regulators are considering tightening export controls on artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies …
Bloomberg:
Source: Z.ai completed construction of a 1 GW data center housing only Chinese chips; Z.ai has built or operates several computing clusters each with 10K+ chips  —  Z.AI has completed construction of a giant data center that houses only Chinese-made chips, a big step in Beijing's efforts …
Matthew Sparkes / New Scientist:
Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5  —  Levent Alpöge announced the solution on X A mathematician has cracked an 87-year-old conundrum with the help of AI and announced the solution unceremoniously in a tweet.
OpenAI:
OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erdos unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly found ways to act outside its sandbox  —  What internal use of a long-running model taught us about safety.  —  Summary  — Long-running models can solve difficult …
John Velasco / Tom's Guide:
Samsung debuts Samsung Galaxy Card, a Visa from Barclays that offers 5% cash rewards for purchases directly from Samsung, its first US credit card  —  You get 5% rewards when you buy stuff directly from Samsung  —  With Galaxy Unpacked 2026 set to kick off in a matter of days …
Kate Conger / New York Times:
How Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare says that between June 2025 and April 2026 human traffic to many businesses' websites fell ~40%  —  When Google prepared to go public in 2004, Larry Page, a co-founder of the company, wrote a letter to shareholders describing the internet firm's responsibility to the world.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week  —  Hackers are breaking into websites that run vulnerable versions of the popular blogging software WordPress, according to several cybersecurity firms.
Kohei Yamada / Nikkei Asia:
Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle grew an estimated ~8x since 2022 to ~$1.65T, above ~$1.35T in balance sheet debt  —  PALO ALTO, California — Hidden debt at U.S. tech giants swelled eightfold in roughly four years to an estimated $1.65 trillion …
Maria Curi / Axios:
CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning after taking over the federal AI testing institute in April; NIST Director Arvind Raman will serve as acting director  —  Chris Fall, the director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is resigning just three months after taking …
Dom Cooke / Colossus:
A profile of Sarah Guo, Greylock's youngest GP before she founded Conviction in 2022, which has since backed six of the 21 AI-native companies now worth $10B+  —  The investor closest to the AI frontier is betting against the ambitions of its biggest companies
Bill Gurley / Washington Post:
Chinese open models are proper competition that should be welcomed, not something to ban or treat as a danger, and open-sourcing is an old business strategy  —  They aren't a security threat — they're what competition looks like.  —  Bill Gurley is the president and founder of the P3 Institute, and a former venture capitalist.
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue

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From Mediagazer

Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: Bari Weiss has repeatedly asked CBS journalists to find links between Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood

Brian Stelter / CNN:
CNN's Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour plans to leave next June, after 43 years with the network

Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Sources: Dan Lin was dismissed as Netflix's head of film at the start of the weekend, after almost three years in the role

More News

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A judge approves Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with authors, the first major US case of its kind to settle; some authors opted out and have other ongoing suits
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rewrite from scratch; Nikita Bier calls it “one of the largest engineering projects” in the company's history
Reuters:
Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft platform designed for commercial and military uses, along with an autonomous attack rotorcraft called Thunder

Earlier Picks

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed
Katie Tarasov / CNBC:
AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M+
The Information:
Sources: Google is developing a specialized server chip, informally dubbed “Frozen v2”, that integrates its Gemini AI model blueprint into the silicon, for 2028
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