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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sources: parts of the Trump administration are reigniting efforts to implement de facto bans on foreign open-source models, as Chinese AI models gain momentum — The Trump administration is showing signs it could ban cutting-edge Chinese AI models — a momentous move that could lock in dominance by OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Forums: r/OpenAI, r/neoliberal, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| 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 — There's a story I tell about my first day in STRT-431 at Kellogg School of Management, the introductory class that every …
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| Bill Gurley / Washington Post: |
| 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/slatestarcodex, r/worldnews, r/BetterOffline, r/singularity, r/mathematics, r/technology, r/math, and Lobsters
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40% — When Google prepared to go public in 2004, Larry Page, a co-founder of the company, wrote a letter to shareholders describing …
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers found sandbox escapes or boundary bypasses in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity by writing files trusted tools later use; most are patched — Security researchers broke out of the sandboxes in four widely used AI coding agents, including Cursor, OpenAI's Codex … | 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+ — After a decade-long comeback, chip giant Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to ship its first rack-scale system for artificial intelligence …
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| Reuters: |
Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft platform designed for commercial and military uses, along with an autonomous attack rotorcraft called Thunder — Archer Aviation (ACHR.N) and defense technology company Anduril unveiled a co-developed autonomous aircraft platform on Monday …
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| 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 …
More: Reuters, Australian Financial Review, Unite.AI, and Chip Briefing
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| 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 — Google is working on a new server chip that would directly integrate the blueprint of its Gemini AI model … | Kohei Yamada / Nikkei Asia: |
Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle grew an est. ~8x since 2022 to ~$1.65T, eclipsing ~$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 …
X: @hedgiemarkets and @garymarcus
| Reuters: |
Singapore-based Ant International, a payments company which spun out of Ant Group in 2024, raised $1.2B from investors including Ant Group and Alibaba — Ant International, an overseas affiliate of the Jack Ma-founded Chinese fintech firm Ant Group, has raised $1.2 billion in its latest equity fundraising as it seeks to expand.
More: South China Morning Post and Financial Post
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M — AI agents are starting to execute more sophisticated tasks, such as identifying vendors that can deliver freight, comparing prices …
More: Natural AI, Inc., Ventureburn, PYMNTS, and Tech in Asia
| 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 — Nearly a year ago, Elon Musk-owned X announced it would begin rebuilding the Android version of its app …
More: WeRSM, iPhone in Canada, GB News, Fox News, XDA Developers, MediaPost, and Android Authority
X: @nikitabier, @nikitabier, @samsheffer, @ripchillpill, @nikitabier, @nikitabier, @gergelyorosz, @alexabraham, and @x. Forums: r/Android
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Taiwan indicts a former TSMC executive for allegedly stealing trade secrets, in what authorities say is the first National Security Act case involving China — TAIPEI — Taiwanese prosecutors on Monday indicted a former TSMC deputy manager for allegedly stealing trade secrets involving … | Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
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 lawsuits — A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday signed off on artificial intelligence company Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion settlement …
More: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, Seoul Economic Daily, Courthouse News Service, Docket updates …, Unite.AI, and Tech in Asia
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Bluesky: @courtneymilan.com, @heyjohnryan, and @courtneymilan.com. Mastodon: @brianstorms@mastodon.social
Forums: r/technology and r/redditstock
| Bloomberg: |
Snap reaches a deal to settle the second case set for trial over social media harm to minors, following TikTok and YouTube, leaving Meta as the only defendant — Snap Inc. said it has reached a tentative agreement to settle the second case set for trial over claims that the world's largest … | John Velasco / Tom's Guide: |
Samsung debuts Samsung Galaxy Card, its first-ever US credit card, a Visa from Barclays; it offers 5% rewards for purchases directly from Samsung — You get 5% rewards when you buy stuff directly from Samsung — With Galaxy Unpacked 2026 set to kick off in a matter of days … Sponsor Posts
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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.
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Zoho:
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
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