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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 …
More: MarketWatch, Benzinga, Capacity, Unite.AI, Seoul Economic Daily, Reuters, and Reuters
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Z.ai completed construction of a 1GW 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: The Information, Seoul Economic Daily, Wccftech, Chip Briefing, and Unite.AI
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| Philippa Wain / BBC: |
UK PM Andy Burnham abolishes the Department for Science, Innovation, and Tech and elevates UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, who oversees AISI, to attend cabinet — The AI Minister, Kanishka Narayan, will be given a seat at the top table of government but the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has been scrapped.
More: The Economic Times, Bloomberg, Silicon Republic, Variety, Tech Funding News, UKTN, and The Indian Express
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| Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
Sony Music files a second copyright suit against Udio, alleging the AI music company copied 30,117 recordings without permission to train its AI models — Sony Music Entertainment has filed a second copyright infringement lawsuit against Udio, asserting 30,117 sound recordings …
More: The Verge, Engadget, Billboard, Unite.AI, Digital Music News, and Chat GPT Is Eating the World. Bluesky: @dantalksgames
| 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.
More: Gizmodo, VC Cafe, eMarketer, Search Engine Journal, Breitbart, and Search Engine Roundtable
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| 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 …
More: Neowin, PCMag, Benzinga, and Unite.AI
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| 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 … | Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: |
Kimi K3 marks the arrival of frontier open-weight models, and the Kimi team has incredible culture and freedom of expression within a GPU-limited environment — The global implications on the AI ecosystem. … Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.
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| Bill Gurley / Washington Post: |
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| 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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| 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 … | Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Memo: the Army CIO reinstates limits on Army members' AI token usage; docs show the DOD's Ask Sage tool can access 100M tokens via an annual “enterprise pack” — Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC plans to hike advanced and mature node prices by up to 10% in 2027, plus a 10%-15% premium for advanced chip orders exceeding original forecasts — TAIPEI — TSMC is set to raise prices for both advanced and mature chip production services by up to 10% in 2027 to reflect rising costs …
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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.| 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 — A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday signed off on artificial intelligence company Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion settlement …
More: Engadget, Moneycontrol, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, Tech Times, Publishing Perspectives, Silicon Canals, Nairametrics, BMI, Blockonomi, Docket updates …, Benzinga, Seoul Economic Daily, SiliconANGLE, Courthouse News Service, Thurrott, Unite.AI, and Tech in Asia
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Bluesky: @heyjohnryan, @courtneymilan.com, and @courtneymilan.com. Mastodon: @brianstorms@mastodon.social
Forums: r/redditstock and r/technology
| 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 …
More: Bloomberg Law and Semafor
X: @hedgiemarkets and @garymarcus
Mastodon: @Laukidh@infosec.exchange and @nixCraft@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News and r/Economics
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: BlackRock leads a $12B+ debt sale for Meta's new El Paso data center, as Meta signs a lease for a BlackRock-backed data-center project in Pennsylvania — Meta also signs lease for a BlackRock-backed data-center project in Pennsylvania — BlackRock is leading a debt sale targeting … Sponsor Posts
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