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Sources: China is weighing tightening AI and chip export controls and is consulting leading domestic AI companies, in a bid to slow advanced tech acquisitions — Chinese regulators are considering tightening export controls on artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies …
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| Laurie Chen / Reuters: |
Sources: the US and China plan to hold AI talks in September, likely before President Xi's visit to the US, a significant outcome of the Trump-Xi summit in May — The United States and China are planning to hold talks over AI in September, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters …
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| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: |
Kimi K3 marks the arrival of frontier open-weight models; the core Kimi team has incredible culture and a freedom to express it 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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| 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
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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.
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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC plans to hike advanced and mature node prices 5% to 10% in 2027, plus a 10% to 15% premium for advanced chip orders exceeding customers' 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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| 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.
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| 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.| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | 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, Music Ally, Billboard, Unite.AI, Digital Music News, and Chat GPT Is Eating the World. Bluesky: @dantalksgames
| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it now has 10M people using Codex and ChatGPT Work, nearly doubling usage from earlier this month when the company announced ChatGPT Work — OpenAI has seen a sharp uptick in demand for its artificial intelligence agents since its recent release of ChatGPT Work … | Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: |
Garmin launches the Cirqa Smart Band, a $200 screenless fitness tracker that monitors 80+ activities with an up to 10 day battery life, to compete with Whoop — Garmin Ltd. introduced a $200 screenless fitness tracker, becoming the latest company to enter a segment popularized by Whoop Inc.
More: Forbes, Digital Trends, Tom's Guide, T3, Notebookcheck, and Gadgets & Wearables
| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Samsung plans to launch its AI-powered Samsung Health Assistant and new heart metrics tools like Vitals for overnight metric tracking in beta in August — Samsung Electronics Co. is rolling out a new AI-powered assistant that acts as a virtual health companion, joining a growing number …
X: @markgurman
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft and Mistral sign a multibillion-dollar deal to build European data centers and integrate Mistral models into Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local — ‘Multibillion-dollar’ pact will support Mistral data centers in Europe, helping the French company sell its AI models, and Microsoft its cloud and AI services| 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 … | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestration startup SkyPilot, which aims to be neutral across hardware and cloud vendors, raised a $20M seed led by Lux — Databricks cofounder Ion Stoica can explain what his latest startup does to a kindergartner on the fly.
More: The SaaS News and RuntimeWire
| 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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