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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model”, breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities — OpenAI said Tuesday that models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says its models chained vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's infrastructure to find solutions for the ExploitGym benchmark — Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident(opens in a new window) after they detected and contained …
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| Tulsee Doshi / Google: |
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its “most ambitious pre-training run yet” for Gemini 4 — Our newest Gemini models deliver the efficiency, latency, and reliability to build AI agents at scale.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
| Nectar Gan / Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI models account for ~60% of token usage by US companies on OpenRouter, making restrictions harder to impose without disrupting US users and businesses — The rapidly increasing global competitiveness of China's artificial intelligence models is ringing alarm bells in Washington …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: the White House OSTP plans to redirect federal research funding from universities to individual scientists and AI use, reshaping ~$200B in annual spending — The overhaul will reshape $200 billion in spending a year and favors individual scientists to outpace China
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a leasing program for most iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models, with partner Klarna in the US next week — Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce Apple Upgrade, a leasing program that will mark one of the biggest-ever changes to how the company sells devices.
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, two open-weight AI models to find known vulnerabilities within a codebase, and plans to release Antares-3B soon — - Cisco says the models performed similarly to much larger models, including OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Z.ai's GLM-5.2 …
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| Ella Lee / Financial Times: |
Trump nominates FCC General Counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit; Candeub, a longtime Big Tech critic, has long sought to challenge Section 230 — Adam Candeub authored a Project 2025 chapter calling for a sweeping shake-up of US competition enforcement
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation — Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth as a unicorn …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Samsung may invest up to €1B in Mistral as part of a broader round valuing it at ~€20B, after previously backing the AI startup through its venture arm — South Korean giant could invest as much as €1bn in French AI group seeking to be a leading alternative to US tech
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| Mark Landler / New York Times: |
France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially taking effect as soon as September 1 — Its new law, the first of its kind enacted by a European country, will ban access to some accounts for anyone under 15.| Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI adds Nubank founder and CEO David Vélez and BNY CEO Robin Vince to its board of directors, as the company moves toward a public listing — AI company names David Vélez of Nubank and Robin Vince of BNY as directors — OpenAI is adding David Vélez … | Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Reddit, Politico, and others mull cutting Google's access to their content for AI as traffic drops; Reddit signed a $60M/year deal with Google in 2024 — Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models — Chinese open-source models like Kimi, Deepseek and Qwen are now dominant AI tools. American upstarts like Mira Murati's Thinking Machines …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Document: nearly 200 US utilities, data center developers, and others have signed Trump's pledge to ensure AI energy use doesn't push up consumer electric bills — Effort could prove difficult to enforce because power prices are often decided by state regulators and electricity buyers and sellers| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says its business sales unit, Amazon Business, reached $60B in annualized gross sales in Q2, up ~71% from 2023, and serves 11M+ organizations worldwide — Amazon.com Inc.'s business sales unit was recently on track to sell $60 billion of merchandise over the course of a full year …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak's Science Corp gets EU approval for Prima, a bionic eye that treats age-related macular degeneration using an implant and glasses — Decision will allow Science Corp to treat patients with retina implants in coming months — A US start-up has received … | John Koetsier / Forbes: |
London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M — Europe has a new billion-dollar startup, and it's Humanoid, a two-year-old company headquartered in London that developed its humanoid robot, HMND 01, in near-record time.| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
TSMC forecasts “several years” of margin dilution as overseas fab projects ramp up; the company has announced $200B in investment into US manufacturing — Pressure from President Donald Trump to manufacture advanced semiconductors in the U.S. is increasing costs and squeezing margins at TSMC, the world's leading chipmaker.| Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic commits another $20M to Public First Action, after giving $20M earlier in 2026; PFA says it is a counterweight to a16z-backed Leading the Future — WASHINGTON—The artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic is doubling its spending on the midterm elections to $40 million … | Anushka Chourasia / Reuters: |
UK publisher Bloomsbury says it is among the beneficiaries of the $1.5B Anthropic settlement; 14,087 of its titles are covered, with ~$3K in compensation each — Britain's Bloomsbury Publishing (BLPU.L) confirmed on Wednesday it was among the beneficiaries of a landmark $1.5 billion settlement … | Block: |
Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more — Open Source, Decentralized Technology, Developers, AI, Technology — TODAY WE'RE RELEASING Buzz, A FREE …
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