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July 24, 2026, 10:50 AM
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI told Hugging Face only this week its models caused the July 11 hack; the models appear to have been active online for days before being stopped  —  They were like high-school students trying to hack into the textbook company to cheat on their final exam.  Only these hackers weren't human.
Mat Smith / Engadget:
Meta launches Facebook Verified, a free program it says will verify that users are real humans by analyzing a facial recognition selfie and assigning badges  —  And it's free.  —  In the face of AI content, profiles and slop, Meta hopes a new Facebook Verified program will help human users interact with other humans.
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Preliminary findings: the EU Commission says TikTok's accounts for minors violate the DSA, citing features that could expose children to bullying and predators  —  ByteDance's social media platform TikTok has been charged with breaching EU online content rules due to design features …
Phoebe Liu / The Information:
AMD is working with Cerebras to connect AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers, running their chips simultaneously to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86%  —  AMD said Thursday it is working with Cerebras, a rival AI server chip developer, on connecting AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18  —  OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans.
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:
Germany-based Black Forest Labs debuts Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models that can be used for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI  —  Black Forest Labs, a German artificial intelligence research lab, is trialing its first model that can be used in robotics …
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
India orders GitHub to remove Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Jack Dorsey that is used by anti-government protestors amid internet blackouts  —  India's top cybercrime watchdog has ordered GitHub to take down Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Block chief executive …
Leo Schwartz / The Information:
Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity  —  Many of the largest U.S. tech companies signed a joint letter on Friday defending open-source AI software as the Trump administration …
Sam Meredith / CNBC:
Ukraine ratchets up its attacks on warehouses of Wildberries, Russia's biggest online retailer and which employs 48,000, hitting five facilities over five days  —  Ukraine has ratcheted up its attacks on Russia's Amazon-style retail giant Wildberries, signaling a new phase in the war …
Zoe SL Chan / South China Morning Post:
Sources: Shanghai-based GPU maker MetaX confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing, targeting an IPO by the year-end, amid a surge of fundraising from rivals  —  Firm's year-end listing plan underscores China's chip self-reliance and follows Biren, Iluvatar and Moore Threads in the fundraising rush
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Eli Tan / New York Times:
Meta launches Seller, a free standalone app version of Facebook Marketplace; Seller includes AI features that scan photos to fill out listings automatically  —  Seller is part of the Silicon Valley company's strategy to innovate on its original social network.
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Microsoft is testing free cloud streaming of user-owned games for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions, with ads that will play “before sessions begin”  —  The free streaming option is still in testing, and limited to one-hour sessions for ‘select’ games.
Financial Times:
Flush with AI cash, South Korean groups are making their biggest US investment push in years, with their Q1 US foreign direct investment up 100%+ YoY to $10.2B  —  Companies make biggest US investment push in years to build up tech capabilities and avoid Donald Trump's tariffs
Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Google says it has $811B in contracted future spending commitments as of June, up nearly $500B from March, covering chips, data centers, electricity, and more  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google had $811 billion in contracted future spending commitments at the end of June, up nearly $500 billion from just three months earlier.
More: PYMNTS
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, Canva, and Notion  —  Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT's voice mode, rival Anthropic is making …

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Associated Press:
The DOJ withdraws subpoenas that would have forced three NYT reporters to testify about sources, after a federal judge criticized the DOJ for sloppy legal work

Natalie Korach / @nataliekorach:
Memo: HuffPost EIC informs staff that ~15 editorial jobs will be cut, the first layoffs under new owner Byron Allen, and executive editor Kate Palmer is leaving

James Faris / Business Insider:
Internal docs: Paramount+ plans to launch a free tier for movies and shows in Q3, requiring users to register via email

More News

Mike Stone / Reuters:
The Pentagon signs an up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle worth up to $7B to consolidate the department's on-premises software licenses into a single contract
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Trump says 200 additional stakeholders, including 55 utilities, joined a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high energy bills caused by AI data centers
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Intel reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $16.1B, vs. $14.42B est., its fastest quarterly growth in ~15 years on “unprecedented” demand; INTC jumps 4%+ after hours

Earlier Picks

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Tesla stock closed down 14.52% and Alphabet closed down 6.89% after they signaled increased AI spending, amid worries about the mounting costs of the AI boom
Corbin Bolies / Variety:
Patreon lays off 20% of its employees, or 93 people, citing a “painful” restructuring due to “profound” changes in the creator economy over the past six months
Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider:
Adam Mosseri says Instagram will now take down “pickup line” and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of other people in public places
Akanksha Khushi / Reuters:
Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will close on September 23 and tells users to withdraw assets; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for not implementing AML rules
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google adds a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, using tools like liveness detection to safeguard against deepfake attacks, rolling out globally
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