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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max — Claude Opus 5 is available today. It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.
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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Opus 5 improves coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use, and is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $25/1M output, same as Opus 4.8 — ZDNET's key takeaways — Opus 5 targets coding, knowledge work, and agent workflows. — Anthropic says it uses fewer tokens for similar quality.| Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
Meta, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-weight AI models; 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 …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
In their letter defending open-weight AI, tech companies urge lawmakers to avoid “premature restrictions” that “stifle competition or drive innovation overseas” — Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than 20 other companies released a letter on Friday urging policymakers …
More: Business Insider, Tom's Hardware, TechCrunch, Telegraph, CyberScoop, Motley Fool, Quartz, HotHardware, Politico, and AI News
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| 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.| 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.
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Midjourney bought astrology app Co-Star, which uses AI to offer personalized advice, in the spring and is building its first standalone image-generation app — Artificial intelligence lab Midjourney Inc. has bought the popular astrology app Co-Star and is building its first standalone image-generation app …
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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.
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| Timothy Pratt / The Guardian: |
The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a “duress” passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone — Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS
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| 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 …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta updates Meta AI with Muse Spark 1.1-powered agentic capabilities, connecting to Gmail and Google Calendar to perform tasks like creating daily updates — Meta is giving its AI assistant new agent-like capabilities powered by Muse Spark 1.1, its latest model.
More: Meta Newsroom, Reuters, The Verge, Quartz, and Unite.AI
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Facebook plans to test a full-screen “immersive video” player when users open the app, replacing the newsfeed, in select international markets this year — The social platform says it will test a video-first look for users when they open the app in select countries, potentially bringing it to the U.S. next year.
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
Trump says the US will initiate a probe into the EU's practice of “robbing” US tech giants with fines, threatening the bloc with “substantial” tariffs — President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration will launch a trade probe into the European Union …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Anduril is in talks with investors for a new funding round that could see it valued at around $100B; the company raised $5B at a $61B valuation in May — Defense tech firm Anduril is in discussions with investors for a new funding round that could see it valued at roughly $100 billion …
More: TechCrunch, Benzinga, GeekWire, DroneXL, CTech, Axios, and NewsMax.com
| Brian Danga / The Block: |
Poolin, previously regarded as one of the world's largest crypto mining pool providers, files for Chapter 11 and seeks to sell its Texas mining assets for $52M — Quick Take — Poolin Technology filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is seeking court approval to sell Texas mining assets through a $52 million stalking-horse bid.| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
World Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol, raised $52.5M led by Pantera through a strategic sale of its WLD token with a one-year lockup — Quick Take — World Foundation has raised $52.5 million in new funding through a WLD token sale, with all purchased tokens subject to a one-year lockup.
More: TechCrunch, CoinDesk, RuntimeWire, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, and crypto.news
| 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 …
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with production code and the AI agents that create it, raised a $34M Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ — Paper, a design platform for teams using AI, locked up a $34 million Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ, CEO Stephen Haney tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: Paper and The SaaS News
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Letter: Qualcomm tells customers it plans to raise prices by double digit percentage points, after exhausting its ability to absorb higher costs from suppliers — Qualcomm Inc., the biggest maker of smartphone processors, plans to increase prices by a percentage in the double digits … | Wall Street Journal: |
A look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor — Xi confidant leads fevered effort for domestic alternatives to win AI race; Chinese AI companies warned that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Delhi High Court rules OpenAI's use of ANI content to train ChatGPT wasn't copyright infringement as the news agency didn't show ChatGPT reproduced its reports — An Indian court said on Friday that OpenAI's use of news agency ANI's content to train its ChatGPT service did not amount to copyright infringement.| 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
More: Unite.AI
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tells third-party sellers to label product ads with AI-generated people to comply with a NY law requiring the disclosure of “synthetic performers” in ads — Amazon is requiring that third-party sellers label any product images or videos that contain “AI-generated people” … | 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.
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