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Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later — The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat …
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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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| Reuters: |
Nvidia and SK Group unveil a $500B+ AI initiative that includes an SK Hynix partnership to secure next-gen memory supply for Nvidia and joint development of HBM — Nvidia (NVDA.O) and South Korea's SK Group on Friday unveiled a more than $500 billion AI initiative spanning large-scale AI data centers …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia plans to invest $1B in Naver to help finance an AI data center in South Korea, and partners with SK Group to build more than 2 GW of AI data centers — Nvidia Corp. will invest $1 billion in Naver Corp. to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple has pitched Trump on using Chinese memory chips in its products sold outside the US; Micron warned such a plan could destroy the US chip industry — Two of the president's priorities—cutting prices for U.S. consumers and increasing domestic semiconductor output—come into conflict
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| Hooyeon Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung announces a $200B+ contract to make chips for Broadcom through 2030, focusing on its 2nm and below process technologies for Broadcom's products — Samsung Electronics Co. won a contract worth more than $200 billion to make chips for Broadcom Inc., as the companies race to win a larger share of the AI infrastructure market.| Financial Times: |
A profile of Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, which faced early doubts over revenue and model capabilities before its Kimi K3 delivered a “DeepSeek moment” — Known as ‘Yang the genius’ by classmates, his new K3 model has closed the gap with leading US rivals| Charlie Campbell / Time: |
A profile of Hangzhou-based Unitree, which shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, accounting for 25%+ of the global market, as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO — Spectators typically leave a UFC fight with ringing ears and a sheepish resolve to get back to the gym. Wang Xingxing went straight to his laboratory.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions — AI developer Anthropic PBC has asked SK Hynix Inc., one of the world's biggest manufacturers of memory chips … | Akriti Sharma / Bloomberg: |
As student protests spread across India, Narendra Modi turns to Reels, swapping his trademark cinematic videos for self-recorded messages aimed at Gen Z — As student protests spread across India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has turned to Meta Platforms Inc.'s Instagram Reels … | AI Security Institute: |
A joint preliminary evaluation by the UK's AISI and the US' CAISI finds Kimi K3 trails leading US frontier closed weight models on cyber capability — The UK Artificial Intelligence Security Institute (UK AISI) and the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) (UK AISI / CAISI) …
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| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Sources: Waymo is exploring exiting its Uber partnership, with their relationship souring amid an intense lobbying battle over the future of robotaxis — Partnership between two groups has soured amid intense lobbying battle over rollout of autonomous vehicles
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| Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News: |
Meshy, whose AI-powered tech lets users generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised a ~$400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation — - Meshy raises nearly $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, which it says is the largest round any dedicated AI-3D company has raised.| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says Verizon will provide dark-fiber connectivity for Google's data centers in a $1B+ deal, with more such deals in the pipeline — Verizon CEO Dan Schulman said on Friday the company has secured a deal with Google (GOOGL.O), valued at more than $1 billion …
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: US tech companies have cut ~140K jobs YTD, or more than 33% of announced US layoffs in 2026, with ~50K cuts from Amazon, Oracle, Meta, and Microsoft — Investment spree is reshaping Silicon Valley while wider US jobs market holds steady — US tech companies have shed nearly 140,000 jobs since … | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
Candid Health, which develops tech and AI agents to automate medical billing and claims processing workflows, raised a $120M Series D led by Sixth Street Growth — Candid Health cofounder Doug Proctor spun his laptop around to show me a herd of wild horses grazing behind him in upstate New York during our first Zoom call.
More: Business Wire, Candid Health, Pulse 2.0, The SaaS News, VC News Daily, Ventureburn, and FinSMEs
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation — Prentis, a new AI research lab focused on computer use models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das and tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman …
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