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Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, 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 …
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| Anthropic: |
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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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
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| Reuters: |
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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| Harry Booth / Time: |
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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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| 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 …
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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.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the “low nine figures” — Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, is making its next big move. The company behind the assistant …
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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| 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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| 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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Bluesky: @fry69.dev and @fry69.dev
| 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, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, and The Verge
| 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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Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars and r/waymo
| 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.| 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 …
More: Unite.AI and RuntimeWire
| 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.
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| 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 … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
An appeals court narrowly blocks Texas from enforcing a monitoring and filtering requirement under its children's online safety law, over Section 230 preemption — A divided federal appeals court on Friday blocked Texas from enforcing a key provision of a state law meant to shield children from harm through using social media.Sponsor Posts
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