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July 25, 2026, 2:40 PM
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New York Times:
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic quietly lobby Washington regulators to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI  —  Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.
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 …
Harry Booth / Time:
An OpenAI staffer says the Hugging Face breach is “a big warning shot” externally but internally “related incidents have been happening for a while”
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 …
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
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 …
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
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 …
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 …

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Associated Press:
A federal judge orders Trump to sit for a deposition in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by December 11, or face sanctions up to dismissal of the lawsuit

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
The American Entertainment Alliance calls for a rule modeled on the old “fin-syn” law protecting creators' ownership of shows, along with a tax credit

Lucy Campbell / The Guardian:
Wedgewood Polls says it fabricated data in surveys picked up by national media outlets as a “social experiment” to expose the lack of scrutiny over the sector

More News

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Neocloud Fluidstack, which has partnered with Anthropic, announces that it raised an $830M Series A led by Situational Awareness at a $7.5B valuation in January
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
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

Earlier Picks

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”
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
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
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
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
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