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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 …
More: The New Stack, The Guardian, BBC, The Register, Fortune, Tom's Hardware, Marginal Revolution, Reuters, RuntimeWire, Washington Examiner, Transformer, Boing Boing, and Wall Street Journal
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Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @caseynewton, and @mims
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/technology, r/singularity, r/skeptic, and Slashdot
| Harry Booth / Time: |
More: MarkTechPost, CTech, San Francisco Examiner, and Mother Jones
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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.
More: The Verge, Gizmodo, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Claude, WeRSM, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, MarkTechPost, Ars Technica, Simon Willison's Weblog, Mashable, Implicator.ai, Benzinga, Android Authority, Neowin, The New Stack, 9to5Google, Gadget Review, Decrypt, CNET, Quartz, and 9to5Mac
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LinkedIn: Mike Krieger, Rahul Patil, and Claude
Bluesky: @moskov.goodventures.org, @isolyth.dev, and @natolambert
| 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: Tom's Hardware, StrictlyVC, CyberScoop, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, International Business Times, GamesBeat, TechCrunch, crypto.news, Telegraph, Motley Fool, and iPhone in Canada
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/politics, r/stupidpol, and Slashdot
| Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
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 …
More: The New Stack, Bloomberg, Wired, 36Crypto, PitchBook, MarketWatch, The Register, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Benzinga, Proactive, The Economic Times, Gizmodo, Channel NewsAsia, Fortune, Forbes, Aaron Levie on LinkedIn, Satya Nadella on LinkedIn, and Jensen Huang on LinkedIn
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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.| 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 … | Reuters: |
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Forums: r/NVDA_Stock and r/wallstreetbets
| 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| 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) …
More: Marcus on AI and South China Morning Post
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| 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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| 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
More: CNBC, The Information, Benzinga, TechCrunch, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg Law
X: @ethanmckanna and @ethanmckanna
Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars and r/waymo
| 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, RuntimeWire, and Tech in Asia
| 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.| 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 …
More: Associated Press and Arab News
| 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 …
More: Verizon, Light Reading, PYMNTS, Reuters, and Quartz
| 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| 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: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire, Candid Health, The SaaS News, VC News Daily, Ventureburn, and FinSMEs
| 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| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Progress Software agrees to acquire Domo's AI and data platform business for $400M; Domo will remain publicly listed and change its name after the deal closes — Progress Software said it will acquire Domo's AI and data platform business for $400 million. — According to Progress Software …
More: Progress Software Corporation, Domo, and Business Insider
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