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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.
More: The Verge, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Claude, SiliconANGLE, Android Authority, Neowin, MarkTechPost, The New Stack, Mashable, Implicator.ai, Ars Technica, Benzinga, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Gadget Review, The Decoder, Decrypt, CNET, Quartz, RuntimeWire, Unite.AI, 9to5Mac, Don't Worry About the Vase, and Thurrott
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LinkedIn: Mike Krieger, Rahul Patil, and Claude
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| 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: Bloomberg, Wired, PitchBook, Proactive, MarketWatch, Washington Post, Benzinga, The Register, The Daily Caller, 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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| 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/politics, r/stupidpol, Slashdot, and Slashdot
| 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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| 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 …
More: Reuters, CNBC, Blockchain.News, Seoul Economic Daily, The Korea Herald, and CHOSUNBIZ. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
| 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: Benzinga, CNBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and The Information
X: @ethanmckanna and @ethanmckanna
Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars and r/waymo
| 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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| 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, Semafor, and South China Morning Post
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| 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| 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 …
More: BBC, The Guardian, Transport Topics, 9to5Mac, Washington Times, AppleInsider, Forbes, MacRumors, Business Insider, Deutsche Welle, The Daily Wire, Wall Street Journal, CBS News, The Gateway Pundit, Ukrainian National News, Axios, Thurrott, Quartz, TheJournal.ie, India Today, The Hill, Times of India, Financial Times, and Associated Press
X: @cernovich, @timsweeneyepic, and @willguyatt. Mastodon: @jon@social.vivaldi.net. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …
Forums: r/technology, r/BoycottUnitedStates, and r/Economics
| 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: StrictlyVC, Unite.AI, and RuntimeWire
| 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, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, The Indian Express, and The Verge
| 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, and Quartz
| 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
| 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 — Fluidstack Ltd., a startup helping Anthropic PBC build artificial intelligence data centers, has raised $830 million in funding.| Reuters: |
Sources: CXMT expelled Huawei-linked SiCarrier staff from its R&D zone amid a pricing dispute, as Chinese memory makers flex their newfound clout to hike prices — For months, Chinese chip manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) had been hiking prices on Huawei, one of the country's biggest technology companies.| 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 … | 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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