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| Anthropic: |
Dario Amodei says Anthropic has “never” backed an open-weights model ban, lists reasons top chips shouldn't be sold to China, and calls for global model testing — Over the last few days there has been a lot of discussion about open-weights models, especially those from China.
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| Bloomberg: |
South Korea's KOSPI drops 11%+, led by chip stocks, amid concerns over China's chipmaking progress and the AI spending boom; Samsung falls 11%+ and SK Hynix 12% — A selloff in semiconductor stocks deepened as signs of progress in China's advanced chipmaking compounded worries …
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| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.95T market cap on Monday — The company slipped by the chipmaker Nvidia, amid growing concern about costs associated with the artificial intelligence boom.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple launches Apple Upgrade, a new US leasing program in partnership with Klarna that replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program, starting at $17.99/month for iPhones — Apple today launched Apple Upgrade, a new U.S. leasing program for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Taiwan detained an Nvidia employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China, after searching his home and office on July 24 — Taiwanese prosecutors detained an Nvidia Corp. employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases 26.6 updates for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS with a huge number of security fixes; macOS Tahoe 26.6 alone addresses 155 CVEs — Following the release of iOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6, and related software updates, Apple has detailed a huge number of security fixes included in today's new OS versions.
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
AI Forensics: seven out of the nine top AI image models on Hugging Face edited an image of a clothed woman into a topless one using a simple six-word prompt — Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes … | Maddy Varner / Wired: |
Claude chats appeared in Google and Bing results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt instructing not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a “noindex” tag — The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is preparing to debut a smart home hub with a 7" square display and facial recognition tech, a new Apple TV, and a refreshed HomePod mini in 2026 — Apple Inc., after spending years as a laggard in the smart home market, is preparing a dramatic new push into the category with fresh devices and software.| The Information: |
Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4's development, after training K3 on Nvidia chips, including Blackwell — Beijing-based startup Moonshot AI, flush from the breakout success of its recently released model, Kimi K3 …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Meta Newsroom: |
Meta and BlackRock form a strategic venture to develop a 1GW data center campus in El Paso, Texas, set to cost ~$14B and bring capacity online starting in 2028 — Meta and BlackRock announce a venture to finance the development and operation of a data center campus in El Paso, Texas
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
ChatGPT now refuses direct requests to copy an author's style and instead offers to capture the overall “feeling”, amid book authors' lawsuits against OpenAI — OpenAI's ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors.
More: Engadget, Android Authority, and The Mac Observer
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating several flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative — Amazon is overhauling its AI strategy, winding down many in-house models, reorganizing teams, and focusing engineers on a new strategy … | Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
ESA satellite images show damage to two Amazon data centers in Bahrain, supporting Iran's claims last week that it struck the sites; Amazon declined to comment — Satellite imagery shows damage to two Amazon.com Inc. data centers in Bahrain, supporting Iran's claims last week that it struck the sites with missiles.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Baidu begins testing its purpose-built Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis with human safety operators in outer London; Baidu plans to deploy the taxis on Lyft's Freenow — Chinese tech giant Baidu has started testing autonomous vehicles in London as part of its partnership with Lyft and Freenow …
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| New York Times: |
European police say Binance's April 2025 policy asking law enforcement to route certain requests to foreign governments significantly delays criminal probes — Investigators in Europe said that the cryptocurrency giant Binance had made it more difficult to track down scammers and solve other crimes.
More: CoinDesk
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence signs a $410M, multiyear AWS compute deal to support its self-improving AI systems, after raising $650M in May — On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $400 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services.
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| New York Times: |
Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, an AI model trained for cybersecurity, and launches Project Perception, an agentic security system that patches flaws — As some executives fret over the safety of new A.I. systems, protecting against them could be a big business for tech companies.
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X: @satyanadella, @thecybersechub, @cramforce, @testingcatalog, @perrymetzger, @willtowntech, @aaronpholmes, @mustafasuleyman, @mustafasuleyman, @flowaltdelete, and @willtowntech
LinkedIn: Allie Mellen, Frank X. Shaw, Taesoo Kim, and Hayete Gallot. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
X rolls out X Money to US Premium and Premium+ subscribers, combining a deposit account with up to 6% APY, free instant transfers on X, and a Visa debit card — X has officially launched X Money, which includes Apple Wallet support, moving the service beyond its invite-only beta and beginning a rollout today.
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| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised $95M in equity and $75M in debt — British startup Dwelly has raised $170 million to buy more real estate businesses and inject artificial intelligence into their operations.
More: Sifted, FinSMEs, BusinessCloud, and Tech Funding News
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Tel Aviv-based Act Security, whose platform reduces the access surface across cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $40M Series A and a $20M seed — Cloud-focused Act Security has raised $60 million and emerged from stealth, CEO Jonathan Langer tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, Unite.AI, and SecurityWeek
| William Sandlund / Financial Times: |
CXMT's IPO delivers a windfall for Hefei, an eastern China inland industrial city, with the government sitting on 5,000%+ paper gains after an early investment — Funds run by local government make gains of 5,000% from chipmaker's blockbuster listing — A blockbuster IPO by CXMT has delivered …
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