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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.
More: The Verge, The Register, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, Computerworld, Business Standard, Benzinga, The Hans India, The Decoder, Quartz, Social Media Examiner, Neowin, Livemint, Bloomberg, The Rundown AI, Digit, The Indian Express, The Deep View, Politico, Business Insider, Capital Brief, The New Stack, Constellation Research, CNBC, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/Anthropic
| 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.
More: Apple, The Verge, CNET, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, CNN, New York Times, 9to5Mac, Finimize, Quartz, CNBC, The Mac Observer, Digital Trends, The Apple Post, Business Wire, and PYMNTS
X: @mweinbach, @chancehmiller, @mweinbach, @joannastern, @bdsams, and @markgurman
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| 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Moonshot AI releases weights for Kimi K3 under the “Kimi K3 License”, letting users download, tweak, and host the 2.8T-parameter model — Moonshot AI has made its Kimi K3 model available for public download, expanding its reach and influence in the global open software community …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/GeminiAI, r/ClaudeCode, and r/Anthropic
| 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 … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is preparing to launch a smart home hub with a 7" square display and facial recognition tech, a new Apple TV, and 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.
X: @markgurman
| Meta Newsroom: |
Meta and BlackRock form a strategic venture to develop a 1GW data center campus in El Paso, 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
More: The Information, Game Developer, Reuters, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Law, Benzinga, Neowin, Dow Jones Newswires, and Unite.AI
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall “feeling”, amid its legal battles with book authors — 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
| New York Times: |
Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, an AI model trained for cybersecurity, and launches Perception, an agentic security system to patch vulnerabilities — 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.
More: The Verge, Gizmodo, Business Today, PCMag, Bitcoin News, The Independent, iThinkDifferent, Livemint, CoinGape, The Indian Express, and Mashable
| 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 …
More: Baidu, Inc., Engadget, Neowin, UKTN, The Verge, Automotive World, Motley Fool, GB News, and Fleet News
| 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
| 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 … | Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: |
Several digital-asset treasury firms have pivoted to AI amid a slump in crypto prices, but their poor stock performance suggests the strategy is not working — The implosion of the once-hot market for cryptocurrency treasury stocks is prompting a number of firms to pivot to artificial intelligence in an attempt to win back investors.
More: Bitcoin News
| 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 …
More: Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, and CNBC
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nvidia commits to invest $5B in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence; SSI has previously raised ~$3B in funding and had a $32B valuation in 2025 — Nvidia Corp. has committed to invest $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever's artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. …
More: Financial Times, Tech Funding News, Silicon Republic, Evertiq, SiliconANGLE, Chip Briefing, and Reuters
X: @rohanpaul_ai, @pitdesi, and @shiringhaffary
| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
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