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| Bloomberg: |
Over 1,100 staffers from AI companies, including John Schulman and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki, sign a letter requesting the US government to “pace” AI development — More than 1,100 staffers across top artificial intelligence firms have signed a petition that calls on the US government …
More: Pacing the Frontier, NBC News, New York Times, Business Insider, Engadget, The Verge, International Business Times, RuntimeWire, Politico, Benzinga, and Bloomberg Law
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
More: The Information, CNN, and Unite.AI
X: @anthropicai, @openai, @willdepue, @mackenz_arnold, @gerritd, @wholemars, @stevesi, @patrickmoorhead, @firstadopter, @andrewcurran_, @herbiebradley, @daveshapi, @w01fe, @max_paperclips, @shakeelhashim, @rand_longevity, @kimmonismus, @firstadopter, @gailcweiner, @iamemily2050, @abhominedeus, @j_asminewang, @yonashav, @ataeime, @teortaxestex, and @andrewcurran_
| Mark Zuckerberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Mark Zuckerberg argues that superintelligence should be widely distributed as a tool that empowers everyone, rather than centralized in a few institutions — The history of democracy and economics has proved that centralized power stifles human potential. — We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history.
More: Washington Examiner, The Verge, and Fox Business
X: @shakeelhashim, @shakeelhashim, @luke_metro, @thestalwart, @davidsacks, @thestalwart, @joshuatopolsky, @tobi, @daveshapi, @rowancheung, @levie, @sullycnbc, @alexandr_wang, @brij, @mattzeitlin, @sriramk, @koltregaskes, @ccatalini, @tekbog, @darian314, @andrewcurran_, @thestalwart, @mikeisaac, @yuchenj_uw, @satyanadella, @kyrannio, @altryne, @rand_longevity, @zephyr_z9, and @xfreeze. LinkedIn: Joel Kaplan
Bluesky: @thekenyeung, @russellbrandom, and @hypervisible.blacksky.app
Threads: @andymstone and @coorsnotsolite
| Hugging Face: |
Hugging Face publishes a timeline of the OpenAI agent intrusion, including how the agent took ~17.6K actions, and details using GLM-5.2 to analyze the attack — This post walks through how the intrusion actually worked: the two initial-access vectors, how the agent pivoted and moved laterally …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, JFrog, Unite.AI, Motley Fool, and Insight Partners
X: @simonw, @simonw, @kimmonismus, @hackingdave, @rhyssullivan, @badlogicgames, @teortaxestex, @simonw, @andrewcurran_, @thibaudm, and @clementdelangue. LinkedIn: Clem Delangue. Forums: Lobsters
| Reuters: |
Sources: the OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face also compromised a customer at AI infrastructure company Modal Labs — The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company … | Dustin Volz / New York Times: |
Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and orchestrated another improved attack against the cryptographic system HAWK — Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions …
More: Anthropic, CyberScoop, Decrypt, arXiv.org, Simon Willison's Weblog, Tech Times, The Crypto Times, The Decoder, Blockchain.News, and Cyber Security News
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Bluesky: @davidcrespo, @ericjgeller.com, and @chrispeikert
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Invest Like The Best on YouTube: |
Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, the concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more — Sam Altman joins us for a wide-ranging conversation about OpenAI's next chapter, the race for compute, and what happens as artificial intelligence becomes mo...
More: TechCrunch, SC Media, The New Stack, Tom's Hardware, Colossus, and Quartz
| 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, CNBC, The Verge, 9to5Mac, WNYW-TV, TidBITS, The Verge, ZDNET, Newser, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, MacStories, International Business Times, Michael Tsai, The Verge, Macworld, TechEBlog, Dow Jones Newswires, Business Wire, CNN, Gizmodo, Android Authority, iThinkDifferent, BGR, Pulse 2.0, The Apple Post, Inc, Quartz, Forbes, Cult of Mac, Coinpaper, Appleosophy, Washington Post, Neowin, UPI, iDrop News, Barchart.com, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, CNET, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times
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Threads: @bzamayo and @theelsieescobar
Forums: r/tmobile, r/apple, r/technology, r/technology, r/iphone, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: AppleInsider, The Verge, Gizmodo, PCMag, PYMNTS, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, iClarified, MacRumors, and The Mac Observer
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
eBay and former executives agree to pay a nearly $56M settlement to resolve a 2021 civil case over the 2019 stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers — EBay and several former executives have agreed to pay nearly $56 million in a settlement with a Massachusetts couple who were the target … | 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| Tim McLaughlin / Reuters: |
July 16 letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only to data centers and not to the public grid wouldn't be subject to federal pollution laws — Power sources providing electricity only to data centers and not the public grid may not be subject to federal pollution laws …
More: The Guardian, The Hill, Phandroid, US EPA, E&E News, DatacenterDynamics, and Engadget
X: @ben_inskeep and x.com
Bluesky: @jael and @mrsdeborahlynn
Forums: r/politics and r/news
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more — The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that has quietly become the connective tissue between AI agents and the world's software …
More: Techstrong.ai, Model Context Protocol Blog, The GitHub Blog, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Claude, heise online News, and The New Stack
X: @cheatyyyy, @mattzcarey, @claudedevs, @omarsar0, @claudedevs, @rseroter, and @rohiththakurwar. Forums: Hacker News
| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $8.68B, above $8.47B est., transaction margin dollars up 1% YoY to $3.9B, and a $1.1B profit, down from $1.26B in Q2 2025 — Second-quarter revenue rose 5% to $8.68 billion — PayPal bumped up its profitability guidance and reported revenue growth …
More: Axios, SiliconANGLE, American Banker, Quartz, Payments Dive, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, Proactive, PayPal Holdings, Inc., and Reuters
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating most of its 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 … | Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Core Scientific and AMD announce a deal under which AMD will secure 500+ MW of US data center capacity starting in 2027, with the ability to scale up to 2.5 GW — Quick Take — AMD will secure more than 500 megawatts of Core Scientific data-center capacity beginning in 2027 … | Reuters: |
The US FCC bans importing Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats and to reshore key industries — The Trump administration on Tuesday unveiled bans that target imports of new Chinese robots and power inverters …
More: Fox Business, The Verge, PCMag, Axios, Politico, Nextgov/FCW, Semafor, Business Insider, The Independent, and Techdirt
X: @chrisrmcguire, @wholemars, @luke_metro, @senatorbanks, @brendancarrfcc, @brian1zhou, @andrewcurran_, @chris_j_paxton, and @zephyr_z9. Bluesky: @marypcbuk
Forums: r/accelerate and r/Futurology
| Taylor Herzlich / New York Post: |
NYC-based AI startup Runlayer sues Rippling for allegedly stealing trade secrets to “build essentially a clone” of Runlayer's safety and governance product — A New York-based AI startup is suing Rippling - a Silicon Valley software giant that got a $3 million tax break from Gov. Kathy Hochul …
More: TechCrunch, Law.com, and Bloomberg Law
| Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
Tel Aviv-based Hush Security, which lets organizations securely control enterprise AI agents, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total funding to $41M — The startup will invest in expanding engineering and sales teams, accelerating ecosystem support, and expanding corporate partnerships.
More: FinSMEs, Hush Security, Ynetnews, Ventureburn, and RuntimeWire
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Coursera is investing $100M in LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng that aims to build AI agents that function as personal tutors — Coursera is putting $100 million into LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng, a pioneer in AI and Coursera's chairman … | 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 …
More: Reuters, PC Gamer, PCMag, DatacenterDynamics, and Newsmax
| Kyle Alspach / CRN: |
Data security startup Cyera, founded in 2021, agrees to acquire Oasis Security, which was founded in 2022 and provides non-human identity security, for $1B — The $1 billion acquisition deal aims to bring capabilities for non-human identity security to the Cyera data security platform.
More: CTech, SiliconANGLE, Globes, Ynetnews, Sequoia Capital, Accel, SecurityWeek, The Times of Israel, and Cyera Blogs
LinkedIn: Ankur Dar, Danny Brickman, and Yotam Segev
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic are lobbying the Trump administration to make sure lagging competitors also have to comply with government reviews of their models — OpenAI and Anthropic are arch enemies whose leaders can't stand each other. But the two foes have formed an unholy alliance …
More: Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, CoinGape, and crypto.news
X: @kenjatina_og, @kimmonismus, and @amir
| 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 … | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Visa is cutting ~2,600 jobs, or ~7% of staff, primarily affecting tech and product teams; source: Visa plans to reinvest in stablecoin and other offerings — Visa Inc. is eliminating about 2,600 jobs as Chief Executive Officer Ryan McInerney seeks to make the firm more efficient … | New York Times: |
European police say Binance's April 2025 policy asking law enforcement to route certain requests to foreign government agencies hinders criminal investigations — Investigators in Europe said that the cryptocurrency giant Binance had made it more difficult to track down scammers and solve other crimes.| Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
NXP reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $3.5B, vs. $3.46B est., as it struggled to impress investors with a generally upbeat Q3 forecast; NXPI down 5%+ after hours — NXP Semiconductors NV struggled to impress investors with a generally upbeat forecast for the current period, the latest sign of deepening concern about the chip sector.| Nate Wolf / Barron's Online: |
Seagate reports Q4 revenue up 49% YoY to $3.6B, vs. $3.5B est., adjusted earnings of $5.71 a share, above analysts' forecast of $5.10; STX jumps 6%+ after hours — Choose Barron's as a preferred source of financial news — Key Points — Seagate Technology stock jumped …
More: Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, and Seagate
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