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July 28, 2026, 5:40 AM

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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.
CNBC:
Maddy Varner / Wired:
Claude chats appeared in Google and Bing results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying 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.
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 …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases 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.
Bloomberg:
South Korea's KOSPI drops 11%+, weighed down by chip stocks amid concerns over China's AI progress and the AI spending boom; Samsung falls 11%+ and SK Hynix 12%  —  A selloff in semiconductor stocks deepened Tuesday, as signs of China's progress in advanced chipmaking weighed on global rivals …
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.
Microsoft AI:
Microsoft says MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and MDASH, its vulnerability identification harness, deliver “world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models”  —  Today we're announcing MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside of MDASH, our multi-agent vulnerability identification and remediation harness.
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. …
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
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.
Chris Scullion / Video Games Chronicle:
Xbox resolves a “major outage” affecting its Account & Profile, Store & Subscriptions, and Apps & Mobile services that lasted around 10 hours  —  PLAYERS ARE REPORTING HAVING ISSUES WHEN TRYING TO SIGN IN OR SEE THEIR LIBRARY  —  Xbox has acknowledged …
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.
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Nvidia forms the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition including CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) said on Monday it had formed a coalition with other companies to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity …
The Information:
Sources: a Chinese state-backed company has begun manufacturing DUV machines, a key step in Beijing's drive to reduce its reliance on foreign chipmaking tech  —  A Chinese state-backed company has begun manufacturing one of the key pieces of equipment used in chip manufacturing for the first time …

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