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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, New York Times, The Verge, NBC News, Engadget, Business Insider, Bloomberg Law, RuntimeWire, and International Business Times
X: @tszzl, @adamthierer, @shiringhaffary, @eliebakouch, @shakeelhashim, @abhominedeus, @ccatalini, @kiko_himself, @mikeisaac, @mackenz_arnold, @woke8yearold, @dylanbowmansf, @govkathyhochul, @muratcan, @stevesi, @garrisonlovely, @shakeelhashim, @zeffmax, @averiorg, @suchenzang, @gabrieldwu1, @suchenzang, @afinetheorem, @nickcammarata, @zeffmax, @thezvi, @charliebull0ck, @zackkorman, @theobearman, @hadas_gold, @tedlieu, @stevesi, @mark_k, @repcasar, @logandobson, @agraylin, @micsolana, @shakeelhashim, @dylhunn, @tszzl, @chadwahl, @chrisgpt, @milesaturpin, @tedlieu, @boazbaraktcs, @wholemars, @brivael, @peterwildeford, @miles_brundage, @adrienle, and @suchenzang. LinkedIn: Arthur Goemans. Bluesky: @trahan.house.gov
Forums: Hacker News, r/tech, and r/singularity
| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
OpenAI and Anthropic release statements in support of the “Pacing the Frontier” initiative; Anthropic says Dario Amodei and several co-founders have signed it — More than 1,100 employees from leading tech firms on Tuesday urged the U.S. government to support an international effort …
More: The Information, SiliconANGLE, and CNN
X: @openai, @anthropicai, @ccatalini, @wholemars, @andrewcurran_, @willdepue, @ataeime, @yonashav, @gailcweiner, @teortaxestex, @firstadopter, @rand_longevity, @shakeelhashim, @gerritd, @max_paperclips, @firstadopter, @daveshapi, @kimmonismus, @patrickmoorhead, @abhominedeus, @iamemily2050, @w01fe, @j_asminewang, @stevesi, @andrewcurran_, and @herbiebradley
| 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, Axios, JFrog, Al Jazeera, Cyber Security News, Bloomberg, Politico, Constellation Research, Unite.AI, and Motley Fool
X: @clementdelangue, @bgurley, @simonw, @kimmonismus, @rhyssullivan, @hackingdave, @teortaxestex, @thibaudm, @andrewcurran_, @badlogicgames, @simonw, @simonw, and @andrewwhite01. LinkedIn: Clem Delangue. Bluesky: @k8em0
Forums: r/cybersecurity, r/LocalLLaMA, and 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 …
More: Axios, RuntimeWire, and ZeroHedge News
| 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: Financial Times, Fox Business, The Verge, and Washington Examiner
X: @daveshapi, @shakeelhashim, @rowancheung, @levie, @sullycnbc, @tobi, @thestalwart, @alexandr_wang, @brij, @mattzeitlin, @sriramk, @koltregaskes, @ccatalini, @tekbog, @darian314, @davidsacks, @andrewcurran_, @nikitabier, @thestalwart, @luke_metro, @mikeisaac, @yuchenj_uw, @satyanadella, @taylorlorenz, @kyrannio, @altryne, @rand_longevity, @thestalwart, @zephyr_z9, @joshuatopolsky, and @xfreeze. LinkedIn: Joel Kaplan
Bluesky: @thekenyeung, @russellbrandom, and @hypervisible.blacksky.app
Threads: @andymstone and @coorsnotsolite
| 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, International Business Times, arXiv.org, Simon Willison's Weblog, CyberScoop, Blockchain.News, Cyber Security News, The Crypto Times, Decrypt, and The Decoder
X: @anthropicai, @jakehalloran1, @dac_chain, @signulll, @daniellefong, @anthropicai, @anthropicai, @anthropicai, @durumcrustulum, @anthropicai, @taylorlorenz, @cryptopunk7213, @florian_tramer, @anthropicai, @anthropicai, and @suchenzang. LinkedIn: Alex Matrosov
Bluesky: @davidcrespo, @ericjgeller.com, and @chrispeikert
Forums: Hacker News, r/cryptography, r/technology, 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: Business Insider, TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, Colossus, SC Media, and The New Stack
| 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: BBC, Forbes, Washington Post, PYMNTS, Engadget, Gizmodo, Fox Business, The Verge, CNBC, The Asia Business Daily, The Guardian, PCMag, The Japan Times, Politico, The Independent, and Nextgov/FCW
X: @brendancarrfcc, @brian1zhou, @luke_metro, @wholemars, @senatorbanks, @andrewcurran_, @chris_j_paxton, @zephyr_z9, and @chrisrmcguire. Bluesky: @marypcbuk
Forums: r/accelerate, r/neoliberal, and r/Futurology
| 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 …
More: Wired, eBay Newsroom, Reuters, New York Times, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, Gizmodo, Australian Financial Review, Boing Boing, Associated Press, Mirror, SFist, Financial Times, Quartz, Bloomberg Law, and CBS News
Bluesky: @joshtaylor and @harrymccracken.com
Forums: r/technology and r/TrueReddit
| 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, CNBC, The Verge, iDrop News, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, MacStories, 9to5Mac, WNYW-TV, TechEBlog, Michael Tsai, TidBITS, Newser, ZDNET, BGR, Pulse 2.0, Inc, Coinpaper, Washington Post, Neowin, UPI, Barchart.com, Tom's Guide, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Business Wire, CNN, and New York Times
X: @cartidise, @bengeskin, @mweinbach, @mweinbach, @mweinbach, @joannastern, @aaronp613, @robertjbye, @raywongy, @basicappleguy, @markgurman, @snazzylabs, @caro_milanesi, @benbajarin, @mweinbach, @johei13, @sethrubenstein, @vadimyuryev, @klarnaseb, @robertjbye, @greengart, @bdsams, @raywongy, @brandenflasch, @chancehmiller, and @benbajarin
LinkedIn: Klarna and Karen Rasmussen
Threads: @bzamayo and @theelsieescobar
Forums: r/tmobile, r/technology, r/technology, r/iphone, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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, RuntimeWire, The GitHub Blog, The Register, heise online News, Claude, and The New Stack
X: @claudedevs, @cheatyyyy, @mattzcarey, @claudedevs, @omarsar0, @rseroter, and @rohiththakurwar. LinkedIn: Katelyn Lesse. Forums: Hacker News
| 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, Macworld, The Verge, PYMNTS, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, PCMag, iClarified, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada, and The Shortcut
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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: Engadget, The Guardian, The Hill, DatacenterDynamics, US EPA, and E&E News
X: @ben_inskeep and x.com
Bluesky: @jael and @mrsdeborahlynn
Forums: r/politics and r/news
| 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 … | 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| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
SK Hynix reports Q2 revenue up 257% YoY to ~$54.34B, below ~$57.56B est., and operating profit up 557% YoY to ~$41.48B, below analyst estimate of ~$43.85B — SK Hynix shares fell on Wednesday as exponential second-quarter earnings and revenue growth still failed to satisfy analysts' supercharged expectations …
More: Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Korea JoongAng Daily, Culpium, and SK hynix Newsroom
X: @jimcramer, @thestalwart, @firstadopter, @tculpan, @tculpan, @citrini, @bubbleboi, @jonahlupton, @tculpan, @jukan05, and @jukan05. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic faces backlash from Silicon Valley partners, founders, and researchers for competitive tactics, guardrails, and lack of support for open-weight models — The AI pioneer faces growing distrust from startup founders and researchers over competitive tactics, guardrails and lack of support for open-weight models
More: GZERO, SiliconANGLE, and TechRepublic
| 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
| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Security- and AI-related startups have raised $855M across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, on track for an all-time high — Seed funding trends tell us a lot about how savvy investors see the future unfolding. And lately, the data tells us there's great concern about cybersecurity risks posed by AI.| Rebecca Robbins / New York Times: |
Doctors and researchers worry that FDA-related wagers on Kalshi and Polymarket could compromise drug development tests and erode public trust in the process — On the betting websites Kalshi and Polymarket, people can now wager on whether the Food and Drug Administration will decide this year …
More: The Daily Caller
| 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 … | 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
| 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 … | 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.
More: Wall Street Journal and NXP USA, Inc.
| Riley Moser / CBS News: |
xAI sues Minnesota's AG over a state law banning apps and sites that create fake, sexualized pictures of individuals, claiming it violates the First Amendment — Billionaire Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-of-its-kind law that bans apps and websites …
More: CNBC, Gizmodo, subscriber.politicopro.com, Minnesota House …, KTTC-TV, Reclaim The Net, Minnesota Reformer, Bloomberg Law, and FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul. Forums: r/politics
| 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 … | Kyle Baird / The Block: |
Bitcoin miner and AI infrastructure company Ionic Digital surged more than 25% to nearly $63 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it an implied valuation of ~$2.75B — Quick Take — Ionic Digital was formed from Celsius Mining's assets and later took direct control of its sites from Hut 8.| 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 … | 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: Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, Benzinga, Seagate, and Wall Street Journal
| 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: TechCrunch, CTech, Pulse 2.0, Accel, The Times of Israel, Cyera Blogs, Globes, and Ynetnews
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