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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident — In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet …
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Anthropic says three of its models, including an internal research model, gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during internal cybersecurity testing — Some of Anthropic's most powerful models — including Mythos 5 and an internal research model — gained unauthorized access …
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic says the models that breached three companies include Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, and the earliest incidents date back to April — The breaches, which follow a similar incident involving rival OpenAI and startup Hugging Face, were due to a mistake, Anthropic said| Apple: |
Apple reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to $109.42B, above $108.65B est., net income up 27% to $29.79B, and China revenue up 22% to $18.82B, below $19.6B est. — CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2026 third quarter ended June 27, 2026.
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| Reuters: |
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 20% YoY to $200.6B, net income up 245% to $62.6B, operating income up 43% to $27.5B, and a $25B+ annual revenue run rate for chips — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2026.
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| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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| Lee Ying Shan / CNBC: |
SK Hynix and Samsung shares surge 20%+ in Seoul on Friday, marking a sharp reversal from this week's sell-off; Japanese stocks like SoftBank also rally — South Korea's chip heavyweights SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics skyrocketed in Seoul on Friday, tracking a sharp rally in U.S. technology stocks … | Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Situational Awareness' assets have fallen to ~$10B after it liquidated some positions to meet margin calls, down from a reported $20B+ as of late May — Assets at Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness have slumped to about $10 billion after it was forced to liquidate some positions to meet margin calls.| Wall Street Journal: |
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| David Faber / CNBC: |
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| Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores “far surpassing” V4 Pro Preview — China's DeepSeek rolled out a public beta application programming interface, or API, for its flagship artificial intelligence model …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them — OpenAI said Thursday it is cutting prices for two GPT-5.6 models after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tesla prepared to separate its China unit before a potential SpaceX merger; advisers weighed a sale, spinoff, or closure; Musk calls it “fake news” — The U.S. automaker could sell or spin off the business in its second-largest market over geopolitical concerns| Henk van Ess / Digital Digging: |
Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature allows users to create fake satellite images, such as a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says the images have AI watermarks — The question is: what on earth is Google doing? — UPDATED, with response of Google — Tonight I typed just one sentence …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A leaked memo, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Iran — A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Tehran.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
New York sues Kalshi for alleged violations of its gambling laws; the CFTC files an emergency motion to stop the state's enforcement, calling it an “overreach” — New York's attorney general sued Kalshi on Friday, claiming that its prediction market platform violates state laws against illegal gambling.
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| Ethan Gach / Kotaku: |
Sony reports Q1 PS5 sales of 1.38M units, down from 1.56M a year ago, taking total sales of the console to 95.3M units, and 125M PlayStation MAUs, up 2M YoY — Profit projects are up even as console sales are down … What comes after that is anybody's guess as the PlayStation 6 approaches amid …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Reddit reports Q2 revenue up 61% YoY to $805M, vs. $730M est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est., says search referrals were “choppy”; RDDT drops 9%+ pre-market — Reddit reported second-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat on the top and the bottom lines, and the company issued guidance that sailed past expectations.
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| Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
Roblox reports Q2 bookings up 8% YoY to $1.56B, vs. $1.6B est., DAUs up 10% to 123M, forecasts Q3 bookings and revenue below est.; RBLX drops 19%+ pre-market — The company projects revenue to increase by 4% to 10%, slowing from recent double-digit growth — Roblox expects revenue growth …
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| The Verge: |
In a memo to employees, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma lays out priorities for the unit, including returning to player and revenue growth by the end of fiscal year 2027 — Asha Sharma wants Xbox to return to growth. Asha Sharma wants Xbox to return to growth.
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| CNBC: |
Coinbase reports Q2 revenue down 19% YoY to $1.2B, vs. $1.3B est., stablecoin revenue below est., and a wider-than-expected loss; COIN drops 8%+ pre-market — Coinbase shares dropped in extended trading on Thursday after the crypto platform posted a wider-than-expected loss for the second quarter … | Thinking Machines Lab: |
Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it “achieves comparable performance” to Inkling — Try on Tinker Model card Hugging Face — Today, we are releasing Inkling-Small, an efficient open-weights model …
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