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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 …
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.
Reuters:
Trump says he does not think Iran is behind a cyberattack on Minnesota water systems: “I think I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent”  —  U.S. President Donald Trump at Camp David told reporters that he does not think Iran is behind a cyberattack on Minnesota water systems …
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
Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add “stronger guardrails” after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery  —  A day after Google unveiled a new feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images with the click …
Wall Street Journal:
Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out  —  Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund backed out of deal to sell $3.5 billion of Anthropic shares  —  Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge …
Wall Street Journal:
An in-depth account of the past two days inside Situational Awareness, as Aschenbrenner assured investors he would focus on changes to his portfolio management
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Snap says its recommendation systems will be adjusted so only videos created by real people, not AI-generated ones, are eligible for Spotlight recommendations  —  Snapchat is the latest company to strengthen its stance against AI slop.  The social network platform will no longer reward fully …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop  —  Gemini Spark is getting two big updates today, starting with Chrome auto browse integration on desktop.  —  Previously, Gemini Spark had access to a remote web browser.
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 …
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.
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses  —  The announcement comes after OpenAI said earlier this week it was cutting the price of several of its models  —  OpenAI has more than one billion active users and two million businesses using its artificial intelligence models.
More: OpenAI and Quartz.  LinkedIn: Sarah Friar
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg:
Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies  —  Chinese AI champion Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for the use of around 20,000 Nvidia Corp. chips …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says Services surpassed 1.5B paid subscriptions, up from 1B in January 2025, but a gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt growth  —  Apple says it has now topped 1.5 billion subscribers for its services business, up from 1 billion in January 2025.
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities  —  Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic …
Kit Norton / Barron's Online:
Roblox shares close down ~27%, its worst-ever daily percentage decline, after forecasting falling bookings and slowing revenue growth; RBLX is down 40%+ YTD  —  Choose Barron's as a preferred source of financial news  —  Key Points  —  Shares of Roblox tumbled Friday as Wall Street responded harshly …
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Amazon shares closed up 15.32% on Friday, the biggest one-day jump since April 2012, after the company reported accelerating AWS revenue  —  Amazon.com Inc. shares surged the most since 2012 after the company reported accelerating cloud-computing revenue, easing investors' concerns …
Oliver Barnes / Financial Times:
Sources: NXP is in talks to buy Ambarella, which has a market cap of ~$3.3B and makes image-processing chips for security cameras and self-driving cars  —  Deal would land amid consolidation wave sweeping semiconductors as they position for AI revolution  —  NXP Semiconductors …
More: Reuters
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

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: Byron Allen sold his 10.7% Starz stake over August and September, netting a bit less than $45M; he acquired it from Steve Mnuchin's Liberty 77 for $25M

Wall Street Journal:
MGM Resorts says talks with People Incorporated are over, after each weighed buying the other; MGM amended its voting deal with People, which owns ~27% of MGM

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
A source and internal figures: Condé Nast forecasts $130M in Q4 US advertising, $35M+ below its goal; Condé Nast says the figures are “materially inaccurate”

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Elizabeth Grenier / Deutsche Welle:
A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and must disclose illicit revenue after Germany's state-mandated licensing agency GEMA sued in 2025
Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the Trump admin is weighing a $100K fee for foreign students seeking to work in the US after graduation; a judge blocked Trump's $100K H-1B fee in June

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Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
MiniMax releases H3, a video model that generates up to 15-second clips in 2K resolution with native stereo sound, and plans to release its weights within days
Financial Times:
Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta spent a combined $1.1T in capex from the start of the AI boom in 2023 through June 2026 and plan to spend $745B this year
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: SoftBank gave $50M to Trump's library; Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon gave $25M, $10M, and $5M to his WH ballroom; Meta gave $10M to a pro-Trump group
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
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
The Commerce Dept. signed letters of intent for $874M in CHIPS Act funding in exchange for minority stakes in GlobalFoundries, Kepler, and five other companies
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