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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg: |
President Trump signs a memo letting the US government partner with private companies to conduct cyberattacks abroad against criminal groups targeting Americans — The US government is partnering with private-sector firms to launch cyber attacks abroad, expanding the scope of national security operations …
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Bluesky: @maggiemiller, @goldstein.latinsky.app, and @ericjgeller.com. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
Forums: r/singularity and r/accelerate
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart, which makes world models and GPU optimization tech to cut training costs, for ~$6B; Decart raised $300M in May — Anthropic PBC is in talks to buy the artificial intelligence startup Decart AI for about $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
More: Bloomberg, Gizmodo, CTech, Reuters, Quartz, Globes, Livemint, Haaretz, Verdict, Proactive, Blockonomi, and RuntimeWire
X: @nmasc_, @shiringhaffary, and @jaykapoornyc
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic's investors expect it to float at a $2T+ valuation in an October IPO and to hit $100B to $120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 — Anthropic investors expect the AI start-up to float at a valuation of $2tn or more in October, a dizzying figure that would eclipse SpaceX …
More: PYMNTS, Fortune, Silicon Republic, Australian Financial Review, and Bitcoin Insider
| The Information: |
DeepSeek launches V4-Pro, its most advanced model that rivals Kimi K3 on some benchmarks but is priced much lower, at $0.435/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens — Chinese AI developer DeepSeek has launched its flagship model, V4-Pro, to mixed reviews from users, with some expressing disappointment.
More: DeepSeek on OpenRouter, Reuters, South China Morning Post, Hugging Face, RuntimeWire, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI content models and adds a setting for creators to opt out — The streaming platform Twitch will now use creators' content to help train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon.
More: Kotaku, BBC, Decrypt, The Register, CNET, Music Ally, TechRadar, 404 Media, The Verge, Dexerto, IGN, Aftermath, Mashable, PC Gamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Video Games Chronicle, Baller Alert, Digital Trends, RuntimeWire, Business Insider, Times of India, The Tech Buzz, Ars Technica, Insider Gaming, AppleInsider, XDA Developers, and Engadget
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Forums: r/technology, r/TrueAnon, r/privacy, r/gamingnews, and r/GameFeed
| Reuters: |
Taiwan says it detected AI-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies in July from an “overseas source”, but the affected agencies successfully “handled” them — Taiwan detected AI-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies last month coming from overseas …
More: Dream Security, The Guardian, The Register, CNN, Tech Times, Focus Taiwan, Tom's Hardware, PCMag, Cyber Security News, Security Affairs, Metacurity, and Financial Times. Bluesky: @metacurity.com
| Counterpoint Research: |
In Q2 2026, server-led eSSDs reached 48% of NAND flash shipments as AI workloads shifted from training to inference, driving 5x YoY industry revenue growth — - AI inference workloads drove enterprise SSDs to 48% of global NAND shipments in Q2 2026, nearly double the 26% share a year earlier.
More: SamMobile and Notebookcheck
| Howard Liu / South China Morning Post: |
More: Tom's Hardware, Barron's Online, Blockonomi, Bloomberg, Notebookcheck, CNBC, SammyGuru, and Tech in Asia. X: @cnbc
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase, Block, and 30+ other crypto companies say frontier AI safety guardrails hinder legitimate security work while attackers use stronger tools — More than three dozen bitcoin and crypto companies have asked the largest AI labs to give open-source security researchers early access … | Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is discussing multiyear content deals with publishers to deliver current news and information for Siri AI, with a potential nine-figure budget — The content deals could provide the tech company's voice assistant with current news and information
More: PYMNTS, Gizmodo, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iClarified, 9to5Mac, MacTech.com, and MakeUseOf
X: @melissakorn and @alexbruell
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Hugo Lowell / Wired: |
Sources: the White House is expected to expand its AI oversight framework in the coming months to cover open models once they reach frontier capabilities — Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple with how to regulate …
More: RuntimeWire and The Tech Buzz
X: @chrisrmcguire, @_nathancalvin, @andrewcurran_, @rssmrm, and @adamconner. Bluesky: @metacurity.com
| Reuters: |
AI chip designer Cerebras reports Q2 revenue up 74% YoY to $180M, below $194.23M est., and raises its annual revenue and gross margin forecasts; CBRS drops 14%+ — Cerebras Systems (CBRS.O) raised its annual revenue and gross margin forecasts on Wednesday, buoyed by robust demand for its chips …
More: Quartz, Cerebras, Bloomberg, CNBC, Tom's Hardware, SiliconANGLE, and Barron's Online. Forums: r/MU_Stock
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind CEO — Demis Hassabis discussed the proposed new entity with heads of other AI labs and Trump administration officials including Scott Bessent| xAI: |
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, saying it matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and prices it at $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens — Grok 4.6 builds on Grok 4.5 with a particular focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work. — Try for free
More: VentureBeat, Artificial Analysis, Business Today, 9to5Google, The Mac Observer, The Neuron, The Indian Express, Barron's Online, The Rundown AI, Latent.Space, Memeburn, MarkTechPost, Rohan's Bytes, Forkast, SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, Investor's Business Daily, RuntimeWire, Implicator.ai, Gizmodo, Tech Times, The Decoder, and 9to5Mac
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| Bloomberg: |
Rapidly advancing AI tools have created investor uncertainty and fear around the SaaS business model and the private equity and credit built on top of it — Now the entire business model is at risk — ON WALL STREET, there's a disaster scenario known as the “SaaSpocalypse” that goes something like this.
More: Eurogamer.net, Implicator.ai, and Motley Fool
| Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg: |
Yuno, a payments infrastructure provider for processing transactions globally, raised a $45M Series B led by Global PayTech, with a16z and others participating — Yuno, a Colombian-founded payments infrastructure startup that helps companies process transactions across different markets …
More: Yuno, The SaaS News, PYMNTS, and The Paypers
| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Cisco reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $17.25B, above $16.82B est., hyperscaler AI infrastructure orders worth $4B, and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above est. — Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) forecast fiscal 2027 revenue above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, signaling confidence that strong demand … | Mistral AI Blog: |
Mistral says its platform will support third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and run them on the same infrastructure as its own models — At Mistral, we believe every enterprise and country must be in control of the models it uses, choose where the intelligence runs …
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LinkedIn: Brian Kaufman, Howard Cohen, Nikhil Thomas, and Kamal Brar
Forums: r/BuyFromEU and r/MistralAI
| Laurie Chen / Reuters: |
Lenovo reports Q1 revenue up 43% YoY to $26.94B, its highest quarterly revenue growth in five years, as AI-related revenue rose 60% YoY to $9.3B, 35% of total — China's Lenovo Group (0992.HK) reported a 43% jump in quarterly revenue on Thursday, beating forecasts and sending shares …
More: Quartz, Lenovo StoryHub, Bloomberg, Blockonomi, Dow Jones Newswires, Financial Post, and Tech in Asia
| Bloomberg: |
CXMT overtakes Tencent to become the most valuable Chinese company, with a ~$524B market cap, above Tencent's $510B; CXMT's Shanghai shares jumped 460%+ at IPO — CXMT Corp. has overtaken Hong Kong-listed Tencent Holdings Ltd. as the world's most valuable Chinese company …
More: Chip Briefing and Nikkei Asia
| Financial Times: |
Wealth managers are cutting fees and hiring staff in Silicon Valley to win over OpenAI and Anthropic workers before IPOs mint a new class of millionaires — The rise of equity-rich tech workers at Anthropic and OpenAI is shifting negotiating power towards clients| Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: |
Meta says it removed 750,000+ Australian accounts believed to belong to under-16s to comply with the social media ban, including 462,000 Instagram accounts — Meta Platforms Inc. says it has removed access to more than 750,000 Instagram and Facebook accounts in Australia believed to belong …
More: Livemint, The Hans India, Meta Newsroom, Digit, TRT World, AzerNews, The Asia Business Daily, Reuters, Ukrainian National News, Mediaweek, and B&T. Bluesky: @andysternberg
| Business Insider: |
Sources: former Google exec Jeff Dean is in talks for $1B in funding at a ~$10B valuation for his new science and engineering-focused AI startup, Discovery Loop — Jeff Dean spent 27 years helping build Google. Now, investors could be betting $1 billion that he can build the next big thing in AI outside it.
X: @katie_roof, @jparkjmc, and @augusteprompt
| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
Accelerant, which uses data analytics to connect insurance underwriters with risk capital partners, agrees to go private with Thoma Bravo in a $4.4B deal — The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027 — Accelerant agreed to go private in a deal with private-equity firm Thoma Bravo worth more than $4 billion.
More: Finimize, Reuters, and Business Wire
| Financial Times: |
Sources: legal AI startup Legora is in early talks to raise funds at a $10B+ valuation, up from $5.6B four months ago; its ARR rose 50% QoQ to $150M in Q2 — Swedish company was valued at $5.6bn only four months ago as interest in artificial intelligence tools for professional services soars
More: Sifted and Tech Funding News
| Shuhei Ochiai / Nikkei Asia: |
Foreign investment in Japan's chip industry reaches ~$37B, as government subsidies attract companies working on logic and memory chips and image sensors — TOKYO — Investment in Japan's chip industry by foreign companies has reached 6 trillion yen ($37 billion) with the recent announcement …
More: The Irish Times
| Bernard Condon / Associated Press: |
Freedom of the Press Foundation and The Intercept sue Trump after Trump Media & Technology offered a subscription service for faster access to Trump's posts — President Donald Trump was sued in federal court Wednesday to stop him from making money off a new, paid service …
More: CNBC, Bloomberg, Freedom of the Press …, The Guardian, The Japan Times, Blockonomi, The Korea Herald, Al Jazeera, Engadget, Australian Financial Review, Straight Arrow, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, The Asia Business Daily, crypto.news, Politico, Inc.com, NPR, New York Times, Ars Technica, Financial Times, The Intercept, USA Today, The Block, UPI, ABC, Quartz, NewsMax.com, BBC, and Bloomberg
| Alex Townsend: |
Mathematicians say a neurosurgery resident used ChatGPT, powered by GPT-5.6, to solve Crouzeix's conjecture, a major open problem in numerical linear algebra — On July 30, 2026, the first author asked ChatGPT 5.6 to solve Crouzeix's conjecture, as he had been routinely doing for the preceding year.| Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
SMIC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$3B, net profit up 3x+ to ~$479.2M, above ~$283.1M est., and a 25.3% gross margin, driven by strong mature-node orders — The Chinese chip foundry's net profit more than tripled in the second quarter — SMIC, China's biggest chip foundry …
More: South China Morning Post and Reuters
| Financial Times: |
Research: 53M+ people in China worked as food delivery or ridesharing drivers as of 2025, up 10M in two years, amid accelerating automation in manufacturing — As construction slumps and manufacturing automates, 53mn Chinese now work for low wages in food delivery and ride-hailing.
X: @kanthan2030, @kennedycsis, @davidheniguk, and @producercities
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