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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 …
More: The White House, The White House, Reuters, SecurityWeek, The Independent, and Cyber Security News
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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 buy Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, 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: Gizmodo, CTech, Globes, Haaretz, Reuters, Verdict, Proactive, Blockonomi, and RuntimeWire
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI models and tells creators how to opt out — The streaming platform Twitch will now use creators' content to help train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon.
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Bluesky: @ketanjoshi.co, @amanda.omg.lol, and @simli
| Reuters: |
Taiwan says it detected AI-assisted cyberattack campaign from overseas targeting government agencies last month, but affected agencies successfully “handled” it — Taiwan detected AI-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies last month coming from overseas but the affected bodies successfully … | 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
| The Information: |
DeepSeek launches V4-Pro, its most advanced model that rivals Kimi K3 on some benchmarks at much lower prices, costing $0.44/1M 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, South China Morning Post, Simon Willison's Weblog, and Wccftech
X: @teortaxestex, @teortaxestex, @arena, @goodhunt, @ns123abc, @cheatyyyy, @arena, and @sheriyuo. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 … | 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
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| 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, 9to5Mac, iClarified, MakeUseOf, and MacTech.com
| 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
| 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, and PYMNTS
| 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 … | 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 … | 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 …
X: @giffmana, @eliebakouch, @mistralai, @eliebakouch, @mistralai, @maziyarpanahi, @noeflandre, @nikhilbhima, @noctus91, @provablemat, and @sophiamyang
LinkedIn: Brian Kaufman, Howard Cohen, Nikhil Thomas, and Kamal Brar
Forums: r/BuyFromEU and r/MistralAI
| 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 …
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
JD.com reports Q2 revenue down 2.9% YoY to ~$51.4B and net income of ~$1.1B, above ~$964M est., driven by JD Retail profitability and narrowing food losses — JD.com Inc. posted its first quarterly revenue decline since listing in 2014, in the latest sign of waning Chinese consumer sentiment.
More: Reuters and Wall Street Journal
| 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| 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
| Reuters: |
Filings and sources: Microsoft shuttered 15+ branch offices and joint ventures in China in the past five years, amid China's push for domestic software — Microsoft once regarded the idea of quitting China as unthinkable. — The year was 2010 and Google was about to exit due to concerns over censorship and cyberattacks.| 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, Digit, AzerNews, The Asia Business Daily, RTÉ, Ukrainian National News, Mediaweek, B&T, Meta Newsroom, and Telecompaper. Bluesky: @andysternberg
| 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.| 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| 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: Nikkei Asia and Caixin Global
| 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
| 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
| 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
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
A look at workers in India who are paid extra to wear devices that capture first-person video of factory and other work tasks for use as AI robot training data — Robotics companies are competing to collect videos of humans stitching shoes and welding steel to give their machines new skills.
X: @business, @saritharai, and @business
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