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July 4, 2026, 8:30 AM
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Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis:
Meta could use its compute for its own models, ad scaling, SpaceX-like neocloud deals, and hosting 3rd-party models; it may be close to an Anthropic deal  —  Zuck Takes Plan B?  SpaceX 2.0, Bedrock 2.0, MSL Isn't Giving Up, Scaling RecSys by 10x... ClusterMAX ranking coming soon?
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout  —  Their need to diversify the business meets the AI build out concerns...  Meta has a problem.  Well, two of them, actually.
Divya Arya / BBC:
Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like “rape video” and “child video” and linking to Telegram channels  —  Warning: This story contains descriptions of abuse  —  Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting …
Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a Series A at a $500M valuation  —  Three former DeepMind researchers who created an AI that beat humans at poker have now applied the same technology to trading stocks — and the bet appears to be paying off.
Robert P Baird / The Guardian:
A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs  —  Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate - and think through - the impact of AI.
Financial Times:
An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says “there will not be an FDA for AI” under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industry's “doomer” messaging, and more  —  Sriram Krishnan tells the FT the president is against a centralised regulator as AI backlash grows
More: Benzinga.  X: @gerritd, @gerritd, @gerritd, and @sriramk.  Bluesky: @caseynewton
The Information:
Sources: Alibaba banned Claude Code internally and asked its employees to remove all Claude models from their work computers due to Anthropic security concerns  —  Alibaba Group has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code, and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers …

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at ABC News' 24-hour Fourth of July programming marathon for the US' 250th anniversary, which it calls “the longest commercial broadcast in history”

Peter Walker / The Guardian:
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says she and her department will stop using X because the site favors “abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”

Matthew Weaver / The Guardian:
Three men have been found not guilty of murdering the journalist Lyra McKee in 2019; the New IRA claimed responsibility for the killing

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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft invests $2.5B and forms the Microsoft Frontier Company to embed 6,000 forward-deployed engineers with customers to help deploy AI systems
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