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Demis Hassabis:
Demis Hassabis proposes a US-based Standards Body for “Frontier-class” AI, modeled after FINRA; labs would share models for review up to 30 days before release  —  This is a pivotal moment in human history.  Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI's first device will be a moveable, screen-free smart speaker with a camera and sensors, meant to serve as a humanlike AI companion  —  OpenAI's much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type …
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
IBM reports preliminary Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $17.2B, below $17.9B est., as CEO Arvind Krishna says customers are shifting spending to chips; IBM falls 25%  —  International Business Machines Corp. shares slid by the most in at least 58 years after the company reported preliminary second-quarter sales …
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new environmental permits for data centers over 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so  —  But a version approved by state lawmakers could go even further. … New hyperscale data centers can't set up shop in New York …
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg:
Sources: DeepSeek has started planning for an IPO in China and may file as soon as this year, allowing it to debut in 2027  —  Chinese AI pioneer DeepSeek has begun preparations for an initial public offering and may file as soon as this year, setting the stage for what could be a landmark debut for the country's technology industry.
Connor Jones / The Register:
Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted  —  Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them
Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop:
The Trump administration launches the “Gold Eagle” federal clearinghouse for sharing AI cyber threat information between the government and private sector  —  The White House said the clearinghouse has already started to receive intelligence on vulnerabilities and prioritize patches.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
OpenAI says it is “not aware of any evidence” that Apple's lawsuit alleging trade-secret theft has merit, adding that it believes in fair competition  —  OpenAI said on Tuesday that it's “not aware of any evidence” that an Apple Inc. lawsuit alleging trade-secret theft has merit.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google Images launches a Pinterest-like redesign with a browsable, dynamic gallery of images, and adds a way for users to create AI images in Search  —  Google Images, the tech giant's image search engine, is taking on Pinterest with its latest redesign that turns the site into a browsable …
Muvija M / Reuters:
The UK government proposes a default overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds and disabling features like auto-play and infinite scroll by default  —  Britain will introduce a default overnight curfew on social media apps for 16- and 17-year-olds, the government said …
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
Anthropic faces ridicule and criticism for an ad titled “There's hope in hard questions” that unsettled viewers with weird graveyard imagery and doomer-ist tone  —  Anthropic is known for its creative marketing, but the AI company may have been a little bit too creative when it conjured up its most recent advertisement.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27B that it says runs natively on Apple devices via MLX; its CEO says Apple is evaluating the tech  —  Apple is in talks with a small Silicon Valley company that says it can shrink powerful artificial intelligence models enough to run directly …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features  —  Anthropic is providing free access to premium Claude AI features to K-12 teachers in the United States.  The effort is part of a new Claude for Teachers initiative.
Financial Times:
Sources and telecom data: a coordinated campaign of SS7 pings was used to track the locations of US personnel during the US-led strikes on Iran in late February  —  Roaming systems and ad tech were used to try to locate American personnel as Tehran attacked forces in the region
Kiranjeet Kaur / IDC:
China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments  —  What Happened in China's Smartphone Market in Q2 2026?  —  China's smartphone shipments came in at roughly 66 million units …
Washington Post:
A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product  —  State Affairs combines media and technology at a time when tensions between the two industries are at a fever pitch.  —  Summary
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Spotify launches Talk to Spotify, letting users create playlists and more via voice, rolling out in beta to Premium users age 18+ in the US, Ireland, and Sweden  —  The new beta feature works from the Home or Now Playing views on mobile.  —  Spotify already uses a lot of AI (too much some might say) …
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
Adapter, which offers an infrastructure layer to help users leverage and control data for use by AI agents and apps, emerges from stealth with $17.8M in funding  —  Repeat founder Adam Ghetti returns with a startup backed by GV and others to provide better ‘cognition’ for your AI use …
Reuters:
Analysis: xAI has installed far more gas turbines without US permits at Colossus 2 than it has publicly acknowledged, impacting Black neighborhoods the hardest  —  Elon Musk's xAI has installed far more gas turbines without federal permits at its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee …

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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
BBC DG Matt Brittin says the BBC and UK public service broadcasting face “real jeopardy” as license fee erosion drives BBC's third consecutive annual deficit

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Letter: Tennessee Deputy Governor Stuart McWhorter urged David Ellison to move Paramount's corporate headquarters from California to Tennessee

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Trump's recent comment on a “normal path” for CNN raised eyebrows amid the Paramount-WBD merger; Paramount would need CNN revenue to help pay off $80B in debt

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