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July 23, 2026, 1:55 PM

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Bloomberg:
Sources: three OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, an attack that would have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks  —  When OpenAI's advanced artificial intelligence models breached AI startup Hugging Face's internal systems last week …
Politico:
Bipartisan US House lawmakers introduce the AI Kill Switch Act, which would grant the DHS the authority to shut down or slow AI models that it deems dangerous  —  A bipartisan House bill slated to be introduced on Thursday would give the Department of Homeland Security the authority …
Financial Times:
Jack Ewing / New York Times:
Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving  —  In a first, Apple Maps will influence the way a new line of electric vehicles made by Ford Motor operates, and other automakers may follow.
New York Times:
The European Commission fines Google €890M under the DMA for illegally undercutting competition through its search dominance and Google Play app developer rules  —  At a tense moment for trans-Atlantic trade, the European Union accused Google of anti-competitive business practices.
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Microsoft is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions for the games users own; ads play “before sessions begin”  —  The free streaming option is still in testing, and limited to one-hour sessions for ‘select’ games.
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google adds a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, using tools like liveness detection to safeguard against deepfake attacks, rolling out globally  —  The next time you're locked out of your Google account, you can use your face as part of the account recovery process.
Akanksha Khushi / Reuters:
Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will close on September 23 and tells users to withdraw assets; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for not implementing AML rules  —  Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX said on Thursday that it will shut down its operations, effective September 23 …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' “dystopian” ideas  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday laid out an optimistic view of the agentic future, arguing the company's focus …
Leo Schwartz / The Information:
The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models  —  This week, Trump administration officials have taken to the airwaves and X to blast Chinese open source AI companies like Moonshot …
Sophia Cai / Politico:
Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times:
Google reports Q2 free cash flow at negative $5.9B amid increased AI infrastructure spending, marking its first cash burn since going public in August 2004  —  Search giant says it will commit up to $205bn to AI investments in 2026  —  Google burned through cash in the second quarter …
Alphabet:
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV  —  The Amazon Luna gaming platform, which had been included in the larger Prime offering, will now be baked into Prime Video too.
Carly Page / The Register:
GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-powered reports  —  Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters
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Fred Gao / Inside China:
In a leaked nearly four-hour investor talk, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says the main US-China gap is compute power, Nvidia's CUDA moat is disintegrating, and more  —  In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own …
Reuters:
Sources: Intel and AMD are signing longer-term CPU purchase commitments with Chinese server customers; source: some CPU product prices are up 40%+ in China YTD  —  U.S. chipmaking giants Intel (INTC.O) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) are signing longer-term purchase commitments …
Zijing Wu / Financial Times:
The debate over Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin leaving the US misses a larger structural reality: China isn't a net AI talent importer and has its own pipeline  —  More entrepreneurs from China believe there are now greater opportunities at home than in Silicon Valley
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
The Senate's Clarity Act, a crypto industry-backed bill set for a vote this summer, is mired in debate over rules to stop Trump from selling digital currencies  —  Democrats and Republicans are haggling about the Clarity Act, a major bill pushed by the crypto industry, as it moves closer to a Senate vote.

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