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| Anthropic: |
Dario Amodei says Anthropic has “never” backed an open-weights model ban, lists reasons top chips shouldn't be sold to China, and calls for global model testing — Over the last few days there has been a lot of discussion about open-weights models, especially those from China.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/Anthropic
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases updates for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS with a huge number of security fixes; macOS Tahoe 26.6 alone addresses 155 CVEs — Following the release of iOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6, and related software updates, Apple has detailed a huge number of security fixes included in today's new OS versions.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
South Korea's KOSPI drops 11%+, weighed down by chip stocks amid concerns over China's AI progress and the AI spending boom; Samsung falls 11%+ and SK Hynix 12% — A selloff in semiconductor stocks deepened as signs of progress in China's advanced chipmaking compounded worries …
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| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
| Maddy Varner / Wired: |
Claude chats appeared in Google and Bing results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a “noindex” tag — The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.
More: 404 Media, TechCrunch, Dexerto, Protos, Fast Company, Daniel J Glover, Search Engine Journal, PCMag, and Android Authority
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Taiwan detained an Nvidia employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China, after searching his home and office on July 24 — Taiwanese prosecutors detained an Nvidia Corp. employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China …
More: Silicon Republic, Tom's Hardware, Benzinga, Reuters, Forbes, The Information, and Agence France-Presse. Forums: r/singularity
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
AI Forensics: seven out of the nine top AI image models on Hugging Face edited an image of a clothed woman into a topless one using a simple six-word prompt — Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes … | Bloomberg: |
Moonshot AI releases weights for Kimi K3 under the “Kimi K3 License”, letting users download, tweak, and host the 2.8T-parameter model — Moonshot AI has made its Kimi K3 model available for public download, expanding its reach and influence in the global open software community …
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Forums: r/GeminiAI, r/ClaudeCode, and r/Anthropic
| Meta Newsroom: |
Meta and BlackRock form a strategic venture to develop a 1GW data center campus in El Paso, set to cost ~$14B and bring capacity online starting in 2028 — Meta and BlackRock announce a venture to finance the development and operation of a data center campus in El Paso, Texas
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| New York Times: |
Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, an AI model trained for cybersecurity, and launches Perception, an agentic security system to patch vulnerabilities — As some executives fret over the safety of new A.I. systems, protecting against them could be a big business for tech companies.
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall “feeling”, amid its legal battles with book authors — OpenAI's ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors.
More: Engadget, Android Authority, The Mac Observer, and RuntimeWire
| New York Times: |
European police say Binance's April 2025 policy asking law enforcement to route certain requests to foreign governments significantly delays criminal probes — Investigators in Europe said that the cryptocurrency giant Binance had made it more difficult to track down scammers and solve other crimes.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
X rolls out X Money to US Premium and Premium+ subscribers, combining a deposit account with up to 6% APY, free instant transfers on X, and a Visa debit card — X has officially launched X Money, which includes Apple Wallet support, moving the service beyond its invite-only beta and beginning a rollout today.
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| Chris Scullion / Video Games Chronicle: |
Xbox resolves a “major outage” affecting its Account & Profile, Store & Subscriptions, and Apps & Mobile services that lasted around 10 hours — PLAYERS ARE REPORTING HAVING ISSUES WHEN TRYING TO SIGN IN OR SEE THEIR LIBRARY — Xbox has acknowledged …
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| Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: |
Several digital-asset treasury firms have pivoted to AI amid a slump in crypto prices, but their poor stock performance suggests the strategy is not working — The implosion of the once-hot market for cryptocurrency treasury stocks is prompting a number of firms to pivot to artificial intelligence in an attempt to win back investors.
More: Bitcoin News
| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $8.68B, above $8.47B est., transaction margin dollars up 1% YoY to $3.9B, and a $1.1B profit, down from $1.26B in Q2 2025 — Second-quarter revenue rose 5% to $8.68 billion — PayPal bumped up its profitability guidance and reported revenue growth …
More: Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, PayPal Holdings, Inc., and Barron's Online
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating several flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative — Amazon is overhauling its AI strategy, winding down many in-house models, reorganizing teams, and focusing engineers on a new strategy … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nvidia commits to invest $5B in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence; SSI has previously raised ~$3B in funding and had a $32B valuation in 2025 — Nvidia Corp. has committed to invest $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever's artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. …
More: Financial Times, Silicon Republic, Evertiq, Reuters, and SiliconANGLE
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| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
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| The Information: |
Sources: a Chinese state-backed company has begun manufacturing DUV machines, a key step in Beijing's drive to reduce its reliance on foreign chipmaking tech — A Chinese state-backed company has begun manufacturing one of the key pieces of equipment used in chip manufacturing for the first time …
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X: @briantycangco, @bubbleboi, @bubbleboi, @tomszczypka, @kimmonismus, @mar364503, @gobirds555, @pythiar, @jukan05, and @jukan05. Bluesky: @jessefelder.com
Forums: r/Sino, r/technology, r/hardware, and Slashdot
| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
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