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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.
More: Silicon Republic, Livemint, The Indian Express, Business Standard, Digit, CNBC, The New Stack, The Deep View, RuntimeWire, Constellation Research, Politico, Business Insider, and Capital Brief
X: @anthropicai, @signulll, @davidsacks, @suchenzang, @teknium, @erikvoorhees, @0xsero, @krishnanrohit, @hackingdave, @matthewberman, @ns123abc, @1v100000, @natolambert, @scaling01, @mweinbach, @sophiacai99, @roanoke_gal, @maria_rcks, @semianalysis_, @gnukeith, @hopes_revenge, @teortaxestex, @aiwithsally, @shiringhaffary, @pitdesi, @imlukef, @bveiseh, @jun_song, @zeffmax, @mattparlmer, @nmatt0, @kimmonismus, @gailcweiner, @biggest, and @zeffmax
Bluesky: @smtuffy, @timkellogg.me, @sungkim, @tedunderwood.com, @isolyth.dev, and @brokentoys.social
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @vjprema@fosstodon.org
Forums: Hacker News, r/Anthropic, r/ClaudeAI, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, and r/neoliberal
| 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 …
More: Hugging Face, Hugging Face, Seoul Economic Daily, Latent.Space, Business Insider, Tom's Hardware, TerminalBytes, Here It Comes, VentureBeat, Implicator.ai, The Register, Digital Trends, Wall Street Journal, The New Stack, and The Verge
X: @kimi_moonshot, @natolambert, @suchenzang, @kimi_moonshot, @eliebakouch, @rauchg, @petergostev, @modal, @cognition, @ollama, @arena, @teortaxestex, @notsurajgaud, @sentdex, @kevinsxu, @eliebakouch, @adxtyahq, @hsvsphere, @nebiustf, @zephyr_z9, @teknium, @__tinygrad__, @perrymetzger, @yuchenj_uw, @nathanbenaich, @peterom, @clementdelangue, @presidentlin, @suchenzang, @totheagi, @zackkorman, @emollick, @yzhang_cs, @fireworksai_hq, and @zephyr_z9. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: r/GeminiAI, r/ClaudeCode, and r/Anthropic
| 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, ZDNET, Protos, Google Help Center, Daniel J Glover, Fortune, Android Authority, BBC, Search Engine Journal, PCMag, and Mashable
| 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.
More: Apple Support, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Forbes, PCMag, iDeviceHelp on YouTube, GSMArena.com, zollotech on YouTube, The Mac Observer, TidBITS, Stuff, OS X Daily, OS X Daily, Appleosophy, AppleInsider, Engadget, The Mac Observer, Neowin, The Apple Post, The Mac Observer, The Mac Observer, iClarified, MacRumors, Appleosophy, Appleosophy, Thurrott, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada, Macworld, The Mac Observer, The Mac Observer, The Mac Observer, iClarified, Forbes, iThinkDifferent, Cult of Mac, The Apple Post, 9to5Mac, BGR, 9to5Mac, Appleosophy, AppleInsider, iClarified, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, MacRumors, MacRumors, CNET, and MacDailyNews
X: @arinwaichulis, @classicii_mrmac, @mysk_co, @mysk_co, @9to5mac, @zollotech, @mysk_co, @robertgraham, @theapplecycle, and @0xjohnny
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: The Verge, Livemint, CoinGape, The Independent, Cointelegraph, iThinkDifferent, The Indian Express, Digital Trends, Mashable, and The Mac Observer
X: @xmoney, @xmoney, @mihiranand, @sawyermerritt, @benjitaylor, @gillesgade, @sawyermerritt, @historyinmemes, @zeroxjackson, @xmoney, @dbatura, and @teslaanddoge
Bluesky: @karenho, @aaronrosspowell.com, and @helenofwhat
| 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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X: @satyanadella, @willtowntech, @flowaltdelete, @cramforce, @perrymetzger, @thecybersechub, @mustafasuleyman, @testingcatalog, @mustafasuleyman, @aaronpholmes, and @willtowntech
LinkedIn: Allie Mellen, Frank X. Shaw, Taesoo Kim, and Hayete Gallot. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
| Microsoft AI: |
Microsoft says MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and MDASH, its vulnerability identification harness, deliver “world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models” — Today we're announcing MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside of MDASH, our multi-agent vulnerability identification and remediation harness.| 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 Tuesday, as signs of China's progress in advanced chipmaking weighed on global rivals … | Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday — The company slipped by the chipmaker Nvidia, amid growing concern about costs associated with the artificial intelligence boom.| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Nvidia forms the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition including CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity — Nvidia (NVDA.O) said on Monday it had formed a coalition with other companies to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity …
More: NVIDIA, CNBC, Developer Tech News, Axios, Fortune India, Engadget, Business Insider, CrowdStrike, The Verge, Silicon Valley Business …, The Indian Express, TechRepublic, TechWire Asia, Straight Arrow, The National, The Hill, Techstrong.ai, Motley Fool, GamesBeat, Tom's Hardware, Help Net Security, and LinkedIn
X: @jensenhuang, @andrewyng, @nvidia, @jawwwn_, @arthurmensch, @michaeldell, @bgurley, @satyanadella, @ccatalini, @andyfang, @openclaw, @chuckrobbins, @benioff, @altimor, @jeffwang, @steipete, @elonmusk, @tekbog, @mikeisaac, @chamath, @gavinsbaker, @brianroemmele, @katiemiller, @edzitron, @xfreeze, @dan_jeffries1, @kimmonismus, @jun_song, and @salesforce
LinkedIn: Stephanie Cohen, Rich Harang, Pierre Roux, and Dinesh Nirmal. Bluesky: @flingjore.com. Forums: r/technology
| 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: Silicon Republic, Financial Times, Reuters, and SiliconANGLE
X: @rohanpaul_ai, @shiringhaffary, and @pitdesi
| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Telegraph, Motley Fool, The Information, StrictlyVC, and Neowin
| 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 and International Business Times
| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg: |
The US National Vulnerabilities Database recorded 45,207 software security flaws so far in 2026, on pace to roughly double the tally of flaws recorded in 2025 — The number of software security flaws discovered in popular technology products in 2026 is on pace to roughly double the tally … | Jen Wieczner / New York Magazine: |
A profile of Justin Sun, who made his fortune in the early phases of crypto, advised for Trump family's WLF, then sued WLF alleging fraud and breach of contract — Justin Sun was already one of the richest people in the world, having made his fortune in the no-rules early phase of the crypto industry … | 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 …
More: XBOX, PCMag, Kotaku, Windows Central, Pure Xbox, PCMag, IGN, The Verge, Mashable, CNET, Engadget, Mirror, The Verge, Pure Xbox, IGN, and Windows Central
X: @xboxsupport, @xboxsupport, @xboxsupport, @grummz, @zhugeex, @rinothebouncer, and @bdsams
| 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 …
More: Reuters, Tom's Hardware, Implicator.ai, Türkiye Today, Bloomberg, Semafor, Forbes Middle East, Barchart.com, Motley Fool, Benzinga, ZeroHedge News, and MarketWatch
X: @bubbleboi, @briantycangco, @tomszczypka, @kimmonismus, @bubbleboi, @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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