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Anthropic:
Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident  —  In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet …
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Sam Sabin / Axios:
Anthropic says three of its models, including an internal research model, gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during internal cybersecurity testing  —  Some of Anthropic's most powerful models — including Mythos 5 and an internal research model — gained unauthorized access …
Newley Purnell / Bloomberg:
DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores “far surpassing” V4 Pro Preview  —  China's DeepSeek rolled out a public beta application programming interface, or API, for its flagship artificial intelligence model …
Apple:
Apple reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to $109.42B, above $108.65B est., net income up 27% to $29.79B, and China revenue up 22% to $18.82B, below $19.6B est.  —  CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2026 third quarter ended June 27, 2026.
Reuters:
Apple Q3: iPhone up 22% YoY to $54.25B, vs. $53.86B est., Mac up 29% to $10.35B, iPad down 6% to $6.19B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories up 6% to $7.88B
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Tim Cook says Apple expects “the impact from the supply constraints to increase significantly sequentially” and the market pricing for memory to keep rising
Henk van Ess / Digital Digging:
Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature allows users to create fake satellite images, such as a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says the images have AI watermarks  —  The question is: what on earth is Google doing?  —  UPDATED, with response of Google  —  Tonight I typed just one sentence …
Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg:
Microsoft's stock closed up 15.5% on Thursday, adding ~$450B to its market capitalization, the largest single-day market value increase in stock market history
Amazon:
Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 20% YoY to $200.6B, net income up 245% to $62.6B, operating income up 43% to $27.5B, and a $25B+ annual revenue run rate for chips  —  SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2026.
Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
Amazon reports Q2 AWS revenue up 37% YoY to $42.2B, above estimates of a 31.21% increase, and AWS operating income up 64% to $16.6B; AMZN jumps 13%+
Wall Street Journal:
Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out  —  Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund backed out of deal to sell $3.5 billion of Anthropic shares  —  Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge …
Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Sony reports Q1 PS5 sales of 1.38M units, down from 1.56M a year ago, taking total sales of the console to 95.3M units, and 125M PlayStation MAUs, up 2M YoY  —  Profit projects are up even as console sales are down … What comes after that is anybody's guess as the PlayStation 6 approaches amid …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
New York sues Kalshi for alleged violations of its gambling laws; the CFTC files an emergency motion to stop the state's enforcement, calling it an “overreach”  —  New York's attorney general sued Kalshi on Friday, claiming that its prediction market platform violates state laws against illegal gambling.
The Verge:
In a memo to employees, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma lays out priorities for the unit, including returning to player and revenue growth by the end of fiscal year 2027  —  Asha Sharma wants Xbox to return to growth. Asha Sharma wants Xbox to return to growth.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
A leaked memo, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Iran  —  A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Tehran.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Tesla prepared to separate its China unit before a potential SpaceX merger; advisers weighed a sale, spinoff, or closure; Musk calls it “fake news”  —  The U.S. automaker could sell or spin off the business in its second-largest market over geopolitical concerns
Jennifer Rankin / The Guardian:
AI-generated images, video, audio, and text on matters of public interest designed to look authentic must be labeled in the EU under the AI Act from August 2  —  Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real
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Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters:
MediaTek says its board has approved a discretionary $5B financing budget to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centers  —  MediaTek (2454.TW), Taiwan's largest chip designer, said on Friday its board had approved a discretionary financing budget …
More: Finimize
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg:
Australia's online safety regulator says social media use among under-16s fell to 81.5% in March 2026, compared to 85.9% before ban took effect in December 2025  —  Australia's social media ban for under-16s led to only a marginal reduction in underage users in its first three months …
See also Mediagazer
Elizabeth Grenier / Deutsche Welle:
A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and must disclose illicit revenue after Germany's state-mandated licensing agency GEMA sued in 2025  —  Germany's state-mandated licensing agency, GEMA, says the verdict has “global significance,” as Suno is also directed to pay yet-to-be-quantified damages.
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
MiniMax releases H3, a video model that generates up to 15-second clips in 2K resolution with native stereo sound, and plans to release its weights within days  —  Chinese AI firm MiniMax (0100.HK) released a new video-generation model on Friday that can process text, images, video and audio …
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
The Commerce Dept. signed letters of intent for $874M in CHIPS Act funding in exchange for minority stakes in GlobalFoundries, Kepler, and five other companies  —  The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives …
Josh Xiao / Bloomberg:
Chinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force  —  Chinese President Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and artificial intelligence technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force.

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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote “personal liberties and free markets”

Clayton Weimers / The National Interest:
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Thinking Machines Lab:
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Ina Fried / Axios:
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