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Sam Sabin / Axios:
The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July  —  The U.K. AI Security Institute said it observed nearly 20 instances of Anthropic and OpenAI's most advanced models trying …
Wired:
OpenAI says one of its models exploited a website after third-party AI security lab Irregular mistakenly gave it access to the internet during evaluations  —  Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.
Bloomberg:
SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., AI operating loss of $1.26B, vs. $2.39B est., says capex in Q3 and Q4 will remain similar to Q2  —  SpaceX stock fell after the company disclosed higher-than-expected spending on its artificial intelligence business …
Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal:
SpaceX says Q2 capex rose to $18.4B from $2.8B in Q2 2025, including $15.8B for its AI segment and $1.4B for connectivity; SPCX drops 7%+ pre-market
Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: the US' AI framework excludes open models and defines a covered frontier model as closed source with SOTA capabilities and national security risks  —  The White House is excluding open models from its framework to test advanced AI capabilities, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.
Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI framework; details will be available to the companies that are part of the process  —  The White House does not plan to publicly release its new framework for evaluating advanced AI models, three sources familiar with the discussions told Axios.
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Cloudflare announces Cloudflare Wallets for users to pay for APIs and content via stablecoins, with the ability to create virtual wallets for agentic shopping  —  The field of agentic commerce—a term that describes the use of bots for online buying and selling—is evolving fast.
Olivia Carville / Bloomberg:
An internal TikTok doc shows it withheld a safeguarded algorithm from 10% of US users, including a 16-year-old who was fed self-harm content and died by suicide  —  A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Circle reports Q2 revenue up 7% YoY to $701M, below $712M est., net income of $48M, vs. $43M est., and USDC circulation at $73.4B on June 30; CRCL fell 20% YTD  —  Circle Internet Group Inc. shares jumped in premarket trading after the biggest US stablecoin issuer boosted the revenue outlook for its Arc blockchain payments offering.
Kai Williams / Understanding AI:
At the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians, 20+ mathematicians reflect on how AI advances are transforming their work and field; many are optimistic  —  I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field. … At a July 23 press conference in Philadelphia …
Deborah Sophia / Reuters:
Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.6B, above $3.45B est., GMV up 32% YoY to $115.6B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SHOP jumps 30%+ pre-market  —  Canada's Shopify projected current-quarter revenue growth above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling the company's AI efforts …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 50% YoY to $11.5B, above $11.3B est., Data Center revenue up 107%, and forecasts Q3 revenue below some est.; AMD drops 7%+ pre-market  —  Advanced Micro Devices Inc. tumbled in early trading after giving an underwhelming sales outlook, a sign shareholders expected …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney announces a global deal with TikTok to bring “thoughtfully curated” fan-created short-form videos based on Disney's IP to Disney+'s vertical Verts feed  —  Disney said it would allow “thoughtfully curated” fan-created videos, using clips from its library, to appear on the streaming service.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
How Reddit moderators are battling AI-powered astroturfing ad campaigns that exploit the platform's trusted reputation to promote skincare and other products  —  Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray, a product often used for acne.
Reuters:
Sources: Samsung and SK Hynix are evaluating chipmaking equipment from China's AMEC for possible use at their Chinese factories, as they hedge against US curbs  —  Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are evaluating chipmaking equipment from China's Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
EA says its $55B acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners has closed, taking the company private; the deal includes $20B in debt financing  —  The massive deal has closed. The massive deal has closed. … Electronic Arts has officially become a private company.
Tom Carter / Business Insider:
Anthropic confirms it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, co-designing hardware and models and using a “multi-chip approach”  —  Anthropic is building a team to design its own in-house AI chips as it faces surging demand for its models.
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Business Insider:
Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech  —  Google wants its AI to get better at coding.  It might have found a shortcut.  —  The tech giant has been in discussions …

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From Mediagazer

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $762.5M, digital-only subscription revenue up 16% to $407.9M, and adjusted operating profit up 16% to $155.3M

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Disney reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $25.2B, below $25.4B est., adjusted EPS of $2.06, above $1.85 est., and streaming revenue up 11% to $5.5B

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A US federal judge sets the antitrust trial over Paramount's acquisition of WBD for March 2 to March 19, 2027; Paramount had sought a November start

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Reuters:
Innolight falls after a report said the US plans to restrict imports of new Chinese data center optical transceivers; 62% of its Q1 revenue came from the US

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Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Samsung previews zHBM, which vertically stacks HBM atop AI accelerators, and zNAND-O, built on V-NAND, and unveils the industry's first V10 BV-NAND architecture
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted “illegal porn in a public chat” to get the app pulled from the App Store and manipulated Apple into “overreacting”
Mistral AI Blog:
Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying “tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for”
Jimmy Jenkins / Bloomberg:
The DOJ secures a $3.2M settlement from OpenAI to resolve allegations it discriminated against US workers by preferring workers with temporary employment visas
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Researchers: ChainDrop, a Shai-Hulud-based worm, has compromised 1,300+ npm packages, like Keyv, Cacheable, and flat-cache, with a combined 2B monthly downloads
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