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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia plans to resume H20 AI chip sales to China after the US assured it shipments will be approved, reversing an earlier Trump administration stance in April — US government officials told Nvidia they would green-light export licenses for its H20 artificial intelligence accelerator …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date” — The deal follows Google's $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.
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LinkedIn: Sarthak Dubey, Brandon Smith, and Hadi Partovi
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Researcher: a DOGE staffer inadvertently published a private API key for xAI on GitHub on July 13, exposing access to 52+ LLMs, including “grok-4-0709” — Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access …
Bluesky: @kimzetter. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @tychotithonus@infosec …. Forums: Hacker News
| Carlos Caminada / Bloomberg: |
Apple signs a $500M deal to buy rare-earth minerals from US producer MP, which secured Pentagon backing last week, as it seeks to cut its reliance on China — Apple Inc. has struck a $500 million deal to buy rare-earth minerals from MP Materials Corp., the US producer that just last week secured backing from the Pentagon.| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows — OpenAI, Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), Anthropic and Elon Musk's AI firm xAI have won contracts aimed at scaling up adoption …
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LinkedIn: DoD Chief Digital …, Kunaal Sharma, and Jonathan H.
| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang discussed abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model — Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta's most powerful open source …
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them “view certain mature content”, in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act — Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them “view certain mature content” …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
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| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: |
Grok's iOS app now features two AI “Companions”, or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode — Grok on iOS just got 2 AI Companions with one more labelled as “Coming soon”. Ani and Rudy are fully animated …
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Forums: r/politics, r/technology, and r/artificial
| Riley Goodside / @goodside: |
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at SpaceX's investment and Tesla's potential cash infusion in xAI, and the idea that investing in Tesla is betting on the “Musk Mars Conglomerate” — Also the Windsurf deal, duct cleaning, tokenization and HYPE. — The Musk Mars Conglomerate| ProPublica:NEW |
Investigation: Microsoft uses engineers in China to help maintain US DOD systems, with minimal supervision by US personnel, leaving sensitive data vulnerable — The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers — Meta announced on Monday that it will take additional measures to crack down on accounts sharing “unoriginal” content to Facebook … | New York Times: |
Researchers: during the 12-day Iran-Israel war, both sides engaged in unprecedented psychological warfare using AI content and social media to spread propaganda — The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.
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| Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
Google signs two 20-year power purchase agreements worth $3B to access hydroelectric power from Brookfield's renewables arm, delivering up to 670MW of power — Tech groups seeking renewable energy to meet huge demand from artificial intelligence — Google has reached a $3bn deal … | Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: |
IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY — Apple shipped more iPhone models worldwide in Q2 2025 — Apple posted a slight gain in global iPhone shipments in Q2, navigating falling demand in China with growth elsewhere.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works — Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination.Sponsor Posts
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