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Adam Satariano / New York Times: Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a ~€21B valuation, up from €11.7B in September 2025, as it expands from developing AI models into data centers -
Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic has decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup; a source says the two may still collaborate -
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple's path to a foldable device, the biggest change in iPhone history; sources: memory shortages led Apple to blow past an early $1,999 price goal -
Bloomberg: Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML's High NA EUV machines by 2028 and 2030, joining Intel, with all four agreeing to shift from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks -
Dustin Volz / New York Times: Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability -
Clare Armstrong / ABC: Australia proposes a “My Feed, My Way” initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content -
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Google rolls out search result changes in the EU to comply with the DMA, saying they mark the largest quality of service reduction in Search's 29-year history -
Wall Street Journal: Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and prediction market company OG, spun out of Crypto.com -
Wall Street Journal: Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura's $11B+ IPO, which could give it more influence over the number of shares allocated to its customers -
The Block: The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said it patched its bridge nodes -
Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet -
Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: Fields medalist Jacob Tsimerman, set to join OpenAI later this month, launches the Mathematical AI Safety Institute to apply higher math to AI safety problems -
20 minutes ago Ari Levy / CNBC: Qualcomm signs a deal with Amazon to provide “multiple generations of customized silicon” to help build AWS' AI infrastructure; QCOM jumps 6%+ -
Howard Liu / South China Morning Post: China says its AI compute capacity rose 177% YoY to 2,185 eflops by the end of June, and is targeting 9,800 eflops by 2030 via ~$532B in IT infrastructure spend -
15 minutes ago Matt Burgess / Wired: Researchers say Meta ran 300+ ads with CSAM this year; some featured morphed images of real children, and many linked to “nudification” apps from China -
Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: Arm debuts Neoverse CSS N4, its next-gen semi-custom chip design platform, and says it supports 8 to 128 Neoverse N4 cores at up to 3.8 GHz on TSMC's N3P node