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At a hearing, a US judge says “I don't see additional evidence” from the Pentagon justifying its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk (www.axios.com)
2026-7-31 Pentagon

Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-31 Startup AI

Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it “achieves comparable performance” to Inkling (thinkingmachines.ai)
2026-7-31

VMware fixes three critical flaws allowing auth bypass, VM escapes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-31 VMware

The AutoCAD software trusted by architects and engineers is just $399 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-31

Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guarantees (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-31 Google Texas

Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs (www.wired.com)
2026-7-31 Google AI Chrome

Catastrophic MoD Data Breach Caused By Lack of Training On Excel (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-31

OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them (www.axios.com)
2026-7-31

Google's Gemini Can Now Stomp Around as a Humanoid Robot (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-31 Google Robot

Google says AI helped Chrome fix 1,072 security bugs in two releases (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-31 Google AI Chrome

LinkedIn introduces a “seems like AI slop” button to allow users to report posts they think are AI-generated (www.404media.co)
2026-7-31 LinkedIn AI

ShinyHunters claims Brinks Home breach, threatens to leak stolen data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-31

Google Brings Its Age-Assurance Tech To Android Developers Worldwide (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-7-31 Android Google

Friend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for spoken replies for $249, up from its original necklace's $129 price, with an optional $10 monthly subscription (www.wired.com)
2026-7-31 AI

Wiz says a now-patched flaw in Azure CosmosDB would have let a hacker remotely compromise any of its users; Microsoft has seen “no evidence of customer impact” (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31 Microsoft Hacker

Microsoft Teams vishing attacks lead to Chaos ransomware attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-31 Microsoft

Sources: AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness sold the bulk of its stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after suffering deep losses (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-31 AI

Source: Situational Awareness has a $5B stake in Anthropic, and will continue to run as a private investment firm after suffering heavy losses in recent days (www.ft.com)
2026-7-31

Israel-based Xsight, which makes server networking and storage chips, raised $300M led by Fidelity Investments at a $2.8B post-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-31 Israel

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (www.wired.com)
2026-7-31 Google AI Robot

Analog Devices discloses data breach, says operations unaffected (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-31

Sources: Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness has sold all of its public stock holdings after losses on AI stocks and a bad bet against software stocks (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-31 AI

Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn raised a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $59M (siliconangle.com)
2026-7-31 Startup

GCC Adopts Policy Rejecting Significant AI-Generated Code (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-31 AI

Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta (www.axios.com)
2026-7-31 Google AI

London-based Inforcer, which helps managed service providers handle their clients' Microsoft 365 accounts, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-31 Microsoft London

After the Break-In: What Attackers Do Once They're Already Inside (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-31

Amazon's Zoox receives the NHTSA's first US approval for paid deployment of its steering wheel-free robotaxi and can deploy up to 2,500 per year through 2028 (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-30 Amazon

Simile, which offers “agentic twins” of real people to assess companies' products, brands, and services, raised $200M led by Greenoaks at a $2B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-30

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