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Sources: Dave Brown, former SVP of AWS Compute, AI, and Platform, will join Meta in the coming weeks, where he will work on the company's data center build-out (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-17 AI

US charges two over laundering $43 million from investment fraud (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-17

CISA urges immediate action on actively exploited Fortinet flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-17

Astronomers Find an Atmosphere On a Nearby Earth-Like Planet (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-17

Sources: Tata plans India's first large-scale chip fab in Dholera, Gujarat, mostly using 90nm nodes, a far humbler start than the 28nm node it touted earlier (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-17 India

During an internal meeting, Satya Nadella criticized Claude Fable 5 for being “editorially controlled”, saying its refusal to do “random things” makes no sense (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-17

Truth Social To Sell Wall Street Firms the 'Fastest' Access To Trump's Post (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-17 Trump Wall Street

Source: Demis Hassabis plans to hold meetings with US policymakers in Washington next week about his proposed US-based Standards Body for “Frontier-class” AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-17 AI

Court doc: a US federal jury says Japanese chipmaker Kioxia owes Viasat $229M for infringing Viasat's flash-memory patent that helps devices use less energy (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-17 Japan Energy

Source: Microsoft plans to release an AI security tool this month using models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and itself, as a cost-effective Mythos alternative (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-17 Microsoft AI

Kalshi is offering wagers on the outcomes of late-stage clinical drug trials and regulatory decisions, launching a pilot of 13 new biotech contracts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-17 Biotech

Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software company at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-17

US chip, memory, and storage stocks fell sharply on Thursday, with Sandisk down 13%, Seagate 10%, Western Digital 9%, and Intel and Micron 6% each (www.ft.com)
2026-7-17 Intel Western Digital

Filing: South Korean authorities conducted an on-site search of Chinese chipmaker Montage's offices in connection with potential competition law violations (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-17 China Korea

Memo: MLB bans the use of league-provided dugout iPads to access GenAI for in-game strategy calls; sources say at least a third of teams used AI this way (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-17 AI

Sources: Dassault Systèmes is in talks to buy drug trial software maker ArisGlobal from Nordic Capital for about $2B, extending its push into life sciences (www.ft.com)
2026-7-17

The EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and give researchers access to data, giving X six months to implement it, following a €120M fine (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-17

Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-17 Startup Robot

HP Fined $14 Million For 'Cartelization' of Ink Cartridges, Toner, PCs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-17

Source: PayPal's board sees Stripe and PE firm Advent International's $53B takeover bid as undervaluing the company and facing regulatory and financing hurdles (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-17

Sources: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro as it tries to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding; GOOG closes down 4.43% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-17 Google

A New York State school district is piloting a humanoid robot teacher by the company Realbotix to help students with summer school classes (mashable.com)
2026-7-17 Robot New York

TSMC To Invest Additional $100 Billion In Arizona (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-17

US Homeland Security says it seized 30k+ SIM cards in June and July in a nationwide operation it claims dismantled infrastructure used in telephone fraud (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-17

New ClickLock macOS malware traps users into revealing login password (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-17

Coca-Cola says Fairlife ransomware attack halts US dairy production (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-17

EU Forces Google To Share Search Data, Open Android To Rivals (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-17 Android Google

Netflix says roughly 300 titles used generative AI this year, mostly in post-production, “to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost” (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-17 AI Netflix

An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive “authors” proliferate (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-17 Amazon AI

Kimi-K3 is now #1 on the Frontend Code Arena benchmark, surpassing Claude Fable 5; the model scored 88.3 on Terminal Bench 2.1, only below GPT-5.6 Sol's 88.8 (venturebeat.com)
2026-7-17

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