Tech

UK-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale secures a $900M line of credit to expand its data center buildout across Europe, the US, and the Asia Pacific (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-7 Europe Asia Startup AI

European banking watchdogs ECB and ESRB warn that frontier AI models pose “systemic risks to the financial system”, giving lenders four months to prepare (www.ft.com)
2026-7-7 Europe AI

Microsoft to enable Windows settings backup by default for orgs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7 Microsoft

Munich-based nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion raised €411M led by trading firm XTX and UK-based East X at a €2.4B valuation, with participation from Google (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-7 Google Startup Munich

Microsoft testing new Cloud Rebuild Windows 11 recovery feature (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7 Microsoft

BeyondTrust warns of critical flaws in remote access software (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7

OpenRouter: Chinese AI models have drawn 30%+ of token use by US companies each week since February 8, peaking at 46%, up from 11% over the previous 12 months (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-7 China AI

GitHub Thumbs Nose At Sony's Controversial End to Physical Media With Its Introduction of Repo CDs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Sony GitHub

Counterpoint: China smartphone sales fell 13% YoY during the 618 shopping festival as brands raised prices to offset memory costs; Honor fell 33% and Xiaomi 24% (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-7 China Xiaomi

Alibaba's Qwen models have made it an AI powerhouse, but the company has struggled to turn their global popularity into a profitable business (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-7 Alibaba AI

Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer PhDs, a Bad Sign For Science (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7

Court filing: Meta says four US states seek $1.4T over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict youth and misled the public; its market cap is ~$1.5T (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-7 Facebook Instagram

OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI companies are offering startups token credits and special promotions, as the AI companies seek lasting streams of revenue (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-7 Startup AI

A profile of Rachel Whetstone, who has led comms for Google, Meta, Uber, Netflix, and now Sierra, as her husband Steve Hilton runs for California governor (sfstandard.com)
2026-7-7 Google Uber Netflix California

WiseTech co-founder Richard White steps down as chair amid a police probe over claims he exploited a woman's immigration status for sex; WTC jumps 7%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-7 Immigration

A profile of Bernadette Meehan, a US diplomat who became Wikimedia Foundation CEO in January, as Wikipedia faces threats from MAGA, AI, and foreign autocrats (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-7 AI

Syntiant, which develops low-power AI processors, files for a US IPO, reporting a $20.9M net loss on $64.5M in revenue for the three months ended March 31 (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-7 IPO AI

Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World (slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 AI

Samsung estimates Q2 operating profit of ~$58.44B, a 19-fold jump from a year earlier and above a ~$57.02B estimate, and revenue up 129% YoY to ~$111.7B (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-7 Samsung

xAI rebrands to SpaceXAI and debuts a new logo (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-7-7

Anthropic researchers detail J-space, a small set of neural patterns in Claude that reveals internal thoughts that don't appear in the model's output (www.anthropic.com)
2026-7-7

Supreme Court Allows Texas To Require Age Verification For Mobile Apps (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Mobile Texas

BonkDAO, which oversees the Bonk memecoin, says it was the target of a “malicious governance proposal” that resulted in a loss of $20M worth of Bonk tokens (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-7

South Korea's SK Hynix Launching $28 Billion US Listing To Ride Global AI Wave (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Korea AI

Sources: Vista Equity and Quinti made a takeover bid for Criteo that values the French ad tech company at a 50%+ premium to its stock price in recent weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-7 France Equity

Source: Thrive Capital spinoff Thrive Holdings seeks to raise around $2B from SoftBank, Altimeter, D1, and others, after previously raising $1B (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-7

Fake IT support calls on Microsoft Teams push EtherRAT malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7 Microsoft

Phishing poses as big-brand job interview to steal Google accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7 Google Interview

Sources: CISA's Attack Surface Evaluation team is using Mythos to audit government code repositories and has already uncovered a large number of vulnerabilities (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-7

SCOTUS declines to block a Texas law requiring app stores and developers to verify the age of mobile device users, and for minors to obtain parental consent (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-7 Mobile Texas

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