Tech

A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-3

Sources: Anthropic moves to close loopholes that let Chinese firms like Ant use its models via workarounds including cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries (www.ft.com)
2026-7-3 China

Blackstone's QTS abandons plans to build its portion of a 2,100-acre data center campus in Virginia, following years of local opposition and legal challenges (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-3 Virginia

Claude Fable relaunch disappoints users with nerfed performance (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-3

Claude Fable 5 isn't permanently leaving subscriptions, Anthropic says (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-3

Sitting For More Than 30 Minutes At a Time Linked To Higher Risk of Cancer Death (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-3

Letter: chip sector group SEMI, including Micron and Samsung, warns Scott Bessent US policies affecting prices or production capacity would worsen the shortage (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-3 Samsung

Sources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently in training, codenamed Watermelon, matches GPT-5.5 and uses an “order of magnitude more compute than Avocado” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-7-3

Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-3 Google IPO

Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincided with suspicious Kalshi wagers (www.ft.com)
2026-7-3 U.S. Spotify

Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2% in its Nasdaq debut Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.9B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-3 Finland Quantum

SpaceX cuts Starlink's monthly prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its Colossus data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-3 SpaceX

Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~$3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~$30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-3

At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and its reorganization was not as “clean” as it could have been (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-3 AI Zuckerberg

Labor Force Participation Rate Falls To Lowest In 50 years (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-3

Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~$2B valuation, six months after raising $75M at a $1B valuation (www.axios.com)
2026-7-3 Startup

Travel app Hopper agrees to a $35M FTC settlement over allegations the company misled users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-3

AI Agent Executes 'First' End-To-End Ransomware Attack (it.slashdot.org)
2026-7-3 AI

Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a $200-per-week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6; the tally excludes beta versions of xAI products (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-3 AI Tesla

Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~$22B; it was valued at $11B in February (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-3 Startup

Godot Game Engine No Longer Accepts AI Code (games.slashdot.org)
2026-7-3 AI

UK-based StirlingX, which develops secure data intelligence systems for defense and critical infrastructure, raised a $20M Series A, following a $11M seed (tech.eu)
2026-7-3 Intelligence

Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-3

A one-time $20 gets you lifetime access to 1,000+ StackSkills courses (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-3

Memo: Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot chatbots into a single app featuring AI agents dubbed AutoPilot and coding tools (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-3 Microsoft AI chatbot

Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI models available to allies (www.ft.com)
2026-7-3 AI

Tripo AI, which is developing 3D foundation models and world models for use in games, raised $150M, a month after it said it raised $200M (gamesbeat.com)
2026-7-3 AI

Emails disclosed in a court filing detail the uneasy back-and-forth between Dario Amodei and DOD's Emil Michael and how Anthropic's relationship with DOD soured (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-3

OpenAI 'In Early Talks To Give 5% Stake To US Government' (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-3

WhatsApp Usernames Are Already Raising Impersonation Red Flags (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-3 WhatsApp

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