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Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic quietly lobby Washington regulators to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI (www.nytimes.com)
3 days ago AI

ShinyHunters data leaks fuel $2,000 sextortion email scam (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
3 days ago

SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago AI

Do more with every PDF—PDF Agile Premium lifetime access is just $40 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
3 days ago

As student protests spread across India, Narendra Modi turns to Reels, swapping his trademark cinematic videos for self-recorded messages aimed at Gen Z (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago India

Wine 11.14 Released (tech.slashdot.org)
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A profile of Hangzhou-based Unitree, which shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, accounting for 25%+ of the global market, as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO (time.com)
3 days ago IPO Robot Shanghai

Samsung announces a $200B+ contract to make chips for Broadcom through 2030, focusing on its 2nm and below process technologies for Broadcom's products (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Samsung

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
3 days ago

SpaceX's Starship Megarocket Hits Key Milestones In Its 'Lucky 13' Test Flight (science.slashdot.org)
3 days ago SpaceX

A profile of Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, which faced early doubts over revenue and model capabilities before its Kimi K3 delivered a “DeepSeek moment” (www.ft.com)
3 days ago AI

Candid Health, which develops tech and AI agents to automate medical billing and claims processing workflows, raised a $120M Series D led by Sixth Street Growth (fortune.com)
3 days ago AI

Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says Verizon will provide dark-fiber connectivity for Google's data centers in a $1B+ deal, with more such deals in the pipeline (www.reuters.com)
3 days ago Google

Meshy, whose AI-powered tech lets users generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised a ~$400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation (techfundingnews.com)
3 days ago AI Asset

Analysis: US tech companies have cut ~140K jobs YTD, or more than 33% of announced US layoffs in 2026, with ~50K cuts from Amazon, Oracle, Meta, and Microsoft (www.ft.com)
3 days ago Amazon Microsoft Oracle Layoffs

Progress Software agrees to acquire Domo's AI and data platform business for $400M; Domo will remain publicly listed and change its name after the deal closes (www.constellationr.com)
3 days ago AI

Sources: CXMT expelled Huawei-linked SiCarrier staff from its R&D zone amid a pricing dispute, as Chinese memory makers flex their newfound clout to hike prices (www.reuters.com)
3 days ago China

Neocloud Fluidstack, which has partnered with Anthropic, announces that it raised an $830M Series A led by Situational Awareness at a $7.5B valuation in January (siliconangle.com)
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OpenAI's Rogue Agent Went Unnoticed For a Week (yro.slashdot.org)
3 days ago

Sources: Apple has pitched Trump on using Chinese memory chips in its products sold outside the US; Micron warned such a plan could destroy the US chip industry (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago Trump China Apple

Instagram Is Now Banning Pickup Artists, Pranksters Who Use Meta Glasses (tech.slashdot.org)
3 days ago Instagram

Nvidia and SK Group unveil a $500B+ AI initiative that includes an SK Hynix partnership to secure next-gen memory supply for Nvidia and joint development of HBM (www.reuters.com)
3 days ago AI Nvidia

After a backlash, Meta pauses its plan to “rate limit” Conversation Focus, an accessibility feature for its glasses that runs on-device (www.theverge.com)
3 days ago

Nvidia plans to invest $1B in Naver to help finance an AI data center in South Korea, and partners with SK Group to build more than 2 GW of AI data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Korea AI Nvidia

A joint preliminary evaluation by the UK's AISI and the US' CAISI finds Kimi K3 trails leading US frontier closed weight models on cyber capability (www.aisi.gov.uk)
3 days ago

Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later (www.reuters.com)
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The US, China, and other APEC economies release a statement supporting open models, while emphasizing respect for security, data protection, and IP rights (www.cnbc.com)
3 days ago China APEC

Paramount Agrees to Postpone Warner Bros. Merger Until June 2027 (yro.slashdot.org)
3 days ago

An appeals court narrowly blocks Texas from enforcing a monitoring and filtering requirement under its children's online safety law, over Section 230 preemption (www.reuters.com)
3 days ago Texas

Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago

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