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  • Sat Jul 4

Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~$200B financing program for Anthropic, with $150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others (Financial Times)

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A look at Alphabet's moonshot lab X and interviews with its staff, including CEO Astro Teller, on reinventing itself and what its next big thing might be (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

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Filing: Apple asks a US judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former staff and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using, or disclosing confidential info (Reuters)

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OpenAI disputes Apple's account of pre-lawsuit contacts, rejects claims that ex-staff used confidential information, shares iMessages and emails, and more (OpenAI)

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Q&A with Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider on the AT Protocol, ActivityPub, scaling moderation, Bluesky's reputation as a progressive social media network, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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Sources: HP, Asus, and Acer have started using small amounts of DRAM chips from CXMT in their laptops for non-US markets, amid an unprecedented memory shortage (Nikkei Asia)

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Apple says it "briefly removed Telegram from the App Store" over CSAM on Monday, restoring it after Telegram "promptly removed the content and banned the user" (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

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Sources: to fight critics on social media, DHS sent platforms hundreds of subpoenas and asked posters to sign letters saying speech about ICE "may" be a crime (Wall Street Journal)

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TikTok agrees to settle three more teen social media lawsuits ahead of trial; 2,600 cases with similar claims are pending in California federal court (Dietrich Knauth/Reuters)

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Texas halts approval of data center grid connections until audits are performed; projects representing 474+ GW are in the queue, over 5x the grid's peak demand (The Texas Tribune)

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Amazon becomes the fifth company to reach a $3T market cap, joining Nvidia, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Apple, after hitting $2T in June 2024; AMZN closed up 4.58% (Jeran Wittenstein/Bloomberg)

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Snap reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $1.6B, above $1.54B est., DAUs up 5% to 493M, vs. 487M est., forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SNAP jumps 10%+ pre-market (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

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Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, above $1.8B est., US commercial revenue up 149%, and raises FY26 revenue guidance; PLTR jumps 14%+ pre-market (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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Samsung says it's restricting app registrations and removing apps with SDKs that can turn smart TVs into residential proxy exit nodes, after a similar ban by LG (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

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Court docs: an FBI agent has been charged with amassing ~$1M worth of cryptocurrency, largely by making unauthorized withdrawals from a criminal target overseas (Devlin Barrett/New York Times)

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US satellite internet provider Hughesnet files for Chapter 11 after losing subscribers to Starlink and plans to focus on business and government customers (Michael Kan/PCMag)

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Doc: Microsoft asks Xbox 360 game developers to opt in for PC compatibility, bringing the games to its next-gen Project Helix console, "Xbox PCs", and handhelds (The Verge)

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The White House says it has met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models; it did not provide details of the framework (Maria Curi/Axios)

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China revises its regulations to tighten protection of chip layout designs, including punitive damages for serious infringement, taking effect from October 15 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

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Valar, which is making small modular nuclear reactors to power data centers, raised a $1B Series B led by Sequoia at a $6B post-money valuation (Bloomberg)

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Mariana Minerals, which builds and operates mines using its MarianaOS software platform, raised a $310M Series B, bringing its total funding to $400M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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India proposes extending tax exemptions until 2041 for foreign companies that provide machinery to contract manufacturers, changes that Apple had lobbied for (Reuters)

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Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework (The Information)

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UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a "backdoor" to access encrypted customer data (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

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Zenity, which develops a platform for securing AI agents, raised a $125M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking its total funding to ~$185M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

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Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

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Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for ~$104.7M from July 27 to August 2, reducing its holdings to 842,138, with a $10.9B paper loss at current prices (James Hunt/The Block)

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June, which aims to help enterprise AI deployment by finding bottlenecks and building agents, emerges from stealth with $20M led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

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The EU's AI Act enforcement powers take effect, letting it evaluate AI models before regional release, restrict EU market access, fine model providers, and more (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)

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Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent (Axios)

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Sources: South Korean AI chip designer DeepX raised a ~$29M Series D at a ~$2.2B valuation, and is in talks to raise ~$209M at a ~$2.4B valuation by September (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

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Alibaba prices Qwen3.8-Max at $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens via its API, below Kimi K3's $3/1M input tokens and $15/1M output tokens (Henry Siu/The Information)

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Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

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Ofcom Chair Ian Cheshire says he is overseeing a "wide-ranging" review aimed at refitting the regulator to new duties overseeing Big Tech and enforcing the OSA (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

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YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage "is not healthy for me or good for the world" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

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London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

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A profile of Nanit, a maker of AI-equipped baby cameras for hyper-detailed tracking, which says it has 1M daily users and $100M+ in annual revenue (Sapna Maheshwari/New York Times)

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An analysis of US police and court records finds 50+ officers were charged or accused of misusing license-plate readers like Flock's, including for stalking (Washington Post)

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A look at the growing tensions over AI data centers in London, Europe's biggest data center hub, as housing, power, and water come under increasing strain (Francesca Perry/Financial Times)

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Indeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior staff in software engineering and IT, where AI enhances the value of experience, while cutting back elsewhere (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)

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Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as Tokyo seeks to cut reliance on Chinese industrial drones, which control 91% of Japan's market (Mitsuru Obe/Nikkei Asia)

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A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI and Anthropic models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and lack of meaningful supervision (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

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An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more (New York Times)

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A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race, led by Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 due by year-end and Kazakhstan's 125MW facility with 100K Nvidia chips by 2027 (Yevgeniya Mikhailidi/Nikkei Asia)

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Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

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Two independent teams used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra on the same quantum cryptography problem, filing papers three hours apart, raising questions over scientific credit (Peter Hall/Scientific American)

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A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, as VCs question the revenue potential of open-weight startups like Arcee, Reflection AI, and Poolside (Wall Street Journal)

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Robinhood says Q2 prediction markets revenue rose 10x+ YoY to $156M, topping stock and crypto for the first time, as speculators shift to real-world event bets (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

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Four US states rolled back or paused data center tax incentives, and nine others are weighing repeal measures, potentially adding 7% or more to equipment costs (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)

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Entries updated Aug 3, 2026 10:41:31 PM PDT

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