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Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and orchestrated another improved attack against the cryptographic system HAWK (Dustin Volz/New York Times)

Tel Aviv-based Hush Security, which lets organizations securely control enterprise AI agents, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total funding to $41M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

July 16 letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only to data centers and not to the public grid wouldn't be subject to federal pollution laws (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)

eBay and former executives agree to pay a nearly $56M settlement to resolve a 2021 civil case over the 2019 stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Filing: Shein says its US business is under FTC investigation and it is "cooperating", without giving specifics, as the company prepares for an IPO in Hong Kong (Gabrielle Fonrouge/CNBC)

Corning's stock closed down 12.1% after weak Q3 guidance, as production limits on its AI connectivity products squeeze its growth; Q2 sales rose 17% to $4.74B (Adriano Marchese/Wall Street Journal)

Mate, which is developing a platform to allow AI agents to detect, respond to, and proactively hunt threats, raised a $35M Series A led by Canaan Partners (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Data security startup Cyera, founded in 2021, agrees to acquire Oasis Security, which was founded in 2022 and provides non-human identity security, for $1B (Kyle Alspach/CRN)

Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic are lobbying the Trump administration to make sure lagging competitors also have to comply with government reviews of their models (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

GrubMarket, which connects wholesalers and distributors to grocers and other food buyers, confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $4.5B in February (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

Memo: Visa is cutting ~2,600 jobs, or ~7% of staff, primarily affecting tech and product teams; source: Visa plans to reinvest in stablecoin and other offerings (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

Core Scientific and AMD announce a deal under which AMD will secure 500+ MW of US data center capacity starting in 2027, with the ability to scale up to 2.5 GW (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Fish Audio, which offers AI voice models for creators and enterprises and has $21M in ARR, raised a $52M seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised $95M in equity and $75M in debt (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence signs a $410M, multiyear AWS compute deal to support its self-improving AI systems, after raising $650M in May (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Tel Aviv-based Act Security, whose platform reduces the access surface across cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $40M Series A and a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4's development, after training K3 on Nvidia chips, including Blackwell (The Information)

Sources: Apple is preparing to debut a smart home hub with a 7" square display and facial recognition tech, a new Apple TV, and a refreshed HomePod mini in 2026 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

ESA satellite images show damage to two Amazon data centers in Bahrain, supporting Iran's claims last week that it struck the sites; Amazon declined to comment (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)

Apple launches Apple Upgrade, a new US leasing program in partnership with Klarna that replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program, starting at $17.99/month for iPhones (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

PayPal reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $8.68B, above $8.47B est., transaction margin dollars up 1% YoY to $3.9B, and a $1.1B profit, down from $1.26B in Q2 2025 (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating most of its flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)

European police say Binance's April 2025 policy asking law enforcement to route certain requests to foreign government agencies hinders criminal investigations (New York Times)

CXMT's IPO delivers a windfall for Hefei, an eastern China inland industrial city, with the government sitting on 5,000%+ paper gains after an early investment (William Sandlund/Financial Times)

AI Forensics: seven out of the nine top AI image models on Hugging Face edited an image of a clothed woman into a topless one using a simple six-word prompt (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Sources: Taiwan detained an Nvidia employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China, after searching his home and office on July 24 (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

Baidu begins testing its purpose-built Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis with human safety operators in outer London; Baidu plans to offer the taxis on Lyft's Freenow (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

LSEG data: prices for credit default swaps, a closely watched gauge of risk, tied to Oracle, SpaceX, Alphabet, Nvidia, and others rise sharply to record highs (Financial Times)

Meta and BlackRock form a strategic venture to develop a 1GW data center campus in El Paso, Texas, set to cost ~$14B and bring capacity online starting in 2028 (Meta Newsroom)

Sources: Nvidia signs leases worth up to $50B for Hut 8's planned 1GW data center in Texas, hosting hundreds of thousands of chips; Hut 8 didn't name its client (Financial Times)

Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.95T market cap on Monday (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

A profile of Justin Sun, who made his fortune in the early phases of crypto, advised for Trump family's WLF, then sued WLF alleging fraud and breach of contract (Jen Wieczner/New York Magazine)

Cursor introduces Cursor Start, a ~$7 monthly subscription exclusive to India, its third-largest market, priced below its standard $20 Pro monthly subscription (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

How Chinese platforms like ActID and New Claw are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, often using vague licensing terms (Rest of World)

South Korea's KOSPI drops 11%+, weighed down by chip stocks amid concerns over China's AI progress and the AI spending boom; Samsung falls 11%+ and SK Hynix 12% (Bloomberg)

ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

Several digital-asset treasury firms have pivoted to AI amid a slump in crypto prices, but their poor stock performance suggests the strategy is not working (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)

Apple releases updates for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS with a huge number of security fixes; macOS Tahoe 26.6 alone addresses 155 CVEs (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Claude chats appeared in Google and Bing results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a "noindex" tag (Maddy Varner/Wired)

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has "never" backed an open-weights model ban, lists reasons top chips shouldn't be sold to China, and calls for global model testing (Anthropic)

Cadence reports Q2 revenue up 24.2% YoY to $1.58B and raises its annual revenue forecast to between $6.26B and $6.34B vs. $6.21B est.; CDNS up 4%+ after hours (Reuters)

A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking Minnesota from enforcing a newly enacted law that banned prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

French carrier Orange and infrastructure investor Morrison agree to create a data center platform in France targeting 400 MW, backed by a €3B investment program (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)

X rolls out X Money to US Premium and Premium+ subscribers, combining a deposit account with up to 6% APY, free instant transfers on X, and a Visa debit card (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

The US National Vulnerabilities Database recorded 45,207 software security flaws so far in 2026, on pace to roughly double the tally of flaws recorded in 2025 (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)

Xbox resolves a "major outage" affecting its Account & Profile, Store & Subscriptions, and Apps & Mobile services that lasted around 10 hours (Chris Scullion/Video Games Chronicle)

Microsoft says MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and MDASH, its vulnerability identification harness, deliver "world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models" (Microsoft AI)

Sources: Nvidia has committed to invest $5B in Ilya Sutskever's SSI; the startup has previously raised about $3B in funding and was valued at $32B last year (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, an AI model trained for cybersecurity, and launches Perception, an agentic security system to patch vulnerabilities (New York Times)

Moonshot AI releases model weights for Kimi K3 under the "Kimi K3 License" (Bloomberg)