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2026-07-29Russia's FSB charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities, including by Ukraine, and issues an international arrest warrant (Reuters)
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2026-07-29A look at Kioxia, the Japanese NAND flash maker that went from being cash-strapped in 2023 to an expected 30-fold jump in operating income in Q1 FY 2026 (Bloomberg)
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2026-07-29GPTZero finds AI hallucinations in four PwC Middle East reports; GPTZero's earlier investigations led EY and KPMG to retract reports with similar issues (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
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2026-07-29ETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ, which is developing trapped-ion quantum computing processors based on a 2D architecture, raised a $25.5M seed led by Quantonation (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
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2026-07-29Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time authors have left (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
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2026-07-29OpenAI releases an "early" version of the open-source Codex Security CLI for scanning repositories, verifying fixes, adding CI/CD security checks, and more (@openai)
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2026-07-29Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not ban Chinese AI models and that AI model peer reviews or vetting could be positive if "done well with thoughtful people" (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
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2026-07-29Doctors and researchers worry that FDA-related wagers on Kalshi and Polymarket could compromise drug development tests and erode public trust in the process (Rebecca Robbins/New York Times)
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2026-07-29Anthropic faces backlash from Silicon Valley partners, founders, and researchers for competitive tactics, guardrails, and lack of support for open-weight models (Wall Street Journal)
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2026-07-29OpenAI says the rogue AI that breached Hugging Face used exposed credentials from "four accounts" tied to four "publicly available" third-party services (Wired)
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2026-07-29xAI sues Minnesota's AG over a state law banning apps and sites that create fake, sexualized pictures of individuals, claiming it violates the First Amendment (Riley Moser/CBS News)
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2026-07-29SK Hynix reports Q2 revenue up 257% YoY to ~$54.34B, below ~$57.56B est., and operating profit up 557% YoY to ~$41.48B, below ~$43.85B est.; its stock falls 9% (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
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2026-07-28Security- and AI-related startups raised $855M across 150+ reported seed-stage rounds in 2026, on track for an all-time high; Oak raised $60M, the largest seed (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
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2026-07-28OpenAI and Anthropic release statements in support of the "Pacing the Frontier" initiative; Anthropic says Dario Amodei and several co-founders have signed it (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
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2026-07-28A 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)
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2026-07-28Cursor 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)
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2026-07-28How 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)
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2026-07-28South 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)
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2026-07-28ChatGPT 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)
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2026-07-28Several 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)
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2026-07-27Apple 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)
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2026-07-27Claude 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)
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2026-07-27Dario 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)
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2026-07-27Cadence 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)
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2026-07-27A 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)
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2026-07-27French 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)
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2026-07-27X 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)
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2026-07-27The 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)
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2026-07-27Xbox resolves a "major outage" affecting its Account & Profile, Store & Subscriptions, and Apps & Mobile services that lasted around 10 hours (Chris Scullion/Video Games Chronicle)
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2026-07-27How some young adults are using AI to navigate social situations, from drafting pickup lines and texts to formulating responses in face-to-face conversations (Natalie Kaufman/Wall Street Journal)
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2026-07-27As open-weight models become the next AI ecosystem's foundation, a US ban on Chinese models would risk ceding the neutral substrate where innovation compounds (Tobi Knaup)
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2026-07-27A detailed recap of the Hugging Face breach by an internal OpenAI model, which repeatedly tried to escape OpenAI's sandbox and should be treated as critical (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
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2026-07-27US tech giants have shifted their stance to publicly backing open AI models, with Anthropic and Amazon remaining notable holdouts alongside the US government (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
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2026-07-27CXMT shares jumped as much as 470% in its Shanghai debut, giving the memory chipmaker a ~$487B market cap, making it the most valuable China-listed company (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
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2026-07-27How US companies flipped from "tokenmaxxing" to "thrift-maxxing", mixing cheaper Chinese models with OpenAI and Anthropic, threatening the labs' IPO valuations (Wall Street Journal)
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2026-07-27Dealroom: defense giants such as Lockheed Martin have participated in a record $4.1B worth of VC rounds YTD, as drones and autonomous systems transform warfare (Financial Times)
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2026-07-26Sources: Nvidia is in talks to provide a ~$250B backstop for OpenAI as part of a 10 GW data center project that SoftBank is developing in Ohio (Wall Street Journal)
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2026-07-26How AI companies are targeting the education market, including making free or cut-price tailored learning tools in partnership with schools and edtech startups (Jamie John/Financial Times)
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2026-07-26India eases foreign investment rules for e-commerce companies, a win for Amazon, which lobbied to buy goods directly from Indian sellers and sell them overseas (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
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2026-07-26Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
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2026-07-26Shein's IPO prospectus shows Q1 revenue of $9.05B, up 1% YoY, as it swings from $395M profit in Q1 2025 to $99M loss partly due to US' "de minimis" rule removal (Reuters)
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2026-07-26Sources: Apple may have delayed AI glasses launch partly over privacy concerns that Meta's glasses created for the category, as it works to address the issues (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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2026-07-26Crypto exchanges like tradeXYZ are giving global investors exposure to Chinese AI-linked stocks like CXMT, bypassing Beijing's control on foreign capital access (William Sandlund/Financial Times)
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2026-07-26Sources including AI lab staff say users have been persuading chatbots to accurately answer prompts about planning mass-casualty attacks and making bio-weapons (Wall Street Journal)
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2026-07-26CXMT, which raised $9.8B in a hugely oversubscribed Shanghai IPO, is poised for a debut pop that could lift its market cap several times above its initial ~$85B (Bloomberg)
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2026-07-26Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora (Meir Orbach/CTech)
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2026-07-26A look at China's bid to build an alternative global order in AI by making open models widely available and training people in developing countries to use them (Financial Times)
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2026-07-25China's market regulator says it had fined and confiscated ~$770M from Trip.com for abusing its dominant position in the domestic online hotel-booking market (Reuters)
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2026-07-25Several universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Waterloo have restricted or disabled their use of AI detectors over accuracy concerns (Ima Jackson-Obot/Financial Times)
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2026-07-25Sources: DeepSeek told investors it is suspending its second funding round after remarks attributed to Liang Wenfeng on US-China AI competition went viral (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
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