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Kimi K3 marks the arrival of frontier open-weight models, and the Kimi team has incredible culture and freedom of expression within a GPU-limited environment (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)

Kimi K3 marks the arrival of frontier open-weight ...

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Sources: the US and China plan to hold AI talks in September when President Xi visits the US, realizing a significant outcome of the Trump-Xi summit in May (Laurie Chen/Reuters)

Sources: the US and China plan to hold AI talks in...

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Memo: the Army CIO reinstates limits on Army members' AI token usage; docs show the DOD's Ask Sage tool can access 100M tokens via an annual "enterprise pack" (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)

Memo: the Army CIO reinstates limits on Army membe...

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Sources: BlackRock leads a $12B+ debt sale for Meta's new El Paso data center, as Meta signs a lease for a BlackRock-backed data-center project in Pennsylvania (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: BlackRock leads a $12B+ debt sale for Met...

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A Washington judge grants a request to temporarily block Kalshi from offering sports-related bets in the state, citing a breach of the state gambling law (Timmy Shen/The Block)

A Washington judge grants a request to temporarily...

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Sources: China is weighing tightening AI and chip tech export controls and is consulting leading domestic AI companies, in a bid to slow advanced tech exports (Financial Times)

Sources: China is weighing tightening AI and chip ...

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Sources: TSMC plans to hike advanced and mature node prices by up to 10% in 2027, plus a 10%-15% premium for advanced chip orders exceeding original forecasts (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Sources: TSMC plans to hike advanced and mature no...

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A profile of Sarah Guo, Greylock's youngest GP bef...

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GitHub says individuals and orgs have invested $100M+ in open source maintainers and projects via GitHub Sponsors since 2019, with $10M in the past five months (Stephanie Lincoln/The GitHub Blog)

GitHub says individuals and orgs have invested $10...

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Sony Music files a second copyright suit against Udio, alleging the AI music company copied 30,117 recordings without permission to train its AI models (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)

Sony Music files a second copyright suit against U...

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Singapore-based Ant International, a payments company which spun out of Ant Group in 2024, raised $1.2B from investors including Ant Group and Alibaba (Reuters)

Singapore-based Ant International, a payments comp...

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Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle grew an est. ~8x since 2022 to ~$1.65T, eclipsing ~$1.35T in balance sheet debt (Kohei Yamada/Nikkei Asia)

Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microso...

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South Korea reports that, for the first 20 days of July, chip exports climbed 180.6% from the same period in 2025; computer-related product shipments grew ~232% (Heesu Lee/Bloomberg)

South Korea reports that, for the first 20 days of...

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Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cloudflare: between June 2025 and April 2026, human traffic to sites of businesses in many industries fell ~40% (Kate Conger/New York Times)

Google's AI Search is endangering the open web; Cl...

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Researchers found sandbox escapes or boundary bypasses in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity by writing files trusted tools later use; most are patched (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)

Researchers found sandbox escapes or boundary bypa...

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Samsung debuts Samsung Galaxy Card, its first-ever US credit card, a Visa from Barclays; it offers 5% rewards for purchases directly from Samsung (John Velasco/Tom's Guide)

Samsung debuts Samsung Galaxy Card, its first-ever...

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Judge approves Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with authors, the first major US case of its kind to settle; some authors opted out and have other ongoing lawsuits (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Judge approves Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with a...

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Source: Ancestry.com pitches a risky $1.75B term loan at 4 to 4.25 percentage points above the benchmark to refinance debt from its 2020 Blackstone acquisition (Bloomberg)

Source: Ancestry.com pitches a risky $1.75B term l...

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