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Snap reaches a deal to settle the second case set for trial over social media harm to minors, following TikTok and YouTube, leaving Meta as the only defendant (Bloomberg)

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X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rewrite from scratch; Nikita Bier calls it "one of the largest engineering projects" in the company's history (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rew...

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Taiwan indicts former TSMC deputy manager for allegedly stealing trade secrets, in what authorities say is the first National Security Act case involving China (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Taiwan indicts former TSMC deputy manager for alle...

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Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI...

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OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly found ways to act outside its sandbox (OpenAI)

OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased mod...

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Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft platform designed for commercial and military uses, along with an autonomous attack rotorcraft called Thunder (Reuters)

Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft p...

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Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting...

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Source: Z.ai completed construction of a 1 GW data center housing only Chinese chips; Z.ai has built or operates several computing clusters each with 10K+ chips (Bloomberg)

Source: Z.ai completed construction of a 1 GW data...

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Chicago-based Empirical Security, which uses AI to help companies predict threats by monitoring exploited vulnerabilities, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Chicago-based Empirical Security, which uses AI to...

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Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthropic, says he was able to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with the help of Fable 5 (Matthew Sparkes/New Scientist)

Levent Alpöge, a mathematician who works at Anthro...

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Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of ...

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CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning just three months after taking over the federal AI testing institute (Maria Curi/Axios)

CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning just three ...

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Source: Tencent is in talks to acquire Israeli game developer SuperPlay in a deal valuing SuperPlay at $1B-$1.5B; Playtika acquired SuperPlay in 2024 for $690M (Golan Hazani/CTech)

Source: Tencent is in talks to acquire Israeli gam...

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Billionaire-backed Building A Better California reserves $87M in TV ad time to oppose California's proposed one-time wealth tax; Sergey Brin put $82M into BABC (New York Times)

Billionaire-backed Building A Better California re...

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Chinese open models are proper competition that should be welcomed, not something to ban or treat as a danger, and open-sourcing is an old business strategy (Bill Gurley/Washington Post)

Chinese open models are proper competition that sh...

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Sensor Tower: in H1, the number of new apps released in the App Store doubled to ~560K, on track to pass 2025's ~600K total, as vibecoded apps flood the store (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

Sensor Tower: in H1, the number of new apps releas...

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UK government data: ~35% of UK businesses with 10+ staff report using AI, up from 12% in September 2023; average number of AI tools is 1.6, up from 1.4 in 2023 (Delphine Strauss/Financial Times)

UK government data: ~35% of UK businesses with 10+...

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AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M+ (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI ...

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