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Big US pizza delivery chains are struggling as apps such as DoorDash and Uber Eats give independent pizzerias and other restaurants greater market access (Haley Zimmerman/Financial Times)

Big US pizza delivery chains are struggling as app...

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Sources: CIA operative Jonny Gannon spied on G42 to probe its China ties and helped the UAE gain expanded access to US AI chips by allaying US suspicions (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: CIA operative Jonny Gannon spied on G42 t...

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Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following ...

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Analysis finds 60+ "jacket apps" on the App Store disguised as simple games and utilities that become gambling apps when accessed from Brazilian IP addresses (9to5Mac)

Analysis finds 60+ "jacket apps" on the App Store ...

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A look at AI's potential impact on insurance-coverage decisions like prior authorization as the Trump admin starts to pilot using AI to evaluate Medicare claims (Joshua Cohen/Ars Technica)

A look at AI's potential impact on insurance-cover...

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UK's incoming PM Andy Burnham is expected to scrap Keir Starmer's plans for digital ID cards; last year a petition opposing the cards attracted ~3M signatures (Geraldine McKelvie/The Guardian)

UK's incoming PM Andy Burnham is expected to scrap...

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Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)

Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; ...

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Prediction market political betting on insider info spreads in DC; sources: WH lawyers raised alarms over anonymous Polymarket bets on the Iran ceasefire timing (Wall Street Journal)

Prediction market political betting on insider inf...

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How the Trump administration shifted from a "light-touch" approach to AI policy to an interventionist stance that led to restrictions on top AI models in the US (Leo Schwartz/The Information)

How the Trump administration shifted from a "light...

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The grassroots group HumansFirst is organizing protests against the "unaccountable" buildout of data centers across 125 US locations on July 18 (Reuters)

The grassroots group HumansFirst is organizing pro...

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A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop sho...

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Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 (AI Security Institute)

Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier c...

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Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 (AI Security Institute)

Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier c...

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SEC filing: GameStop says it owns 9.8% of eBay, signaling its intent to press ahead with a bid for the company after its unsolicited $56B offer was rejected (Reuters)

SEC filing: GameStop says it owns 9.8% of eBay, si...

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Feathery, which develops an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including a recently completed Series A (FinTech Global)

Feathery, which develops an AI operating and decis...

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China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)

China's National Data Administration says the coun...

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London-based Risk Ledger, which helps organizations manage supply chain cyber risks, raised a £24M Series B led by Axiom Equity, taking total funding to £33.8M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

London-based Risk Ledger, which helps organization...

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Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires Cardina...

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