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Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire — Vinton Cerf will

Nikkei Asia: Japan commits up to 6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 — TOKYO — Japan will provide up

Marko Zivkovic / AppleInsider: Leaked Apple supplier docs show iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max may use Qualcomm modems in the US and Apple's own C2 chips elsewhere, A20 Pro packaging tech, and more — After

Financial Times: Letter: the US says Anthropic “agreed to proactively detect and address security risks” of Fable 5 and Mythos 5; a source says Anthropic developed a “safeguard” — US government move a

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Meta introduces a 20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users — “All AI glasses

Sara Fischer / Axios: Meta names Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz as its first-ever chief data officer, to manage AI analytics across the company, and names Denise Moreno as CMO — Meta has named i

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Oxmiq, which aims to combine GPUs, CPUs, and a tensor engine into a single block of IP that it can license, raised 35M led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fudomo — Artificial in

Stephen Totilo / Game File: Sony says all new PlayStation games will only be sold in digital formats from January 2028, as digital media preference “significantly outpaces physical discs” — New games

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Sony says it will close the virtual PlayStation 3 store in select markets in 2026 before closing PS3 and PS Vita stores “in all other countries” in July 2027 — The virtual

Bloomberg: Sources: Meta plans a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI compute and models, to compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; META jumps 8%+ — Meta Platforms Inc. is dev

Steven Borowiec / Nikkei Asia: South Korean government data: the country's exports grew 70.9% YoY in June to 102.25B, an all-time monthly high, anchored by a record 44.82B in chip shipments — SEOUL —

Bloomberg: Stockholm's Patent and Market Court orders Google to pay nearly 2B to Klarna's PriceRunner in a dispute over abuse of power in the shopping comparison market — Alphabet Inc.'s Google was or

Bloomberg: Taiwanese authorities detain two Super Micro staff and an Albatron manager after a raid of Super Micro's local offices this week over Nvidia shipments to China — Taiwanese prosecutors detai

Associated Press: The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison — A self-exiled billionair

Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: [Thread] The US' now-lifted export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers towards Chinese AI models — A lot to un

Financial Times: Tim Cook and EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen held “constructive” talks; sources say they discussed how Apple can launch Siri AI in the EU while avoiding fines — Discussions come as tech

Niko Gallogly / New York Times: Together AI, which offers access to open-source models, raised 800M led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 at an 8.3B valuation, taking its total funding to 1.3B — Together

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Twelve Labs, which is building AI models to make video searchable and understandable, raised a 100M Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, and signs an AWS deal — Twelve Labs Inc.

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber dismissed two leaders at its AI data labeling business as part of a broader leadership transition at the unit, which it says is “seeing strong momentum” — Uber Technolog

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Venice AI, which offers access to 200+ AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a 65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a 1B valuation — Concerns over the impac

Bloomberg: Wayve files to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange's new Private Securities Market, the first major company to test it, and let staff sell $85M in shares — Autonomous driving software

Financial Times: A study of 22K US companies shows those spending most heavily on AI are adding workers faster than peers, but most gains are among tech companies and startups — Study of 22,000 US com

Orlando Crowcroft / Financial Times: AI and vibe coding fuel a surge in game releases; ATTN Economy says 181K mobile games launched in six months to May, up 118% on iOS and 73% on Android YoY — More i

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: AI inference startup Etched raised 800M from investors including Jane Street and a TSMC-linked venture firm, and says it has signed sales contracts worth 1B — Nvidia rival says

Peter Campbell / Financial Times: AI may help transform air traffic control by processing vast amounts of data, spotting collision risks early, and easing staff shortages as air travel grows — The tec

Kirstin Ridley / Reuters: Almost 1,700 UK investors sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao for at least £150M, alleging Binance sold them risky derivative products without regulatory approval — Almost 1,700 B

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits — Anthropi

Anthropic: Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, saying it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices and is substantially better than Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work — Claude Sonnet 5 is built to be the mo

@anthropicai: Anthropic says the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 and that it will begin restoring access Wednesday — We've received notice that the Dep

Emmy Martin / New York Times: As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new AI elite and may have to leave — As OpenA

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams — As compa

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Claude Sonnet 5 costs 2 per 1M input tokens and 10 per 1M output tokens through August 31, after which prices rise to 3 and 15, respectively — Anthropic is upgrading Claude Sonnet,

Meir Orbach / CTech: Cyber unicorn Aikido acquires Israeli startup Root for 70-100 million — The Belgian company expands its AI security push and will open a new development center in Israel following

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $37.6M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components — Belgian cybersecurity

Matthew Martin / Semafor: Dubai- and London-based 1001, which uses AI to improve aviation, port, and energy infrastructure efficiency in the Gulf, raised 30M led by Lux Capital — THE SCOOP — Dubai- an

Reuters: Filing: President Trump reports 1.4B+ in income from his family's crypto ventures in 2025, including 500M+ from WLF and 635M from the sale of his TRUMP coin — U.S. President Donald Trump repo

Wall Street Journal: Filings: Microsoft's Ireland hub generated $47B in pretax profits for FY 2025, or 38.1% of its global total; new EU rules require country-by-country reporting — Country-by-country

Reuters: Five Chinese tech and advanced manufacturing companies launched Hong Kong listings today to raise up to 5.6B, led by Apple supplier Luxshare's 3.15B offering — Five Chinese technology and adv

The Atlantic: FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised against its use in April 2025, raising federal recordkeeping concerns — New records reveal that

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: Getty Images announces plans to end its Shutterstock merger after the UK CMA conditioned approval of the deal on Shutterstock selling its editorial business — A

The Keyword: Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers — We're making it easier to experim

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pickers on platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere — GIFs are a huge part of th

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future competition from AI travel agents — Chatb

Bloomberg: How Spain's LaLiga uses nationwide IP blocking to combat illegal sports streams, impacting an estimated 550K+ domains, putting it in conflict with Cloudflare — From small businesses to gove

Bloomberg: Lime raised 174M in its US IPO, selling 6.68M shares at 25 each, at the midpoint of the marketed range, giving Lime a market value of 1.6B — Neutron Holdings Inc., better known as Lime, and

Ryan Lawler / Axios: MDOTM, which makes AI software for asset and wealth managers, raised 27M led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to 36.5M — MDOTM, which makes AI software for