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A large language model developed by Meta Platforms Inc. hacked a third party organization during a cybersecurity evaluation. The Facebook parent disclosed the incident on Wednesday without specifying

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as 'meritless.' In a motion filed yesterday to di

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release — Hark, a startup

The Information: Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework — The Trump administra

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors — Mana

Open letters about AI development I wrote this summary of the past few weeks of open letters as a section of my sponsors-only newsletter but I've decided to share it here as well. Open Weights and Ame

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2026. Today, Chris Betz, CISO, Google Cloud, and Alicja Cade, Senior Director, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud, explain what boards of directors

Reuters: Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network — OpenAI has discovered other instances in wh

Amazon.com Inc. delivered a solid earnings and revenue beat as it posted its second-quarter financial results, driven by surging growth in its cloud infrastructure business. Demand for artificial inte

Anthropic: Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident — In a review of our cybersecurity

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations It happened again! This is turning into something of a pattern. Last week OpenAI accidentally exploited Hugging Face when one

Chris Metinko / Axios: Way Security, which uses AI-driven automation and agentic workflows to help deploy IAM systems, raised a 20M seed from Insight Partners and Glilot Capital — Way Security raised

Ian King / Bloomberg: SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions — AI developer Ant

Anthropic: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max — Claude Opus 5 is available today. It's a th

U.S. lawmakers are preparing to introduce a bill that will give the government the ability to trigger an emergency shutdown of artificial intelligence models that may cause harm to the public. In what

Phoebe Liu / The Information: AMD is working with Cerebras to combine AMD Helios and Cerebras wafer-scale chips for an AI inference solution to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86% — AMD said T

A senior White House official has accused Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI of using so-called “distillation” techniques to essentially pirate the capabilities of Anthropic PBC’s mos

Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on re

Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised 97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor demand ra

Meta Platforms Inc. this week sought to reassure consumers about the privacy safeguards of its controversial artificial intelligence-enabled glasses, yet at the same time it’s reportedly pushing even

Federal contracting software startup Arkenstone Defense Inc. formally launched today with 35 million in new funding to take on the compliance, security and workforce setup that keeps many commercial t

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its own inference chips to reduce Nvidia dependence and break U.S. export controls, as China moves to protect its AI ecosystem. DeepSeek has been quietly deve

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The financial services industry (FSI) operates under a unique set of non-negotiable requirements: the need for strict regulatory compliance, sub-millisecond transactional speeds, and security that ver

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CyberAgent reports about 2,000 internal Claude Code users and describes its governance, training and software-delivery operating model; no measured outcome is published.

GM Energy is activating vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capability for existing customers without requiring new hardware, with development currently focused on software and finalizing utility partnerships. The

Standard Bots Co., a startup developing artificial intelligence-driven robotic arms for manufacturing and logistics, today announced it has raised 200 million in new funding. RoboStrategy led the Seri

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The Supreme Court rejected Verizon and AT&T's constitutional challenge to FCC fines exceeding 100 million combined for illegally sharing customers' location data with third parties, ruling 8-1 that no

Enterprise AI programs are moving beyond experimentation, but agentic AI maturity — the ability to run governed, autonomous workflows at production scale — remains out of reach for most organizations.

Patient-controlled health data startup Novellia Inc. today announced it has raised 18 million in Series A funding to scale up a platform that lets patients consolidate their medical records and choose

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible. In high-growth, technically ambitious markets like the Middle East, North Africa, and Türkiye (MENA-T), we f

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics David Oks provides the clearest explanation I've seen yet of why consumer products that use memory are likely to get significantly mo

Phoebe Liu / Forbes: A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics firm and holds a ~67% stake worth $13.3B, as AI tests SAS' strategy — Unlike most of t

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, featuring a host of automated services like bookkeeping functions, business insights, and tools for ad campaigns — Anthropic is

I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit's High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my highlights, including my

Seattle-based artificial intelligence research institute Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, today announced its next-generation open-source foundation artificial intelligence models, aimed at enabling r

ServiceNow Inc. today unveiled a broad expansion of its artificial intelligence platform, stressing governance, security and autonomous execution as foundational requirements for enterprise AI adoptio

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current 852B valuation, the stake is worth 5B+ — Speaking of c

In the era of AI agents, the distance between a big idea and a working application has never been shorter. As we lean more heavily on agents to help us build applications, a critical question remains:

Amazon.com Inc. and Penske Logistics, the transportation solutions division of Penske Corp. Inc., today separately announced supply chain solutions aimed at easing business operations. Penske announce

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Enterprises are moving fast to embed artificial intelligence into everything from customer interactions to decision-making. The benefits are undeniable: speed, efficiency and scale. The danger isn’t n

Anthropic PBC announced the launch of Claude Security in public beta mode today to help cybersecurity teams scan their codebases for vulnerabilities and generate patches. Part of Claude Enterprise, th