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New York Times: Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI — the first full day of the se

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools — Bets

Kyle Alspach / CRN: ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks — The cybersecurity vendo

Josh Xiao / Bloomberg: Chinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force — Chinese President X

Bloomberg: Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations — Cybersecurity experts are faultin

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores “far surpassing” V4 Pro Preview — China's DeepSeek rol

Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April — DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is

Financial Times: Filing: Amazon has completed its 50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% — Ecommerce giant has roughly 5%

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop — Gemini Spark is getti

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses — The announcement comes after OpenAI said earlier this week

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities — Chinese milit

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies — Chinese AI c

The Information: Sources: OpenAI demoed a new “Astra” AI model family to US policymakers and regulators this week, touting its improved abilities to complete long-running tasks — OpenAI is preparing t

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

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

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic says the models that breached three companies include Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, and the earliest incidents date back to April

Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them — OpenAI said Thursda

John Thornhill / Financial Times: Q&A with CuspAI's Max Welling on its AI Materials Foundry, partnerships with Nvidia and others, Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun joining its advisory board, and more — The

Financial Times: Sources: ex-OpenAI executive Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout — Hedge fund has held ta

CNBC: In an internal meeting, OpenAI finance chief Sarah Friar told employees that the company's annualized recurring revenue in July was higher than in Q2 as a whole — As OpenAI chases rival Anthropi

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: In Q4, Microsoft's Anthropic investment saw a 3.2B gain, while its OpenAI investment was marked down ~600M but has generated a $5B gain on a full-year basis — When Microsoft r

Bloomberg: Source: the European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as “very large online platforms” under the DSA as soon as August — OpenAI's ChatGPT and video game company Rob

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time authors have left — L

Wall Street Journal: Anthropic faces backlash from Silicon Valley partners, founders, and researchers for competitive tactics, guardrails, and lack of support for open-weight models — The AI pioneer f

Dustin Volz / New York Times: Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and orchestrated another improved attack against the cryptographic system HAWK — Claude Myt

Kalley Huang / New York Times: Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday — The comp

Hugging Face: Hugging Face publishes a timeline of the OpenAI agent intrusion, including how the agent took ~17.6K actions, and details using GLM-5.2 to analyze the attack — This post walks through ho

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: OpenAI and Anthropic release statements in support of the “Pacing the Frontier” initiative; Anthropic says Dario Amodei and several co-founders have signed it — More than 1,1

Wired: OpenAI says the rogue AI that breached Hugging Face used exposed credentials from “four accounts” tied to four “publicly available” third-party services — In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its a

Bloomberg: Over 1,100 staffers from AI companies, including John Schulman and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki, sign a letter requesting the US government to “pace” AI development — More than 1,100 staffers ac

Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, the concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more — Sam

The Information: Sources: Moonshot is seeking access to more Nvidia Blackwell chips to prepare for Kimi K4's development, after training K3 on Nvidia chips, including Blackwell — Beijing-based startup

Reuters: Sources: the OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face also compromised a customer at AI infrastructure company Modal Labs — The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hac

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more — The Model Cont

Reuters: The US FCC bans the import of new Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, seeking to protect the US AI buildout from national security threats — The Trump administration on Tuesday unvei

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: UK startup Dwelly, which buys real estate businesses and adds AI to handle maintenance, contracts, and other tasks, raised 95M in equity and 75M in debt — British startup Dwell

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A detailed recap of the Hugging Face breach by an internal OpenAI model, which repeatedly tried to escape OpenAI's sandbox and should be treated as critica

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall “feeling”, amid its legal battles with book authors — OpenAI's C

Bloomberg: China warns it will take “all necessary measures” if the US sanctions Chinese AI companies over allegations they improperly used US models to train their models — China warned it would take

Maddy Varner / Wired: Claude chats showed in Google and Bing search results, despite Anthropic's robots.txt saying not to crawl them, likely because the pages lacked a “noindex” tag — The screwup show

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Enigma, which runs large-scale experiments exploring how humans interact with robots, emerges from stealth with a $70M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit — Multiple robo

New York Times: Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, an AI model trained for cybersecurity, and launches Perception, an agentic security system to patch vulnerabilities — As some executives fret ov

Microsoft AI: Microsoft says MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and MDASH, its vulnerability identification harness, deliver “world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models” — Today we're announcing MAI-

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Nvidia forms the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition including CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity — Nvidia (NVDA.

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia says it made a “substantial” investment in Safe Superintelligence, which will get access to Nvidia GPUs to up computing power by an “order of magnitude” — Par

Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: Several digital-asset treasury firms have pivoted to AI amid a slump in crypto prices, but their poor stock performance suggests the strategy is not working — The implosion