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Reuters: Sources: component and supplier lists, and photos of iPhone 18 Pro models, are among files a ransomware group stole from Apple's Indian supplier Tata — Sensitive lists of components and suppl
Reuters: Sources: CXMT and Tencent sign a ~$3B, three-year DRAM supply agreement for servers ahead of CXMT's IPO; CXMT is in talks with other major Chinese companies — Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXi
Katrina Manson / Los Angeles Times: Sources: disconnected US military databases may have led to the February 28 strike on an Iranian school; some see AI as a fix, others fear it amplifies errors — - A
Wired: Sources: hundreds of Meta contractors posed as minors to probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving suicide, sex, and other high-risk subjects — Hundreds of contractors workin
The South Korean government today announced a 900 trillion won, or 584 billion, initiative to grow the country’s chip manufacturing capacity. Officials also plan to build about 357 billion worth of ar
Song Jung-a / Financial Times: South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix say they plan to invest ~$590B to build a new chip complex, including four chipmaking plants and a chip packaging cluster — Companies
South Korea announced a massive government-backed investment plan totaling 1 trillion across three pillars: semiconductors, AI data centers, and physical AI robotics, to position the country as a lead
Yi Whan-woo / The Korea Times: South Korea unveils plans for new AI data centers backed by ~$357.5B from SK Group, GS Group, and Naver, targeting 8.4GW initially and 18.4GW by 2035 — President Lee Jae
Agentic security company Straiker Inc. today revealed that it has raised 64 million in new funding to expand a platform built that secures the artificial intelligence agents now spreading across enter
Chris Metinko / Axios: Straiker, which develops tech for securing enterprise AI agents, raised a 64M Series A, bringing its total funding to 85M — Straiker, which secures AI agents, raised a $64 milli
In the agentic era, the role of the database has fundamentally changed. It is no longer a passive repository; it’s a critical context engine designed to ground generative AI apps, models and power aut
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that broad geofence surveillance constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. The ruling does
We recently announced the preview of the BigQuery AI.AGG() function. With AI.AGG(), you can use natural-language instructions within a single line of SQL to summarize or synthesize information over mi
Written by: James Sadowski, Alden Wahlstrom Introduction Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the pro-Russia influence ecosystem has evolved from a tool of war back into a global s
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful
Financial Times: The UK FCA unveils the updated version of its crypto regulatory framework, after softening proposed rules that critics said risked holding the UK back — FCA eases capital and disclosu
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The US DOJ seizes nearly 400 domains for illegally streaming 2026 FIFA World Cup matches; last week, ACE, UEFA, and more shut down 44 domains linked to PirloTV — The
A think tank conducted research examining how the Space Force should respond to space warfare scenarios, with experts envisioning various ways satellites and spacecraft might be used in gray-zone or w
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: Tidal adopts an AI policy that blocks wholly AI-generated music from earning royalties and removes AI-generated music that impersonates artists — TIDAL is in
Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to 'protect artists' and 'inform listeners.' Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal wil
Learn how TrueFoundry AI Gateway exports OpenTelemetry traces to Arize AX so teams can trace, evaluate, and monitor production LLM and agent traffic without embedding a vendor SDK in every service. Th
Many organizations today are floating in a ton of data. This is good for powering AI agents, but less favorable when it comes to identifying which signals from all of that data actually matter. The so
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Scott Gatreau, Director of Information Security, at Turner Industries, a privately owned industrial contractor that provides construction, maintenance, and fabricatio
The U.S. Department of State is offering up to $10 million for information identifying or locating members of the UNC5792 and UNC4221 hacker groups linked to Russia's intelligence and military service
Coal generation hit an all-time monthly low of 39.3 TWh in April 2026, and solar subsequently overtook coal in the US electricity mix for the first month on record in May 2026. Coal's share of the US
Vercel increased the maximum package size limit for Vercel Functions from its previous threshold to 5GB, enabling developers to deploy larger applications and dependencies. This enhancement expands th
The Vercel Open Source Program Spring 2026 cohort announcement highlights selected open source projects that have been accepted into Vercel's sponsorship and support initiative for the spring 2026 per
Bloomberg: Verizon and the UK's BT agree to create a joint venture for their international businesses with ~4B in combined yearly revenue; Verizon will pay 625M to BT — Verizon Communications Inc. and
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Waymo and Uber quietly ended their partnership in Phoenix in May; Uber says it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city — Waymo robotax
Amazon Web Services’ new mandate is turning agentic hype into practical applications for the public sector. That will be the focus of the company’s upcoming event, AWS Summit Washington, D.C. Kicking
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: WhatsApp rolls out username reservations globally, allowing users to claim a unique name before the privacy-focused feature launches later this year — Following years of antic
A featurette showing Laika's process for crafting the stop-motion film, featuring nearly two-and-a-half minutes of the studio's crew building out the world in perfect detail. The featurette reveals ne
xAI's Grok audio models are now accessible through the Vercel AI Gateway, expanding the platform's capabilities for developers to integrate advanced audio processing into their applications. This inte
Wired: A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including “transfer station” sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users — As Anthropic tightens restricti
Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic — Andreou, who onc
Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: An analysis of US payroll data across 730+ occupations: employment among workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs is now shrinking by 3.8% per year — Last August, a
Alistair Gray / Financial Times: Apple's appeal to a London Court of Appeal ruling begins Monday at the UK Supreme Court; the ruling required it to pay $502M for using Optis' wireless patents — Battle
Bloomberg: Australia-based Firmus partners with Nvidia to build its first data center in Batam, Indonesia; the 360 MW Nvidia DSX AI factory campus is developed with DayOne — Firmus Technologies Pty Lt
Jackson Chen / Engadget: Australian government says it plans to double the maximum penalty for any social media company breaking its minimum age law and grant more powers to enforcers — The fine can n
New York Times: Brazil, which has struggled to standardize soccer talent scouting, is embracing AI-powered scouting apps that assess players by analyzing video clips and more — Recruitment apps powere
China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from
With organizations reorganizing themselves to put artificial intelligence at the center, we’ve seen a shift from information being valuable to being a means of achieving intelligence, which is far mor
Within hours of the first U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran in February 2026, hacktivists went to work launching massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. Both pro- and anti-Iranian groups targete
New York Times: Google's Earthquake Alerts system reached 11.4M+ people in Venezuela, giving them seconds or up to two minutes notice before two powerful earthquakes struck — Jose Flores was driving w
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: GPT-5.6 system card indicates Sol is well below the level of most worrisome Mythos use cases, suggesting all GPT-5.6 versions could be released without del
Hack Your Summer I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning: It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who want
HP Inc. has launched a strategic partnership with OpenAI called Frontier, aimed at integrating OpenAI's AI capabilities into HP's products and services. The partnership likely focuses on enhancing HP'
Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: Humanoid robot maker Apptronik raised ~1B at a ~5B valuation, including from Mercedes-Benz, which has a handful of Apptronik's Apollo robots in its factories — Jeff Carden
Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: Jefferies: memory prices are expected to rise 40-50% in Q3 2026 and 30-40% in Q4, as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide meaningful near-term relief — Memory price
This article discusses recent open-source AI model releases and developments from three companies—Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside—and their contributions to expanding the broader AI ecosystem. It likely
Marton Eder / Bloomberg: Letter: Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to boost bloc independence from US and Chinese tech — Austria is pu
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Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is just 7% of costs and the AI race will be won on Earth within a few years — SoftBank's
Jonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year's Day in 2025, which became one of the deadliest wildfires in LA history. To make their case, prosecutors turned to locati
Human Agent in the loop I dislike the phrase “human in the loop” because it cedes authority to the machines. Let’s flip the narrative. It’s our loop, we work the same way we always have, now we recrui
Wall Street Journal: Researchers say Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches latest US models at finding security bugs, as critics question the US' lax approach in restricting Chinese open models — Clampdown on top U.
Reuters: Shanghai-based Momenta, whose driver-assist tech is used by Toyota, Mercedes, and Audi in China, files for an IPO in Hong Kong, seeking to raise up to $751.1M — Chinese self-driving technolog
Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin Technology plans a Hong Kong IPO at a $50B target valuation, asking investors to buy chips worth 3-7x their IPO investment — In China
Financial Times: Sources: Google told Meta around March it couldn't offer all the Gemini capacity Meta wanted to buy, disrupting and delaying some of Meta's internal AI projects — Surging appetite for
Suno has ambitions to be more than just a toy to churn out AI slop, it also wants to be a streaming destination and to break new artists. Spark is their new incubator program for independent artists t