Anthropic says it disrupted a Beijing-aligned operation targeting religious leaders and diaspora advocates.
Richard Gere / Wall Street Journal : Anthropic reported disrupting a Beijing-aligned operation to monitor religious leaders and diaspora communities, including a DC-based advocacy group for Tibet — Anthropic uncovers a Beijing-aligned operation targeting my organization among other dissidents.
Dutch agency NADI launches a €40M AI-for-chip-design challenge with Germany's SPRIND.
Toby Sterling / Reuters : NADI, a new DARPA-like Dutch government agency, launches a €40M challenge to accelerate chip design with AI in collaboration with its German counterpart SPRIND — A new Dutch government agency set up to achieve strategic innovation will work with its German counterpart to pursue breakthroughs …
SEC filings show ByteDance supplied nearly 75% of Nscale's 2025 sales and accessed Nvidia chips in Norway.
Financial Times : Sources and Nscale's US SEC filings: ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used Nscale's facility in Norway to access Nvidia AI chips — Chinese tech giant was AI cloud provider's largest customer last year but is not prominently named in pitch to stock market investors
JetBrains lays out Air, its product system for agentic software development.
Technical disclosure of an unauthenticated WordPress path traversal that can conditionally reach RCE.
Trail of Bits dissects why SAML's design produces recurring security and implementation failures.
Unreal Labs introduces Unreal Agent, a new agent product for software work.
Daniel Lemire analyzes the architectural and software factors behind Ryzen's 50% performance gain in two years.
LLM Ass Bench offers a benchmark focused on evaluating LLM behavior and capabilities.
A hands-on account of using coding agents to iteratively optimize Rust performance.
404 Media reports OpenAI AI trainers were fired for using AI in the training workflow.
Discord details its updated process for confirming users' age groups.
The US calls Australia's proposed requirement for social platforms to offer algorithm opt-outs censorship.
Pew finds 54% of Americans now view data centers negatively for the environment amid growing local opposition.
Brian Kennedy / Pew Research Center : Survey: US public perception of data centers has sharply deteriorated since January, with 54% viewing them as bad for the environment, as local opposition rises — Americans have grown more negative toward the possible environmental and economic effects of data centers since the beginning of the year.
China is surveying Broadcom switches in state-backed data centers as it pushes domestic AI infrastructure.
Financial Times : Sources: China's SASAC, which oversees state-owned companies, is surveying the number of Broadcom switches in state-backed data centers amid a domestic AI drive — Survey comes amid drive to boost domestic players and reduce reliance on foreign AI infrastructure
Counterpoint reports global AI-glasses shipments rose 263% year over year in H1 2026.
Counterpoint Research : Global AI glasses shipments, including display-less and AR and AI glasses, rose 263% YoY in H1 2026, driven by Meta and EssilorLuxottica's display-less lineup — AI glasses market accelerates in H1 2026, driven by display-less devices, Meta's dominance and growing AR & AI adoption.
Legal publisher C.H.BECK takes a majority stake in legal-AI company Noxtua after its $100M+ Series C.
Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu : German publisher C.H.BECK takes a majority stake in Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents and raised a $100M+ Series C — The German legal AI company is deepening its ties with European publishers as it expands across the continent and takes on US competitors.
On-prem AI vendor Go.AI raises an $85M Series A to serve regulated organizations such as banks.
Ryan Lawler / Axios : Go.AI, which offers on-premises AI hardware and software tools for regulated organizations like banks, raised an $85M Series A led by Updata Partners — Go.AI, which sells AI hardware appliances to banks, raised $85 million in Series A funding, CEO David Moscatelli tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Patreon co-founder Sam Yam joins OpenAI to lead Creator Product with two senior Patreon product leaders.
Sam Yam / @samyamiam : Patreon co-founder Sam Yam says he is joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product, alongside Patreon's Head of Product Drew Rowny and Head of Engineering Shannon Ma — 1/ I'm joining @OpenAI to lead Creator Product after over 13 years since starting @Patreon. Coming with me are my favorite crew Drew Rowny and Shannon Ma, Patreon's (now former) Head of Product and Head of Engineering. We're going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to ...
Six major banks warn that autonomous commerce agents could amplify fraud, scams, and payment disputes.
Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo : Six major banks, including BofA and Capital One, warn that increased autonomy for agentic commerce chatbots could lead to more scams, fraud, and disputes — Agentic commerce could increase the amount of scams, fraud and disputes, the banks warn in a new report.
Chinese automotive and industrial chip foundry CanSemi seeks roughly $919M in a Shenzhen IPO.
Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg : Chinese chip foundry CanSemi, focused on automotive, industrial, and IoT chips, files for an IPO on Shenzhen stock exchange's ChiNext, seeking to raise ~$919M — Chinese chip foundry CanSemi Technology Inc. is seeking to raise about 6.16 billion yuan ($919 million) in an initial public offering …
Drop is a rootless Linux sandbox that adds optional gVisor isolation.
Obscura presents a VPN architecture designed so the provider cannot log user activity.
A project explores building native applications using TypeScript and CSS.
Npunlock enables custom C kernels on Intel NPUs, opening a lower-level path for NPU programming.
ReBarUEFI brings Resizable BAR support to many otherwise unsupported UEFI systems.
USENIX paper explains why data-only attacks remain practical despite control-flow defenses.
Pew Research examines the persistent problem of bogus respondents in opt-in online polling.
A German court holds Meta liable for scam advertisements on Facebook and Instagram.
Waymo introduces transit rewards, linking autonomous rides with public-transit incentives.
Bloomberg : Analysis: 30 Chinese tech stocks with the largest overseas revenue exposure returned 36% YTD, outperforming the 8% return from domestically dependent peers — China's push for global AI supremacy is increasingly benefiting companies that supply the rest of the world, with investors favoring …
Reuters : Ofcom opens an investigation into Pornhub owner Aylo to determine whether it has complied with OSA requirements to prevent under-18s from accessing porn — Britain's media regulator Ofcom said on Wednesday that it had opened an investigation into whether adult content platform Pornhub …
Business Insider : A profile of Noah Shinn, founder of AI assistant Instinct, who soft-launched it as an invite-only site for VCs and is reportedly fundraising at a $10B valuation — Noah Shinn was publishing influential AI research before he graduated from college. Now, at the ripe age of 23, he's taking on Mark Zuckerberg.
Angus Whitley / Bloomberg : The US criticizes Australia's digital duty-of-care proposal, which has a provision that would require social media platforms to let users opt out of algorithms — The US government criticized Australia's plan to clamp down on social media algorithms and harmful content online …