IWF counted 6,310 AI-generated CSAM images in H1 2026, already 40% above all of 2025.
Dan Milmo / The Guardian : The IWF says it assessed 6,310 AI-generated images that met the legal definition of CSAM in H1 2026, up 40% over the 4,500+ images assessed in all of 2025 — Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year's total
Sources say Reflection AI and other Western open-weight model releases are imminent this month.
Bradley Olson / Axios : Sources: several Western open-weight models are set to launch this month, including Reflection AI's first model, which will rival top Chinese open-weight models — A closely watched Nvidia-backed startup called Reflection is preparing to shake up the AI race with a powerful open-weight system …
The Information examines Chinese Claude-token resellers using accumulated identities, USDT cards, and proxies.
The Information : A look at China's gray market of token resellers, who use accumulated identities and USDT-funded cards to obtain Claude accounts and route them through proxies — In Beijing's Haidian District, a bustling hub for local universities and tech companies, six out of the roughly 30 tenants …
Video explains Homa, a proposed transport intended to replace TCP in AI clusters.
Denmark's CPR authority reports a breach exposing personal data for 8.8 million people.
Huawei and Qualcomm announce a multi-year patent license spanning AI, 5G, computing, and networking.
The Information details Stability AI's revival under Sean Parker and its label-backed focus on music AI.
Abram Brown / The Information : A look at Sean Parker's resurrection of Stability AI following Emad Mostaque's ousting, and its new focus on AI for music professionals, backed by major labels — To the music industry, Sean Parker has been many things. As co-founder of Napster, he was first an “outlaw renegade,” as he himself puts it.
CoreWeave's Physical AI lead discusses why models fail real-world checks and how synthetic data helps.
Superintelligence : An interview with CoreWeave Physical AI SVP Richard Ahlfeld on AI models failing real-world checks, the roles of synthetic data and physical tests, and more — Sponsored by … 🧩 Why physical AI breaks on missing data far more often than on the model
RobCo sold $40M in shares at a $1B valuation after its January $100M robotics raise.
Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal : Munich-based RobCo, which makes robotic arms and automation software, sells $40M of shares at a $1B valuation, up from ~$500M after raising $100M in January — German company aims to capitalize on growing demand for autonomous industrial robots — German robotics startup RobCo has sold shares …
Change.org is committing $100M to an AI rebuild of its petition platform and launches a creator copilot beta.
Dan Primack / Axios : Change.org says it is investing $100M of its own money to rebuild its core petitions platform with AI and launches an AI copilot beta for petition creators — Change.org was founded as a venture-backed organization, before a 2021 restructuring that saw investors like Reid Hoffman …
Xray-core's maintainers concealed a certificate-verification-bypass vulnerability, a serious supply-chain trust case.
A production Go GC investigation traces a 40ms pause to swapping rather than garbage collection itself.
Red Hat benchmarks Jev decision models against LLM judges and classifiers, finding they do not outperform them.
ArtCraft ships an open-source Adobe-compatible creative suite implemented in Rust.
CedarDB engineers ported the original Doom to SQL, an unusually deep database-engine demonstration.
A practical guide builds self-hosted HTTP tunnels from SSH and Nginx rather than a managed tunnel service.
DeepMind Institute co-director James Manyika discusses distributing responsibility for AI risks.
Mishal Husain / Bloomberg : Q&A with Google SVP and DeepMind Institute co-director James Manyika on AI risks and why responsibility must be shared across industry, government, and society — The accord, which carries no legal weight, commits Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, SpacexAI and Google to “robust internal processes” …
OKXICE seeks SEC approval to offer tokenized shares in 63 NYSE-listed companies.
Scott Patterson / Bloomberg : OKX and ICE's joint venture OKXICE is seeking SEC approval to offer tokenized shares of 63 NYSE-listed firms, as it leverages new US rules on tokenized stocks — OKX filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Sunday to launch a tokenized-stock trading platform …
Firmus plans to allocate about half its IPO shares to existing holders amid excess demand.
Bloomberg : Sources: Firmus plans to allocate ~50% of its IPO shares to existing holders, as investor demand far exceeds the offer size in one of Australia's largest IPOs — Firmus Grid Ltd. plans to allocate about half of the shares in its initial public offering to existing shareholders …
Financial Times profiles Alpha, a 30-person Polymarket Discord collective estimated to have made $40M.
Niamh Rowe / Financial Times : A look at Alpha, an invite-only Discord server of ~30 mostly Gen Z Polymarket traders who pool research and capital and have made an estimated $40M since 2024 — In a private group chat, an elite crew of prediction-market bettors turn elections, wars and disasters into ‘free money on the floor’.
The Tao of Backup lays out a rigorous philosophy and operational practices for recoverable backups.
This database-design post explains safe optimistic lock coupling for concurrent tree operations.
A detailed build log automates a 35mm film-scanning workflow from capture through processing.
Niklas Roy documents a 30-minute pendulum clock constructed from discarded materials.
A newly surfaced online archive preserves Tippett Studio's digital work following the studio's closure.
A technical critique demystifies Edward Tufte's data-ink ratio and its limits as a visualization metric.
Computer History Museum preserves Thomas Watson Jr.'s 1963 memo on IBM's response to the CDC 6600.
An interview with Chicken Scheme maintainer Peter Bex covers stewardship of a long-running Scheme implementation.
A Wiley review surveys 2025 progress in replacing petroleum-derived products with plant-based materials.
Transport & Environment projects sales of sub-€25,000 EV models will rise sevenfold.
Miyoung Kim / Reuters : Huawei agrees to a multi-year patent licensing deal with Qualcomm covering AI, 5G, computing, and networking tech, its first 5G licensing deal with Qualcomm — China's Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) said on Monday it had agreed a broad multi-year patent licence deal with Qualcomm (QCOM.O) …
Ben Berkowitz / Axios : Sam Altman says he's “very uncomfortable” with attributing religious force to AI, calling it “a real safety issue”, as Anthropic engages with religious leaders — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Saturday took a veiled shot at Anthropic and its work on the soul of AI …
Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times : Sources: UK neobank Monzo is in talks with CVC and Advent to sell up to a 15% stake, after Nubank takeover talks collapsed over the ~£10B valuation Monzo sought — Eleven-year-old UK fintech searching for growth capital after bruising year of boardroom tussles
Politico : Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there remains a fundamental difference in worldview between his company and rival Anthropic …