Sources: an impostor used AI to mimic Marco Rubio's voice and writing style and contacted foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress
The unknown individual contacted at least five government officials, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor and a member of Congress, according to a State Department cable.
Sources: Ruoming Pang, the head of Apple's foundation models team, is leaving to join Meta, which offered a package worth tens of millions of dollars per year
Ruoming Pang, a distinguished engineer and manager in charge of the company's Apple foundation models team, is departing, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications, letting users get push notifications about new posts and replies from specific accounts, as it doubles down on sports
A new update has also added much more control over which notifications users will see, and who can trigger them.
The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest US teachers' union, says it will open an AI training hub with $23M from Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic
The American Federation of Teachers said it would use the $23 million, including $500,000 from the A.I. start-up Anthropic, to create a national training center.
M&S Chair Archie Norman tells UK parliament that M&S used the FBI and UK agencies to combat the May cyberattack and says M&S believes DragonForce was behind it
Chair Archie Norman tells parliamentarians retailer believes Dragon Force was criminal gang behind attack
Samsung projects Q2 operating profit down 56% YoY to $3.3B, below $4.5B est., due to struggles in its chip business stemming from the US' China export controls
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) on Tuesday projected a 56% drop in second-quarter operating profit from a year earlier …
Italy arrests Chinese citizen Xu Zewei; a source says Xu is linked to hacking group Hafnium that breached Microsoft in 2021 to steal COVID-19 vaccine secrets
Xu Zewei suspected of links to Beijing-backed group accused by Washington of stealing Covid-19 vaccine secrets
OnePlus launches five products: the midrange €449 Nord 5 smartphone, the €349 Nord CE 5, a smaller €299 Watch 3, the €119 Buds 4, and the €229 Pad Lite tablet
The Nord 5 and Nord CE 5 phones, and the Pad Lite tablet, are all headed to Europe.
Sources: OpenAI overhauled its security, adding biometric checks in its offices and isolating sensitive info, to protect IP such as model weights from espionage
Artificial intelligence group has added fingerprint scans and hired military experts to protect important data
As Amazon Prime Day begins, some merchants say they can't afford to offer discounts due to Trump's tariffs; Adobe expects $23.8B in sales across the four days
Amazon.com Inc.'s Prime Day is slamming into President Donald Trump's trade war, with ever-shifting tariffs prompting some brands …
X says India ordered it to block 2,355 accounts, including two from Reuters, on July 3, but then told X to unblock the Reuters accounts after a “public outcry”
X raised serious concerns about India's media laws after the government ordered it to block thousands of accounts …
IBM unveils Power11, its first major update to the chips since 2020, available from July 25, and says they can detect and respond to ransomware within a minute
International Business Machines (IBM.N) on Tuesday announced a new line of data center chips and servers that it says will be more power-efficient …
In iOS 26 beta 3, Apple dials back the transparency, after user complaints that its new Liquid Glass design language made parts of the UI more difficult to read
5 tips you need to know before trying the public beta Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Is Apple is quietly killing off iOS 26's Liquid Glass design? Ayushi Jain / Digit : Apple releases iOS 26 beta 3 with tone...
Jack Dorsey shares TestFlight and GitHub links to his “weekend project”, Bitchat, a decentralized P2P messaging app that only works over Bluetooth mesh networks
Yes, Seriously PYMNTS.com : Jack Dorsey Unveils ‘Personal Experiment’ Bluetooth-Based Messaging App Vignesh Karunanidhi / The Coin Republic : Jack Dorsey's New Bitchat App Lets You Message Without Int...
Open letter signed by 800+ founders, VCs, and others: Sequoia must act after Shaun Maguire said Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything”
where the hell is Sequoia going to find a replacement for investing acumen like that? [embedded post] So Mayer / @suchmayer : #AltText the image is a tweet by Shaun Maguire, in which he says that Mamd...
Moonvalley debuts Marey, its licensed AI video model, for $14.99, $34.99, or $149.99 per month; ~80% of its footage is from independent filmmakers and agencies
Andrew R. Chow / Time :
CoreWeave says it has agreed to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific in a ~$9B all-stock deal, set to close in Q4 2025, to expand its AI data center capacity
#DataCenters — #CoreWeave — #PowerIsTheMoat @notreload : $CRWV -2.8%, $CORZ -18% [CoreWeave's all-stock acquisition of Core Scientific caused Core Scientific's stock to fall due to investor disapp...
Epic reaches a settlement with Samsung, which it sued over allegedly conspiring with Google to undermine third-party app stores via its Auto Blocker feature
Sean Hollister / The Verge :
El Salvador-based Tether says it holds nearly 80 tons of gold, worth ~$8B, in a vault in Switzerland; precious metals made up nearly 5% of its reserves in March
Tether Holdings SA, the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin, has its own vault in Switzerland to hold an $8 billion stockpile of gold …
A look at some options for fighting AI companies' scraping, including open-source Anubis' cryptographic JavaScript math challenges and Cloudflare's AI Labyrinth
If you are a website owner you should definitely check it out! [embedded post] Brewster Kahle / @brewster.kahle.org : Interview of the new librarian of the British Library : — www.bloomberg.com/feat...
AirGarage, whose platform analyzes parking facilities' data to improve efficiency, raised a $23M Series B led by Headline, bringing its total funding to $41M
Chris Metinko / Axios :
Quantum computing company IonQ raised $1B via a sale of stock and warrants to Heights Capital Management, an affiliate of Susquehanna International Group
And Analyst Says It's Only Getting Started Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : IonQ prices $1B equity offering to accelerate its push into quantum networking Simply Wall St : IonQ (NYSE:IONQ) Announces Nea...
Dubai-based Huspy, which offers proptech tools to home buyers, agents, and brokers, raised a $59M Series B led by Balderton, after a $40M+ Series A in June 2022
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
ReserveOne, a cryptocurrency holding company with bitcoin, ethereum, and Solana, plans to list on the Nasdaq through a SPAC deal expected to raise $1B+
Niket Nishant / Reuters :
Global VC funding reached $91B in Q2 2025, up from $82B in Q2 2024, driven largely by AI investments, but down from $114B in Q1 2025, the highest since Q3 2022
Gené Teare / Crunchbase News :
France-based chipmaker SiPearl raised a €130M Series A from Taiwan's Cathay Venture and others to develop its ARM-based Rhea1 AI chip, set to feature 80 cores
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg :
Meta's WhatsApp Pay has struggled to gain traction in India in part due to regulators delaying its full launch as well as minimal product upgrades and marketing
Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World : X: @rakeshsfnyc X: Rakesh Agrawal / @rakeshsfnyc : Given the immense resources all of the big players have and the depth of their social networks, it's curious t...
The data industry is consolidating, with Databricks acquiring Neon for $1B and Salesforce acquiring Informatica for $8B, as companies want quality data for AI
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