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Signal: The terms of access are the story -- a toll on open weights, a plea for the best models, a flagship nobody buys.
Taiwan Confirms the Agent Raid, and Says It Coped
Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs says its monitoring units detected the AI-agent attacks on 20 July, has fully investigated source, method and scope, and that affected agencies have completed their response -- an intrusion a vendor says took 85 accounts and 2,500 personnel records.
CNN: believed to be the first disclosed fully automated attack on a government The Guardian: 'There's still a human in there somewhere,' a researcher cautions
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Anthropic Bids $6B to Make Its Chips Go Further
Reuters says Anthropic is in talks to buy Israel's Decart for about $6bn -- its largest acquisition ever, a 50% premium on a May valuation, and a bet on wringing more from each chip weeks before an IPO.
Calcalist: the deal would bring Anthropic about 100 employees and an Israeli foothold
NEWApple Offers to Pay for Siri's News
Musk: 10 Gigawatts and $500B by Late 2027
DeepSeek Ranks 12th and Costs 44 Cents
Nebius Will Mortgage GPUs to Build a Gigawatt The Next Web: $2.2bn of cash arrived and $1.2bn of it was prepayment for unused capacity
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Second Firm Confirms It: 195TB of Secrets SecurityWeek: CloudSEK puts it at 2,500 organisations and 434,000 pipelines
A Font That Feeds Scrapers Nonsense
Your Prompt Can Be Read Off the Answer
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Mojo Hits 1.0, Compiler Still Closed
Claude Cowork Moves Into Chrome's Sidebar
Mistral Sells EU-Only Inference at +10% Mistral: the platform will now run third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2
Okta Hides MCP Tools an Agent Can't Use
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWQwen Stays Open, Except for Rivals
Alibaba is giving away the 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max but now requires a separate paid licence from any model-as-a-service or AI-assistant business above $50m in revenue -- an open-weight flagship with a clause aimed squarely at resellers.
White House Wants Open Models Tested Too
Crypto Asks AI Labs for the Attackers' Tools Cointelegraph: signatories want pre-release access to the most cyber-capable models
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Hidden Cameras, Worse Harassment: 350 Videos Engadget: German group HateAid files a criminal complaint over the glasses
NEWAI Told Him What to Spray. 25 Acres Died.
NEWFable 5 Is 6% of Anthropic's Tokens
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
NEWA Top Journal Published Claude's Paper
Ghost Note Google Said Sam Altman Died. He Didn't.
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