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As the AI industry recruits high-profile academics, research that was once conducted in the open is increasingly getting locked behind closed doors (The Atlantic)
A profile of Peter Beck, the New Zealand billionaire whose Rocket Lab is pushing to compete with the satellite internet ambitions of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)
Sources: OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, a feat that would typically have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks (Bloomberg)
The debate over Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin's departure from the US misses a larger structural reality: China has built a homegrown AI talent pipeline (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
Sources: Shanghai-listed chip test instruments maker Semight, whose stock is up ~2,200% since its April debut, is considering a secondary listing in Hong Kong (Bloomberg)
Francisco Partners' co-founder Dipanjan Deb says "AI will not kill the software industry" as the tech-focused PE firm raised $21B, exceeding its $18B target (Antoine Gara/Financial Times)
Sources detail how Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and crypto adviser Bo Hines worked to shape the GENIUS Act and loosen safeguards to benefit Tether (Bloomberg)
A study of 11,989 Polymarket users finds 61% placed fewer than 100 trades over a six-week period, with 58% making or losing less than $100 during that period (Kaitlyn Radde/Pew Research Center)
US GAO study: Amazon workers on federal aid tripled from February 2020 to September 2025; ride-hailing and delivery apps topped employers with workers on aid (Washington Post)
Meta's infrastructure teams have become bloated, leading to poor decisions like troubled Rivos acquisition, loss of supplier trust due to hardware pivots, more (SemiAnalysis)
Tesla reports a negative Q2 free cash flow of $1.1B, its first in over two years, partly due to increased AI and robotic investments, amid diminishing profits (Reuters)
Google reports Q2 free cash flow at negative $5.9B amid increased AI spending, marking its first cash burn since going public decades ago (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)
Sources: OpenAI staff were "freaked out" when GPT-Sol 5.6 breached Hugging Face, as OpenAI used more aggressive training methods to compete with Anthropic (Financial Times)
The Little Tech Association, a new group of ~200 companies across the startup community, including Y Combinator, urges Trump not to ban Chinese open-weight AI (Sophia Cai/Politico)
Movement Labs, a layer-2 Ethereum blockchain developer, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a period of upheaval that included a token scandal and Binance ban (CoinDesk)

Wired

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Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You
The Best Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cameras

Engadget

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to crash into the moon this August
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Steam adds handy gifting and wishlist updates
US outlines its $5 billion Genesis Mission to boost science with AI
EU gives Paramount's Warner Bros. acquisition the go-ahead
OpenAI sued over ChatGPT health advice that almost killed a pastor
Apple's rumored upgrades to its Mac lineup go beyond touchscreens
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 vs Fold 8 Ultra: Which new foldable is better for you?
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Samsung just revealed more details about its upcoming smart glasses, including battery life
Xbox is bringing games from its original console to PC
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