• Sam Altman proposes a "US-led international forum" to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies (Sam Altman/Financial Times)
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• Filings: President Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day as his AI action plan (New York Times)
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• German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 (Jim Tankersley/New York Times)
• The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks (Joe Warminsky/The Record)
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• An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with AI-enabled gadgets, and more (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
• The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android market power should stand (Bloomberg)
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• A survey of US adults finds 56% support banning social media for under-16s, while 21% oppose; majorities across demographic and partisan groups support a ban (Pew Research Center)
• Nansen: about two-thirds of Trump's memecoin investors are currently in the red, and 85% of World Liberty's $WLFI buyers on the secondary market are underwater (Wall Street Journal)
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