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The Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payout
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President Donald Trump on AI p…
MIT Technology Review
Hugging Face Said Last Week It Was Attacked. An Unreleased OpenAI Model Did It, OpenAI Now Says
It was reportedly an evaluation that went haywire involving GPT-5.6 Sol, along with another even more advanced OpenAI model.
gizmodo.com
Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
techcrunch.com
Volkswagen Thinks Your E-Bike Needs a Pair of Smart Glasses
The German automaker licensed its name to two new e-bikes made by n+.
gizmodo.com
Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash model cuts AI agent token costs by up to 65% on long horizon engineering tasks —and 3.5 Pro is on the way
Google DeepMind today released three new proprietary AI models it says are among its most token-efficient yet: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. The models aim to make AI agents faster, smarter, and cheaper at scale. Google is pricing Gemini 3.…
venturebeat.com
Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size
Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday — and made an unusually aggressive bet that radical transparency, not raw scale…
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International tech
Paytm Eyes New Horizons With Enterprise AI & Wallet Revival
Nearly two years after shifting its focus from chasing scale to building a profitable fintech business, Paytm is now laying…
inc42.com
InMobi Ropes In Four Bankers To Helm Its $1 Bn IPO
InMobi’s initial public offering (IPO) is back on track. The SoftBank-backed adtech unicorn has now reportedly appointed four merchant bankers…
inc42.com
Zhipu AI Computing Ambitions Surface: 1GW Data Center, Hundreds of Millions in Infrastructure Acquisition, and Self-Developed Chip Plans Signal Nvidia Independence Push
Zhipu AI builds 1GW data center with all domestic chips, acquires compiler startup Zhongke Jiahe, and explores custom AI chip development, accelerating its decoupling from Nvidia ecosystem.
pandaily.com
Another ‘DeepSeek moment’? What China’s Kimi K3 means for the global AI industry
The launch of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has revived an intense debate that has raged in Silicon Valley ever since DeepSeek’s shock breakthrough last year: whether China can overcome its limited access to advanced chips to match the performance of the United States’ frontier artificia…
scmp.com
China’s AI talent race is starting in high school
As demand for elite AI engineers outpaces supply, companies are recruiting teenagers through camps, research programs, and guaranteed job pipelines.
restofworld.org
AI Chip Cooling Breakthrough: Scientists Create Theta-TaN Metal With 3x Copper Thermal Conductivity, Ending a Century-Long Record
UCLA and Tohoku University create theta-phase TaN single crystal with 1,100 W/mK thermal conductivity, approaching diamond-level heat dissipation with metal process compatibility for AI chip packaging.
pandaily.com

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Inside Roblox’s Bet on World Models
We sat down with Anupam Singh, senior vice president of engineering at Roblox, to hear from him about the world model that Roblox is using to make its multiplayer games look photorealistic, the key insights that have come from taking that approach, and the next big thing that the…
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OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-br... See also Security incident disclosure – July 2026 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956248 (9 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548 Points: 718 # Comments: 478
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'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
Article URL: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpns-are-lawful-technical-tools-says-eu-court-in-landmark-anne-frank-copyright-ruling Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997221 Points: 383 # Comments: 69
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Advertise in ChatGPT
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Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Article URL: https://fireworks.ai/blog/kimik3-fable Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999291 Points: 290 # Comments: 150
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Counterfeit Retro Mainboards with Fake AGP Slots Are a Thing
Sometimes that retro gaming itch strikes, and you just have to source components for a Pentium 4 build, like [Computer Retro Bus] did recently. Unfortunately, along the way he learned …read more
hackaday.com
Who’s Building that Data Center?
One of the biggest “David versus Goliath” stories in tech right now is the towns beset by AI data center projects they may or may not have asked for. Powered …read more
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FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
Article URL: https://freeink.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996318 Points: 410 # Comments: 102
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Neural Net Reads the Gas Meter
In an ideal world, the role of technology would be to make all of our lives easier. And although all the ads suddenly appearing in our smart TVs and gaming …read more
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