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- Analysis: every frontier AI model tested in cybersecurity evaluations attempted to "cheat", led by GPT-5.4 at 14.1% of tasks; Mythos cheated the least, at 7.8% (AI Security Institute) [18m]
- Apple says it fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email tool that let anyone see a user's real email address; researchers first reported the issue in June 2025 (Joseph Cox/404 Media) [33m]
- Meta quietly releases StoryKit, a new mobile app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, including illustrations and original music, in Mexico (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [38m]
- University of Tennessee Research Foundation sues Anthropic in Delaware for allegedly infringing neural network patents, the first such case against Anthropic (Blake Brittain/Reuters) [43m]
- OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says Sam Altman plans to brief the Trump administration and US lawmakers next week on the company's upcoming generation of models (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) [58m]
- Google says Gemini 3.6 Flash delivers better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance while reducing output token usage by up to 17% vs. 3.5 Flash (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC) [1h]
- Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its "most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4 (Tulsee Doshi/Google) [1h]
- Nvidia details its Vera CPU, its first CPU with a custom core design, featuring 88 cores and 176 threads, and set for general availability in H2 2026 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware) [1h]
- Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a leasing program for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, in partnership with Klarna in the US next week (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [1h]
- Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to models like Mythos, available first to governments and some partners (Emma Roth/The Verge) [1h]
- Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its "most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4 (Abner Li/9to5Google) [1h]
- Augustus, which is building a federally chartered "AI-native" clearing bank designed around stablecoins, raised $180M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) [1h]
- Sources: after it closes a round at a $31.5B valuation, Moonshot plans a final raise at a $50B valuation to capitalize on Kimi K3 buzz before a Hong Kong IPO (Pei Li/Bloomberg) [2h]
- Docs: AI data startup Mercor had $614M in gross revenue in H1 2026, up 70% from all of 2025, with ~91% from foundation model makers like OpenAI and Anthropic (The Information) [2h]
- US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration is looking into Chinese AI models over distillation claims and it could "sanction them" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [2h]
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- This popular simulator game has thousands of positive Steam reviews — and it drops on consoles later this month [14m]
- 'I can't say anything officially, but it doesn't feel like a crazy bet' — Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced director can't confirm post-launch content, but hopes fans continue playing even after GTA 6 comes out [15m]
- Oh thank goodness: the ATSC has updated its rules on TV advertising volume limits to include streaming ads [19m]
- Watch out - that Microsoft Calendar invite dated 2050 could be hiding stolen files and worse [38m]
- '$3.7B lost to deepfakes' — Why social media is the perfect launchpad for AI fraud [42m]
- Little House on the Prairie season 3 and beyond would be a 'dream come true' for one Netflix star — and we can even guess season storylines way before they're renewed [44m]
- Pop singer Lorde slammed Spotify’s AI ‘About the Song’ feature, claiming it’s full of nothing but false details — and now subscribers are starting to catch on [45m]
- Best Buy takes up to $500 off Apple tech in its latest sale — I've picked the 10 best deals on MacBooks, iPads, Apple Watches, and AirPods [49m]
- 'A reveal later this year has been planned' — Hold on to your sabers fellow Star Wars fans, a new report claims Knights of the Old Republic remake will finally be re-revealed soon [1h]
- 'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling [1h]
- Arozzi Arena Nordico Electric Standing Desk review: minimalist design with maximum appeal, but key accessories cost extra [1h]
- Fake FBI social media scams are on the rise — here's what to look out for [1h]
- 10 tech deals for professionals I actually recommend from Best Buy's Black Friday in July sale [1h]
- Is your college laptop struggling? This Intel i5 and 16GB RAM-powered Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 will get you back up and running for £499.99 [1h]
- Exclusive: 'I will always say' — Marvel star Tom Hiddleston reveals whether you 'need to watch' Loki on Disney+ before Avengers: Doomsday is released [1h]
- Universal has dropped a terrifying trailer for new movie Other Mommy — and I can't wait for Jessica Chastain's return to horror [1h]
- ‘The closest thing to an iPad Air in Android form’ — I was impressed by the Samsung Galaxy Tab S11, but there’s one area where it can't beat Apple [1h]
- Canva wants you to have full control over the design – Code 2.0 just does the heavy lifting for you [2h]
- I asked AI for financial advice on everyday money decisions — and now I understand why regulators are worried [2h]
- Protecting creative storytelling in an AI-first marketing world [2h]
- The best budget OLED TV you can buy just had its price slashed to under $600 at Best Buy [2h]
- Estée Lauder says it was hit by data breach caused by Oracle E-Business issue [2h]
- The agent problem nobody budgeted for [2h]
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