Tech

CISA warns of cyberattacks disrupting U.S. water utilities (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1

Filing: Microsoft's product R&D roles declined for the second straight year as the company's total FY2026 headcount fell for the first time since 2016 (www.geekwire.com)
2026-8-1 Microsoft

SpaceXAI says it will remove 69 gas turbines used to power the Colossus data centers near Memphis by July 2027, as it moves to a 1.2 GW natural gas power plant (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-1

South Korea plans to inject ~$14B into its sovereign wealth fund for strategic investments in AI, data centers, and infrastructure, after a rout in tech stocks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-1 Korea AI

MediaTek says its board has approved a discretionary $5B financing budget to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centers (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-1 AI Budget

Shadow AI Is Everywhere. Here's How to Find and Secure It. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1 AI

ESET tracks rise in malicious AI skills and adaptable malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1 AI

DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April (artificialanalysis.ai)
2026-8-1 Intelligence

Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop (9to5google.com)
2026-8-1 Google AI Chrome

[Webcast] How Drata scaled IT governance in the AI era (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1 AI

[Guide] How to identify risky OAuth grants and MCP server connections (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1

Get lifetime access to 1,000+ online courses for $35 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1

Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-31 Alibaba Nvidia

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-31 LinkedIn AI

AI-generated images, video, audio, and text on matters of public interest designed to look authentic must be labeled in the EU under the AI Act from August 2 (www.theguardian.com)
2026-7-31 AI

A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and must disclose illicit revenue after Germany's state-mandated licensing agency GEMA sued in 2025 (www.dw.com)
2026-7-31 Germany

Sources: Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes, which develops AI-powered defense tech for the public sector, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $638M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31 Trump AI

Sources: the Trump admin is weighing a $100K fee for foreign students seeking to work in the US after graduation; a judge blocked Trump's $100K H-1B fee in June (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-31 Trump H1B

Counterpoint: Q2 global smartphone revenue rose 7% YoY, and average device selling price rose 17% to $400; Apple took 49% of global revenue, and Samsung 16% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-31 Samsung Apple

The EU Commission charges Temu with failing to cooperate during a December 2025 raid on its Dublin HQ as part of a probe into the company's foreign subsidies (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31

Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-31

Chinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-31 China AI

DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores “far surpassing” V4 Pro Preview (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-31

New York sues Kalshi for alleged violations of its gambling laws; the CFTC files an emergency motion to stop the state's enforcement, calling it an “overreach” (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31 New York CFTC

Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature generates images of refugees near Mexico's border and a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says images carry a SynthID watermark (www.digitaldigging.org)
2026-7-31 Mexico Google Iran Refugee

Australia's online safety regulator says social media use among under-16s fell to 81.5% in March 2026, compared to 85.9% before ban took effect in December 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-31 Australia Ban

Netflix Sued For Losing 'Master Copy' of Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-31 Netflix

Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31 China AI

An interview with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on making the AI note taker invisible and work across apps, and why he rejects executives seeking employees' notes (www.platformer.news)
2026-7-31 Interview AI

Sony reports Q1 PS5 sales of 1.38M units, down from 1.56M a year ago, taking total sales of the console to 95.3M units, and 125M PlayStation MAUs, up 2M YoY (kotaku.com)
2026-7-31 Sony

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