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Source: Tencent is in talks to acquire Israeli game developer SuperPlay in a deal valuing SuperPlay at $1B-$1.5B; Playtika acquired SuperPlay in 2024 for $690M (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-7-21 Israel Tencent

CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning just three months after taking over the federal AI testing institute (www.axios.com)
2026-7-21 AI

LibreOffice Once Again Slams Microsoft For Using 'Lock-In' With Office Files (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-21 Microsoft

Billionaire-backed Building A Better California reserves $87M in TV ad time to oppose California's proposed one-time wealth tax; Sergey Brin put $82M into BABC (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-21 Tax California

Chinese open models are proper competition that should be welcomed, not something to ban or treat as a danger, and open-sourcing is an old business strategy (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-7-21 China Ban

Retail traders are shifting from the Magnificent Seven to AI infrastructure stocks, like SK Hynix and Marvell; five of the Mag Seven stocks trail the market YTD (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-21 Retail AI

Sensor Tower: in H1, the number of new apps released in the App Store doubled to ~560K, on track to pass 2025's ~600K total, as vibecoded apps flood the store (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-21 Sensor

An AI SOC Evaluation Guide for Security Leaders (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-21 AI

UK government data: ~35% of UK businesses with 10+ staff report using AI, up from 12% in September 2023; average number of AI tools is 1.6, up from 1.4 in 2023 (www.ft.com)
2026-7-20 AI

Sources: Google is developing a specialized server chip, informally dubbed “Frozen v2”, that integrates Gemini AI model blueprints in the silicon, set for 2028 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-20 Google AI

AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M+ (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-20 Microsoft AI Nvidia AMD

10 Historical Facts That Ruin Your Timeline (listverse.com)
2026-7-20

Hollywood Sci-fi Studio Lot Now Pitched As Site To Make Real Space-age Weapons (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-7-20

How “synthetic insider” attacks raise the stakes for corporate cyber defense; a Verizon analysis of 22K incidents finds 12% were carried out by internal actors (www.ft.com)
2026-7-20

Hugging Face discloses breach linked to autonomous AI agent (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-20 AI

Sources: parts of the Trump administration are reigniting efforts to implement de facto bans on foreign open-source models, as Chinese AI models gain momentum (www.axios.com)
2026-7-20 Trump China AI

Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue (stratechery.com)
2026-7-20 China

AdGuard's popular VPN is only $35 for a 5-year subscription (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-20 VPN

An interview with Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, who calls AI “a growth opportunity”, as she prepares the online travel company to face potential disruption from AI (www.ft.com)
2026-7-20 Interview AI

Microsoft confirms Windows Server Update Services sync delays (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-20 Microsoft

How PayPal CEO Enrique Lores, appointed earlier in 2026 to revive the payments pioneer, may handle Stripe and Advent's takeover offer, based on his HP tenure (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-20

Windows KB5121767 OOB update fixes shutdowns on some Dell PCs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-20

The EU fines Alibaba's online marketplace AliExpress €550M for failing to do enough to prevent the sale of illegal products, the largest DSA fine to date (www.ft.com)
2026-7-20 Alibaba

Sources: Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking formal approval from investors to start a Hong Kong IPO process, which could happen in as soon as six months (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-20 China Hong Kong IPO Startup AI

Critical ServiceNow code execution flaw now exploited in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-20

A look at Israel's influence campaign in the US that's included millions of AI-driven texts and a $45M+ contract with ex-Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-20 Trump Israel AI

New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won't Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-20 AI chatbot

Trial lawyers, with big liability litigation earnings, are among the most active lobbyists against autonomous vehicles, even as data shows clear safety benefits (marginalrevolution.com)
2026-7-20 Autonomous Car

How smart home devices have given abusive partners a new tool to remotely manipulate, intimidate, and disturb their victims, in a form of tech-assisted abuse (www.ft.com)
2026-7-20

Cambridge-based CuspAI raised a $450M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, and launched a coalition for AI materials discovery for chip and other industries (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-20 AI

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