Tech

Court filing: Meta says four US states seek $1.4T over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict youth and misled the public; its market cap is ~$1.5T (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-7 Facebook Instagram

OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI companies are offering startups token credits and special promotions, as the AI companies seek lasting streams of revenue (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-7 Startup AI

A profile of Rachel Whetstone, who has led comms for Google, Meta, Uber, Netflix, and now Sierra, as her husband Steve Hilton runs for California governor (sfstandard.com)
2026-7-7 Google Uber Netflix California

WiseTech co-founder Richard White steps down as chair amid a police probe over claims he exploited a woman's immigration status for sex; WTC jumps 7%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-7 Immigration

A profile of Bernadette Meehan, a US diplomat who became Wikimedia Foundation CEO in January, as Wikipedia faces threats from MAGA, AI, and foreign autocrats (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-7 AI

Syntiant, which develops low-power AI processors, files for a US IPO, reporting a $20.9M net loss on $64.5M in revenue for the three months ended March 31 (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-7 IPO AI

Small AI Models Gain Traction Around the World (slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 AI

Samsung estimates Q2 operating profit of ~$58.44B, a 19-fold jump from a year earlier and above a ~$57.02B estimate, and revenue up 129% YoY to ~$111.7B (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-7 Samsung

xAI rebrands to SpaceXAI and debuts a new logo (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-7-7

Anthropic researchers detail J-space, a small set of neural patterns in Claude that reveals internal thoughts that don't appear in the model's output (www.anthropic.com)
2026-7-7

Supreme Court Allows Texas To Require Age Verification For Mobile Apps (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Mobile Texas

BonkDAO, which oversees the Bonk memecoin, says it was the target of a “malicious governance proposal” that resulted in a loss of $20M worth of Bonk tokens (www.theblock.co)
2026-7-7

South Korea's SK Hynix Launching $28 Billion US Listing To Ride Global AI Wave (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Korea AI

Sources: Vista Equity and Quinti made a takeover bid for Criteo that values the French ad tech company at a 50%+ premium to its stock price in recent weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-7 France Equity

Source: Thrive Capital spinoff Thrive Holdings seeks to raise around $2B from SoftBank, Altimeter, D1, and others, after previously raising $1B (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-7

Fake IT support calls on Microsoft Teams push EtherRAT malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7 Microsoft

Phishing poses as big-brand job interview to steal Google accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7 Google Interview

Sources: CISA's Attack Surface Evaluation team is using Mythos to audit government code repositories and has already uncovered a large number of vulnerabilities (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-7

SCOTUS declines to block a Texas law requiring app stores and developers to verify the age of mobile device users, and for minors to obtain parental consent (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-7 Mobile Texas

Sources: the US considers housing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve at Commerce instead of Treasury amid concerns over Treasury's legal authority to manage it (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-7 Real Estate Bitcoin

Zombie 'Who Owns Unix?' Lawsuit Comes Alive Again (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7

Vietnam arrests suspects behind HiAnime anime piracy service (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-7 Vietnam

Secret Claude Tracker Shocks Users After Anthropic's Anti-Surveillance Stance (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7

Microsoft Lays Off Nearly 5,000 Employees Across Xbox, Commercial Sales (games.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Microsoft Xbox

Xbox appoints Helen Chiang as its first COO; Chiang was previously corporate vice president for the Minecraft Franchise and the studio head of Minecraft (gamesbeat.com)
2026-7-7 Xbox

Source: Xbox Game Pass currently has about 30M subscriptions; document: Microsoft had projected Game Pass subscriptions would reach around 77M this year (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-7 Microsoft Xbox

A term sheet shows Tencent is seeking to raise as much as $1.55B in a selldown of part of its stake in short-video app operator Kuaishou through a block trade (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-7 Tencent

Nintendo Switch 2 Is Getting a Replaceable Battery in Europe (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 Europe Nintendo Battery

Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter model that it says is competitive with GLM-5.1 and 5.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, following a preview launch in April (venturebeat.com)
2026-7-7 Tencent

Americans of All Ages Are Spending Less Time Socializing (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-7 U.S.

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