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Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-2 Samsung AI Manufacturing

Sources: OpenAI has discussed giving a 5% stake to the US government, seeking to clear political obstacles by securing buy-in from the Trump administration (www.ft.com)
2026-7-2 Trump

Microsoft establishes an organization with 6,000 staff specializing in engineering, corporate training, and management to support businesses with AI deployments (www.geekwire.com)
2026-7-2 Microsoft AI

Microsoft fixes bug that removed Copilot buttons in Outlook (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-2 Microsoft

SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by 2030 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-2 AI

Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies (www.ft.com)
2026-7-2 AI

The Space-Based Data Center Hype Machine Is Already In Orbit (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-2

Cisco finally confirms attackers exploiting Unified CM flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-2 Cisco

Sources: Meta plans a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI compute and models, to compete with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; META jumps 9% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-2 Google AI

Z.ai launches ZCode, an “Agentic Development Environment” optimized for its new GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan costs from $16.20 to $144 per month (venturebeat.com)
2026-7-2 AI

Opera rolls out Paste Protect feature to fight ClickFix attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-2

Just 3 more days to kick off summer with a $15 Sam's Club membership (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-2

CISA: Microsoft SharePoint RCE flaw now actively exploited (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-2 Microsoft

Filings: President Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day as his AI action plan (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-2 Trump Amazon Microsoft AI Apple Nvidia

Amazon says Leo reached 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit following a recent launch, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes” (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-2 Amazon

German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-2 Germany AI Layoffs

President Trump says Micron will invest $250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a $250 deposit in some US states (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-2 Trump

The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks (therecord.media)
2026-7-2 Finland

Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised $1.2B led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent at an ~$8B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-2 Germany Airbus Drone Ukraine Quantum

Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-7-2 AI

South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix say they plan to invest ~$590B to build a new chip complex, including four chipmaking plants and a chip packaging cluster (www.ft.com)
2026-7-2 Korea Samsung

An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with AI-enabled gadgets, and more (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-2 Amazon Interview AI

Alleged Scattered Spider hacker extradited to the United States (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-2 Hacker

A look at the CSOP SK Hynix Leveraged ETF, which trades in Hong Kong and has ballooned into a $13B fund, becoming the world's largest single-stock leveraged ETF (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-2 Hong Kong ETF

The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android market power should stand (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-2 Android Europe Google

SpaceX Reportedly Has an AI Device Prototype (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-2 AI SpaceX

A survey of US adults finds 56% support banning social media for under-16s, while 21% oppose; majorities across demographic and partisan groups support a ban (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-7-2 Ban

Medtronic notifies customers impacted by ShinyHunters data breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-2

Nansen: about two-thirds of Trump's memecoin investors are currently in the red, and 85% of World Liberty's $WLFI buyers on the secondary market are underwater (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-2 Trump

UK lawyers say the tide of AI-assisted employment claims is straining an already overloaded employment tribunal system, whose backlog has doubled in two years (www.ft.com)
2026-7-2 AI

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