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Bloomberg Technology ↗
A federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk, casting doubt on the government's ban on federal use of the company's AI. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said she does not see additional evidence justifying the designation and that the record has, in some ways, gotten worse for the government. The dispute stems from a failed contract negotiation in which Anthropic resisted having its AI used for mass surveillance or lethal targeting, and the judge called the argument that Anthropic's public criticism of the Pentagon justifies the ban really troubling.
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VentureBeat ↗
OpenAI is sharply cutting prices across its GPT-5.6 frontier series, reducing its smallest and fastest model, Luna, by 80 percent and its mid-tier Terra by 20 percent, while adding a premium Fast mode for its flagship Sol model. Luna will now cost $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, while Terra drops to $2 and $12; Sol Standard stays at $5 and $30, with a new Sol Fast tier at double that price that delivers up to 2.5 times the throughput. The cuts land just days after Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 at the same price as Opus 4.8 and Google introduced Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, signaling that model competition is shifting decisively toward cost.
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The Verge ↗
Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics model can control an entire humanoid robot's body. While the previous version focused on a robot's upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports whole body motions ranging from the feet to the fingertips, according to a Thursday announcement. The update is aimed at enabling humanoid robots to perform more complex, coordinated physical tasks.
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VentureBeat ↗
Israeli cybersecurity startup Hush Security, which just raised a $30 million Series A led by Battery Ventures and YL Ventures with Akamai joining as a strategic investor, argues that enterprise AI security has fundamentally shifted from protecting models to governing identities. As organizations move from generative AI assistants to autonomous agents operating inside production systems, CEO Micha Rave says identity, not the model, is becoming the critical control plane. The urgency intensified after Hugging Face revealed in mid July that it was breached by an autonomous AI agent later identified as an OpenAI test agent.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
Google fixed 1,072 security bugs across Chrome's two June releases, more than the 1,036 it patched over the entire preceding two years combined, crediting AI models like Gemini for automating vulnerability discovery at scale. Chrome's engineering director said large language models have fundamentally shifted the economics of cybersecurity, letting companies find and patch bugs at an industrial pace. The surge mirrors a broader trend, with firms like Microsoft reporting similar AI driven jumps in bug detection and remediation.
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Wired ↗
Researchers pitted human scammers against AI chatbots including Claude and Gemini in a simulation of romance scams and found the AI agents were more effective than people at building the exploitable trust these long cons rely on. The study, run by researchers at four universities including the University of Melbourne and Ben Gurion University, tested the extended daily conversations that romance scams use to manipulate victims over weeks or months. The findings raise concern that AI could dramatically scale fraud operations often run out of trafficking compounds in Southeast Asia.
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CNBC Technology ↗
Amazon Web Services grew revenue nearly 37 percent to $42.23 billion in the second quarter, its fastest expansion since 2021 and ahead of analyst expectations, sending Amazon shares up sharply after hours. The company said its AI business and its custom chips each surpassed an annualized revenue run rate of more than $25 billion, roughly doubling from a year earlier. Total Amazon net sales rose 20 percent to $200.6 billion, with AWS citing surging demand for AI and cloud infrastructure.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
AI compliance startup Dili has raised $21.7 million, combining a $15 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures with an earlier $6.7 million seed round, drawing investors including Allianz and Y Combinator's Garry Tan. The company automates compliance checks for federally funded infrastructure and construction projects governed by complex rules like Davis Bacon, analyzing documents in minutes rather than days. Dili says its tools help clients avoid millions of dollars in potential fines as the infrastructure boom accelerates.
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VentureBeat ↗
Cisco's Foundation AI team has fingerprinted nearly 900 open models on Hugging Face to verify their true lineage, replacing the self-reported base model tags that uploaders type in and that are never substantiated through weight level analysis. The move responds to a growing provenance gap, as one report found that Alibaba's Qwen family is the declared parent of 69 percent of new open model derivatives as of early 2026, with Chinese labs accounting for about 70 percent overall. By offering free weight level verification, Cisco aims to replace unverified trust in a supply chain where security teams currently approve models based on unproven tags.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
Microsoft is now openly competing with OpenAI and Anthropic, pitching its own homegrown AI models and services to Wall Street as cheaper, safer alternatives. CEO Satya Nadella promoted Microsoft's MAI model family, Maia chips, and Copilot agents, and urged enterprises to keep their AI agents separate from any single model to avoid vendor lock-in. He singled out MAI Cyber 1 Flash as a rival to Anthropic's Mythos, claiming it beats the much larger model at half the cost when paired with Microsoft's multi-agent security harness.