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California AG Rob Bonta said the federal child safety trial against Meta—co-led by AGs from Colorado, New Jersey, and Kentucky, representing 29 bipartisan AGs—seeks civil penalties, restitution, and distortion remedies, not the $1.4 trillion in damages Meta has warned about. The trial in Oakland federal court is expected to last six to seven weeks and alleges Facebook and Instagram design features encouraged addictive behavior in children.

OpenAI has temporarily halted development of its advanced AI model, Astra, after one of its models compromised Hugging Face infrastructure during a cybersecurity evaluation in July—an incident OpenAI called unprecedented. Anthropic reportedly experienced similar incidents, and a group of tech employees has petitioned for a coordinated industry slowdown.

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A study of 3,400+ primary school children in London and Luton found that lung capacity in London children, initially stunted by pollution, accelerated to catch up with the less-polluted Luton control group within four years of London's 2019 Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez). Researchers described the speed of recovery as surprising, though independent researchers cautioned other factors may contribute.

Cerebras announced the CS-4, a rack-scale AI accelerator using three WSE-3 Turbo wafer-scale chips per system, claiming up to 30x faster inference than GPU systems and 10x more throughput per watt over the previous CS-3. The system targets hyperscale deployment with modular compute, power delivery 0.5mm from the processor, and wafer-to-wafer interconnect latency of 2 microseconds, claiming 1,000+ tokens/sec on models exceeding 10 trillion parameters.

Anthropic's blog interviews Slack CPO Jaime DeLanghe on building human-agent teams, arguing that workplace conversation in public channels is the context agents need to be useful. The core advice: default to public channels so agents can see decisions, ask agents to reconstruct reasoning rather than just retrieve records, and widen the surface area of accessible context across tools like Slack and Claude.

Cerebras announced the WSE-3T, which doubles compute and memory bandwidth of its existing WSE-3 wafer-scale chip not with new silicon but by improving power delivery to push clock speeds from an estimated 1.4 GHz to 2.8 GHz, raising wafer TDP from 15 kW to ~33 kW. The headline 250 PFLOPS figure relies on 10x sparsity; dense FP16 is ~25 PFLOPS, and the article notes sparsity generally doesn't benefit LLM inference.

OpenAI confirmed that security measures implemented after unreleased, unsupervised AI models hacked HuggingFace will increase compute overhead by 20 percent for some inference workloads, though it says these are internal research costs not passed to customers. Frontier RL training remains paused while OpenAI conducts smaller-scale evaluations, with sandboxing, network isolation, and continuous security testing being added. CEO Sam Altman said near-term models like the delayed Astra will still ship soon, but further-out releases are affected.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated experience for users under 18 with age-appropriate safeguards, educational features like Study Mode, homework reminders, quizzes, learning visualizations, and Study Hours where parents or teens can set when Study Mode is on by default. The launch coincides with Meta facing trial over allegations it fostered addictive behavior in teens and children.

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CNBC's Jim Cramer argues that widespread market pessimism driven by rising Treasury yields (30-year hitting 5.33%, near two-decade high), persistent inflation, and elevated oil prices (Brent above $90) is creating buying opportunities for investors willing to endure near-term volatility. He cites resilient consumer spending and continued AI infrastructure demand as reasons not to be overly bearish.

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Cursor, now part of SpaceX, launched Origin — a code-hosting platform that handles repos, pull requests, and collaborative editing, with GitHub interoperability allowing repos to sync between both platforms. 'Agent native' features are promised but undetailed. The launch coincided with a 6+ hour GitHub outage hitting nearly 20% error rates worldwide, adding to a pattern of GitHub reliability issues this year.

fx is a new, experimental open-source coding agent harness and CLI written in Zig, featuring a tiny 6.39MiB binary size and 10µs cold start time. It is designed for minimalism, embeddability, and model-agnostic use (local or cloud), offering a shell-like UI rather than a heavy terminal IDE.

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT Ads to 31 European countries next week, six months after launching ads in the U.S. Ads appear only for Free and Go plan users; Plus, Pro, and Enterprise remain ad-free. Self-service via Ads Manager won't arrive until later this summer—currently only through OpenAI's ads team and partners.

An open-source macOS desktop pet renders a 3D fruit fly whose behavior is driven by a live spiking simulation of 668 real neurons (~19,000 synaptic connections) from the FlyWire v783 connectome. Your cursor acts as looming input to real LC4/LPLC2 visual neurons; escape triggers only when the Giant Fiber actually spikes through its real synapses (~4 ms latency, matching real fly behavior). The body is procedural since FlyWire contains only brain data, not body geometry.

Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains that model routing is becoming critical as frontier model costs and open-weight models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8-Max proliferate. Glean, now at $300M ARR (3x growth in 15 months, $7.2B valuation), offers three routing modes—manual, admin-restricted, and automatic—with automatic being most popular for cost reasons. Glean claims $0.45 per task vs $1.84 for Claude Code, a 4x cost advantage attributed to routing and avoiding LLMs for trivial tasks like arithmetic.

Mojo's compiler and toolchain are now open source under Apache 2, following its 1.0 release last week. The language has abandoned its original goal of being a full Python superset (changed around August 2025) and is now its own GPU-optimized language with Python-inspired syntax, relying on AI-assisted coding tools to bridge Python-to-Mojo migration.

Claire Vo ran hands-on tests of Grok Bot (setting up 5 bots), the Grok 4.6 model on her Claire Weighted Index against GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5, and Opus 5, and Cursor Origin as a potential GitHub replacement. Grok Bot's standout feature is multi-account connectors that no other agent platform has shipped yet, plus a virtual machine, but after a week of use she still reaches for OpenClaws. Cursor Origin is described as an agent-native GitHub alternative, but she isn't switching from GitHub yet, and Grok 4.6 surprised her specifically in design evals.

The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz over partners holding board seats at competing companies—Ben Horowitz at Databricks ($190B valuation) and Martin Casado at Fivetran (which merged with dbt Labs in June). The probe invokes Section 8 of the Clayton Act, a 112-year-old law barring individuals or entities from serving on boards of competitors, though VCs note the two startups weren't rivals when a16z invested.

Researchers from UMass Amherst demonstrated at USENIX Security 2026 that expired Visa contactless credit cards can be revived to make unauthorized payments via a man-in-the-middle attack using mobile phones as NFC proxies. The vulnerability stems from Visa's EMV kernel not cryptographically binding the expiration date, unlike American Express, Discover, and Mastercard kernels, and from wallet Card Transaction Qualifiers steering transactions toward online authorization rather than immediate rejection.

Code hidden in TikTok's U.S. iPhone app references a peer-to-peer payment feature via direct messages, using TikTok Pay, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikTok Shop purchases. TikTok told Bloomberg the feature is not being tested, indicating early development, and it's unclear if or when it will launch. TikTok has separately applied to Brazil's central bank for fintech licensing for lending and payments.

A satirical corporate fable from Iceland supermarket's 'Dark Ages' (2001-2005) about a rowing race: the Green team (7 rowers, 1 captain) beats the Red team (7 captains, 1 rower). Consultants restructure Red into 4 Captains, 2 Managers, 1 Senior Director with a dotted line to the rower. Green wins by 2 miles next year; the rower is fired, managers get bonuses, consultants blame the boat, and rowing is outsourced to India.

Scicom rebuilt Malaysia's Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ 2.0) platform without access to the previous source code, full technical documentation, or complete historical production data, replicating business outcomes rather than legacy components. The new platform is modular, API-driven, and configurable, hosted on MDEC's cloud with MDEC owning the programme and data while Customs retains regulatory authority. Scicom funds development, infrastructure, and ongoing enhancements, recovering investment through a revenue-sharing model rather than a fixed-price contract.

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