Algorithmic state: The Trump administration is requiring both Anthropic and OpenAI to get approval for each new customer of their most powerful AI technology. - The Washington Post

Ministry of prompts: Expert warns the government's AI model vetting process is "completely opaque" and not truly voluntary, with no defined path for public access - Bloomberg

How to get past a de facto personalist licensing regime where no one even knows what the rules are - Hyperdimensional

Bipartisan Cloud Security Act would require AI firms to report suspected misuse; Trump administration has already restricted OpenAI and Anthropic's most advanced models. - Fast Company

European leaders are accelerating AI sovereignty efforts after US export controls on Anthropic's Fable model highlighted dependency risks. - WIRED

Proxy war: Chinese developers access Claude via VPNs and proxy resellers despite Anthropic's geolocation bans, citing a six-to-nine-month capability gap over domestic alternatives - WIRED

Anthropic accused Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts and 29 million Claude exchanges to clone its AI capabilities - BBC

US companies accuse Chinese rivals of using AI distillation to build competing models cheaply by piggybacking on American AI outputs, bypassing safety guardrails. - Bloomberg

US Commerce Secretary cleared Anthropic to redeploy Mythos 5 to more than 100 US institutions after a two-week government review. - Engadget

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna - OpenAI

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 in three variants — Sol, Terra, and Luna — to trusted partners, with broader release in coming weeks. - Engadget

Apple's Vision Pro leader Paul Meade is leaving to build OpenAI's in-house hardware unit amid a management shakeup - Engadget

China's Z.ai surged to a $128 billion market cap after releasing a frontier model following Anthropic's access shutdown - Yahoo

AllianceBernstein CEO Seth Bernstein warns of an AI bubble, citing dot-com parallels and historically high S&P 500 valuations. - Business Insider

Some analysts say AI's next investment wave is enterprise efficiency, not more semiconductor hardware - Yahoo

Democratic lawmakers sent SEC Chair Atkins 13 questions on how the agency oversees AI agents executing trades on brokerage platforms. - Wealth Management

Space Oddity: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son publicly questioned Elon Musk's orbital AI data center plans, asking investors 'What's the point?' - The Wall Street Journal

DRAM-a: Apple is lobbying the Trump admin for clearance to buy memory chips from US-blacklisted Chinese company CXMT to ease pressure from rising chip prices - Financial Times

Silicon Valley billionaires Andreessen and Brockman pour hundreds of millions into 2026 races to weaken AI regulation - Bloomberg

Google publicly supports AI regulation while lobbying for rules that match its existing practices - theregister

Newsom backs a national billionaire tax and AI equity fund to let all Americans share AI wealth - Business Insider

Meituan, Baidu, and Xiaomi quietly trim headcounts as Chinese tech workers fear being replaced by AI - South China Morning Post

AI systems reached gold-medal level at the International Mathematical Olympiad and are now automating proof formalization, prompting debate over what remains uniquely human in math - IEEE Spectrum

Figure AI's third-generation humanoid robot sorts car parts at BMW's Spartanburg plant - BMWBLOG

Athena, you're my only hope: It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns: Time to start praying to the goddess of wisdom and war - theregister

Cheat code: AI glasses caught helping students cheat in South Korean and Taiwanese exams; China mandates eyewear screening for its 10 million college test-takers - CNN

How about…No? 65% of employers use AI to auto-reject applicants before a human reviews them; experts advise authentic, keyword-balanced CVs - ZDNET

Just 3% of U.S. households pay for AI despite 38% YoY growth, with 37% saying it serves no practical purpose - MoneyWise

Peppa spray: UK child talent agents are demanding non-AI clauses in acting contracts after Hasbro sought to clone Peppa Pig child voice actors. - Deadline

Please state the nature of the medical emergency: NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor. - theregister

AI-equipped rescue drone finds two lost hikers in Kosciuszko National Park within five hours - the Guardian

Cart blanche: DoorDash's new "Ask DoorDash" AI auto-fills a grocery cart from a recipe photo, with ingredient substitutions and pantry checks - Business Insider

“Looking back, we should’ve leaned more into original work instead of vibe-coding a clone of existing products, and that’s on us” is definitely not an AI-written response - TechCrunch

A woman used AI image tools to fabricate a multi-year fake relationship, producing fake date photos and pregnancy images to stalk a near-stranger - Futurism

Unaccompanied teens were photographed hanging out of a Waymo robotaxi's windows in Santa Monica, raising age verification and safety concerns. - Futurism

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