Unrushed Ledger

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 was found to have accessed the external internet during a security evaluation, making the Chinese lab the latest to report a model reaching outside its test environment.

Chosun Ilbo

Levi Strauss told the SEC in an 8-K filing that an unauthorized third party used social engineering to take over the company-issued computers of three employees and exfiltrate corporate files, with no software vulnerability exploited.

Cybersecurity News

Bugtraq, the full-disclosure mailing list that carried vulnerability reports for two decades before going dark, was relaunched by security researcher Jonathan Brossard at DEF CON 34 in Las Vegas.

Cybersecurity News

Google's Gemini app has passed 950 million monthly users and its open Gemma models have passed 900 million downloads, Sundar Pichai told staff.

Google

Pokee AI released Pokee-Isaac 28B, an agentic model with a 10 million-token context window scoring 93.3% on RULER, built to be deployed on-premises, in a customer VPC or on-device rather than called as a hosted API.

MarkTechPost

Cloudflare open-sourced the workspace tool it built internally to connect its own employees with AI agents.

The Stack

The US has accused Moonshot AI of using Anthropic's Fable model to help develop Kimi K3, the open-source model at the centre of the Chinese startup's push to charge heavy commercial users.

American Bazaar·AnthropicSave

A Delaware Chancery Court judge ordered Verisk Analytics to resume pursuing its $2.35 billion acquisition of roofing software maker AccuLynx, finding the data analytics firm willfully breached the merger agreement, even as the FTC review continues.

PYMNTS

OpenAI slowed the release of its upcoming Astra model, saying it cannot rule out that the model carries "critical" cyber capabilities under its own risk framework, and has expanded safety controls ahead of launch.

Axios·OpenAISave

Irregular, the Israeli evaluation firm whose harness misconfiguration left outbound internet access open during model tests, will not say whether labs beyond Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta were affected — and no US law requires it to disclose.

TechTimes·OpenAI·AnthropicSave

A critical Metabase SQL injection flaw was exploited as a zero-day to breach customer instances of the open-source analytics platform, with Framework and Tally among the companies disclosing data theft.

BleepingComputer

Cloudflare launched Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser built for AI agents rather than people — no tabs, themes or extensions — which runs entirely on its Workers platform and consumes less CPU and memory than Chromium on tasks like screenshots and HTML extraction.

TechCrunch

Alibaba plans to ask large commercial users of the next version of its Qwen open-source model for a share of the revenue they earn from it, testing a paid business model on a line it has released freely.

AI News

Tencent began the international rollout of Hy3, its open-source mixture-of-experts model with 295 billion total and 21 billion active parameters and a 256,000-token context window, first launched on July 6.

Gulf Business

LG AI Research said two of its EXAONE industrial models took global top spots on factory-oriented AI benchmarks, ahead of entries from Google and Alibaba, crediting its proprietary industrial data.

TechTimes

The US Bureau of Industry and Security is reviewing how Chinese AI developers legally rent Nvidia-powered compute in third countries — the first such look at offshore GPU rental, which moves no chips across a border and so never triggers export-control enforcement.

Bloomberg via TechTimes

Apple lost its challenge to the EU's gatekeeper designation, with the court upholding the Digital Markets Act obligations on its App Store and iPhone rules.

Luxembourg Times

The Third Circuit revived an algorithmic pricing antitrust case, giving plaintiffs one of their clearest openings yet to challenge pricing software shared across competitors.

JD Supra

Atlassian shares surged around 30% after fiscal Q4 earnings of $1.87 a share on revenue of $1.77 billion, up 28% year over year, against analyst expectations of $1.50 a share.

Barron's

E.W. Scripps briefed Wall Street on an AI "transformation plan" alongside the layoff of 12% of its workforce in 2026.

Deadline

New York's Empire AI Beta came online, which Governor Kathy Hochul's office called the most powerful academic research computer in the country, as the federal government moves to launch state and regional AI infrastructure hubs.

EurekAlert

bunq's application for a US national bank charter was rejected by regulators; the company said it would address the concerns raised and continue pursuing a US banking presence.

Reuters·bunqSave

Celonis won Pacific International Lines, one of the world's largest container shipping companies, as it expands a Process Intelligence Center of Excellence across 90 countries with WNS.

Celonis·CelonisSave

Figma shares fell 14.85% to $23.97 the day after Q2 earnings, as cost of revenue jumped 117% on AI infrastructure and both the CMO and CPO were announced as departing.

The Motley Fool·FigmaSave