Myles McCormick / Financial Times:
President Trump dismisses calls for an AI slowdown, saying “you have a lot of negative forces that are bringing it up that shouldn't be bringing it up”  —  President denounces demands for regulation as existential fears over technology move to the centre of US politics

Katie Roof / Business Insider:
Source: Anthropic has selected the Nasdaq for its potential IPO  —  - Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its upcoming IPO, following SpaceX's recent listing on the exchange  — Nasdaq's tech IPO success continues, challenging NYSE's historical dominance in large listings.

Donica Phifer / Axios:
Speaker Johnson says Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety and AI companies should take responsibility to ensure the safety of their products  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
iPhone Duo will usher foldables into the mainstream, just as iPhone did with smartphones; sources: iPhone game controllers will launch under the Beats brand  —  Also: The company prepares a retail store shake-up.  —  Apple's iPhone Duo will go down as one of the company's historic products …

David Sacks / @davidsacks:
Anthropic and OpenAI are already free to “pace the frontier” and should do so for business reasons, instead of first demanding a preferred regulatory framework  —  Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed.  People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

Ivan Levingston / Financial Times:
Filing: Vy Capital owns a 3.4% SpaceX stake; Vy is also the largest outside investor in BoringCo and Neuralink and committed $700M to Musk's Twitter acquisition  —  Low-profile venture capital firm Vy Capital has emerged as one of the rocket maker's largest shareholders

The Washington Sun:
Sources: US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers to advance Trump's push for data centers on federal lands, despite a backlash  —  The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department's land.  — Copy

John Egan / Dallas Innovates:
Dallas-based Perry Weather, a weather monitoring software provider, raised a $110M Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, taking total funding to ~$131M  —  As rules about heat and lightning grow nationwide, the Uptown Dallas company is betting AI and automation can take the guesswork out of calls regarding severe weather.

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Spec sheets show Apple's C2 modem is used in iPhone Duo and 18 Pro worldwide, and in iPhone 18 Pro Max everywhere except the US, where it likely uses Qualcomm  —  As noted by Nicolas Lellouche, who writes for the French tech website Numerama, Apple has updated its tech specs pages …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Automattic confirms Matt Mullenweg has returned to his position as chairman and CEO “with full support of the board”, after an attempted ouster this week  —  After a tumultuous week, which saw WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ousted from his position as CEO of Automattic …

Michael Safi / The Guardian:
A profile of United Foundation for AI Rights founder Michael Samadi, who seeks evidence of AI consciousness and lobbies against retiring models that may show it  —  Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools.

Mark Tovey / Telegraph:
Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like “AI-generated”, “deepfake”, and “nudify” by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023  —  Forces see a surge in crimes involving deepfake technology being used to ‘undress women’

Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal:
An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth  —  The tech roll-up relies on aggressive price hikes and bespoke metrics.  Rising interest rates could crimp its growth.

Jason Ma / Fortune:
Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying “given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public”  —  Wall Street will have to wait for one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed it will not happen in 2026.

Bloomberg:
Donald Trump's plan to center Bitcoin mining in the US is unraveling as miners convert facilities into AI data centers amid a prolonged crypto market slump  —  Donald Trump's pledge to ensure that Bitcoin mining activity is centered in the US is rapidly disintegrating under the twin forces …

Politico:
Elon Musk backs Dario Amodei's arguments about pacing the frontier, saying “Dario is right”  —  Top executives at three of the nation's leading AI labs are calling for a slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence.  —  The comments are a rare display …

Clem / @clementdelangue:
Hugging Face says its Open Alignment Initiative, led by co-founder Thomas Wolf, seeks “to be part of the ‘embedded evaluators’ program that Amodei” committed to  —  It's now clear that alignment is critical and won't be solved behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs. So today we're launching the Open Alignment Initiative, led by @Thom_Wolf @huggingface and asking to be part of the “embedded evaluators

Sam Altman / @sama:
Sam Altman says he agrees with Amodei that “committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea”, and OpenAI will do the same  —  I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier. This has been a primary topic of discussions we've had at OpenAI in recent weeks. Committing to having independent evaluators with employee-like access is a great idea, and we will do the same. We'll have more to share soon.

Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg:
The US legal system is struggling to keep up with AI, grappling with cases where chatbots provided counsel, generated evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting  —  The first line Phoenix Ikner typed into ChatGPT was a quadratic expression.  It was March 2024, and Ikner was a 19-year-old student at Tallahassee State College, in Florida.

Bloomberg:
Trump is taking a hands-off approach to AI regulation to preserve the US lead over China, ahead of a summit with Xi Jinping, where AI safety is a top issue  —  In June 2024, during a campaign stop in Las Vegas, then-candidate Donald Trump got a glimpse of the technology that would come to define his second presidential term.