Discussion | Link

Juro Osawa / The Information: Anthropic says it is rolling back a covert Claude Code tracking feature to identify users based in China or affiliated with Chinese AI labs, after backlash  —  Anthropic is backtracking a spyware rolled out covertly to track users' location and whether they are based in China or affiliated …

Welcome to the “Temu experience of telehealth,” where everyone from Grindr to MAGA influencers can open a virtual clinic selling weight loss drugs and more.

Bloomberg: How a new Amazon-built transatlantic fiber-optic link in Ireland is symbolic of the country's AI ambitions, but also of its chronic lack of defense spending  —  A new Amazon transatlantic fiber-optic link is symbolic of the country's tech economy, but also of its chronic lack of defense spending.

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Meta introduces a $20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users  —  “All AI glasses owners get free monthly usage for certain features.” … Would you pay $20 a month for access to AI hardware you already own?

”Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.

The Bank of England is reviewing whether existing rules can cover the use of agentic AI in finance, including payments, trading, cybersecurity, and operations. Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said existing regulatory frameworks were not designed for AI agents that can act without direct human instruction. Speaking at the European Central Bank Forum on central banking […] The post Bank of England reviews AI rules for agentic AI in finance appeared first on AI News.

Associated Press: The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison  —  A self-exiled billionaire Chinese business tycoon once believed to be among China's wealthiest men was sentenced Monday to 30 years …

Peter Millard / Bloomberg: ByteDance is building a $39B data center complex in a free-trade zone in Brazil's Ceará, set to be its largest facility outside of China with a 1GW capacity  —  The TikTok creator's $39 billion data center is the latest payoff from Lula's courtship of Chinese investment.

Discussion | Link

PLUS: Create winning ads with Claude in one command

Discussion | Link

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5 and restored access to its Fable and Mythos frontier models following a federal export control review. The decision marks the conclusion of an eighteen-day operational pause triggered by a US government export control directive on June 12, which forced the temporary suspension of Anthropic’s highest-capability systems. Government officials enacted […] The post Anthropic deploys Claude Sonnet 5, Fable and Mythos restored appeared first on AI News.

Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: [Thread] The US' now-lifted export controls on Anthropic models created uncertainty, are an own goal, and will push service providers towards Chinese AI models  —  A lot to unpack here. Anthropic is burying some hard truths in careful political language. Some initial reads: 1) Anthropic verifies that none of the jailbreaks provided a capability beyond what many other models, including Chinese models, could do.

@anthropicai: Anthropic says “some routine tasks like coding and debugging” on Fable 5 “will fall back to Opus 4.8” in “the near term” as it works to “reduce false positives”  —  Claude Fable 5 will be available again globally tomorrow. After a series of productive conversations with the US government, we're redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks. In the near term, some routine tasks like coding

Tapestry VC has closed an $80 million third fund to double down on Europe’s repeat founders and expects the coming wave of AI exits to produce yet another generation of experienced founders.

Joshua Hong at Paris Fashion Week Jacopo Raule/Getty Images Seventeen's US member, Joshua, repped the band at UNESCO on Thursday. He tells Business Insider he's excited to dive into new work, "in music or beyond." The band's on a break, with individual members branching off to do solo and unit work. Joshua Hong of Seventeen is booked and busy. On Thursday, he spent the morning suited up for a speech at UNESCO. Hours later, he'd shed that skin for hot boy summer and a front-row seat at Paris fashion week. Long story short: He isn't moving at all like a member of a 13-person K-pop group that just announced an extended hiatus. The appearances were his first scheduled activities after Seventeen, one of the top K-pop bands under the K-pop mega-agency Hybe, announced it would pause group activities. Half of the nine active members must enlist for South Korea's mandatory military service. Around a third of the group will hold down the fort until a planned comeback in 2028. Hong — the band's key American member and one of its two English speakers — was tapped to rep them at UNESCO. Hong told Business Insider the youth initiative the band's worked on with UNESCO inspires him because it's a "collective effort" that has opened up "a variety of doors for them to think creatively and develop their own solutions." Seventeen's Joshua took a trip to Paris this last week — a two-for-one solo jaunt to UNESCO and fashion week. Pledis Entertainment Hong also teased some future projects — he's expressed interest in expanding into Hollywood and working more in fashion. "As I've begun diving further into new endeavors, whether in music or beyond, I'm excited to see how I'll grow as an artist, and I hope I can continue to share positive energy with people in everything I do," he said. The unit era Hong's work in Paris coincided with his bandmates' much-hyped album drop. The "V8" mini album — featuring Vernon and The8 — is the first unit release in the group's hiatus era. They kicked it off with a listening party at a club in Seoul's Itaewon district on June 28, and will hit arenas in Asia for a series of live shows. Top producers from Pharrell Williams to Alice Longyu Gao have their fingerprints on the album, which features eight high-octane bops like "rat race" and the title track, "singasong." "We really wanted to tell an authentic story. Looking back on the times we've spent and how they've led us to who we are today, it naturally brought us to this theme — how our experiences of youth drive us forward," the duo said. Other Seventeen members also have work in the pipeline. Dino, the group's youngest, is set to debut under his alter ego, Picheolin, on August 3. Meanwhile, vocalists Seungkwan and DK are scheduled to wrap up their "Serenade" concert tour in Kaohsiung on July 26. Read the original article on Business Insider

Christopher Beam / Bloomberg: A look at Manifest, an annual convention for prediction markets where many purists worry that Kalshi and Polymarket are undermining the technology's public good  —  At Manifest, some tech intellectuals wondered whether Super Bowl bets were really helping humanity.

Discussion | Link