TECHNOLOGYAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI company isn't advocating for ban of open-weight modelsCritics have questioned why Anthropic didn't sign an industry letter last week in support of open-weight models.CNBC·July 27, 2026
TECHNOLOGYCNBC's The China Connection newsletter: A U.S.-China debate that's becoming bigger than tariffsThe AI race is heating up so fast this summer that it's reshaping national priorities in the U.S. and China.CNBC·July 27, 2026
TECHNOLOGYJim Cramer warns AI's circular financing frenzy echoes the dot-com bubbleCNBC's Jim Cramer said reports of Nvidia backing OpenAI's data center expansion revived memories of the financing arrangements that preceded the dot-com crash.CNBC·July 27, 2026
TECHNOLOGYX Money is launching in the US starting todayX Money, a core part of Elon Musk's mission to turn X into an "everything app," is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform offers a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments similar to Venmo, along with a metal Visa card users can emblazon with their X username. Other perks The Verge·July 27, 2026
TECHNOLOGYChina's new challenge as natural disasters strike - fake AI videosStorms and flooding incidents over the last few months have seen fake videos inundating social media.BBC News·July 27, 2026
TECHNOLOGYSam Altman to meet with Trump administration, senators this week. Here's what he plans to sayAltman will preview the capabilities of the company's upcoming family of AI models and answer questions about cybersecurity and open-weight models.CNBC·July 27, 2026
TECHNOLOGYSatya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not surviveCompanies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.TechCrunch·July 27, 2026
TECHNOLOGYAuthors have mixed feelings about the $1.5B Anthropic copyright infringement rulingSome say the $3,100 per title payout is small compensation for what they view as big, ongoing threats from the makers of generative AI models.<br>NPR·July 27, 2026
TECHNOLOGYThea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactorsFusion power startup Thea Energy snagged a $20 million award from ARPA-E to scale production of its high-temperature superconducting magnets.TechCrunch·July 27, 2026
TECHNOLOGYXbox’s huge outage even blocked games on discAn extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening didn't just cause issues for people trying to play digital games - it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. Xbox's status page initially reported the outage on Sunday at about 11PM ET, and it also prevented people from logging in, The Verge·July 27, 2026
TECHNOLOGYMicrosoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity systemMicrosoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.TechCrunch·July 27, 2026
TECHNOLOGYApple sued after alleged App Store crypto scam cost users $1.8MApple is facing a lawsuit from three users who say they collectively lost more than $1.8 million after downloading a fraudulent crypto wallet from the App Store, challenging the company’s longstanding claims that its app review process keeps users safe from scams.TechCrunch·July 27, 2026
