Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Proton launches Lumo, an AI chatbot to summarize documents, generate code, and more and says it will protect users' information via "zero-access" encryption (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Proton launches Lumo, an AI chatbot to summarize documents, generate code, and more and says it will protect users' information via “zero-access” encryption  —  Proton says it protects Lumo's chats with ‘zero-access’ encryption while storing them on users' devices.



The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google "strategic market status" in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds "opportunities for more innovation" (Muvija M/Reuters)

Muvija M / Reuters:
The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google “strategic market status” in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds “opportunities for more innovation”  —  Britain's competition regulator said it plans to designate Apple (AAPL.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) …



Alibaba releases its new Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 model on Hugging Face, improving on Qwen 3's reasoning, accuracy, and multilingual understanding (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Alibaba releases its new Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 model on Hugging Face, improving on Qwen 3's reasoning, accuracy, and multilingual understanding  —  Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made waves globally in the tech and business communities with its own family of “Qwen” …



Sunday, July 20, 2025

Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of next year's launch; sources: Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of next year's launch; sources: Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Pro  —  When the first foldable iPhone debuts next year, it will be the least Apple-like launch ever.



OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like "Watch Mode Activation" and "Terminal Restrictions" (Louis Columbus/VentureBeat)

Louis Columbus / VentureBeat:
OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like “Watch Mode Activation” and “Terminal Restrictions”  —  In case you missed it, OpenAI yesterday debuted a powerful new feature for ChatGPT and with it, a host of new security risks and ramifications.



Dallas-based iCounter, which uses AI to combat cyber risks, launches out of stealth from Apollo Information Systems with a $30M Series A led by SYN Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Chris Metinko / Axios:
Dallas-based iCounter, which uses AI to combat cyber risks, launches out of stealth from Apollo Information Systems with a $30M Series A led by SYN Ventures



Saturday, July 19, 2025

How an open-source approach helped DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies; Hugging Face: Alibaba's Qwen is now the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem (South China Morning Post)

South China Morning Post:
How an open-source approach helped DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies; Hugging Face: Alibaba's Qwen is now the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem  —  July 9, 2024, may be remembered as a day of humiliation for China's artificial intelligence community.



Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded (Jeff Wang/@jeffwsurf)

Jeff Wang / @jeffwsurf:
Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded  —  To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy.  There have been a lot of different rumors and reports …



How AI is reshaping higher education, as institutions grapple with the pace of change and technology companies move quickly to offer custom learning products (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
How AI is reshaping higher education, as institutions grapple with the pace of change and technology companies move quickly to offer custom learning products  —  While institutions grapple with the pace of change, technology companies are moving quickly to offer custom learning products



Chinese video game giant NetEase reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4B and net profit down 29% to ~$903M, below ~$1.2B est., as it pushes self-developed games (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)

Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal : Chinese video game giant NetEase reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4B and net profit down 29% to ~$903...