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” …



Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)

New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...