BBC
- The moment Tuesday's powerful earthquake hit Japan
- Some parents on benefits to get up to £4,500 for child starting apprenticeship
- Uefa and PM criticise Infantino World Cup plan
- Wildfires in south-west France flare up as region braces for new 40C heatwave
- French Navy carries out 'shooting drill' during MP's BBC interview
- Grieving mum was told baby's ashes were animal remains
- Naga Munchetty to leave BBC Breakfast after 17 years
- Powell says student loan system at top of in-tray
- Richard Hammond fined £999 for speeding offences
- Odyssey translator writes scathing review of Nolan film adaptation
- Can Burnham's vision for Manchester's schools really work for the rest of England?
- Is it safe to travel to Spain and France right now?
- The cocaine superhighway from Ecuador to Europe - the BBC reports on gangs and the police fightback
- Why is Ukraine rolling out the red carpet for a US far-right influencer?
- Booker Prize longlist: See the 13 'dynamite' novels up for this year's prestigious award
- ‘I’d found the missing piece to a puzzle’: How attachment theory is shaping modern dating
- How afraid should we be of jellyfish off UK shores?
- Laughter and tears at Dame Penelope Keith funeral
- Local match goes viral over cheating claim
- Mysterious deaths of 14 elephants in Kenya prompts urgent inquiry
- Schools to offer technical subjects from age 14 in England, Burnham says
- Mother and boyfriend guilty of murder of girl, two
- House of the Dragon star Bethany Antonia joins Strictly line-up
- Gymnast Evans delivers first gold for Wales
- BBC News app
- Are Apprenticeships The Answer To Youth Unemployment?
- Americanswers… on 5 Live! Is Donald Trump serious about running for a third term?
- Shabaz Ali takes the 'billionaire debate' into the real world
- Uefa and PM criticise Infantino World Cup plan
- Alonso's first Chelsea match a tale of four strikers
- Zidane waited for France - now can he harness their star power?
- Celtic 'a really good match' for record signing Hogh
- Mancini reappointed Italy boss after Pirlo controversy
Bitcoin
Engadget
- Double Fine lays off about a third of its employees
- Apple Upgrade is a great deal on paper, but make sure you read the fine print
- The CW's live sports programming is coming to ESPN on August 4
- Sega's Dreamcast retro console is still getting new games 25 years after it was abandoned
- The HBO Max app now has shorts, because why not
- What is the 60-60 rule for AirPods?
- WhatsApp now supports encrypted calls on the web
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: Wider really is better
- Here's why you shouldn't throw away your old iPhone
- The Trump administration is exempting data centers from pollution laws intended to prevent acid rain
- Xbox explains what caused this week's 'unacceptable' major outage
- Swimming headphones: What makes them so different from regular headphones?
- What's the difference between Amazon's Echo Dot and Echo Dot Max?
- Your old Google Pixel smartphone could be repurposed in a data center
- Motorola launches Indigenous Collections app for language and cultural preservation
- Apple Upgrade is a subscription program for the company's devices
- Hugging Face reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes
- Lyft and Baidu start testing robotaxis in London
- ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors' styles
- 2027 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Electric first drive: A long-range triumph with a few cabin quirks
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The Next Web
- The handoff tax: What it costs when your rep is alone on the call
- How artificial intelligence is used to streamline corporate travel logistics
- Europe gets its AI enforcement powers on Sunday. The unit wielding them has 36 people.
- Claude found mathematical flaws in two cryptographic algorithms that years of expert review missed
- Anthropic says your leaked Claude chats are working as intended
- Starbucks’ AI tool didn’t die in a pilot. It died in 11,300 stores.
- AI is finding twice as many software flaws. Almost none get exploited.
- The AI wrote every security control. It skipped the question underneath
- Anthropic spent a year buying biology talent. Its newest partner says the bottleneck isn’t science.
- The Italian state just backed €500m for the company that owns AOL
Smashing Magazine
- Thinking Outside The Box: Digital Design In The AI Era
- Weaponizing And Defending The React Flight Protocol: Deserialization Sinks In RSCs
- When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread
- No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life
- From Kickoff To First Concept: How To Turn Brand Strategy Into Visual Direction
- Designing For Distressed Users: Why Mental Health Apps Shouldn’t Follow Every UI Fashion
- Meet Kirki: WordPress’s First Visual Builder With An Infinite Canvas
- Users Don’t Need More Tools: They Need Seamless Integrations
- Matching AI Modality To User Intent: Designing The Right Interface
- Why Accessibility Is An Operational Capability, Not A Feature
- Snapshots Of Summer (July 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Designing With Uncertainty: How AI Supercharges Probabilistic Thinking
- The Impact Of Humanoid Robots On Humanity
- The Benefits Of Cognitive Inclusion In UX Research
- How To Make Your Design System AI-Ready
- June Is For Exploring (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With `contrast-color()`
- Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)
- Four Levels Of Customer Understanding
- Advanced Tree Counting: Mathematical Layouts With `sibling-index()` And `sibling-count()`
- Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI
- Practical Interface Patterns For AI Transparency (Part 2)
- The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development
- Rethinking The Experience Of System Tools
- Designing Stable Interfaces For Streaming Content
- A Fresh View In May (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
- The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
- Session Timeouts: The Overlooked Accessibility Barrier In Authentication Design
- How To Improve UX In Legacy Systems
- Identifying Necessary Transparency Moments In Agentic AI (Part 1)
- A Practical Guide To Design Principles
- The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
- The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins
- Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables
- Modal vs. Separate Page: UX Decision Tree
- Anime vs. Marvel/DC: Designing Digital Products With Emotion In Flow
- Moving From Moment.js To The JS Temporal API
- Beyond `border-radius`: What The CSS `corner-shape` Property Unlocks For Everyday UI
- Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
Wirecutter
- The Best Mechanical Pencils
- Windows 10 Is Dead. But You Might Not Need a New Laptop Yet.
- The Best TVs
- This Gigantic Margaritaville Mixer Elevates All My Happy Hours
- The Best Bluetooth Audio Receivers and Transmitters
- Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale Is Back. And It’s Packed With Surprisingly Good Deals on Wirecutter Picks.
- Life After PFAS
- Looking to Cut Back on Single-Use Plastic in Your Bathroom Routine? Start Here.
- The Best Dishwasher Detergent
- The Case for This $300 Hammer, From an Ex-Carpenter
Sweethome
- Forever Chemicals Are Everywhere. Here’s How to Limit Your Exposure.
- The Best Dishwasher Detergent
- The Best Cotton Sheets
- Looking to Cut Back on Single-Use Plastic in Your Bathroom Routine? Start Here.
- The Case for This $300 Hammer, From an Ex-Carpenter
- The Best College Dorm Essentials
- Actually Good Dorm Decor That You’ll Want to Keep (Even After Graduation)
- The Best Ways to Maximize a Tiny Bedroom
- The Best Ideas for Organizing Your Closet (Even If It’s Tiny)
- The Best Blackout and Room-Darkening Curtains
Hacker News
- Substack writers, you need a website
- A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants
- Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
- Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes
- Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
- MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless
- Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
- The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade
- How Do I Profile eBPF Code?
- Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library
- New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
- Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals
- WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web
- Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)
- The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)
- Now Is the Time to Give LLMs Access to the ACM Digital Library
- Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)
- Uv 0.12.0
- Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?
- How to survive boiling water
- DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it
- Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification
- Donate to GrapheneOS
- Hulios: An eBPF-powered, transparent Tor gateway for Linux
- Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
- So, you want to make a game engine (2023)
- 7.1 Earthquake in Japan
- The most advanced robotic servicing satellite–that we know about
- Deflock Casa Grande
- About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6
Ars Technica
- New airliner sets record flying 24 hrs nonstop from Australia to France
- Judge blocks first state law that would have banned prediction markets
- Report: Trump mad RFK Jr. hasn’t cut more vaccines or proven autism link
- As US measles cases rise, biotech firms start developing new treatments
- Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
- Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers
- Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies
- iOS and macOS 26.6 arrive today, paving the way for iOS and macOS 27
- A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
- “Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
- 5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech
- Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many
- Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a "dead end" for rapid reuse
- ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
- Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone
- Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
- What public health professionals can learn from anti-vaccine storytelling
- Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
- First teaser for Apple TV's Neuromancer debuts at SDCC
- SDCC teaser gives us our first good look at Blade Runner 2099
Digg
New Scientist
Slashdot
- Anthropic AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms
- Judge Blocks First State Law That Would Have Banned Prediction Markets
- DEF CON Bans Meta-Style 'Pervert Glasses'
- GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search
- Review Roundup: Framework Laptop 13 Pro
- Tons of Peoples' Claude Chats and Creations Are Exposed On Google
- Arizona State Launches Influencer Degree Where Students Must Gain Real Followers
- Earth's Biggest Disasters Strike In a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years
- A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months
- Peacock to Be Included With YouTube Premium In Major Streaming Tie-Up
- Amazon Trying to Launch a Global Satellite Cellphone Network In 2028
- Nvidia, Tech Giants Launch AI Safety Initiative
- Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects
- China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools
- ChatGPT Starts Blocking Direct Requests To Copy an Author's Style
BoingBoing
- Netflix honors Raygun with a documentary
- Grandpa Pudding Brains says airplanes didn't exist during his father's lifetime
- Tourists turned Auschwitz's death tracks into a photo set
- Iranian LEGO movies bashing Trump just get better
- Disruptive preacher boasts that 200 trapped airline passengers heard her sermon
- New video card has only 4GB of RAM
- Prague settled political fights by throwing officials out windows
- PocketByte: a modular handheld gadget for "play, life, and tinkering"
- Become suspiciously good at ordering coffee abroad with this Babbel deal from StackSocial
- These cosmic blasts outshine supernovas and no one knows what they are
- Road sign reprogrammed to protest ICE killings
- Surgeons can rebuild an eye's window out of one of your own teeth
- The endurance sport where you drop live ferrets down your pants
- This unusually tall duck went viral and got a bronze statue
- In 1996, hundreds of gibberish messages flooded Usenet unexplained
- A tree has been floating upright in this lake since 1896
- The many brands of Taylor Farms, suspected source of America's diarrhea lettuce
- Online Tower of Babel gets a new brick for every Wikipedia edit
- Look up your local cops on the EFF's Atlas of Surveillance
- Online museum of handheld electronic games
- Decker is Hypercard for the modern web
- Cyberpunks, mutants, and mondoids gather in San Francisco in August
- Create apps and websites with this powerful Microsoft coding tool — now only $30 through August 9
- MAGA Mike shares the Republican plan for midterm success: intercessory prayer
- Actual neo-Nazis demonstrate Elon Musk's heartfelt salute
- Two men rode the elevator to the top of the Space Needle and jumped off
- Woman charged with smothering her twins claims the vaccines did it
- ICE made its costume easy to counterfeit
- The legend of India's "breast tax" and the woman who defied it
- ICE arrested a green-card holder while she was gardening and kept her for a year
Core77
- Sonic's Focus on the UX of Pencil Cases
- Chinese Autonomous Buses are Spreading Around the World
- Luxury Furniture, or ID Student Project?
- The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake
- A Gate with an Elegant Integrated Latch
- Flatbike's Accessories Let You Fold Your Bike Flat for Storage
- Core77 Weekly Roundup (7-20-26 to 7-24-26)
- DreamDomes' Elegant, Weather-Resistant Dome-Shaped Event Tents
- Michael Hilgers' Multifunctional Side Table
- Leatherman's Experimental Ratcheting Bit Driver
- Light is Bringing Back the Flip Phone
- Humanscale Revives a Niels Diffrient Design for a Hybrid Work/Lounge Chair
- DeFF's Diminutive Premium Pen
- A Security Camera Designed to Indicate When It's Not Watching (You)
- AIM's Deconstructed Kitchen Faucet
CNET
The Verge
- AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
- Is it illegal to trick the US government into wiping your phone during a questionably legal search?
- AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous
- This comfy gaming headset that can play audio from two sources is $25
- Logitech will pull a Nintendo — only European mice will come with replaceable batteries
- Apple won’t turn on any ‘restricted mode’ for missed lease payments
- New Yorkers will soon need to verify their age to access algorithmic feeds
- Tile’s best Bluetooth tracker is down to its lowest price of the year
- Save $150 on this smart indoor bike trainer that can keep you riding during the off months
- HBO Max is putting on vertical shorts
Wired
- Laura Loomer's Reversal on Ukraine Stirs Up the MAGA Civil War
- Is the Electric Trike the Next Big Thing in Shared Micromobility?
- Best Gifts for Mom (2026): E-Readers, Digital Wall Calendar, Smart Bird Feeders
- Best Apple Watch (2026): Series 11, SE 3, and Ultra 3
- Best Gifts for Hikers, Backpackers, Outdoorsy People (2026)
- A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life
- Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
- Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them
- Dyson V16 Piston Animal Submarine Review: Powerful but Pricey
- 7-OH Users Are Stockpiling Ahead of a DEA Ban
- An Extreme Solar Storm May Be Even More Devastating Than Previously Imagined
- Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
- Ulta Promo Codes: Up to 50% Off in July 2026
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- AirDoctor Coupon Codes: 40% Off | July 2026
- Google Workspace Promo Codes: 14% Off for July
- Birdfy Discount Codes: 15% Off Sitewide
- Priceline Promo Codes & Coupons: 10% Off July
- Booking.com Promo Codes: 20% Off | July 2026
- Ray-Ban Promo Codes: Save 50% in July 2026
LifeHacker
- The Best Gifts for Someone Building the Ultimate Home Gym
- Five Hacks Every Ultrahuman Ring User Should Know
- Scammers Are Impersonating Spotify to Steal Your Credit Card Info
- 10 Shows Like 'Tell Me Lies' You Should Watch Next
- Seven Ways to Make Your Email Aliases Even More Secure
- Apple Will Now Let You Lease Your Next iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch
- Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
- Your Claude Chats May Have Been Exposed on Google
- T-Mobile Is Down
- CVS's Back-to-School BOGO Sale Is a Good Time to Stock Up on Supplies
- This Mova Robot Mower Is $800 Off Right Now
- How Apple Might Try to Make Its Smart Glasses Less Creepy
- iOS 26.6 Comes With Two New Features, and One Is Key for iOS 27
- How to Stop Browser Fingerprinting, the Latest Method for Tracking Your Activity Across the Internet
- 10 Shows Like 'Stuart Fails to Save the Universe' You Should Watch Next
- If You Loved ‘I Will Find You,’ There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
- This 65-Inch Samsung OLED TV Is $500 Off Right Now
- No, Bananas Don't Destroy the Nutrients in Smoothies
- This Woot Offer Is the Best Deal Yet on the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World Bundle
- This Acer OLED Gaming Monitor Is Over $200 Off Right Now
- Microsoft and Amazon Are Both Introducing New Cloud Gaming Options
- I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
- Instagram Is Starting to Crack Down on Creepy Smart Glasses Videos
- Why Athletes Need Sugar and Carbs in Their Diet
- Now Boox Is Making a Tiny E-Reader Too
- These Noise-Canceling 'Nothing' Earbuds Are on Sale for $129 Right Now
- ChatGPT Health Is Rolling Out to Everyone, but I Don’t Trust It
- This LG OLED Gaming Monitor Is Just $379 Right Now
- This Compact Eufy Robot Vacuum/Mop Combo Is $210 Off Right Now
- It Just Got a Lot Cheaper to Try Gemini Spark, Google's AI Agent
- You Can Now Verify Your Facebook Account With a Video Selfie
- A New Garmin Update Will Give You This Popular Feature for Free on the Cirqa Band
- Preorders for the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra2 Come With a Free $100 Gift Card
- 10 Hacks Every AirTag User Should Know
- These Are the Best Deals on Laptops, Monitors, and PC Accessories Right Now
- This App Can Help Detect When Someone Near You Is Wearing Meta Glasses
- Ultrahuman’s New App Fixes Most of What Frustrated Me About the Old One
- The Samsung Galaxy S25+ Is Still One of the Best Premium Android Phones, and It's $300 Off Right Now
- The Best Tech Deals I've Found in Best Buy's 'Black Friday in July' Sale
- Amazfit Makes Great Fitness Trackers, but Here's What Disappointed Me About Its Running Watches
- Here's What's New in the iOS 27 and MacOS 27 Second Public Betas
- 10 Shows Like 'Gilmore Girls' You Should Watch Next
- Google Is Rolling Out a Video-Selfie Option If You Get Locked Out of Your Account
- How to Take Creatine for the (Possible) Mental Health Benefits
- Five Hacks Every Xteink User Should Know
- How Garmin's Acquisition of TrainingPeaks Might Affect Your Fitness Routine
- Preorder the New Samsung Galaxy Z Phones and Get up to $350 in Amazon Gift Cards
- Here's What Actually Counts As ‘Moderate Exercise’
- If You Loved 'House of the Dragon,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
- WhatsApp Just Announced Four New Features, Including a Huge Upgrade for CarPlay and Android Auto
- Preorder the Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 Now and Get a $50 Amazon Gift Card
- Samsung's New Galaxy Smart Glasses Aim for Style and Google Integration
- Roborock's New LiDAR Robot Lawn Mower Is Already $700 Off
- How to Preorder the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, or Z Flip 8
- The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Does 'Quiet on the Creek' Mean?
- These Four New Android Features Are Coming, but Samsung Galaxy Devices Will Get Them First
- Samsung Just Announced Five New Products at Galaxy Unpacked
- Lifehacker's Big Guessing Game Is in Its Second Round
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- 10 Shows Like 'X-Men '97' You Should Watch Next
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- Garmin Launched Its First Screenless Smart Band Today, and I Tried It Out
- The Best Android Apps You Can’t Get on the Google Play Store
- How to Watch Samsung's July Galaxy Unpacked
- Halliday's New Gen 2 AI Glasses Have a Monochrome HUD Designed for Work
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- 10 Privacy Hacks for Managing Browser Cookies Everyone Should Know
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- Why Bevel Is a Way Better App for the Fitbit Air Than Google Health
- If You Loved 'Off Campus,' There's One Movie You Need to Watch Next
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- 10 Hacks Every Apple Messages User Should Know
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The Onion
The Register
TechMeme
- Coursera is investing $100M in LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng that aims to build AI agents that function as personal tutors (Ina Fried/Axios)
- Over 1,100 staffers from AI companies, including John Schulman and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki, sign a letter requesting the US government to "pace" AI development (Bloomberg)
- Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more (Invest Like The Best on YouTube)
- The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
- Mark Zuckerberg argues that superintelligence should be widely distributed as a tool that empowers everyone, rather than centralized in a few institutions (Mark Zuckerberg/Wall Street Journal)
- NYC-based AI startup Runlayer sues Rippling for allegedly stealing trade secrets to "build essentially a clone" of Runlayer's safety and governance product (Taylor Herzlich/New York Post)
- Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and orchestrated another improved attack against the cryptographic system HAWK (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
- Tel Aviv-based Hush Security, which lets organizations securely control enterprise AI agents, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total funding to $41M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
- Letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only to data centers and not to the public grid would not be subject to federal pollution laws (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)
- eBay and several ex-executives agree to pay a $56M settlement to resolve a 2021 civil case involving the 2019 stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
- Filing: Shein says its US business is under FTC investigation and it is "cooperating", without giving specifics, as the company prepares for an IPO in Hong Kong (Gabrielle Fonrouge/CNBC)
- Corning's shares fall 16%+ after weak Q3 guidance, as its growth is squeezed by production limits on its AI connectivity products; Q2 sales rose 17% to $4.74B (Adriano Marchese/Wall Street Journal)
- Mate, which is developing a platform to allow AI agents to detect, respond to, and proactively hunt threats, raised a $35M Series A led by Canaan Partners (Meir Orbach/CTech)
- Data security startup Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security, which provides non-human identity security, in a deal valued at about $1B (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
- Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic have lobbied the Trump administration to make sure lagging competitors also have to comply with government reviews of their models (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)