U.S President FCC faces blowback in attempt to police speech on broadcast TV: “Chilling message to all broadcasters: carry speech we don’t like at your peril.”

White House Plans To Redirect Billions In Research Funding Toward AI. Michigan Could Be Among The Biggest Winners—Or Losers  MITechNews

Last August, co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi told the Wall Street Journal that, in his view, ‘Databricks has a shot to be a trillion-dollar company’. US software and data analytics company Databricks is raising a strategic funding round at a $188bn valuation following the signing of a term sheet, it said yesterday (16 July). The…

Anthropic’s Claude extension flaws allow fake clicks to launch sensitive AI workflows Researchers found vulnerable handlers unchanged across eight extension updates Synthetic clicks bypassed checks designed to confirm real user actions Security researchers at Manifold Security have claimed Anthropic’s Claude for Chrome browser extension contains two unpatched vulnerabilities in version 1.0.80, released July 7, 2026….

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 136, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope your neighborhood isn’t as smoky as mine, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been recording the next season of Version History…

Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down from the top leadership post after nearly three decades, just as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots. Shashua will remain CEO until Mobileye hires a replacement, according to a regulatory filing Thursday. Mobileye got its start making computer vision chips based on Shashua’s…