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Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rk71zhxeml

Cribl acquires Israeli cyber startup CardinalOps for around $100 million
The U.S. telemetry company will establish a Tel Aviv office after buying the AI-powered detection engineering startup. The acquisition marks Cribl’s push into security operations and its effort to challenge traditional SIEM platforms. 

SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth (Deedy/@deedydas)
https://x.com/deedydas/status/2055491938464489888

Deedy (@deedydas) on X
The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope

A New York State school district is piloting a humanoid robot teacher by the company Realbotix to help students with summer school classes (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable)
https://mashable.com/tech/new-york-school-testing-robot-teacher

New York school district is testing lifelike robot teachers
AI company Realbotix is piloting STEM robots for rural schools.

After reports of GPT-5.6 deleting files, OpenAI says the issue most often occurs in full-access mode without sandboxing and it is working to mitigate the risk (Tibo/@thsottiaux)
https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2077630111499882637

Tibo (@thsottiaux) on X
On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files. What we have found is that this most commonly occurs when: - Full access mode is enabled and codex is run without sandboxing protections, including without auto review being

India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged (Nikhil Pahwa/@nixxin)
https://x.com/nixxin/status/2067100573648953610

India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged (Nikhil Pahwa/@nixxin)
https://x.com/nixxin/status/2067100573648953610

Nikhil Pahwa (@nixxin) on X
A few additional thoughts on the Telegram ban in India: 1. Is this a permanent ban? It's unusual for the Indian government to issue a press release about the telegram ban: the precedence that I remember is when Chinese apps were banned in India in June 2020 including tiktok. A

Sources: JPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong from accessing Anthropic's AI models, following a similar move by rival Goldman Sachs (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/de83d303-6a03-456b-bfb9-7b11dd502ab3

Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits from July 20 and via usage credits for Pro and Team Standard users (Claude/@claudeai)
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2078302415804379218

Claude (@claudeai) on X
Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to

Models like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)
https://x.com/gavinsbaker/status/2078110934740980193

Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) on X
Kimi K3 may be an important inflection point for AI. Potentially negative for Anthropic and OpenAI while being net positive for essentially every other company in the world. I mean that very literally. Although the real “Sputnik moment” would be an open-source frontier model that