Daily Tech Digest - July 05, 2026
July 05, 2026 —
Rik Bon
Tags: tech, news, ai, linux, cloud, cybersecurity
TL;DR: 1. BBC confronts head of Meta in India over child sex abuse ads; 2. Proud to announce that Maverick Silicon led Stathera, Inc.'s oversubscribed US$55M Series B, joined by Celesta Capital, BDC, MediaTek, TXC Corporation, and Ultratech Capital Partners. …; 3. Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout
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- BBC confronts head of Meta in India over child sex abuse ads
- Proud to announce that Maverick Silicon led Stathera, Inc.'s oversubscribed US$55M Series B, joined by Celesta Capital, BDC, MediaTek, TXC Corporation, and Ultratech Capital Partners. …
- Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout
- @guardian today published this long-read on my colleague @IasonGabriel at Google DeepMind. Iason joined the lab in 2017 (almost a decade ago) as their only, and perhaps first, philosopher and ethicist for quite some time. Beyond his incredible research, he's built capacity and
- Sep 2Abstract by ConvexSan Francisco
- An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says “there will not be an FDA for AI” under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industry's “doomer” messaging, and more
- Years from now, these poor children will tell therapists their parents tried to turn them into capitalists instead of kids and used AI to deprive them of teachers. High-Earner Families Are Ditching Traditional Schools for Life Skills and AI https://www.wsj.com/...
- This is wild to think about. Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding agent, is reportedly getting blocked at Alibaba because of security concerns. A source told Reuters that Alibaba flagged it as a potential backdoor risk in the workplace.
- Breaking down Micron's booming business
- Trump Won't Create AI Regulator, Says Former White House Adviser Sriram Krishnan Amid Data Center Backlash: ‘That Is Never, Never Going To Happen...’
- The success of quantitative trading in China's CNY 8 trillion($ 1.18trillion) hedge fund industry represents a marked change from two years ago. …
- @edzitron I'm still curious why if we have too much capacity many dozens of companies internal teams we talk to can't get access to GPUs they need for their development? Including Meta..