US software development job postings on Indeed have grown by ~15% since the launch of Claude Code in February 2025, while overall job postings fell by 7% (Guillermo Gallacher/Indeed Hiring Lab)
How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas (New York Times)
An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% (Max Spero/Pangram Labs)
OpenAI and Google are providing advanced AI models to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, exposing a gap in US AI controls (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
Interviews with employees and insiders reveal how CXMT is amassing tech, funding, and state support to challenge top memory chipmakers and build local suppliers (Gao Yuan/Bloomberg)
A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI (SemiAnalysis)
Leaked renders via Android Headlines show the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, Watch 9, and Watch Ultra 2; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is likely a new wide foldable (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)