Anthropic Doesn't Hate Open Weights, Says Anthropic.

Dario Amodei said Anthropic never backed an open-weights ban, pitching mandatory safety tests instead as OpenAI and Google signed on. Altman headed to Washington, Korea's KOSPI cratered 11% on AI jitters, Apple launched Klarna leasing, and shipped 194 CVE fixes.

• Anthropic wants tests, not bans, as OpenAI and Google back open weights (thenewstack.io/anthropic-wants-tests-not-bans-…) (The New Stack)

• Source: Sam Altman will meet with senior US officials, lawmakers, and economists in Washington, DC, this week to preview OpenAI's upcoming family of AI models (cnbc.com/2026/07/27/altman-trump-china-open-we…) (CNBC)

• South Korea's KOSPI drops 11%+, led by chip stocks, amid concerns over China's chipmaking progress and the AI spending boom; Samsung falls 11%+ and SK Hynix 12% (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-28/korean-…) (Bloomberg)

• Credit default swap prices tied to Oracle, SpaceX, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Broadcom, and Nvidia hit record highs as investors turn jittery over Big Tech's data center debt; Oracle's five-year CDS reached 215bps (ft.com/content/ac136522-ecc7-4262-8702-e0d636e…) (FT)

• Apple launches Apple Upgrade, a new US leasing program in partnership with Klarna that replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program, starting at $17.99/month for iPhones (macrumors.com/2026/07/28/apple-upgrade-program…) (MacRumors)

• Apple releases 26.6 updates for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS with a huge number of security fixes; macOS Tahoe 26.6 alone addresses 155 CVEs (9to5mac.com/2026/07/27/ios-26-6-fixes-over-75-…) (9to5Mac)

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