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Hayden Field / CNBC:
OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, a smaller, cheaper offshoot of GPT-4o, replacing GPT-3.5 Turbo, with support for all multimodal inputs and outputs coming soon  —  OpenAI on Thursday launched a new AI model, “GPT-4o mini,” the artificial intelligence startup's latest effort to expand use of its popular chatbot.
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
GPT-4o mini costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, prices lower than those of Claude 3 Haiku and Gemini 1.5 Flash
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 16.8% YoY to $9.56B, vs. $9.53B est., paid memberships up 16.5% YoY to 277.65M, vs. 274.4M est., net income up 44% YoY to $2.15B  —  Netflix reported earnings after the bell.  Here are the results.  — Earnings per share: $4.88 vs $4.74 per share expected by LSEG
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Peter Naylor, Netflix VP of ad sales since August 2022, is leaving, and the company will hire a head of US and Canada ad sales to fill his spot
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Netflix says its ad tier now accounts for over 45% of all signups in the markets where it's available, and ad tier memberships grew 34% QoQ in Q2
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Indian crypto exchange WazirX says one of its multisig wallets “experienced a security breach” after $230M+ in withdrawals; WazirX had $500M in holdings in June  —  One of the exchange's multisig wallets experienced a security breach, the exchange confirmed in an X post.
Elliptic:
Analysis: the North Korea-linked WazirX hackers took 200+ different assets, including $96.7M of Shiba Inu, $52.6M of Ether, $11M of Matic, and $7.6M of Pepe
Financial Times:
Sources: Meta is exploring a multibillion-euro investment in eyewear group EssilorLuxottica, which makes the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, to expand their partnership  —  Facebook owner considers multibillion investment in European eyewear group to expand smart glasses partnership
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, and others form the Coalition for Secure AI to share best practices and open-source methodologies for secure AI deployment  —  Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, and other big names in AI are coming together to form the Coalition for Secure AI …
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Nvidia and Mistral release Mistral NeMo, a 12B-parameter language model with a 128K-token context window, available under the Apache 2.0 open-source license  —  Nvidia and French startup Mistral AI jointly announced today the release of a new language model designed to bring powerful AI capabilities directly to business desktops.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says its goo.gl URL shortener links will stop working after August 25, 2025, after it stopped generating new goo.gl URLs in March 2019  —  After Google stopped generating new goo.gl URLs in March of 2019, those links will stop working on August 25, 2025.
The Information:
An ex-Reality Labs manager says Meta asked the unit to cut spending by ~20% from 2024 to 2026; Meta plans two Quest 4 versions in 2026 and a Quest Pro 2 in 2027  —  Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has canceled the blank check he once reserved for his augmented reality and virtual reality teams.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Apple is launching new immersive video content for the Vision Pro over the next few months, including content from The Weeknd and the 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend  —  Apple is launching new “immersive” video content for the Vision Pro over the next few months, including one from The Weeknd …
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Adobe: US shoppers spent $14.2B during Amazon's 48-hour Prime Day sale, up 11% YoY and in line with estimates; Numerator: the average household spent about $152  —  - Discounts on electronics, small appliances drove spending  — Amazon sale prompts rival retailers to offer their own deals
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has spoken to many of the largest Hollywood studios about acquiring more programming from their libraries to offer customers in the US and abroad  —  - Apple TV+ has relied on original series like ‘Ted Lasso’ … The iPhone maker has spoken to several of the largest studios …
The Information:
Sources: OpenAI has talked to chip designers including Broadcom about developing an AI server chip and hired former members of a Google unit that produces TPUs  —  Last year, as the world's top artificial intelligence developers were racing to speed up their work using ever-bigger clusters of computers …
Tim Starks / CyberScoop:
A US judge dismisses most of a SEC lawsuit accusing SolarWinds of misleading investors by failing to disclose cybersecurity failures in its Orion software  —  The groundbreaking lawsuit's claims about inadequate disclosures related to the historic Sunburst attack were thrown out Thursday.
David Jeans / Forbes:
Austin-based Saronic, which is developing autonomous military boats, raised a $175M Series B led by a16z at a $1B+ valuation, taking its total funding to ~$245M  —  Austin-based Saronic, which launched in 2022, is raising $175 million to help it build a fleet of autonomous defense vessels.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Docs: Canadian PE firm PartnerOne paid $28.2M for HeadSpin, whose 2023 revenue was $21M and its Q1 2024 was $5M; HeadSpin was valued at $1.1B in 2020  —  Canadian private equity firm PartnerOne paid $28.2 million for HeadSpin, a mobile app testing startup whose founder has been sentenced …
Ryan Dinsdale / IGN:
Nintendo unveils a Joy-Con charging stand for the Switch, over seven years after launching the console, available on October 17, but doesn't announce a price  —  Better late than never.  —  Nintendo has announced an official Joy-Con charging stand for the Nintendo Switch …

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From Mediagazer

Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Gene Shalit, a longtime film critic for NBC's Today who was with the show from 1970 until his retirement in 2010, dies at 100

Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the first “case” brought before Objection, which aims to use AI to evaluate news stories, and a Q&A with Objection's founder; the site is now dark

Erica Ryan / Reporters' Lab:
Duke Reporters' Lab reports a global drop in fact-checking projects from 464 in 2024 to 441 in 2025; US projects fell from 65 in 2024 to 61 in 2025

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Bloomberg:
Block's Cash App plans to close its UK operations on September 15, after launching in 2018, as the company “deprioritizes global expansion” to focus on the US
New York Times:
How Spain relies on the VioGén algorithm to score the likelihood of recurring domestic violence and decide protection measures, with at times fatal consequences

Earlier Picks

Sheila Chiang / CNBC:
TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 40.1% YoY to ~$20.82B and net income up 36.3% YoY to ~$7.62B, both above estimates, as advanced AI chip demand continues to surge
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Leaked documents: Cellebrite couldn't forcibly unlock an iPhone running iOS 17.4 or newer as of April 2024; most of the listed Android devices could be unlocked
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