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Daniel Gross is leaving Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded with Ilya Sutskever, to join Meta's new superintelligence lab — Daniel Gross, the former chief executive officer and co-founder of artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO of SSI, with co-founder Daniel Levy as president; the technical team will continue reporting to Sutskever — OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said he will assume the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year.| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta offers to buy ~49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023, has been invested — Meta Platforms is offering to buy a minority stake in funds of the venture firm founded by two of its key artificial intelligence recruits … | Wall Street Journal: |
Ford CEO Jim Farley, Andy Jassy, and other CEOs are now predicting AI will significantly replace white collar workers, a shift from dodging job loss questions — Ford chief predicts AI will replace ‘literally half of all white-collar workers’ — CEOs are no longer dodging the question of whether AI takes jobs.| Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Sources: in 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google — Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps … | Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Xbox says Arrowhead Game Studios' Helldivers 2 will debut on the Xbox Series X and S on August 26 for $40, the first PlayStation-published title to come to Xbox — Sony is bringing its popular live-service third-person shooter to more players. … Arrowhead Game Studios' Helldivers 2 … | Business Insider: |
Meta is testing custom AI chatbots that message users unprompted, following up on past conversations to boost engagement on its AI Studio platform — - Meta is training custom AI chatbots to send unprompted follow-up messages and boost user engagement. — Contractors at Alignerr help develop bots … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
London-based Hived, which offers an AI-based logistics and parcel delivery service, raised a $42M Series B led by NordicNinja — London-based parcel delivery startup Hived Ltd.today said it has raised $42 million in early-stage funding aimed at supporting the company's expansion into regional markets … | Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
Sources detail EA's issues developing the next Battlefield, which now has a $400M+ budget; few staff believed EA leadership's 100M player target was achievable — EA insiders describe stress and setbacks in a project that's too big to fail. — It's been 23 years since the first Battlefield game … | Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Founders Fund-backed Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital launch a $250M fund to invest in real-world asset tokenization projects via equity stakes and tokens — Founder's Fund-backed Ondo Finance and crypto investor Pantera Capital plan to invest $250 million in real-world asset projects … | Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority: |
Samsung's One UI 8 animation files show its future tri-fold phone, with three rear panels and two inward-folding hinges, rumored to be called the Galaxy G Fold — Samsung may unveil its tri-fold foldable phone with dual hinges soon — here's your first animated look! — • — •| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out its Veo 3 video generation model to Google's AI Pro subscribers in more than 159 countries, with a cap of three videos per day — Google on Thursday said it has begun rolling out its Veo 3 video generation model to Gemini users in more than 159 countries.| Jordan Blum / Fortune: |
How Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill, which was approved by Congress, could cost the US the AI race by handicapping efforts to meet data center power demands — America is facing an energy imperative: Grow power from all sources or face potential failure. — That's failure in the race … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Counterpoint Research: Apple's iPhone sales in China grew 8% YoY in Q2 2025, the first time Apple has recorded growth in China since Q2 2023 — Apple iPhone sales in China rose in the second quarter of the year for the first time in two years, Counterpoint Research said … | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft cut hundreds of Xbox jobs across studios, including King, ZeniMax, and Halo Studios, and cancels games like the new Perfect Dark and Everwild — Hundreds of people were laid off as the company canceled upcoming games such as Perfect Dark and Everwild| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
ASML, Mistral AI, and 40+ European companies urge the EU to delay the implementation of its AI Act for two years, saying it puts the bloc's AI ambitions at risk — European companies including ASML Holding NV, Airbus SE and Mistral AI have called on the European Union to suspend the implementation … | Spiegel Online: |
A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily — AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious “nudify” app that has millions of visitors.| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban — In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.| Bhavya Sukheja / NDTV: |
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White collar workers are increasingly using AI note-taking apps to assist them during virtual meetings or listen in their place when they choose not to attend — Video calls can be a drag — some workers send a bot in their place. — Summary15 — Clifton Sellers attended a Zoom meeting last month where robots outnumbered humans.| Zach Vallese / CNBC: |
AI is making it easier to create VTubers and faceless voiceover channels, fueling a new wave of virtual YouTube and TikTok creators amid concerns about AI slop — One of the most popular gaming YouTubers is named Bloo, and has bright blue wavy hair and dark blue eyes.| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
The Open Platform, a key TON developer that is behind Telegram's crypto Wallet, raised a $28.5M Series A at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $70M+ — Telegram is one of the most popular messaging apps in the world. — Crypto has a new unicorn.
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