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| Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide: |
xAI introduces Grok 4, trained on its Colossus supercomputer, with multimodal features, faster reasoning, Grok 4 Voice, Grok 4 Code, a new interface, and more — Deeper thinking and greater reasoning is promised — An hour after the live stream was supposed to start last night (July 9) …
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Bluesky: @joetidy. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @xai, @elonmusk, @natolambert, @miles_brundage, @amuse, @lola_lmao7, @minimaxir, @bookwormengr, @basedbeffjezos, @daniel_mac8, @emollick, @teortaxestex, @joshwhiton, @creatine_cycle, @btibor91, @powerbottomdad1, @luke_metro, @basedtorba, @theo, @basedtorba, @theo, @ns123abc, @elonmusk, @scaling01, @adamscochran, @nikitabier, @elonmusk, @adamscochran, @elonmusk, and @mikeknoop
Forums: r/singularity, r/ChatGPTCoding, and r/singularity
| @artificialanlys: |
Artificial Analysis benchmarks: Grok 4 is now the leading AI model, a first for xAI; Grok 4's per-token pricing is more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Pro's and o3's — xAI gave us early access to Grok 4 - and the results are in. Grok 4 is now the leading AI model. We have run our full suite of benchmarks and Grok 4 achieves an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index of 73, ahead of OpenAI o3 at 70, Google Gemini 2.5 Pro at 70, Anthropic Claude [image]
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| Herb Scribner / Axios: |
Elon Musk addresses Grok's antisemitic replies, saying that “Grok was too compliant to user prompts” and “too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially” — Elon Musk shared his thoughts Wednesday after his AI platform Grok faced backlash for repeatedly using antisemitic language in its replies on X.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
xAI launches Grok 4 Heavy, a “multi-agent version” of Grok 4 that offers increased performance, and unveils SuperGrok Heavy, a $300/month AI subscription plan — Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, late on Wednesday released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 4, and unveiled … | Joe Tidy / BBC: |
UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc — Four people have been arrested by police investigating the cyber-attacks that have caused havoc at M&S and the Co-op.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta offered Ruoming Pang a $200M+ pay package over a several-year period, in line with its other major AI hires; Apple didn't try to match the offer — Meta hired Ruoming Pang, who ran Apple's AI models team, with a pay package in the hundreds of millions over a several-year period …
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| Danielle Broadway / Reuters: |
SAG-AFTRA says Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with game studios, including AI protections like consent requirements — Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with video game studios on Wednesday with a focus … | Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
The EU publishes a voluntary code of practice to help companies follow its AI Act, including requiring developers to provide up-to-date AI feature documentation — The European Union published a code of practice to help companies follow its landmark AI Act that includes copyright protections … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A researcher says 245 extensions with nearly 909K downloads override security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites for a paid service — Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines …
More: Secure Annex, implicator.ai, Mellowtel on GitHub, ISPreview UK, The US Sun, iDownloadBlog.com, Risky Business, and CyberInsider
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| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to release an AI web browser that keeps some user interactions in a ChatGPT-like native interface instead of clicking through to websites — OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) market-dominating Google Chrome …
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Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/diabrowser, r/artificial, r/accelerate, r/OpenAI, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires all new US border surveillance towers to be “autonomous”, effectively granting Anduril a monopoly on tower contracts — Anduril Industries is a major beneficiary of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes a section that essentially grants …
Bluesky: @jesspish, @mmasnick, @eff.org, and @sambiddle.com
| Will Knight / Wired: |
The Allen Institute for AI launches FlexOlmo, an LLM architecture that lets data owners remove their data from an AI model even after it was used for training — A novel approach from the Allen Institute for AI enables data to be removed from an artificial intelligence model even after it has already been used for training.
More: Ai2, Ai2 on GitHub, arXiv.org, Ai2 on YouTube, Ai2 on Hugging Face, and WinBuzzer
| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
Condé Nast and Hearst sign multiyear agreements with Amazon to license their content for use in Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus; the terms are undisclosed — Condé Nast and Hearst have signed multi-year agreements with Amazon to license their content for use in its AI shopping assistant Rufus.
More: Engadget
| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
A German court rules Meta's tracking pixels embedded in third-party websites and apps violate the EU's GDPR, ordering it to pay €5,000 to a German Facebook user — A German court has ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German Facebook user who sued the platform … | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
The Internet Watch Foundation identified 1,286 AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse in H1 2025 globally, up from just two in H1 2024 — Organizations that track the material are reporting a surge in A.I. images and videos, which are threatening to overwhelm law enforcement.
More: Bloomberg and The Guardian
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 39% YoY to ~$32B, beating estimates; in June, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei reassured shareholders that AI chip demand still outstripped supply — That beat the average analyst projection for about NT$928 billion. — Investors have piled back into AI-linked companies …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Linda Yaccarino told close contacts that some advertisers returning and xAI acquiring X, which effectively demoted her, made it a good time to depart — The X CEO stabilized the social-media company's ad business, but contended with an erratic boss and pressure to move faster| Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon is weighing another multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic, as it seeks to position itself ahead of Google, which has also invested $3B+ — The tech groups are increasingly tied to each other and act as a bulwark to Microsoft-OpenAI partnership| Emily Sundberg / Feed Me: |
Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie is launching a biweekly column on Lachlan Cartwright's Breaker, a publication hosted on Substack rival beehiiv — Good day to be the CEO of beehiiv. — ∙ Paid — Good morning everyone. Your song of the summer might be Sabrina Carpenter's Manchild or Morgan Wallen's What I Want.| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Agora, which offers a white-labeling service that lets companies launch self-branded versions of its stablecoin, AUSD, raised a $50M Series A led by Paradigm — Agora cofounders Joe McGrady, Nick Van Eck, and Drake Evans — COURTESY OF AGORA — On Thursday, Agora became …
More: Cointelegraph
| Mike Corder / Associated Press: |
A Rotterdam court sentences a Russian to three years in prison for breaching international sanctions by sharing sensitive ASML info with someone in Russia — A 43-year-old Russian was convicted Thursday of breaching international sanctions by sharing sensitive information …
More: Bloomberg Law and Reuters
| Laila Kearney / Reuters: |
Electricity bills are projected to rise 20%+ in parts of PJM Interconnection's 13-state territory as the largest US power grid is under strain from data centers — America's largest power grid is under strain as data centers and AI chatbots consume power faster than new plants can be built.
More: Engadget, Power Technology, and Blaze Media
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Amazon expands its Now service in India to New Delhi, offering deliveries in as little as 10 minutes, after launching the service in Bengaluru in December 2024 — The online retail giant is expanding its “Now” service to the Indian capital, deepening a nascent foray into so-called quick commerce.
More: Business Standard, India Today, and The Economic Times
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