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Sources: SpaceX has agreed to invest $2B in xAI, as part of xAI's $5B equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month — The startup is leaning on Musk's business empire to play catch-up in the AI race — Elon Musk's SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI …
More: Reuters, The Information, and Yahoo Finance
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
xAI apologizes for Grok's “horrific behavior” when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames “an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot” — In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.”
More: New York Times, Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, The Hill, Engadget, NBC News, Washington Post, Cryptopolitan, The Guardian, WinBuzzer, Blaze Media, CNN, Rolling Stone, The Post Millennial, and Business Insider
Forums: r/technology and r/grok
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Stanford study: LLMs struggle to respond appropriately to questions about delusions, suicide, and OCD, but AI could play valuable supportive roles to therapists — When Stanford University researchers asked ChatGPT whether it would be willing to work closely with someone who had schizophrenia … | Simon Alvarez / Teslarati: |
Tesla rolls out Grok to some vehicles with an AMD infotainment chip; Grok comes pre-installed on new vehicles and cannot issue commands to the vehicle itself — All new Tesla vehicles delivered on or after July 12, 2025, will include Grok AI out of the box| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks — Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the popular Kimi chatbot, released an open-source language model on Friday …
More: The Decoder, South China Morning Post, Tech in Asia, Simon Willison's Weblog, MarkTechPost, WinBuzzer, and Reuters
X: @teortaxestex, @osoleve, @linaqruf_, @yuchenj_uw, @marcolinsight, @natolambert, @khazzz1c, @marian2js, @adonis_singh, @maltelandwehr, @indravahan, @davidtorcivia, @yeshuagod22, @pinkddle, @kaushikktiwari, @brianmcc, @aiamblichus, @fabianstelzer, @maltelandwehr, @linxule, @nir, @scaling01, @krishnanrohit, @exocija, @edgeoffira, @openrouterai, @jd_pressman, @teortaxestex, @khazzz1c, @slow_developer, @iotcoi, @designarena_ai, @waterdoggie, @hardmaru, @edwinhayward, @ns123abc, @dmvaldman, @natolambert, @igor9silva, @airesearch12, @teksedge, @xlr8harder, @rasbt, @kalomaze, @yeshuagod22, @buidinhngoc, @teortaxestex, @darrenangle, @elliotarledge, @ft7futures, @thuleanfuturist, @emollick, @intuitmachine, @xlr8harder, @chris_j_paxton, @hrishioa, @_ngenome, @rheum_ai, @ognevtsi, @andrewcurran_, @kaushikktiwari, @kalomaze, @willfaustcuber, @cheatyyyy, @fabianstelzer, and @koltregaskes
| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Pump.fun raised $500M via a sale of PUMP tokens, which sold out in 12 minutes; it offered 12.5% of its total token supply at a fully diluted valuation of $4B — - Memecoin launchpad Pump.fun raised $600 million through its public sale of PUMP tokens, which fully sold out in just 12 minutes.| Matthew King / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at US-backed NVD, as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K+ vulnerabilities, ~10x the previous high in 2017 — Every day, billions of people trust digital systems to run everything from communication to commerce to critical infrastructure.| DDIA: |
Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90%+ of submitted notes are never published, with many notes “stuck in limbo” — 1. INTRODUCTION — As social media companies face the need to curb the spread of rapidly evolving online harms on their platforms …
More: Agence France-Presse and Al Jazeera
| Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal: |
With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers — Two Trump visits span city's legacy industry, higher-tech pursuits — | Photographs and Videos by Nate Smallwood for WSJ
More: Technical.ly
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is paying $2.4B for a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf tech and hire some of its employees, but won't be taking a stake in the company — Google is hiring Windsurf Chief Executive Officer Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen, along with a small group of staffers …
More: Wall Street Journal, Benzinga, TechSpot, Forbes, DNA India, Tech in Asia, Reuters, CNBC, Financial Express, The Indian Express, Neowin, Yahoo Finance, Moneycontrol, Reuters, Livemint, WinBuzzer, Maginative, nextbigwhat, The Verge, The Information, and Fortune
X: @johncoogan, @jordihays, @yuchenj_uw, @__venki__, @creatine_cycle, @kevinakwok, and @mualphaxi. LinkedIn: Katie Roof
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
More: Tech Startups, Thurrott, Livemint, WinBuzzer, The Information, Cryptopolitan, New York Times, The Decoder, The Hans India, The Indian Express, Analytics India Magazine, implicator.ai, Benzinga, Channel NewsAsia, Australian Financial Review, DevOps.com, Bloomberg Law, Business Insider, and Wired. Bluesky: @marypcbuk
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman announces another delay for OpenAI's open-weight model, for further safety testing; the model was slated to be released next week — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday the company is delaying the release of its open model, which was already pushed back a month earlier in this summer.
More: Business Insider, Cryptopolitan, The Decoder, The Hans India, Livemint, The Economic Times, and Benzinga
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com. X: @sama, @_aidan_clark_, @ai_for_success, @n30n_41, @angaisb_, @cryptopunk7213, @deliprao, @sog_on_bird_app, @david_kasten, @fadalaudza_, @generatorman_ai, @traskjd, @lidothegreat, @daniel_mac8, @dee_bosa, @kalomaze, @jachiam0, @miles_brundage, and @lukeolympus. LinkedIn: Gary Filan
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/BetterOffline, and r/singularity
| SemiAnalysis: |
A look at Meta's revamped GenAI strategy, as Mark Zuckerberg poaches top AI talent for the Superintelligence team with a typical offer of $200M over four years — Meta's shocking purchase of 49% of Scale AI at a ~$30B valuation shows that money is of no concern for the $100B annual cashflow ad machine.
X: @staysaasy, @lefttailguy, @blader, and @mjolley22
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Studios like Do Big are buying Roblox games for $1M+ in a thriving secondary market; Naavik: seven of the 15 highest-earning games in June have been acquired — Game service spawns a busy after market for the most-popular titles … It sold a few months later for more than $3 million.| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Nvidia's rise after ChatGPT's release is reminiscent of dot-com era titans like Cisco and Juniper; Cisco's share price grew over 1000x between 1990 and 2000 — The A.I. chip maker reached the landmark before Apple and Microsoft, as its value rose more than tenfold after ChatGPT's release in late 2022.| Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: |
Belkin's move to brick Wemo devices highlights how little accountability IoT companies face when abandoning connected products customers paid for — In a somewhat anticipated move, Belkin is killing most of its smart home products. On January 31, the company will stop supporting the majority …
More: NERDS.xyz, The US Sun, The Verge, Android Police, PCMag, and PCWorld
Bluesky: @roberts-rants, @bolson.org, and @glynmoody
Mastodon: @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone, @acdha@code4lib.social, @fallenhitokiri@social …, and @kim_harding@mastodon.scot
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/hardware, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
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