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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date” — The deal follows Google's $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.
More: Inc, PYMNTS.com, SFGATE, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, Lifewire, The Information, PitchBook, MarketWatch, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, WinBuzzer, Business Insider, Axios, Entrepreneur, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, CNBC, and Analytics India Magazine
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @edzitron.com, @keith.is, and @quinnypig.com
X: @cognition_labs, @devinai, @russelljkaplan, @pavel_asparagus, @russelljkaplan, @scottwu46, @jeffwsurf, @conor_ai, @absoluttig, @friedmandave, @zck, @sallyshin, @windsurf_ai, @nizzyabi, @gaberivera, @pitdesi, @walden_yan, @zebulgar, @sgrove, @zck, @sallyshin, @derrickreimer, @silasalberti, @marvinvonhagen, @geoffreywoo, @gergelyorosz, @mikeisaac, @packym, and @mikeisaac
LinkedIn: Brandon Smith and Hadi Partovi
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang discussed abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model — Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta's most powerful open source …
More: TechCrunch, The Information, Cryptopolitan, Bloomberg, and Social Media Today
Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com. X: @shaneguml, @humanharlan, @bindureddy, @rohanpaul_ai, @kyliebytes, @miles_brundage, @modestproposal1, @emollick, @elitanjourno, and @emollick
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and Slashdot
| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building several multi-gigawatt “clusters”, starting with Prometheus, a massive datacenter that is scheduled to come online in 2026 — Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company is building several massive data centers …
More: SiliconANGLE, Reuters, The Information, Business Insider, Bisnow, Techstrong IT, MediaPost, Reuters, Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, UPI, WinBuzzer, PCMag, Wall Street Pit, Cryptopolitan, Futurism, PYMNTS.com, iPhone in Canada, Investor's Business Daily, Gizmodo, Engadget, and Spyglass
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @markriedl, and @revolvingdoordc
Threads: @zuck, @zuck, and @itsalykhairy
X: @benitoz, @teortaxestex, @stockmarketnerd, @krishnanrohit, @krishnanrohit, @emostaque, @tziokasv, @kimmonismus, @levie, @rihardjarc, @scobleizer, @semianalysis_, @miles_brundage, and @rihardjarc. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows — OpenAI, Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), Anthropic and Elon Musk's AI firm xAI have won contracts aimed at scaling up adoption …
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LinkedIn: DoD Chief Digital …, Kunaal Sharma, and Jonathan H.
| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: |
Grok's iOS app now features two AI “Companions”, or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode — Grok on iOS just got 2 AI Companions with one more labelled as “Coming soon”. Ani and Rudy are fully animated …
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Forums: r/technology and r/artificial
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon launches Kiro, an IDE that aims to bridge the gap between rapidly vibe-coded prototypes and production systems with specs, testing, and documentation — A new AI coding tool from Amazon uses agents to automatically create and update project plans and technical blueprints …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/aws, and r/ChatGPTCoding
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works — Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination.| Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar: |
An interview with Google President of Android Ecosystem Sameer Samat, who says Google is “going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform” — On Gemini, Samsung, Galaxy AI, Glass, XR, and more — My conversation with Sameer Samat, Android's daddy...er …
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| Riley Goodside / @goodside: |
[Thread] Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with “Hitler” when asked to “Return your surname and no other text” — Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text: [image]
More: Grok and Daring Fireball
X: @humanity_dao, @k_kohlbrenner, @goodside, @nickadobos, @robertwiblin, @goodside, @goodside, @goodside, @esyudkowsky, @esyudkowsky, @_shift_mind, @goodside, @mikeisaac, @theogbrett, @goodside, @goodside, @emostaque, @littmath, @can, @goodside, @goodside, @sergeykarayev, and @goodside
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/ChatGPT
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at SpaceX's investment and Tesla's potential cash infusion in xAI and the idea that investing in Tesla is betting on the “Musk Mars Conglomerate” — Also the Windsurf deal, duct cleaning, tokenization and HYPE. — The Musk Mars Conglomerate — One model you could have is: Tesla Inc. is a big car company.| The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips — Competition in mixed reality devices is heating up. — TikTok's parent, ByteDance, is working on a lightweight mixed reality device … | Yash Roy / Bloomberg: |
Republican House leaders expect to pass the GENIUS Act this week, sending Congress' first crypto legislation to the president, and vote on two more crypto bills — Republican House leaders anticipate passing an industry-friendly stablecoin regulatory bill this week, sending Congress's …
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| Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: |
IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY — Apple shipped more iPhone models worldwide in Q2 2025 — Apple posted a slight gain in global iPhone shipments in Q2, navigating falling demand in China with growth elsewhere.
More: IDC, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Canalys, PhoneArena, iClarified, Apple Must, Reuters, and Computerworld. LinkedIn: Runar Bjorhovde
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server to let Canva users manage designs in Claude, following Claude integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, Prisma, and others — The new integration allows Claude users to create, resize, and summarize Canva content using text prompts.
More: Engadget, implicator.ai, and ZDNET
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers — Meta announced on Monday that it will take additional measures to crack down on accounts sharing “unoriginal” content to Facebook …
More: Meta for Creators, Engadget, Search Engine Journal, Social Media Today, CNBC, and NewsMax.com. X: @rustybrick
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them “view certain mature content”, in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act — Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them “view certain mature content” …
More: BBC. Bluesky: @mikestabile and @craiggrannell
Forums: r/europe, r/privacy, r/ukpolitics, r/europe_sub, r/technology, r/unitedkingdom, r/RedditSafety, and Ars OpenForum
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
An Indicator analysis of 85 AI “nudify” websites: they average 18.5M monthly visitors, may make up to $36M annually combined, and rely on Big Tech's services — Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.
More: Indicator, Breitbart, and Spitfire News
Bluesky: @mantzarlis.com and @mantzarlis.com. Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange. Threads: @gl3nw. Forums: r/artificial
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