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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: Cognition, Silicon Republic, Moneycontrol, The Information, The Economic Times, SFGATE, WinBuzzer, Lifewire, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Neowin, Business Insider, Thurrott, Axios, PitchBook, Reuters, CNBC, VentureBeat, Analytics India Magazine, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @carnage4life, @keith.is, and @quinnypig.com
X: @cognition_labs, @hadip, @russelljkaplan, @russelljkaplan, @scottwu46, @jeffwsurf, @conor_ai, @absoluttig, @friedmandave, @zck, @sallyshin, @windsurf_ai, @nizzyabi, @gaberivera, @pitdesi, @walden_yan, @zebulgar, @sgrove, @zck, @sallyshin, @derrickreimer, @silasalberti, @devinai, @marvinvonhagen, @geoffreywoo, @gergelyorosz, @mikeisaac, @pavel_asparagus, @packym, and @mikeisaac
LinkedIn: Sarthak Dubey, 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: Benzinga, The Information, Cryptopolitan, Yahoo Finance, and Social Media Today
Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com. X: @kyliebytes, @emollick, @humanharlan, @garymarcus, @elitanjourno, @shaneguml, @bindureddy, @emollick, @rohanpaul_ai, @miles_brundage, and @modestproposal1
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: Reuters, Telegraph, Business Insider, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Capacity Media, Mobile World Live, TechCrunch, Analytics India Magazine, Verdict, BBC, Bisnow, MediaPost, Techstrong IT, Cryptopolitan, Spyglass, Futurism, Fast Company, PYMNTS.com, iPhone in Canada, UPI, Gizmodo, PCMag, Engadget, Ukrainian National News, Wall Street Pit, Capital Brief, Yahoo Finance, The Information, WinBuzzer, Investor's Business Daily, and The Japan Times
Bluesky: @markriedl, @revolvingdoordc, and @edzitron.com
Threads: @zuck, @zuck, and @itsalykhairy
X: @teortaxestex, @levie, @rihardjarc, @scobleizer, @krishnanrohit, @krishnanrohit, @semianalysis_, @miles_brundage, @kimmonismus, @benitoz, @rihardjarc, @stockmarketnerd, @tziokasv, and @emostaque. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia plans to resume H20 AI chip sales to China after the US assured it shipments will be approved, reversing an earlier Trump administration stance in April — US government officials told Nvidia they would green-light export licenses for the H20 artificial intelligence accelerator …
More: NVIDIA, VideoCardz.com, Reuters, Livemint, Silicon Republic, BBC, Euronews, Associated Press, TechNode, TechPowerUp, The Economic Times, Türkiye Today, TechCrunch, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, Ukrainian National News, The Register, CGTN, Times of India, Business Standard, The Straits Times, Forexlive, Motley Fool, The Indian Express, MarketWatch, Cryptopolitan, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNBC, New York Times, Axios, Investor's Business Daily, Barron's Online, Business Insider, and South China Morning Post
X: @divestech, @munster_gene, @trendforce, @nvidianewsroom, @chellaney, @ns123abc, @mackhawk, @kanthan2030, and @jingjing_li
Forums: r/worldnews, r/wallstreetbets, r/NVDA_Stock, and r/stocks
| 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 …
More: Chief Digital …, Washington Post, CNBC, The Verge, xAI, Forbes, The Guardian, The Register, Anthropic, The Register, StrictlyVC, Livemint, Benzinga, CBS News, The Hollywood Reporter, New Republic, Google Cloud Blog, Hürriyet Daily News, Breitbart, Newser, Fortune, NERDS.xyz, Washington Examiner, DefenseScoop, Computerworld, Maginative, Wall Street Pit, Gizmodo, The Information, Axios, Constellation Research, Punchbowl News, Bloomberg, and Nextgov/FCW
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @nickjcal, @doctorvive, @padresj, @wittywebhandle, @civicwhitaker.com, @bernybelvedere, @spencercallaghan.ca, @colincarlson, and @hypervisible
X: @xai, @maxwelltani, @simonw, @kfile, @dodcdao, @sundeep, @juliaioffe, @bengreenman, @reptomsuozzi, @nickadobos, @theo, @sundeep, @markwarner, @zchuruk, and @anthropicai
LinkedIn: DoD Chief Digital …, Kunaal Sharma, and Jonathan H.
| 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: Mashable, Mediaweek, TechIssuesToday.com, and BBC
Bluesky: @craiggrannell, @socialmedialab.ca, and @mikestabile
Forums: r/RedditSafety, r/uknews, r/europe_sub, r/europe, r/unitedkingdom, r/ukpolitics, r/technology, r/privacy, and Ars OpenForum
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
More: Euractiv, European Commission, European Commission, Biometric Update, Deadline, Agenzia ANSA, European Commission, MLex, and Le Monde
Bluesky: @rahaeli, @nstenhouse, @marypcbuk, @bluespacecanary, @rya.nc, and @mmasnick
X: @insafenetwork, @eu_commission, and @digitaleu
Forums: r/discordapp, r/privacy, r/Denmark, r/europe, and Slashdot
| 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 …
More: The Verge, Rolling Stone, Decrypt, and RedState
Bluesky: @mauames, @parismarx.com, @milesklee, @quantian, and @nitishpahwa.com
X: @elonmusk, @emcverse, @venturetwins, @elonmusk, @shitpostrock, @tunguz, @venturetwins, and @scobleizer
Forums: r/technology and r/artificial
| Riley Goodside / @goodside: |
More: Grok. Bluesky: @nitishpahwa.com and @aaroncantu. Mastodon: @3psboyd@mastodon.social
X: @humanity_dao, @k_kohlbrenner, @goodside, @nickadobos, @robertwiblin, @goodside, @goodside, @goodside, @esyudkowsky, @esyudkowsky, @_shift_mind, @goodside, @theogbrett, @goodside, @goodside, @emostaque, @littmath, @can, @goodside, @goodside, @sergeykarayev, @goodside, and @mikeisaac
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| 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| 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, XiaomiTime, SamMobile, Canalys, PhoneArena, SammyGuru, iClarified, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Apple Must, Reuters, and Computerworld. LinkedIn: Runar Bjorhovde
| 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.| 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 … | 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 …
More: Kiro, Forbes, The Register, MarkTechPost, Neowin, UPI, Kiro on YouTube, VentureBeat, Amazon Web Services, SiliconANGLE, The New Stack, Maginative, PCMag, CNBC, and Constellation Research
Bluesky: @cameron.pfiffer.org. X: @jherr, @marcjbrooker, @marcjbrooker, @amazon, @theswaminator, @maxwinebach, @jeffbarr, @ajassy, @theo, @kirodotdev, and @waleakinfaderin
Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPTCoding, r/ClaudeAI, and r/aws
| 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 …
More: Tech Times, Engadget, Gizmodo, New York Daily News, PYMNTS.com, and Android Authority. X: @lunayian
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Alibaba is putting $7B in Taobao promotions as JD.com invests $1.4B to grow food delivery, with both offering discounts to become China's leading “everyday app” — JD.com and Alibaba are luring shoppers with discounts in push to grab market share from rival Meituan
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