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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, Neowin, Business Insider, SFGATE, WinBuzzer, Lifewire, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Axios, PitchBook, Thurrott, Reuters, CNBC, VentureBeat, Analytics India Magazine, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @carnage4life, @keith.is, and @quinnypig.com
X: @cognition_labs, @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: 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 …
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Threads: @zuck, @zuck, and @itsalykhairy
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| 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
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Forums: r/technology and r/artificial
| 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. Bluesky: @nitishpahwa.com and @aaroncantu. Mastodon: @3psboyd@mastodon.social
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| 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.
| 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, BBC, and TechIssuesToday.com
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
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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
| 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, the company said in a blog post.
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Forums: r/worldnews, r/wallstreetbets, r/NVDA_Stock, and r/stocks
| 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
More: Sonnet BioTherapeutics …, Stratechery, The Information, Sydney Morning Herald, Axios, Gizmodo, and Maginative. X: @elonmusk
| 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, SammyGuru, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, iClarified, 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.| 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, SiliconANGLE, Amazon Web Services, 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
| 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 … | 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: Gizmodo, Engadget, Tech Times, New York Daily News, PYMNTS.com, and Android Authority. X: @lunayian
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