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Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's focus on “personal super intelligence”, how large pay packages pale in comparison to AI infra investments, glasses, and more — The Information's TITV is first in tech news and analysis from the people that break and shape the story.
More: 404 Media, Business Insider, Status, Gizmodo, The Information, Newser, Windows Central, The Information, implicator.ai, and Futurism
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Threads: @sung.kim.mw, @sung.kim.mw, @sdusteric, and @ai._.penguin
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| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
Sources: OpenAI researcher Jason Wei, who worked on o3 and deep research models, and his colleague Hyung Won Chung are joining Meta's new superintelligence lab — Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI's o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta's superintelligence lab.
More: Benzinga, The Decoder, and WinBuzzer
| Reuters: |
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Nvidia's planned resumption of its H20 AI chip sales to China is part of US negotiations over rare earths and magnets — Nvidia's (NVDA.O) planned resumption of sales of its H20 AI chips to China is part of U.S. negotiations on rare earths … | Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google says its Big Sleep AI agent for finding unknown software vulnerabilities recently discovered a critical SQLite flaw that “was at risk of being exploited” — Google said a large language model it developed to find vulnerabilities recently discovered a bug that hackers were preparing to use.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
In a paper, AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others recommend further research into chain-of-thought monitorability for AI safety — AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and a broad coalition of companies and nonprofit groups …
More: Tomek Korbak, VentureBeat, Digit, and implicator.ai
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Roblox launches a licensing platform to help IP rights holders collaborate with creators, with Lionsgate, Netflix, Sega, and Kodansha as founding partners — Roblox is launching a new licensing platform to streamline the process for IP rights holders to partner with creators on the gaming platform.
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| Erin Doherty / CNBC: |
Several crypto regulation bills backed by Trump fail to clear a key hurdle in the US House after 13 Republicans voted with Democrats to block the legislation — Several cryptocurrency regulation bills backed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday failed to clear a key procedural hurdle …
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| Calvin French-Owen: |
A former OpenAI engineer details his experience working at the company, including its culture, engineering practices, rapid growth, and the launch of Codex — I left OpenAI three weeks ago. I had joined the company back in May 2024. — I wanted to share my reflections because there's …
More: implicator.ai, Analytics India Magazine, and TechCrunch
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
The DOJ says ex-Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking over 10 telcos and to extortion; in February, he admitted hacking AT&T and Verizon — Former U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking telecommunication companies and attempting to extort … | IDC: |
In Q2 2025, smartphone shipments in China fell 4% YoY to 69M units; Huawei returned to the top spot for the first time in over four years with an 18% share — Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, China's smartphone market shipped 69.0 million units in 2Q25, marking a 4.0% year-on-year (YoY) decline.
More: South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, and PYMNTS.com
| Dan Robinson / The Register: |
Study: in the past year, ~75% of S&P 500-listed firms have updated their official risk disclosures to detail or expand upon mentions of AI-related risk factors — S&P 500 businesses warn investors they may never see ROI in SEC filings — America's largest corporations …
Forums: r/BetterOffline and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Cantor Equity Partners 1, a SPAC backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, is in late-stage talks with Blockstream Capital founder Adam Back to buy $3B+ in bitcoin — Brandon Lutnick in late-stage talks with Adam Back in latest move to use blank cheque vehicles to buy the cryptocurrency| Reuters: |
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised a $2B seed led by a16z at a $12B valuation; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD, and Jane Street also invested — Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, said on Tuesday it has raised …
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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Hugging Face users have uploaded 5,000 AI models, previously banned from Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to the platform — Hugging Face, a company with a multi-billion dollar valuation and one of the most commonly used platforms for sharing AI tools and resources …
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Forums: r/technology, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Cristián Vera-Cruz / Rest of World: |
A look at the Chile-led Latam-GPT project, which involves 30+ Latin American and Caribbean institutions collaborating to release an open-source LLM in September — Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America's cultural and linguistic nuances.
X: @restofworld
| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
SharpLink Gaming, a Nasdaq-listed online gambling marketing company, becomes the largest corporate ether holder with 280,706, surpassing the Ethereum Foundation — - SharpLink ups its treasury to 280,706 ETH after a $156 M buying spree, surpassing the Ethereum Foundation's stash.| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI is preparing ChatGPT agents to let users create files compatible with PowerPoint and Excel, generate reports, and handle tasks involving websites — As OpenAI tries to turn ChatGPT into a core application for white-collar work, it's developing agent features …
More: Financial Express and Moneycontrol
| Michelle Anindya / Rest of World: |
Tokopedia sellers say Tokopedia's strengths have eroded since its TikTok Shop merger in Indonesia, driving thousands of sellers to join rivals, including Toco — A year after merging with local giant Tokopedia, TikTok's business model is alienating sellers, forcing many to join rival platforms.| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
A Resume Builder survey of 1,342 managers in the US finds 60% say they rely on AI to make personnel decisions, 78% of which use the tech in deciding raises — A recent survey from Resume Builder finds that half of managers are using AI to make crucial decisions about their direct reports … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q2 net sales of €7.7B, net income of €2.29B, and net bookings of €5.5B, above €4.19B est., as tariffs have a “less negative” impact than expected — ASML on Wednesday warned of the possibility of no growth in 2026, even as it beat top and bottom line expectations for the second quarter.
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