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Samsung unveils a $16.5B chip deal with Tesla that runs through the end of 2033; Elon Musk says the deal is to make Tesla's next-gen AI6 chips in Taylor, Texas — Samsung Electronics Co. will produce AI semiconductors for Tesla Inc. in a new $16.5 billion pact that marks a win for its underperforming foundry division.
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| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
PayPal unveils Pay With Crypto for merchants to accept bitcoin, ether, USDT, and more via Coinbase, OKX, and other wallets, rolling out in the coming weeks — PayPal Holdings Inc. will soon allow businesses to accept more than one hundred cryptocurrencies at checkout.| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu and which has raised $1.5B from Tencent and others, releases GLM-4.5, an open source AI model that's cheaper to use than DeepSeek — BEIJING — Chinese companies are making smarter artificial intelligence models that are increasingly cheaper to use …
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Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| BBC: |
Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023 — Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023.
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| Laura Dubois / Financial Times: |
The European Commission accuses Temu of breaching the DSA by failing to do enough to stop the sale of illegal products on its platform, in preliminary findings — European Commission says ecommerce group failing to do enough to tackle sale of illegal products| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Chrome will debut AI-generated store reviews to US shoppers, where clicking an icon just to the left of the URL will show a popup with store reputation info — Google on Monday announced an update to its Chrome web browser that will introduce AI-generated store reviews to U.S. shoppers … | Alyson Krueger / New York Times: |
People are increasingly using generative AI to create digital vision boards, such as videos depicting their ideal futures, to help them achieve their goals — For some believers in manifestation, vision boards have become a little like movie trailers, as brought to you by A.I.
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| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
How the AI boom is reenergizing San Francisco, one of the slowest US cities to recover from the pandemic, with rising foot traffic and new commercial leases — The AI momentum isn't stopping and it's bringing workers, venture capital money and life back to San Francisco.| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
At the International Mathematical Olympiad, 26 students got higher scores than DeepMind and OpenAI models, possibly the last time humans beat AI at the exam — Google DeepMind and OpenAI won gold medals at the math Olympics—but these American teenagers still got higher scores.| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Sources: the US freezes tech export curbs on China to avoid disrupting trade talks and help President Trump secure a 2025 meeting with President Xi Jinping — US officials have been warned to avoid tough moves against Beijing as Stockholm hosts third round of negotiations
More: TechCrunch, Benzinga, Tom's Hardware, Engadget, Watcher Guru, Noahpinion, implicator.ai, and Reuters
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Forums: r/politics, r/StockMarket, and r/wallstreetbets
| Zachary Small / New York Times: |
How the video game industry, which has used AI since the 1980s, is embracing AI-enhanced gameplay, worrying some developers as major studios cut employees — Game designers have used artificial intelligence since the 1980s. But digital characters demonstrating self-awareness is a far cry from the ghosts chasing Pac-Man.
More: The Economic Times
| Bloomberg: |
At Shanghai's World AI Conference, ByteDance, Unitree, UBTech, Agibot, and other Chinese companies demoed a wide range of robots, including boxing droids — From lumbering six-foot machines to nimble back-flipping dogs, robots lorded over China's most important annual AI conference in Shanghai this week.
More: TechSpot
| Reuters: |
An analysis of ~200 Shein items between April and July: prices spiked in April, settled at 12.5% above pre-tariff levels by late May, and jumped again in July — Evidence for the impact of Trump's trade war has shown up at the popular China-founded online retailer.
More: implicator.ai
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Imax partners with Runway AI to screen 10 films selected as finalists in the company's AI Film Festival at 10 Imax locations across the US — Imax is teaming with tech firm Runway to present commercial screenings of selections from the company's AI Film Festival.
More: The Decoder, The Hollywood Reporter, Livemint, and WinBuzzer
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