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| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to Claude, citing ToS violations; sources: OpenAI's use of the API let it compare its models' behavior against Claude's — OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service.
More: Neowin and The Information
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, and Slashdot
| Washington Post: |
A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $243M in damages — The outcome is a stunning rebuke for Tesla, which for years has fought to absolve itself of responsibility when its technology is involved in a crash.
More: CNBC, TechCrunch, NBC News, Times of India, The Week, BBC, Rolling Stone, Straight Arrow News, Wired, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, The Guardian, Engadget, Carscoops, Financial Times, Gizmodo, The Verge, and The Detroit News
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Forums: r/news, r/musked, r/law, r/legal, and r/StockMarket
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: in a rare companywide meeting, Tim Cook said the AI revolution is “ours to grab”, Apple's AI efforts will mirror its iPhone successes, and more — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, holding a rare all-hands meeting following earnings results …
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Forums: r/apple, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon have collectively spent ~$90B on capex in their most recent quarters and are expected to spend over $344B for the year — If there's any lesson to take from the spending plans issued by the world's largest technology companies over the past two weeks …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details “persona vectors”, patterns of activity within an AI model's neural network that control its character traits, such as evil and sycophancy — Read the paper — Language models are strange beasts. In many ways they appear to have human-like “personalities” …
More: The Verge, arXiv.org, and MIT Technology Review
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| The Information: |
Source: GPT-5 improvements won't be comparable to the leaps in performance of earlier models, such as between GPT-3 in 2020 and GPT-4 in 2023 — OpenAI made waves across the industry in December when it published the results from its tests of artificial intelligence that performs better …
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| New York Times: |
Source: OpenAI raised $8.3B led by Dragoneer at a $300B valuation, months ahead of schedule and part of a $40B goal for 2025; 5M business users pay for ChatGPT — The venture capital round values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, and underscores the fierceness of the A.I. money race.
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| Maximilian Henning / Euractiv: |
Signatories to the EU's voluntary AI Code of Practice include Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, while Chinese AI companies remain absent — Nearly all dominant EU and US AI developers have signed up, but - so far - there are none from China.
More: European Commission, Silicon Republic, Euractiv, Google Cloud Blog, Politico, and WRITER. LinkedIn: Nanna-Louise Linde
| Margaret Attridge / Courthouse News Service: |
A US jury finds Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act when it intentionally recorded the health data of women via the period tracking app Flo — The jury got to decide how seriously Big Tech takes privacy, the attorney for a class of Flo users said in closing arguments.
More: MLex, Bloomberg Law, Sifted, and United States District Court N.D. Cal.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Nintendo plans to raise the price of the original Switch “family of systems and products” and some Switch 2 accessories in the US; Switch 2's price won't change — The price hike will affect the family of original Switch systems, including the Lite and OLED.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, its most advanced reasoning model, which considers multiple ideas simultaneously, to its $250/month Ultra subscription — Google DeepMind is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, which, the company says, is its most advanced AI reasoning model …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit wants to become “a go-to search engine” for users; its core search has 70M+ weekly active unique users and its AI tool Reddit Answers has 6M weekly users — CEO Steve Huffman says the company is focused on making the platform a ‘go-to search engine.’
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Manus unveils Wide Research, an experimental feature that lets users on its Pro plan enlist dozens of parallelized AI agents for large-scale, high-volume tasks — Chinese AI startup Manus, which made headlines earlier this year for its approach to a multi-agent orchestration platform for consumers and … | Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Roblox's average DAUs grew 41% YoY to 111.8M in Q2 and hours engaged rose 58% YoY to 27.4B, driven by the success of tycoon-style farming game Grow a Garden — Roblox (RBLX.N) raised its annual bookings forecast on Thursday and topped 100 million in daily active users thanks to the viral success … | Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
CB Insights: Figma's IPO was the largest venture-backed IPO by market capitalization for a US tech company since Rivian's debut in November 2021 — At more than $19 billion, the design-software company's initial market cap priced well above its private valuation, a welcome scenario for venture investors
More: Reuters, Business Insider, Motley Fool, Semafor, Yahoo Finance, and Fast Company
| Daniel Kim / Cerebras: |
Cerebras announces the $50/month Code Pro and the $200/month Code Max plans, offering users access to Qwen3-Coder at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second — We are launching two new plans designed to make AI coding faster and more accessible: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month) and Code Max ($200/month).
More: Simon Willison's Weblog. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me. X: @cerebrassystems, @abacaj, @kuittinenpetri, @simonw, @yampeleg, and @grmcameron. Forums: Hacker News
| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: since April 2, President Trump has excluded over $100B in US smartphone and laptop imports from tariffs, highlighting conflicting administration goals — Exclusions reflect conflicting goals: to rip up the rules of global trade while cushioning US consumers.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July — The company raised nearly $2.4 billion for its Bitcoin treasury strategy in the three-month period
More: TheDesk.net and Trump Media
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will preserve “actively used” goo.gl URLs, after announcing earlier that all existing goo.gl links would stop working in August 2025 — After originally planning to have all goo.gl URLs stop working later this month, Google will now “preserve actively used links.”
More: The Keyword, Android Police, NZ Herald, How-To Geek, Android Central, Neowin, Android Authority, Washington Post, Engadget, and The Verge. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram now requires users to have a public account with 1,000+ followers to go live, aligning with TikTok; previously, the feature was open to all users — Instagram users now need a public account with a minimum of 1,000 followers to go live on the platform, the social network confirmed to TechCrunch.
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