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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC fires several employees for violating rules on obtaining sensitive information on its 2nm tech; TSMC says it detected “unauthorized activities” — TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has fired several employees for violating rules on obtaining sensitive …
More: The Information, Benzinga, CNBC, Fortune, Neowin, Reuters, Patently Apple, Bloomberg, and DigiTimes. Forums: r/hardware
| Bloomberg: |
White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says the US is exploring software or physical methods to track the location of AI chips, as part of AI Action Plan — The US is exploring ways to equip chips with better location-tracking capabilities, a senior official said, underscoring Washington's effort …
More: Financial Times, Tech in Asia, Nikkei Asia, DigiTimes, and PC Gamer
Bluesky: @sensehofstede.nl and @paleofuture
| Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
Taiwanese prosecutors say two ex-TSMC employees and a third suspect were arrested for allegedly stealing proprietary tech; investigators searched Tokyo Electron — Taiwanese prosecutors probe ‘potential trade secret leaks’ in first case since key technologies added to national security legislation
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A draft White House EO shows President Trump plans to step up pressure against big banks over alleged discrimination against crypto companies and conservatives — The president is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that targets so-called debanking of businesses including crypto companies
More: The Block, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, Blockonomi, Finextra, Decrypt, Benzinga, Crypto Briefing, MarketWatch, Cryptonews, CryptoPotato, and Coinpedia Fintech News
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Forums: r/politics, r/CryptoCurrency, and r/StockMarket
| Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: |
The CFTC is asking for public comment by August 18 about trading spot crypto asset contracts listed on CFTC-registered futures exchanges — Takeaways by Bloomberg AI — Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission … | Cloudflare: |
Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks — We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Figma's stock dropped 27.4% to $88.60 on August 4 after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer — Figma shares dropped 27% on Monday, cutting into the gains the design software company posted after hitting the market last week.| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
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| Sophia Fox-Sowell / StateScoop: |
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a bill into law on August 1 banning AI use for providing mental health services, while allowing its use in admin roles — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker approved a new law banning the use of artificial intelligence systems in providing psychotherapy services.
More: Mashable, IDFPR, Tallahassee Democrat, and Chicago Sun Times. Bluesky: @thebluenami.is.democrat
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
The UK's Online Safety Act shows the UK prioritized government control over improving safety, becoming a cautionary tale in internet regulation for democracies — Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK's Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago.
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| John Herrman / New York Magazine: |
SEO is being supplanted by generative-engine optimization, or GEO, which focuses on AI chatbots and does not benefit from longstanding SEO tricks — Search-engine optimization now feels dated. Generative-engine optimization is all about trying to trick AI chatbots.
More: Implicator.ai, Social Media Today, Forbes, Domain Name Wire, and Search Engine Journal
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| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
Users say AI notetaking tools for meetings can misinterpret context when generating summaries or share content meant for a select audience with all participants — New note-taking software catches every word from your meetings—including the parts you didn't want the whole room to hear
Bluesky: @hypervisible and @michae.lv
| The Information: |
Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to the ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing “we don't believe in work-life balance” — Cognition, a two-year-old artificial intelligence coding startup last valued at $4 billion, has offered buyouts …
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| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
Google agrees a deal with two power utilities to pause non-essential AI workloads during peak demand or adverse weather events that reduce supply — Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday.| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Netherlands-based dronemaker Destinus agrees to acquire Zurich-based Daedalean, which develops ML aviation autopilot software, for $223M in cash and stock — Takeaways by Bloomberg AI — Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback
More: Sifted and Tech in Asia
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google unveils Kaggle Game Arena, a benchmarking platform where AI models compete head-to-head in strategic games, starting with a chess tournament this week — The world's top performing artificial intelligence models, including OpenAI's o3 and 04-mini, Google LLC's Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash …
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| Min Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: |
Filings: SoftBank increased its Nvidia stake to ~$3B in Q1 and bought $330M worth of TSMC stock; a source says Vision Fund monetized ~$2B of assets in H1 2025 — Takeaways by Bloomberg AI — Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback
More: Tech in Asia
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Core Scientific's hedge fund shareholders may reject CoreWeave's all-stock merger bid, seeking better terms, as CRWV has fallen 30%+ post-announcement — Some investment funds may vote against deal unless protections are added to limit the potential downside — Unlock the Editor's Digest for free
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Intel's 18A process is facing significant yield challenges, with only ~5% of chips meeting its specifications in late 2024 and ~10% by summer 2025 — The production process that Intel (INTC.O) hoped would pave the way to winning manufacturing deals and restore its edge in churning out high-end … | Globes: |
Israeli quantum computing startup QuamCore raised a $26M Series A led by Sentinel, taking its total funding to $35M, and plans to move into chip fabrication — The company has developed a fully designed and simulated architecture capable of scaling to 1 million qubits in a single cryostat.
More: Finextra, FinSMEs, CTech, HPCwire, and Tech Funding News
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
OpenAI says it will hit 700M weekly active users for ChatGPT this week, up from 500M in March and up 4x YoY, and has 5M paying business users, up from June's 3M — OpenAI is set to hit 700 million weekly active users for ChatGPT this week, up from 500 million in March …
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Bluesky: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @nickaturley, @emollick, @gdb, @kevinweil, and @firstadopter
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: |
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