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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller model can run locally on a consumer device with 16GB+ of RAM — The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, represent a major shift for the AI company. — OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models in over five years.
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1 to paid Claude users, in Claude Code, via its API, and more, featuring broad improvements over Opus 4 for the same cost — Today we're releasing Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4 on agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/ClaudeCode, and r/SillyTavernAI
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic's Mike Krieger: Opus 4.1 is better at coding, agentic tasks, and more, and Anthropic was previously too focused on only shipping “really big upgrades” — Anthropic is releasing a new version of its most powerful artificial intelligence model as rival OpenAI nears the long-awaited launch of its GPT-5 system.
More: Simon Willison's Weblog and The New Stack
X: @amritwt, @kimmonismus, @morqon, @alexalbert__, and @shiringhaffary
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google DeepMind releases its Genie 3 model, which can generate 3D worlds from a prompt and has enough visual memory for a few minutes of continuous interaction — AI world models have many limitations, but Genie 3 offers improvements like real-time interaction and better memory.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/virtualreality, r/Bard, r/Futurology, r/accelerate, r/technology, r/vfx, and r/OculusQuest
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba's Qwen releases Qwen-Image, an AI image generation model focused on accurate text rendering, with support for alphabetic and logographic scripts — After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched …
More: Qwen on Hugging Face, Qwen, Simon Willison's Weblog, WebProNews, Alizila, Tech in Asia, and Qwen
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me. X: @alibaba_qwen, @artificialanlys, @justinlin610, @_akhaliq, @dorialexander, and @alibabagroup
Forums: Hacker News, r/aiwars, and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC fires several employees for violating rules on obtaining sensitive information about its 2nm tech; TSMC says it detected “unauthorized activities” — TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has fired several employees for violating rules …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, and r/hardware
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
ElevenLabs launches Eleven Music, letting individuals and businesses use its AI model to generate music cleared for commercial use via English-language prompts — New model allows customers to create music with AI that is cleared for commercial use. But AI-generated music still faces legal battles and stiff opposition from artists.
More: TechCrunch, Sifted, Engadget, Music Business Worldwide, Billboard, Business Wire, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, Shelly Palmer, and Implicator.ai
X: @kimmonismus, @elevenlabsdevs, @elevenlabsio, @elevenlabsio, and @elevenlabsio. Forums: Hacker News
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $7.7B vs. $7.43B est., Data Center revenue up 14% to $3.2B vs. $3.25B est., Client revenue up 67% to $2.5B vs. $2.56B est. — Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the second-largest maker of AI accelerator chips, gave a stronger-than-expected sales forecast …
More: Investor's Business Daily, Livemint, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Sherwood News
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
WhatsApp adds a new “safety overview” that appears in new group chats, including info on the group and when it was created, to help protect users from scams — The overview will contain information about when the group was created, who invited you, and how many members it has.| Reuters: |
Sources: Intel's 18A process yield has remained low, with only ~5% of its Panther Lake 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 …
More: How-To Geek, Engadget, Appuals, Ars Technica, Guru3D, PCGamesN, WinBuzzer, TechPowerUp, and Benzinga
Forums: r/hardware, r/AMD_Stock, and r/intelstock
| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law — The state of Florida is suing some of the biggest porn platforms on the internet, accusing them of not complying with the state's law that requires adult sites to verify that visitors are over the age of 18.
More: My Florida Legal, Engadget, Tallahassee Democrat, Florida Politics, WTVX, Joe.My.God., and Mashable. Bluesky: @samleecole
| 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
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Forums: r/ldspolitics, r/CryptoCurrency, r/DeepStateCentrism, r/Economics, r/finance, r/StockMarket, and r/politics
| Sophia Fox-Sowell / StateScoop: |
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a bill into law on August 1 banning the use of AI for mental health services, but allowing its use in administrative roles — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker approved a new law banning the use of artificial intelligence systems in providing psychotherapy services.| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Snap Q2: revenue up 9% YoY to $1.34B, vs. $1.35B est., 469M global DAUs, vs. 467M est., and global ARPU of $2.87, vs. $2.90 est.; SNAP drops ~15% after hours — Snap shares tanked 15% Tuesday when it reported second-quarter earnings in which global average revenue per user missed expectations.
More: Reuters, The Information, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Proactive, The Hollywood Reporter, Snap Inc., Variety, and Sherwood News
| Kelly Lawler / USA Today: |
Roku launches Howdy, an ad-free streaming service for $2.99 per month, initially only on Roku devices, with content from Lionsgate, WBD, FilmRise, and others — Roku is ready to say Howdy. — The company − which sells set-top streaming devices, smart TVs and has its own free …
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Match Q2: revenue of $864M, flat YoY, net earnings of $125.5M, down from $133.3M YoY, and provides a Q3 forecast beating estimates; MTCH jumps 11% after hours — Match Group Inc. provided a better-than-expected third-quarter sales forecast and pledged to invest $50 million in product development …
More: Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and Sherwood News
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
The Gemini mobile app now lets users create “personalized, illustrated storybooks complete with read-aloud narration” that can incorporate uploaded photos — The latest Gemini app feature lets you create “personalized, illustrated storybooks complete with read-aloud narration.”
More: The Keyword, Android Police, Android Central, and Android Headlines
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
The UK's Online Safety Act shows the UK prioritized government control over improving safety, becoming a cautionary tale for democracies regulating the internet — Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK's Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking …
More: Columbia Journalism Review and The Guardian
Bluesky: @planesailinggames.com, @jennykaynz, @werd.io, @techdirt.com, @glynmoody, @mmasnick, and @gnomeicide
Forums: r/ukpolitics, r/technews, r/privacy, r/GreenAndPleasant, r/technology, r/KotakuInAction, and Beehaw
| 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 …
More: CFTC, Reuters, CFTC, Decrypt, Inside Bitcoins, Unchained, Ledger Insights, Bitcoin Insider, and Reuters
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Filing: in its ChatGPT lawsuit, the NYT asked OpenAI to produce 120M user chats to analyze how often ChatGPT regurgitates its articles, after OpenAI offered 20M — OpenAI is preparing to raise what could be its final defense to stop The New York Times from digging through a spectacularly broad range … | 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| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving admins the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like incorrect citations — “The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”| Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab: |
Newsletter service Ghost says publishers have earned $100M+ on it, its annual revenue is $8.5M+, it now supports ActivityPub, and is upping new member pricing — The open-source publishing platform Ghost, which powers the websites and newsletters of many independent news outlets … | Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Coinbase adds Embedded Wallets to its mobile SDK, allowing devs to integrate wallets into their apps with minimal code, with support for on-ramps and swaps — - Coinbase's developer platform has launched Embedded Wallets, allowing developers to integrate self-custodial wallets into apps with minimal coding.
More: CoinDesk and crypto.news
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Super Micro reports Q4 revenue up 7.5% YoY to $5.76B, vs. $6.01B est., and lowers its fiscal year sales forecast; SMCI drops 14%+ after hours — Super Micro Computer Inc. shares dropped after lowering its fiscal year sales forecast, suggesting the company continues to face uneven uptake … | Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
The DOJ says two Chinese nationals were arrested in California on charges of illegally shipping AI chips, including Nvidia H100s, to China from 2022 to 2025 — Two Chinese nationals were arrested in California and charged with illegally shipping tens of millions of dollars' worth of AI chips to China … | Bloomberg: |
White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says the US is exploring software or physical ways to track the location of AI chips, as part of its AI Action Plan — The US is exploring ways to equip chips with better location-tracking capabilities, a senior official said … | The Information: |
Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to its ~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 …
More: TechCrunch, Forbes, WinBuzzer, and The Information
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