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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.
More: VentureBeat, The GitHub Blog, 9to5Mac, Neowin, The Decoder, Research & Development World, WinBuzzer, Analytics India Magazine, and TestingCatalog
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/ClaudeCode, and r/SillyTavernAI
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
More: The New Stack and Simon Willison's Weblog
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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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LinkedIn: Soren Larsen and Atul Deo
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| 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: r/apple and r/hardware
| 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 … | 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/Bard, r/accelerate, r/technology, r/vfx, and r/OculusQuest
| 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: Cointelegraph, Washington Post, Reclaim The Net, The Washington Free Beacon, Inside Bitcoins, New York Times, crypto.news, CryptoNinjas, ZeroHedge News, The Crypto Basic, The Block, CoinDesk, Blockonomi, Coinspeaker, Ledger Insights, The Independent, CryptoSlate, Finextra, Decrypt, Coinpedia Fintech News, Benzinga, and CryptoPotato
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Forums: r/Economics, r/ldspolitics, r/CryptoCurrency, r/finance, r/DeepStateCentrism, 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.
More: Mashable, Gizmodo, Engadget, IDFPR, Tallahassee Democrat, and Chicago Sun Times
| 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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| 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.| 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
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| 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, Mashable, Tallahassee Democrat, WTVX, Florida Politics, and Joe.My.God.. Bluesky: @samleecole
| 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 Verge, Android Central, Android Authority, and Android Headlines
| 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 …
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Forums: r/hardware, r/AMD_Stock, and r/intelstock
| 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 …
More: Financial Times, Tom's Hardware, The Decoder, DigiTimes, and Nikkei Asia
| 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, Bitcoin Insider, Unchained, Ledger Insights, CoinDesk, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Reuters
| 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, Engadget, Billboard, Business Wire, The Decoder, Music Business Worldwide, WinBuzzer, Shelly Palmer, and Implicator.ai
X: @kimmonismus, @elevenlabsdevs, @elevenlabsio, @elevenlabsio, and @elevenlabsio. Forums: Hacker News
| 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| 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, WinBuzzer, and The Information
Bluesky: @edzitron.com. X: @jeffwsurf, @scottwu46, @theinformation, and @lauramandaro. LinkedIn: Scott Johnson
| 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
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the platform paid out $10B+ to creators since its 2013 founding, creators now get $2B+ annually, and there are 25M+ paid memberships — Creators on Patreon have received more than $10 billion in payouts from fans since the company was founded in 2013, CEO and co-founder Jack Conte tells Axios.
X: @sarafischer
| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
President Trump says that he plans to announce new tariffs “on semiconductors and chips” as soon as next week “because we want them made in the United States” — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping
More: Investor's Business Daily, PCMag, TechCrunch, Bloomberg Law, The American Bazaar, and Washington Examiner
Forums: r/intelstock, r/StockMarket, and r/politics
| Bloomberg: |
The US General Services Administration approves OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for AI contracts with civilian federal agencies via its Multiple Award Schedule — The US government's central purchasing arm is adding OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Anthropic to a list of approved artificial … | Tobias Mann / The Register: |
Google signs a deal with two power utilities to lower its power use by pausing non-essential AI workloads during demand surges or weather-based grid disruptions — Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday.
More: PhoneArena, WinBuzzer, ITPro, TechRadar, The Keyword, The Decoder, Benzinga, Reuters, and The Hill
Forums: Hacker News, r/energy, and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
US DOT Secretary Sean Duffy proposes a rule change to let commercial drones fly beyond an operator's line of sight, a boon for Walmart and Alphabet's Wing — Takeaways by Bloomberg AI — Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback
More: Transport Topics
| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021 — When Parthi Duraisamy was a consultant at McKinsey's Dubai office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied …
More: Finextra, Times of India, The Economic Times, Wamda, Implicator.ai, and Bloomberg
| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
As Delta experiments with AI-driven ticket pricing, regulators and travelers alike worry about dynamic fare schemes that “go beyond the human cognitive limits” — Airlines, including Delta, are testing artificial intelligence in pricing. Get ready for what one startup calls the “exploitation phase.”
More: Reuters, Washington Post, Hospitality Net, Skift, The Lever, and Mashable
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