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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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X: @sama, @eric_wallace_, @khoomeik, @sjgadler, @emostaque, @julien_c, @clementdelangue, @patrickmoorhead, @natolambert, @simonw, @neilturkewitz, @artificialanlys, @tydsh, @arankomatsuzaki, @kevinweil, @sama, @chatgpt21, @willccbb, @teortaxestex, @multimodalart, @emostaque, @polynoamial, @openai, @entersudonym, @sama, @lisasu, @mileskwang, @tszzl, @rowancheung, @xikun_zhang_, @rauchg, @levie, @xlr8harder, @mattshumer_, @bradlightcap, @dharmesh, @emollick, @groqinc, @nvidia, @yacinemtb, @clementdelangue, @openai, @gdb, @_aidan_clark_, @angaisb_, @emostaque, @photomatt, @simonw, @openai, @mkratsios47, @elonmusk, @venturetwins, @natolambert, @simonw, @tomwarren, @scaling01, and @mattshumer_
LinkedIn: Cristian Moga, Durga Malladi, Alok Ranjan, Soren Larsen, and Atul Deo
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, Hacker News, r/ChatGPT, r/aws, r/artificial, r/programare, r/OpenAI, r/accelerate, r/singularity, and r/OpenAI
Ian King / Bloomberg:
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $7.7B vs. $7.43B est., and diluted EPS of $0.48, vs. $0.49 est.; AMD drops 5%+ after hours  —  Takeaways by Bloomberg AI  —  Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience.  Share your feedback  —  Advanced Micro Devices Inc. …
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 …
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.
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”
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
The US 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 …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft unveils Project Ire, a prototype AI system that can reverse engineer and identify malicious software autonomously, without human assistance  —  Microsoft says it has created an advanced AI system that can reverse-engineer and identify malicious software on its own, without human assistance.
Reuters:
Linda Yaccarino is named CEO of digital health platform eMed Population Health, less than a month after she stepped down as CEO of X  —  Linda Yaccarino is taking the top job at eMed Population Health, a telehealth startup focused on GLP-1 weight loss drugs, nearly a month after stepping down as CEO of social media platform X.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Grok's new “spicy” option on its generative AI video tool Imagine produces nude deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift, even without explicit user prompting  —  Safeguards?  What safeguards? … The “spicy” mode for Grok's new generative AI video tool feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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.
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.”
More: WinBuzzer.  Bluesky: @librarianelle, @adzebill, @emanuelmaiberg, and @nicolefroio.  Mastodon: @eloy@hsnl.social.  X: @halsted_19
Forums: Beehaw and Slashdot
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Snap reports 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%  —  Snap shares tanked 15% Tuesday when it reported second-quarter earnings in which global average revenue per user missed expectations.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
WhatsApp will show users a “safety overview” card when they are added to unknown group chats, surfacing key info and safety tips to help protect against scams  —  The overview will contain information about when the group was created, who invited you, and how many members it has.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to hold a secondary share sale for current and former staffers at a ~$500B valuation; OpenAI was valued at $300B in March 2025  —  OpenAI is in early talks about a potential sale of stock for current and former employees at a valuation of about $500 billion …
Financial Times:
Sources: China held talks about merging a group of chip equipment makers into a national champion but faced pushback over ownership structure and valuation  —  Beijing wants ‘megamergers’ to help fragmented sector face large US and European rivals  —  Beijing is facing obstacles in its push …
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 16%+ after hours  —  Super Micro Computer Inc. shares plunged after the company lowered its fiscal-year revenue forecast and projecting quarterly profit that fell short of estimates …
Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico:
A US federal judge strikes down a California law blocking large platforms from hosting deceptive AI-generated content related to elections, citing Section 230  —  The first law would have blocked online platforms from hosting deceptive, AI-generated content related to an election in the run-up to the vote.

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