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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 gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a 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: Cristian Moga, Alok Ranjan, Durga Malladi, Soren Larsen, and Atul Deo
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to make OpenAI's new gpt-oss open-weight models available on Bedrock and SageMaker, the first time it has offered OpenAI's models to AWS customers — Takeaways by Bloomberg AI — Hide … Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $7.69B, vs. $7.43B est., net income down 31% YoY to $781M, and diluted EPS of $0.48, vs. $0.49 est.; AMD drops 5%+ — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. dropped about 5.4% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the company was unable to give a clear outlook …
More: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Barron's Online, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal
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| David Reber Jr / NVIDIA: |
Nvidia says its GPUs do not contain backdoors, kill switches, or spyware, and hard-coded, single-point controls like kill switches undermine trust in US tech — NVIDIA GPUs are at the heart of modern computing. They're used across industries — from healthcare and finance to scientific research …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image, an open-source AI image generation model focused on accurately rendering text, 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 …
More: Qwen, Qwen on Hugging Face, Simon Willison's Weblog, Implicator.ai, Alizila, WebProNews, Tech in Asia, and Qwen
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| The Guardian: |
Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system to collect millions of mobile phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank using Microsoft's Azure platform — Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians' phone calls on Microsoft's servers in Europe
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| 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.| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney says it is “fully integrating” Hulu into Disney+ and plans to launch a “unified” Disney+ and Hulu app in 2026 now that it is Hulu's sole owner — Hulu will replace the Star brand on Disney+ internationally this fall — Say ciao to the stand-alone Hulu streaming app … | Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The Trump administration is warning states that they risk losing access to broadband funds if they set price caps on low-cost ISP plans — The Trump administration is telling states they will be shut out of a $42 billion broadband deployment fund if they set the rates that Internet service … | 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/singularity, r/SillyTavernAI, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ClaudeCode
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
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X: @amritwt, @kimmonismus, @shiringhaffary, and @alexalbert__
| Wall Street Journal: |
How Palantir won over US lawmakers, leveraging geopolitical crises, technological trends, and DC connections, as CEO Alex Karp adopts a persona not unlike Trump — The onetime Silicon Valley upstart has emerged as a power player in Trump's second term—and adopted his persona| Reuters: |
Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts from March 2024 to June 2025, as X and Modi's government clash over content rules — In January, an old post on Elon Musk's social media platform, X, became a concern for police in the Indian city of Satara.
X: @adityakalra, @munsifv, and @reuterstech
| 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
| Financial Times: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.7B, Gross Bookings up 17% YoY to $46.8B, trips up 18% YoY to 3.3B, income up 82% YoY to $1.5B, a $20B share buyback — Ride-hailing app announces plans after posting upbeat outlook for gross bookings — Uber has announced plans to buy back $20bn of its shares … | Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
OpenMind, which is developing an OS for humanoid robots, raised $20M led by Pantera and unveils FABRIC, a protocol to let robots to share info with one another — Many companies are focused on building robots, or the hardware components to help them move, grip objects, or interact with the world around them.
More: The Robot Report, The Block, OpenMind, CoinGape, Robotics & Automation News, crypto.news, Coinspeaker, and Blockchain News. LinkedIn: Jan Liphardt
| Reuters: |
Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 31% YoY to $2.68B, above $2.55B est., GMV up 30.6% YoY to $87.8B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SHOP jumps 15%+ pre-market — Shopify (SHOP.TO), forecast third-quarter revenue above market estimates on Wednesday, as its AI features and platform upgrades boosted demand …
More: BetaKit, Investor's Business Daily, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Canadian Press, Shopify, and Sherwood News
| Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports, far exceeding its public disclosure of 12,522 reports — Uber received a report of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the United States almost every eight minutes on average between 2017 and 2022 … | 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.
More: Benzinga, Sherwood News, Snap Inc., The Information, SiliconANGLE, Deadline, Reuters, Proactive, The Hollywood Reporter, Sherwood News, and Bloomberg
X: @eric_seufert and @qcapital2020
| 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.
More: Washington Examiner and Courthouse News Service
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