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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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
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Bluesky: @lukaszolejnik, @dave.9000ish.uk, @bancsutherland, @timkellogg.me, @natolambert, and @sungkim. Mastodon: @samhenrigold@hachyderm.io. Threads: @vishvanands
X: @sama, @clementdelangue, @eric_wallace_, @openai, @clementdelangue, @sjgadler, @khoomeik, @emostaque, @artificialanlys, @tszzl, @yacinemtb, @patrickmoorhead, @rauchg, @mkratsios47, @simonw, @elonmusk, @venturetwins, @nvidia, @natolambert, @teortaxestex, @emostaque, @emollick, @xlr8harder, @natolambert, @openai, @tydsh, @simonw, @arankomatsuzaki, @willccbb, @photomatt, @dharmesh, @mileskwang, @multimodalart, @levie, @emostaque, @lisasu, @julien_c, @scaling01, @kevinweil, @bradlightcap, @polynoamial, @_aidan_clark_, @mattshumer_, @openai, @xikun_zhang_, @chatgpt21, @entersudonym, @groqinc, @mattshumer_, @simonw, @tomwarren, @rowancheung, @gdb, @neilturkewitz, @sama, @angaisb_, and @sama
LinkedIn: Cristian Moga, Alok Ranjan, Durga Malladi, 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
| 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 …
More: HotHardware, PCWorld, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, Implicator.ai, Tasnim News Agency, PC Gamer, VideoCardz.com, WinBuzzer, Reuters, CNBC, TechPowerUp, and PCMag
X: @dnystedt, @tomwarren, and @reuters
Forums: r/hardware and Slashdot
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers demonstrate a novel Gemini attack using poisoned Google Calendar invites to trigger smart home devices; Google fixed the flaws earlier in 2025 — For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real-world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.| Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg: |
White House official: President Trump plans to announce today that Apple will commit to spending another $100B on US manufacturing; Tim Cook is set to attend — President Donald Trump plans to announce that Apple Inc. will commit to spending another $100 billion on domestic manufacturing …
More: AppleInsider, New York Post, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, The Hill, Reuters, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, CNN, The Standard, CBS News, Fox Business, Yahoo Finance, Financial Times, Associated Press, New York Times, Forbes, NBC News, iClarified, Cult of Mac, Patently Apple, NewsNation, MacDailyNews, Reuters, MacDailyNews, and Sherwood News
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney says it is “fully integrating” Hulu into Disney+, plans to launch a “unified” Disney+ and Hulu app in 2026 and migrate Hulu's live TV subscribers to Fubo — Hulu will replace the Star brand on Disney+ internationally this fall
More: Engadget, 9to5Google, The Verge, PCWorld, 9to5Mac, Deadline, New Jersey Online, Dexerto, GamesRadar, Tom's Guide, The Walt Disney Company, Decider, Adweek, That Park Place, The Wrap, The Streamable, Screen Rant, Cord Cutters News, TechRadar, Bleeding Cool News, Android Authority, Consequence, Broadband TV News, TVLine, CBS News, The Hollywood Reporter, and Just Jared
X: @brianstelter, @madamefowler, @sourceryan, and @nyasimoneg
LinkedIn: James Faris and Augustus Christensen
Forums: r/Hulu and r/cordcutters
| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
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X: @sherman4949, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, and @pkafka
LinkedIn: Daniel Roberts, Alixzandra Jyawook, Brian Steinberg, and Manish Verma
| 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
More: Metacurity and WinBuzzer
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Mastodon: @natematias@social.coop and @metacurity@infosec.exchange
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| 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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| 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. shares fell on Wednesday after the company failed to deliver a clear outlook for resuming sales in China …
More: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., HotHardware, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @moogle.dev. X: @benbajarin, @gordongekko420, @yxinsights, @economyapp, @theaustinlyons, @benbajarin, @thetranscript_, and @benbajarin
Forums: r/hardware, r/stocks, r/wallstreetbets, and r/AMD_Stock
| 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.| 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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Bluesky: @hellocullen, @carljanderson, and @boblittle
X: @sawyermerritt, @quantian1, @silvermanjacob, @alexrkonrad, and @morqon
Forums: r/singularity and r/wallstreetbets
| 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
Bluesky: @xeiaso.net, @to3no7, @jaydub, and @timkellogg.me
X: @alibaba_qwen, @linoy_tsaban, @artificialanlys, @dorialexander, @justinlin610, @_akhaliq, and @alibabagroup. Forums: r/aiwars
| 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 … | Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
The US DOJ says two Chinese nationals were arrested in California and charged with illegally shipping AI chips, like 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 … | 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| 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 … | 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
| 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
| 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 …
More: Sherwood News. Bluesky: @brycecovert and @brunojnavarro. Mastodon: @cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com. X: @sylviavarnham
| 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 … | Ian Walker / Wall Street Journal: |
The UK CMA clears Omnicom's $13B acquisition of Interpublic after launching an investigation into the deal on June 23; the FTC cleared the deal on June 25 — The watchdog had been considering whether the deal would lead to a substantial lessening of competition| 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: Diff. Bluesky: @librarianelle, @adzebill, @emanuelmaiberg, and @nicolefroio. Mastodon: @eloy@hsnl.social. X: @halsted_19
| 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.| Anthropic: |
More: The Information, ZDNET, Maginative, Axios, and Axios
Threads: @hellodavidryan. X: @anthropicai, @mitchellbwright, @penlume, @mercurialmind__, @cursor_ai, @mariorod1, @alexalbert__, @nicochristie, @morqon, @trq212, @yampeleg, @charliebholtz, @stevenheidel, @alexpalcuie, @dbreunig, @deedydas, @chatgpt21, @anthropicai, @anthropicai, @sean_t_strong, @btibor91, and @constantout
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/SillyTavernAI, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ClaudeCode
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