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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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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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
ESPN plans to launch its new flagship streaming service ESPN on August 21 for $29.99 per month or $35.99 per month when bundled with Disney+ and Hulu
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”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …

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