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Sources: Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay the US government 15% of H20 and MI308 chip revenue from China sales, as a condition of export licenses granted last week — Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration — Nvidia and AMD have agreed …
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| Bloomberg: |
Trade experts: Nvidia's and AMD's deals to export AI chips to China and pay the US 15% of revenue is “unprecedented” and a sign of “a new and dangerous world” — The revenue-for-exports deal between the US government and two of the world's biggest chipmakers opens …
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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is set to meet Trump on Monday to propose ways the US and Intel could work together, show his commitment to the US, and more — Lip-Bu Tan is set to meet with the president, who last week called for Tan's removal — Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is set to visit …
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| Luc Olinga / Gizmodo: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI will bring back GPT-4o to ChatGPT and raising reasoning model rate limits for free and Plus users, as usage of reasoning models increases — The move is a stunning reversal, proving that even the most powerful AI company can't ignore a mutiny from its loyal user base.
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| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI — A new release botched ... and new research paper that spells trouble — GenerativeAI had a truly bad week.
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| David Sacks / @davidsacks: |
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| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges — The operator of Wikipedia on Monday lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain's Online Safety Act, which sets tough new requirements … | Reuters: |
Rumble says it plans to acquire German AI cloud group Northern Data in an all-stock deal; estimates show the deal could be valued at $1.17B — U.S.-listed video platform Rumble (RUM.O) is considering a potential offer of about $1.17 billion (1 billion euro) for German AI cloud group Northern Data AG …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
UK researchers estimate 80 game cheat-selling websites generate $12.8M to $73.2M annually from 30K to 174K monthly buyers across North America and Europe alone — Gaming cheats are the bane of the video game industry—and a hot commodity. A recent study found that cheat creators are making … | Robert Frank / CNBC: |
CB Insights: the number of AI unicorns reached 498 with a combined value of $2.7T, 100 founded since 2023, and over 1,300 AI startups valued above $100M — Artificial intelligence startups have minted dozens of new billionaires this year, adding to an AI boom that's quickly becoming the largest wealth creation spree in recent history.| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
AI-focused hedge funds have raised billions; source: ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness manages $1.5B+ as a “brain trust on AI” — A 23-year-old former OpenAI researcher quickly amassed more than $1.5 billion for ‘brain trust on AI’
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| Alex Knapp / Forbes: |
Tahoe Therapeutics, which is building AI models of living cells, raised $30M led by Amplify Partners at a $120M valuation, taking its total funding to $42M — The Palo Alto, California-based company, now valued at $120 million, has developed a scalable way to quickly generate crucial biological data needed …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sea's Shopee is nearing a $100B market cap after its stock surged 300%+ since early 2024, driven by its in-house, community-based logistics network SPX Express — Shopee now dominates the Southeast Asian e-commerce market thanks to a cavalry of retirees, homemakers and students delivering parcels
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Malaysian startup Zetrix unveils NurAI, a chatbot for Muslims built using similar techniques to DeepSeek's V3, and plans AI avatars of Islamic scholars — A Malaysian company has designed an AI large language model for Muslims based on open-source AI knowhow from China's DeepSeek … | Financial Times: |
A long-running cyberattack campaign between Israel and Iran has continued since the June ceasefire, with Israel landing the most telling blows — A long-running campaign of cyber attacks has continued since a ceasefire ended the 12-day conflict — In the days after Israel launched …
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