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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Anthropic's Threat Intelligence report for August says Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme — Anthropic's new report shows how bad actors are misusing Claude —and, likely, other AI agents. … “Agentic AI systems are being weaponized.”
More: Anthropic, The Record, Wired, NBC News, PCMag, Reuters, Gizmodo, Engadget, Bloomberg, CNET, PYMNTS.com, Constellation Research, Entrepreneur, WinBuzzer, Business Insider, and Help Net Security
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Bluesky: @mattburgess1, @charlyjsp, @couts, @timmarchman, and @hern. Mastodon: @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
The FBI and agencies in the UK, Canada, and others warn that a Chinese hacking campaign targeting US telecoms has expanded to 80 countries and 200+ US companies — The advisory shows global resolve against a hacking campaign that exceeds accepted norms for snooping.| Max Buondonno / The Shortcut: |
Google Pixel 10 Pro review: the best AI phone on the market with handy features like Magic Cue, with a great display and Qi2 charging but no design improvements — Google's latest smartphones hit all the right notes and offer a competitive AI edge — 🏆 Rating: 4.5/5 — 🥇 Editor's Choice| Derrek Lee / Android Central: |
Google Pixel 10 review: justifies its price better than the Pixel 9 with upgrades like a triple camera system and Qi2 support, but it's not a gaming powerhouse — Google put more magic into the Pixel 10, and it's really starting to feel like AI is finding its moment.
More: 9to5Google, CNET, The Independent, Android Authority, Droid Life, BGR, and Notebookcheck. Forums: r/GooglePixel
| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: a Chinese fab making Huawei's AI chips is set to start production as soon as the end of 2025, with two more due in 2026; the fabs' ownership is unclear — Fabrication plants serving Huawei push to increase production as US cuts off access to Nvidia's top processors
More: Benzinga, Washington Post, Reuters, WinBuzzer, Tom's Hardware, Implicator.ai, Wall Street Journal, and Hindustan Times
Bluesky: @peark.es, @robertscotthorton, and @justinhendrix
| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
Taiwan indicts three people for allegedly stealing TSMC's 2nm secrets to help Tokyo Electron, the first such case, and recommends a combined 14-year prison term — Taiwan prosecutors said on Wednesday that they indicted three people for theft of trade secrets from chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) …
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple partners with TuneIn to make Apple Music's six radio stations available outside its app, a first, as it seeks to compete with Spotify; TuneIn has 75M MAUs — The tie-up with TuneIn to distribute Apple's radio stations aims to introduce the company's music service to more people| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google updates video editing tool Vids to add AI avatars, automatic transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools, and releases a basic version to all users — Google debuted its new-age video editor called Vids for the Google Workplace productivity suite last year.| Wired: |
Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta — CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a recruiting blitz to lure top AI researchers to Meta. WIRED has confirmed that three recent hires have now resigned.
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Forums: r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/BetterOffline, r/artificial, and r/ChatGPT
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Salesloft says hackers stole OAuth tokens from its Drift chat agent integration to conduct a Salesforce data theft campaign between August 8 and August 18 — Update: Story updated with further information. — Hackers breached sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens … | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI plans to update ChatGPT to better respond to mental distress cues, provide parental controls, and bolster safeguards around conversations about suicide — OpenAI is making changes to its popular chatbot following a lawsuit alleging that a teenager who died by suicide this spring relied on ChatGPT as a coach.
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| Reuters: |
Report: German banks blocked €10B+ in PayPal payments on Monday over fraud concerns; PayPal says a temporary service interruption affected some transactions — German banks blocked PayPal (PYPL.O) payments totalling more than 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) over fraud concerns …
Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung. More: Times of India, Bloomberg, BBC, Barron's Online, heise online News, Sherwood News, PaymentsJournal, and Reuters
| Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times: |
South Korean lawmakers pass a bill to ban using mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools nationwide, starting 2026 — It becomes the latest country to restrict phone use in schools, with a law that will go into effect in 2026.| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI's restructuring may slip into 2026 as it negotiates with Microsoft; failure to reach a deal in 2025 would let SoftBank withhold its $10B funding — Software giant wants to retain access to start-up's technology while removing artificial general intelligence' clause
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| Danny Park / The Block: |
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US plans to publish GDP and economic data on the blockchain but gives no details on the blockchain or timeline — Start trading crypto Get a crypto rewards card 1inch: Swap Sol ↔ EVM — U.S. will start issuing economic data on the blockchain …
More: Tom's Hardware, Unchained, Gizmodo, TheStreet, Bitcoinist.com, ZyCrypto, Protos, crypto.news, CryptoPotato, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, Blockworks, CoinGape, The Defiant, The Crypto Times, and Crypto Briefing
Forums: r/Bitcoin and r/technology
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith addressed protests over Israel contracts after seven protesters, including two current Microsoft employees, occupied his office — REDMOND, Wash. — A few hours after his office was infiltrated and occupied by a group protesting Microsoft's technology contracts with Israel …
More: The Verge, New York Post, The Guardian, Globes, WinBuzzer, and PC Gamer
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Q&A with General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on the VC firm's “AI roll-up” strategy to buy service businesses and inject them with AI, investment bubbles, and more — Head of venture capital firm talks about trusting founders' intuition during a bubble, and the threat of mass job losses| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Plaud unveils the $179 Plaud Note Pro, an AI note-taking device with two extra mics to hear audio 16.4 feet away and a 1-inch display, shipping in October — The Plaud Note Pro can pick up audio from larger areas and has a new battery-saving mode. … Plaud, the company behind an AI wearable …
More: Android Police, TechCrunch, AndroidGuys, Forbes, 9to5Google, Wallpaper*, ZDNET, Android Headlines, Plaud.ai, and Lifewire
| Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance plans an employee share buyback at $200.41/share, valuing it at $330B+, up from $315B in March 2025, and its Q2 revenue grew 25% YoY to $48B — ByteDance, the owner of short-video app TikTok, is set to launch a new employee share buyback that will value the Chinese technology giant …
More: The American Bazaar and TipRanks Financial
| Bloomberg: |
Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 11.7% YoY to ~$12.8B and net income down 97% YoY to ~$51M, blaming “irrational competition” in the Chinese food delivery market — Meituan's profit got wiped out in a price-based battle with rivals Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. …
More: Reuters, Nikkei Asia, Morningstar, Inc., Benzinga, and Meituan
| Shubham Kalia / Reuters: |
Court filing: Elon Musk's lawyers ask a US judge to block OpenAI from obtaining documents from Meta related to a previous $97.4B bid for OpenAI's assets — Lawyers for Elon Musk have asked a U.S. judge to block ChatGPT-owner OpenAI from obtaining documents from Meta Platforms (META.O) …
More: The American Bazaar, Benzinga, Tech in Asia, WinBuzzer, Capacity Media, and Bloomberg
| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
Sources and docs: a Russia-based Yandex employee maintains open-source tool fast-glob, embedded in 30 US DOD software packages and downloaded 70M times per week — A Russia-based Yandex employee is the sole maintainer of a widely used open-source tool embedded in at least 30 pre-built software packages … | Chloe Veltman / NPR: |
AI avatars of the deceased, or “Deadbots”, are used for advocacy and emotional connection, but their potential commercial use raises ethical and legal concerns — AI avatars of deceased people — or “deadbots” — are showing up in new and unexpected contexts, including ones where they have the power to persuade.
More: Mashable, Implicator.ai, and Forbes
| Miles Klee / Rolling Stone: |
Elon Musk now regularly posts AI images and videos of scantily clad women generated by Grok's Imagine tool on X, including avatar Ani dancing in her underwear — The billionaire has sought to promote his AI chatbot Grok by emphasizing how it can generate animated images of scantily clad women
More: Bloomberg, MacDailyNews, Fast Company, Breitbart, New York Sun, and Digital Trends
Forums: r/apple, r/musked, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/technology, and r/behindthebastards
| Josh Gabert-Doyon / Financial Times: |
Tussell: UK government contracts for AI-related projects have reached £573M in 2025 to July 15, up from £468M for the whole of 2024, as it seeks efficiency — Ministers hope technology can help streamline the civil service, reduce government waste and save billions| Bloomberg: |
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