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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
OpenAI and AMD announce a deal in which OpenAI could take up to a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of Instinct GPUs over multiple years; AMD jumps 25%+ — - OpenAI and AMD have reached a deal that could see Sam Altman's company take a 10% stake in the chipmaker
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI unveils a new feature in preview to let developers build apps that work directly inside ChatGPT, starting with Spotify, Figma, Expedia, and more — Right within a ChatGPT conversation, you'll be able to chat with apps like Spotify, Canva, and Zillow.
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday announced the launch of AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, at the firm's Dev Day event.
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman says ChatGPT has reached 800M weekly active users, 4M developers “have built with OpenAI”, and OpenAI processes over 6B tokens per minute on its API — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, marking an increase …
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI announces API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in preview, and gpt-realtime-mini, a voice model that is 70% cheaper than gpt-realtime — OpenAI unveiled new API updates at its Dev Day on Monday, introducing GPT-5 Pro, its latest language model, its new video generation model Sora 2, and a smaller, cheaper voice model.| OpenAI: |
OpenAI makes Codex generally available, and announces new features: Slack integration, a new Codex SDK, and new admin tools — Loading... We're announcing the general availability of Codex and three new features that make it even more useful for engineering teams:
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| CNBC: |
A live blog of the OpenAI DevDay 2025 keynote, where Sam Altman announced new developer tools — CNBC's reporters are covering the OpenAI DevDay event live from San Francisco, with support from staff in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. — 3 MIN AGO — Altman announces GTP-5 Pro, smaller voice model in the API
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| Alexander Saeedy / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: xAI is set to spend $18B+ to acquire ~300K more Nvidia chips for its Colossus 2 project in Memphis; in July, Elon Musk said it would total 550K chips — xAI aims to win tech arms race with ‘Colossus’ data centers, thrown up at lightning speed; city divided over massive power and water demands
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google DeepMind unveils CodeMender, an AI agent that detects, patches, and rewrites vulnerable code to prevent exploits by leveraging Gemini Deep Think models — Alphabet Inc.'s Google DeepMind lab today shared results for CodeMender, an artificial intelligence-powered agent that automatically detects …
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics — It won't help stop the avalanche of AI slop OpenAI has unleashed. … Sora now lets you rein in your AI doubles …
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| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the SEC has been probing AppLovin over allegations that it violated platform partners' agreements to push more targeted ads to consumers; APP drops 14% — The Securities and Exchange Commission has been probing the data-collection practices of the mobile advertising tech company AppLovin Corp. … | CoinDesk: |
Bee Maps, a decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper on the Solana blockchain, raised $32M to expand its network by distributing AI-enabled dashcams — What to know: … Bee Maps, the decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper, has raised $32 million in fresh funding …
More: Blockworks, crypto.news, and Ventureburn
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says the AI chipmaker pulled its IPO filing to share updated financials, admitting it was a mistake not to explain the move sooner — Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman admitted that his artificial intelligence chipmaker made a mistake last week when it didn't immediately explain … | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Instagram launches Rings, an awards program recognizing 25 top creators; the judging panel includes Spike Lee, designer Marc Jacobs, and Adam Mosseri — Spike Lee, Marc Jacobs and Instagram head Adam Mosseri will be among the judges of the Rings program, which will honor the platform's top creators …
More: The Verge, New York Post, Engadget, CNBC, WeRSM, MediaPost, Mashable, and iPhone in Canada. Threads: @instagram
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Deloitte announces a deal to roll out Anthropic's Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees globally, marking Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment ever — Deloitte on Monday announced a deal to bring Anthropic's artificial intelligence assistant Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees around the globe.
More: Anthropic, PYMNTS.com, PCMag, and Implicator.ai
| Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times: |
Deloitte says it will partially refund payment for an AU$439K Australian government report with multiple errors, after admitting it was partly produced by AI — Big Four firm will repay final instalment after incorrect references and citations found in document
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Forums: r/Accounting, r/consulting, and Slashdot
| Cory Doctorow / The Guardian: |
A book excerpt details the “enshittification” of Amazon, and how its “flywheel” technique now enriches the company at the expense of merchants — Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products?
More: New York Times, Ace of Spades HQ, and Financial Times
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Mastodon: @eff@mastodon.social and @mitch@hachyderm.io
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/TrueReddit, r/BetterOffline, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
Sources: private capital firms like Oaktree, EQT, and DWS are seeking to cash in on the US-driven AI boom by selling off European data centers worth about €17B — Oaktree Capital, Partners Group and EQT among those seeking to cash in on AI boom — Private capital firms are seeking … | Bloomberg: |
The Paris prosecutor's office refers a probe into Apple's Siri recordings to the Office for Combating Cybercrime, after a human rights organization's complaint — Apple Inc. faces an investigation in France over the use of voice recordings made with its assistant Siri.
More: AppleInsider, Reuters, Politico, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, and MacDailyNews
| Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of EA CEO Andrew Wilson, who is expected to stay in the role, as Silver Lake's Egon Durban credits him for building EA's “crown jewel” sports business — He's a charming Aussie surfer who plays videogames and has a black belt in jiu-jitsu.
More: Motley Fool, PC Games Insider, and TheGamer
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
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