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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft now holds a ~$135B investment in OpenAI Group PBC, or a ~27% stake, down from 32.5%; OpenAI commits to purchase an additional $250B in Azure services — Since 2019, Microsoft and OpenAI have shared a vision to advance artificial intelligence responsibly and make its benefits broadly accessible.
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| Bret Taylor / OpenAI: |
OpenAI completes its recapitalization, “simplifying” its structure; OpenAI Foundation now has equity valued at ~$130B and still controls the OpenAI for-profit — OpenAI has completed its recapitalization, simplifying its corporate structure. The nonprofit remains in control …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft gets access to OpenAI tech through 2032, including models post-AGI but excluding consumer hardware; OpenAI can now develop products with third parties — OpenAI is giving its long-time backer Microsoft Corp. a 27% ownership stake as part of a restructuring plan that took nearly …
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it will cut ~14,000 jobs from its corporate workforce, after cutting 27,000 across 2022 and 2023; the company had 1.55M employees globally in June — Amazon.com Inc. plans to eliminate roughly 14,000 corporate jobs just months after Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy warned that AI will shrink the company's workforce.
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Forums: r/inthenews, r/antiwork, r/IBM, and r/recruitinghell
| Steven Adler / New York Times: |
An ex-OpenAI staffer of four years says it isn't doing enough to protect users, especially those with mental health issues, and needs to offer more than words — I've read more smut at work than you can possibly imagine, all of it while working at OpenAI. — Back in the spring of 2021 …
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Bluesky: @justinhendrix, @annmlipton, and @emollick
Forums: r/technews and r/technology
| Washington Post: |
Grokipedia, a Grok-based encyclopedia, launches with 885K+ articles, drawing from Wikipedia content; Elon Musk called it “a massive improvement” over Wikipedia — The right-leaning tech magnate is touting his own online encyclopedia as an unbiased alternative, but it went down after about an hour.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
xAI's Grokipedia says Grok fact-checked its entries and some “content is adapted from Wikipedia”; some pages, like the PS5's, are almost identical to Wikipedia — Some of Grokipedia's pages say that content is ‘adapted’ from Wikipedia.
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| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia plans to invest $1B in Nokia for a 2.9% stake in the company, an apparent vindication of its pivot from mobile networking to AI; NOK jumps 20%+ — Nvidia Corp. plans to make a $1 billion equity investment in Nokia Oyj, an apparent vindication of the Finnish company's pivot …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
At its Adobe Max event, Adobe unveils AI tools for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Lightroom, and says Firefly Image 5 can generate images in native 4MP resolution — Adobe's Creative Cloud and Firefly apps are adding new ways to do labor-intensive photo and video editing tasks for you.| Financial Times: |
Truth Social launches Truth Predict, a prediction market platform in partnership with Crypto.com to let users trade on major current events like elections — US president's social media platform enters prediction market sector — Donald Trump's Truth Social platform is to offer users …
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
PayPal CEO Alex Chriss says the company signed a deal with OpenAI to let shoppers use PayPal's digital wallet in ChatGPT to pay for items, starting in 2026 — PayPal has signed a deal with OpenAI to have its digital wallet embedded into ChatGPT so users can pay for items found through …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Substrate, which aims to challenge TSMC, raised $100M+ from Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and others at a $1B+ valuation as it seeks to boost US chip making — Substrate plans to use particle accelerators to lower cost of chip manufacturing — Silicon Valley investors …
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| Natalie Kainz / NBC News: |
An analysis of 30+ US data center proposals in 14 states: in most cases, local officials signed NDAs and worked with apparent shell companies to hide details — Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
After AWS's major outage, Signal's Meredith Whittaker says there “isn't really another choice” but to use AWS and “the entire stack” is “owned by 3-4 players” — Meredith Whittaker is using the AWS outage as an opportunity to highlight the 'concentration …
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Forums: r/technology, r/cybersecurity, r/privacy, r/signal, and Slashdot
| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
Circle launches the test version of its Arc blockchain, with Goldman, BlackRock, Apollo, Anthropic, Intercontinental Exchange, and others set to trial it — Stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group Inc. has launched the test version of its Arc blockchain, with companies including Goldman Sachs Group Inc … | Financial Times: |
Visible Alpha: Apple's Services unit revenue is set to hit $108.6B in the year to September, its first time above $100B and up 13% YoY, ahead of its Q4 results — Tech giant's high-margin unit has doubled in size over the past five years — Apple is set to top $100bn in annual revenues …
More: AppleInsider, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, and iClarified
| Liz Napolitano / CNBC: |
Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments, files to go public via a SPAC started by Cantor Fitzgerald, valuing Securitize at $1.25B pre-money — Securitize, the “real world assets” platform that powers BlackRock's tokenized money market fund, will go public through a merger …
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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
GitHub plans to launch Agent HQ, a hub to let developers access third-party AI coding agents, including Claude and OpenAI's Codex, in the coming months — ZDNET's key takeaways — GitHub launches Agent HQ to unite Codex, Claude, and Jules. — Developers can now manage multiple AI agents side by side.
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X: @github, @mariorod1, @mikeyk, and @wesbos
| Alicia Park / Forbes: |
ConductorOne, which helps address identity cybersecurity risks for human and AI staff, raised a $79M Series B led by Greycroft, sources say at a $350M valuation — As identity-related cyberattacks increase, ConductorOne has raised $79 million to make sure employees — human or not — can securely access the work apps they need.
More: Business Wire and Portland startups …
| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Mem0, which aims to build a “memory passport” so users' AI memory can travel across their devices, apps, and agents, raised $24M, including a $20M Series A — Taranjeet Singh (pictured right) has launched six companies, with some failing and others seeing varying degrees of success.
More: Mem0. X: @peakxvpartners, @blader, @ai_for_success, @omarsar0, @redisinc, @taranjeetio, and @deviparikh
| Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: |
Stablecoin startup ZAR raised $12.9M led by a16z to test USD-backed coins for Pakistan, which the World Bank estimates has the third-largest unbanked population — Andreessen Horowitz is leading funding for a year-old startup that seeks to popularize the use of stablecoins through neighborhood stores …
More: Ventureburn and The Crypto Times
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Western Union plans to launch a dollar-backed stablecoin, USDPT, that is built on the Solana blockchain and issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, in H1 2026 — Company plans to launch its own stablecoin in 2026 — One of the oldest payments networks is stepping into the digital age.
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