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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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| 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
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Jensen Huang says its Blackwell GPUs are now in full production in Arizona, after being solely manufactured in Taiwan previously — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the company's GTC conference on Tuesday that its Blackwell graphics processing units — the company's fastest AI chips — are now in full production in Arizona.| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
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| NVIDIA on YouTube: |
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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LinkedIn: Michael Davies and Kavya Miriyala
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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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| 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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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4T on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30GW of data center capacity — OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4 trillion on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30 gigawatts of data center capacity, CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday.
Forums: Slashdot
| 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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| 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.| 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 …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot, controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset, available now for preorder, with delivery expected in 2026 — 1X's Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
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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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| 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 …
Bluesky: @meredithmeredith, @meredithmeredith, @meredithmeredith, and @meredithmeredith
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 …
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