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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says an “IPO is not on the cards right now”, and that OpenAI hopes the US government will “backstop” financing of its data center deals — Sarah Friar says the AI giant could reach break-even quickly and would like government backstop on data-center investments
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Forums: r/Economics, r/OpenAI, and r/StockMarket
| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
More: Fast Company, Analytics India Magazine, TheStreet, and OpenAI
X: @sharongoldman, @fortunemagazine, and @sharongoldman. LinkedIn: Rikki Gorman. Forums: r/artificial
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is finalizing a deal to pay Google ~$1B per year for a 1.2T-parameter Gemini model to help power the new Siri, which is on track for next spring — Apple Inc. is planning to pay about $1 billion a year for an ultrapowerful 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model developed …
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Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com, @timkellogg.me, @mikeelgan, @shiraovide, and @stevekovach. Threads: @szed_ar. Mastodon: @viticci@mastodon …
Forums: r/worldnews, r/OpenAI, r/google, r/technology, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Jeff Horwitz / Reuters: |
Docs: Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its 2024 revenue, or $16B, came from ads for scams and banned goods, including ~$7B from “higher risk” ads — Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Rockstar says it fired dozens of employees last week for “distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum”, disputing union allegations — Rockstar Games terminated more than 30 people last week in an action that a labor group called “union-busting.”
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Bluesky: @jasonschreier. Forums: r/Games, r/xbox, r/pcgaming, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/rockstar, r/gaming, and r/PS5
| Financial Times: |
Jensen Huang warns “China is going to win the AI race”, after the US kept a ban on advanced AI chip sales to China, and says the West is held back by “cynicism” — CEO criticises western ‘cynicism’ while Beijing loosens regulations and cuts energy costs for data centres
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Forums: r/BlackboxAI_, r/TrueAnon, and Slashdot
| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman lays out the company's plans to develop AI self-sufficiency from OpenAI, like releasing its own voice, image, and text models — Tech giant forms team led by AI chief Mustafa Suleyman to build top artificial-intelligence systems and distance itself from longtime partner| Sky News: |
Investigation: X amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK, as Elon Musk endorses fringe right-wing politicians and encourages nationalism — “Elon Musk is a great leader,” says Amy, a British woman outside the Britannia Hotel in London at an anti-immigration rally in August.
X: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @labourlewis, @streettough, @supertanskiii, @peterstefanovi2, @allrightidiots, @chrislawsnp, @greenpeteru, @jonburkeuk, @skynews, @alonso_gd, @narindertweets, and @globalaffairs
Bluesky: @jonathancohn, @ottoenglish, @pickardje, @mrjamesob, @felicityhannah, @drjennings, and @iandunt
Mastodon: @ianbetteridge@social … and @pre@boing.world
Forums: r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/AskBrits, and r/uknews
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Gemini Deep Research can now directly draw on information stored in users' Gmail emails, Drive files, and Chat conversations to generate reports — After adding PDF support in May, Gemini Deep Research can now directly tap information stored in your Gmail and Google Chat conversations, as well as Google Drive files.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Senators Mark Warner and Josh Hawley unveil a bipartisan bill that would require companies and US agencies to submit quarterly reports on AI-related job impacts — A new bipartisan bill seeks to provide a “clear picture” of how artificial intelligence is affecting the American workforce.
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Sandbar unveils the $249+ Stream Ring, an AI-powered smart ring for transcribing audio notes into text via an app, available to preorder, shipping summer 2026 — A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts.
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Bluesky: @neilturkewitz, @ceetar, and @insortediaboli
| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Source: Google is in early talks to deepen its strategic investment in Anthropic that could value the AI company at more than $350B — - The talks come as Anthropic and its main rival, OpenAI, are in a multitrillion-dollar race to dominate AI. — Big Tech companies are taking sides …
More: Reuters, Benzinga, WinBuzzer, and TipRanks Financial
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley's new startup Hopscotch Labs releases BeeBot, which combines AI, audio, and location-based social features, on the App Store — BeeBot is an “app for AirPods” that combines AI, audio and location-based social features. — Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley …
More: Dennis Crowley, The Verge, and WeRSM
| Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: |
Sources, public records, and documents detail TuSimple's downfall, after it transferred autonomous driving IP to Chinese partners despite a 2022 CFIUS agreement — American officials thought they'd secured a deal with TuSimple to protect autonomous-driving technology. It didn't work.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The AI boom is driving coordinated innovation in the US as it builds fabs and energy infrastructure that could have lasting value even if the bubble bursts — It's funny to remember that a decade ago there were enough people convinced we were in a bubble that I felt compelled to write …
More: Financial Times, Reuters, and O'Dwyers PR
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| Kirsty Needham / Reuters: |
Sources and documents: Google plans to build an AI data center on Australia's remote Christmas Island after signing a cloud deal with its DOD earlier in 2025 — - Plans come after Google, Australian Department of Defence sign cloud deal — Christmas Island increasingly featuring in regional war game scenarios
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| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
Nexperia says it suspended wafer supplies to its China factory because the local unit refused to make payments and has ignored global management's instructions — Nexperia suspended supplies to its China factory because the local unit refused to make payments, laying bare the internal discord at the heart of a global chip crisis.
More: Nexperia, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, New York Times, and Bloomberg Law
| CNBC: |
Google says Ironwood, its seventh-gen TPU, will launch in the coming weeks and is more than 4x faster than its sixth-gen TPU; it comes in a 9,216-chip config — Google is making its most powerful chip yet widely available, the search giant's latest effort to try and win business …
More: Tom's Hardware, SiliconANGLE, Dow Jones Newswires, TipRanks Financial, and Trusted Reviews
Forums: r/singularity and r/wallstreetbets
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo and releases an update to its Mercury coding model — With so much money flooding into AI startups, it's a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea to test out.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank explored a potential takeover of Marvell earlier this year to merge it with Arm, in what would have been the chip industry's largest-ever deal — SoftBank Group Corp. explored a potential takeover of US chipmaker Marvell Technology Inc. earlier this year …
More: MarketWatch, Dow Jones Newswires, Blockonomi, Benzinga, The Information, Reuters, Sherwood News, and Yahoo Finance
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Sony unveils the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark dataset to test the fairness of computer vision models, saying it was compiled in a fair and ethical manner — Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent — AI models are filled to the brim with bias …
More: Nature, Sony AI, Implicator.ai, Sony AI on YouTube, Sony AI, Engadget, and Tech Xplore. LinkedIn: Julienne LaChance
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft built a simulated marketplace to test hundreds of AI agents, finding that businesses could manipulate agents into buying their products and more — On Wednesday, researchers at Microsoft released a new simulation environment designed to test AI agents, along with new research showing … | Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg: |
Synchron, whose brain implant is inserted through the circulatory system, avoiding invasive brain surgery, raised a $200M Series D at a nearly $1B valuation — Synchron Inc. raised $200 million to advance its work building brain implants that doctors can insert through blood vessels …
More: Capital Brief, Time, MassDevice, and Australian Financial Review
| Bloomberg: |
Pony.ai's and WeRide's shares fell as much as 15% in their Hong Kong trading debuts; Pony.ai raised ~$863M in the secondary offering, and WeRide raised ~$309M — Pony AI Inc. and WeRide Inc. fell on their trading debuts in Hong Kong after the pair of Chinese robotaxi firms battled …
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Fomo, a consumer crypto trading app, raised a $17M Series A led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $19M, and reports $20M-$40M in daily trading volume — Paul Erlanger and Se Yong Park, co-founders of consumer crypto trading app Fomo, took an unusual route to raising capital that is paying off for them.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Figma reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $274.2M, above $265.2M est., an adjusted operating margin of 12%, above 6.5% est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. — Design software maker Figma on Wednesday reported stronger-than-expected third-quarter revenue and quarterly revenue guidance.
More: Yahoo Finance, Business Wire, MarketWatch, and Bloomberg
| New York Times: |
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative restructures to focus on AI and science, led by Biohub research centers, and acquires AI startup Evolutionary Scale's team — The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative said its restructured organization, Biohub, would lead its focus on artificial intelligence and scientific research.
More: Axios, Associated Press, and Biohub
| Bloomberg: |
Snap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity — Snap Inc. shares surged more than 25% in extended trading after the company announced a $400 million partnership with Perplexity AI Inc …
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X: @rihardjarc, @mahasr199, @kylebrussell, @perplexity_ai, @alphasenseinc, @dmitry140, @aravsrinivas, and @snap
LinkedIn: Michael Greenberg and Derek Todd Hester
| Kate Duffy / Bloomberg: |
British Airways owner IAG signs a deal with SpaceX's Starlink for Wi-Fi across all five carriers in the airline group, making it available in 500+ aircraft — British Airways owner IAG SA inked a deal with SpaceX's Starlink for inflight Wi-Fi across all five carriers in the airline group.
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