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How David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's White House benefits his investments, those of his Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts — In July, David Sacks, one of the Trump administration's top technology officials, beamed as he strode onstage at a neoclassical auditorium just blocks from the White House.
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| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
An in-depth look at TPUv7 Ironwood, the latest generation of Google's TPU, and how it positions Google as a serious challenger to Nvidia's AI chip dominance — Potential End of the CUDA Moat?, Anthropic's 1GW+ TPU Purchase, The more (TPU) Meta/SSI/xAI/OAI/Anthro buy the more (GPU capex) …
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; the country has a population of 51.7M — South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at online retailer Coupang Inc. that exposed about 33.7 million accounts …
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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after ChatGPT's debut; Similarweb says Gemini users chat longer per visit than ChatGPT and Claude users — Three years since the debut of ChatGPT, the $500bn start-up is facing significant challenges to its dominance in AI
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Q&A with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the “decay” at Intel, the Chip Act's terrible execution, the irony of Lip-Bu Tan broadly following his strategy, and more — The executive on the ‘hideous’ implementation of the 2022 Chips Act, his new role heading up a Christian AI platform …
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| NBC News: |
US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs — AI startups are seeing record valuations, but many are building on a foundation of cheap, free-to-download Chinese AI models.
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| Corinne Reichert / CNET: |
How Animaj, a startup in Disney's Accelerator Program, uses AI to drastically speed up the animation process, while also claiming to let artists stay in control — Disney checked out “thousands of AI companies” before backing one that keeps animators in the driver's seat.| Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder: |
Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on “needle-in-a-haystack” tests for 30-minute videos — A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model.
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| Alexandra Wexler / Wall Street Journal: |
How a Chinese entrepreneur amassed 10M+ IPv4 addresses, mostly from Africa, to lease them outside Africa, leaving African ISPs struggling to expand capacity — Chinese entrepreneur stirs controversy by amassing millions of IP addresses and leasing them to companies outside Africa; internet-service providers cry foul
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| Tim Balk / New York Times: |
New York becomes the first US state to require retailers to disclose use of algorithmic pricing tied to personal data; 10+ states are considering similar bills — The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices.
More: PYMNTS.com, Governor Kathy Hochul, Insurance Journal, and TechCrunch
| Reuters: |
China's central bank reaffirmed its stance on crypto, calling virtual currency activity illegal and saying stablecoins fail KYC and anti-money-laundering rules — China's central bank reaffirmed its tough stance on virtual currencies on Saturday, warning of a resurgence in speculation … | Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Anthropic says over 60% of its business customers use more than one Claude product, a trend it began noticing after Claude Code's rise in popularity — Mike Krieger, who cofounded Instagram before joining Anthropic last year, wants the AI giant's Claude model to power workflows across entire companies.| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Databricks is raising $5B at a $134B valuation, expects sales to grow 55% in 2025 to $4.1B, and is operating at roughly breakeven — Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi has been more vocal than other Silicon Valley executives about the dangers of an AI bubble.| Matthew Hutson / IEEE Spectrum: |
Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion — Shortened deadlines and other stressors caused misbehavior — Several recent studies have shown that artificial-intelligence …
More: arXiv.org, SEAL Leaderboard, and Scale AI
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