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Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source — Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla before the EV maker's planned addition of CarPlay; low-cost MacBook will get an aluminum chassis in playful colors — Tesla's plan to start supporting CarPlay in its vehicles has been held back by the need for changes in iOS 26's Maps app.
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| Axios: |
Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits — The Pentagon is considering severing its relationship with Anthropic over the AI firm's insistence on maintaining some limitations …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor — NPR's David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he's suing over it.
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600%+ over the past year for routers and set-top boxes, hitting telcos targeting aggressive broadband rollouts — MS Hwang is a research director at Counterpoint, specializing in memory semiconductor research.
| Financial Times: |
Abhishek Singh, CEO of IndiaAI Mission, says India will seek international agreement on a “global AI commons” at this week's AI Impact Summit in New Delhi — New Delhi to focus on wielding emerging technology for social ends at global summit — John Reed in New Delhi and Krishn Kaushik in Mumbai
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| Margaret-Anne Storey: |
As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt — The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who keep a low profile, with fortunes entwined with China's push for tech independence — Four years ago, as Yan Junjie pitched his vision for artificial intelligence startup MiniMax Group Inc. to China's largest internet companies …
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| Muhammad Zuhair / Wccftech: |
Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had “pretty much sold out” its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue — HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to Western Digital's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP — Disney also sent a legal demand to Chinese internet company — Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in …
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sources: the WH is pressuring Utah Republican State Rep. Doug Fiefia to abandon HB 286, an AI transparency and kids' safety bill similar to California's AI law — The White House is pressuring a Utah Republican state legislator to abandon AI transparency and kids' safety legislation, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.| New York Times: |
Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters — As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet … | Mari Novik / Financial Times: |
Keir Starmer says no platform “should get a free pass”, as the UK moves to tighten online safety laws covering AI chatbots and social media, to protect children — Keir Starmer to warn tech companies that ‘no platform gets a free pass’ after deepfake scandal involving Grok| Baiju Kalesh / Bloomberg: |
India-based AI cloud startup Neysa plans to raise up to $600M in equity led by Blackstone, plus $600M in debt, to deploy 20K+ GPUs in India for AI training — A group of investors led by Blackstone Inc. plans to make an equity investment of up to $600 million in India's artificial intelligence cloud startup Neysa.
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