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| Hugging Face: |
Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach — Earlier this week, we detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure.
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| Edward Targett / The Stack: |
Hugging Face says it used the open-weight GLM-5.2 hosted on its own compute for breach forensics, after US frontier model safety guardrails blocked the requests — The unknown attacker “abused two code-execution paths in our dataset processing (a remote-code dataset loader and a template-injection …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is piloting a system in Apple Stores called Live Notes that lets Genius Bar staff make transcripts and summaries of conversations with customers — Also: The company tries out AI recording for Genius Bar appointments. — This week, we'll look at why Apple's massive lawsuit …
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| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba launches a 2.4T parameter Qwen3.8 Max preview that it says rivals frontier AI models and is second only to Fable 5, plans to make it “open-weight soon” — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. launched a preview version of its flagship Qwen3.8 Max model, which it described as comparable … | Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters: |
France's National Gambling Authority blocks access to Polymarket's website, citing concerns of exposing users to significant losses and manipulated trading — France has blocked access to the Polymarket betting website, the country's gambling regulator said on Friday, citing concerns … | Moon Joon-hyun / The Korea Herald: |
SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won says the memory shortage has prompted governments to intervene for domestic industries, and SK Hynix must expand capacity faster — Chey Tae-won expects memory demand to far exceed supply through 2027 despite capacity expansion — SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won …
More: Chip Briefing, Semafor, Korea JoongAng Daily, and Seoul Economic Daily
| Financial Times: |
As memory shares fall, investors worry capacity expansion could lead to oversupply, while others believe AI demand will break the industry's boom-and-bust cycle — Massive investment plans lead to investor fears of a new boom and bust in memory chips — A relentless run in semiconductor stocks … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
As many companies cut AI costs by using cheaper models, some, like Shopify, go all-in on frontier models, barring engineers from using anything else — Despite steep and rising price tags, some companies heavily favor the more powerful ‘frontier’ AI systems over cheaper alternatives| @kimi_moonshot: |
Moonshot AI pauses new subscriptions, saying that over the past two days Kimi K3 demand nearly passed the limit of its capacity, and also reworks its plan tiers — Kimi K3 has received far more love than we expected, and our GPUs are feeling it. Over the past 48 hours, demand has pushed close to the limits of our current capacity. To protect the experience of existing subscribers, we're temporarily pausing new subscriptions and
More: The Economic Times, TechNode, RuntimeWire, and DigiTimes
| Max Griera / Politico: |
Sources: the EU Parliament plans to roll out EPGenAI Hub to MEPs and staff as early as Sept., letting them access Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral models — The institution is opening its doors to models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Mistral as it tries to bring lawmakers' growing use of the technology under control.
More: Unite.AI
| Wall Street Journal: |
As companies stay private longer, VC firms, like Spark, Gigafund, and Greenoaks, are investing in companies later on and buying stakes without seeking influence — How venture-capital firms are rewriting the rules in a once-in-a-lifetime IPO boom — Yasmin Razavi holds an unusual position …
More: Tech in Asia and Coin Edition
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
A look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure — A farmer in rural India takes a photo of a dying plant. She wants to research it on the internet but she doesn't speak English.
More: Unite.AI and RuntimeWire
| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says TSMC will use its new $100B US commitment, announced last week, to expand its Arizona capacity amid a “multi-year demand mega trend” — TSMC is racing to accelerate capacity at its Arizona factory as the company continues to see a “multi-year demand mega trend” … | Lauren McCarthy / New York Times: |
Kalshi and Polymarket bets on the FIFA World Cup final top $5.69B; Dune Analytics says total wagers on the platforms surpassed $50B for the first time in June — When Argentina and Spain take the field on Sunday for the World Cup final, more than $5.69 billion will be riding on the winner … Sponsor Posts
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