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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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Forums: Hacker News and r/accelerate
| Edward Targett / The Stack: |
Hugging Face says it used 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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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue — There's a story I tell about my first day in STRT-431 at Kellogg School of Management, the introductory class that every …
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
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| @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
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking formal approval from investors to start a Hong Kong IPO process, which could happen in as soon as six months — Chinese startup Moonshot AI, whose powerful new open-source model is upending Silicon Valley, is seeking formal approval from investors …
| Financial Times: |
As memory stocks 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 … | Moon Joon-hyun / The Korea Herald: |
| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
The EU fines Alibaba's online marketplace AliExpress €550M for failing to do enough to prevent the sale of illegal products, the largest DSA fine to date — Record penalty under bloc's Digital Services Act comes amid broader crackdown on Chinese ecommerce platforms| Bloomberg: |
Cambridge-based CuspAI raised a $450M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, and launches a coalition for AI materials discovery for chip and other industries — Producing the world's most in-demand semiconductors requires enormous amounts of energy and access to rare minerals.
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| New York Times: |
Sources detail Kalshi's and Polymarket's efforts to undermine each other, including lobbying regulators, trying to derail deals, and waging influence campaigns — Early one morning in November 2024, Shayne Coplan, the founder of Polymarket, awoke to an unexpected visit.| 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 …
More: ANJ, Unchained, Mashable, Blockhead, PYMNTS, The Block, International Business Times, crypto.news, CoinDesk, and Bitcoin News
| 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.| Eliza Gkritsi / Politico: |
Draft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global “freedom of expression” declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules — BRUSSELS — The Trump administration will use the upcoming U.N. General Assembly to push a global “freedom of expression” … | Financial Times: |
How smart home devices have given abusive partners a new tool to remotely manipulate, intimidate, and disturb their victims, in a form of tech-assisted abuse — Remote access to domestic devices is increasingly being used to manipulate, intimidate and disturb. Policymakers and tech companies are grappling with safeguards
Bluesky: @glynmoody
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Israel's influence campaign in the US that's included millions of AI-driven texts and a $45M+ contract with ex-Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale — The Israeli government is trying to shore up its U.S. reputation with help from influencers, Trump insiders and millions of AI-driven textsSponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Stop re-entering invoices between CRM and accounting systems — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes).There's a workflow most growing teams know well. Sales closes a deal in the CRM.
Stop re-entering invoices between CRM and accounting systems — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes).There's a workflow most growing teams know well. Sales closes a deal in the CRM.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
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