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Sources: OpenAI told Hugging Face only this week its models caused the July 11 hack; the models appear to have been active online for days before being stopped — They were like high-school students trying to hack into the textbook company to cheat on their final exam. Only these hackers weren't human.
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Meta launches Facebook Verified, a free program it says will verify that users are real humans by analyzing a facial recognition selfie and assigning badges — And it's free. — In the face of AI content, profiles and slop, Meta hopes a new Facebook Verified program will help human users interact with other humans.
More: Meta Newsroom, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Help Net Security, Digital Trends, and Mashable
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Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, which helps developers use AI models and could fetch ~$10B; PitchBook: OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May — Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, a buzzy startup that helps developers choose between artificial intelligence models, according to people familiar with the matter.
More: Implicator.ai, The Information, Silicon Republic, PYMNTS, and RuntimeWire
| Phoebe Liu / The Information: |
AMD is working with Cerebras to connect AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers, running their chips simultaneously to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86% — AMD said Thursday it is working with Cerebras, a rival AI server chip developer, on connecting AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers …
| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 — OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Preliminary findings: the EU Commission says TikTok's accounts for minors violate the DSA, citing features that could expose children to bullying and predators — ByteDance's social media platform TikTok has been charged with breaching EU online content rules due to design features … | Brian Danga / The Block: |
Poolin, previously regarded as one of the world's largest crypto mining pool providers, files for Chapter 11 and seeks to sell its Texas mining assets for $52M — Quick Take — Poolin Technology filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is seeking court approval to sell Texas mining assets through a $52 million stalking-horse bid.| Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Germany-based Black Forest Labs debuts Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models that can be used for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI — Black Forest Labs, a German artificial intelligence research lab, is trialing its first model that can be used in robotics …
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
India orders GitHub to remove Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Jack Dorsey that is used by anti-government protestors amid internet blackouts — India's top cybercrime watchdog has ordered GitHub to take down Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Block chief executive …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tells third-party sellers to label product ads with AI-generated people to comply with a NY law requiring the disclosure of “synthetic performers” in ads — Amazon is requiring that third-party sellers label any product images or videos that contain “AI-generated people” … | The Information: |
Amazon closed its San Francisco-based AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February — Amazon this week closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco-based research and product team that was developing software to improve the usefulness of AI agents …
| Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity — Many of the largest U.S. tech companies signed a joint letter on Friday defending open-source AI software as the Trump administration …
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A look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor — Xi confidant leads fevered effort for domestic alternatives to win AI race; Chinese AI companies warned that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor| Sam Meredith / CNBC: |
Ukraine ratchets up its attacks on warehouses of Wildberries, Russia's biggest online retailer and which employs 48,000, hitting five facilities over five days — Ukraine has ratcheted up its attacks on Russia's Amazon-style retail giant Wildberries, signaling a new phase in the war …
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Microsoft is testing free cloud streaming of user-owned games for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions, with ads that will play “before sessions begin” — The free streaming option is still in testing, and limited to one-hour sessions for ‘select’ games.
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| Zoe SL Chan / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Shanghai-based GPU maker MetaX confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing, targeting an IPO by the year-end, amid a surge of fundraising from rivals — Firm's year-end listing plan underscores China's chip self-reliance and follows Biren, Iluvatar and Moore Threads in the fundraising rush
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| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Delhi High Court rules OpenAI's use of ANI content to train ChatGPT wasn't copyright infringement as the news agency didn't show ChatGPT reproduced its reports — An Indian court said on Friday that OpenAI's use of news agency ANI's content to train its ChatGPT service did not amount to copyright infringement.| The Information: |
Sierra acquires Takeoff, which develops “long-horizon” agents, for an undisclosed sum; founded in 2025, Takeoff neared $10M in annualized revenue in early July — In 2020, 22-year-old Aakash Thumaty was a product manager at Salesforce when he wrote an essay …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, Canva, and Notion — Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT's voice mode, rival Anthropic is making … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots — Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down from the top leadership post after nearly three decades, just as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots.
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| Simone Lobo / Reuters: |
The US OCC denies Wise's application to create a national trust bank, citing incompatibility with new Federal Reserve policies; Wise says it plans to reapply — London-listed shares of Wise (WISEa.L), fell 10% on Friday after the money transfer group said its application to create … | Corbin Bolies / Variety: |
Patreon lays off 20% of its employees, or 93 people, citing a “painful” restructuring due to “profound” changes in the creator economy over the past six months — Patreon, the creator-focused monetization platform, said on Thursday it was laying off 20% of its employees …
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| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Meta launches Seller, a free standalone app version of Facebook Marketplace; Seller includes AI features that scan photos to fill out listings automatically — Seller is part of the Silicon Valley company's strategy to innovate on its original social network.
More: 9to5Mac, Investor's Business Daily, TechCrunch, Reuters, Engadget, Meta Newsroom, The Hollywood Reporter, ICYMI, and Blockonomi. Bluesky: @fry69.dev
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Flush with AI cash, South Korean groups are making their biggest US investment push in years, with their Q1 US foreign direct investment up 100%+ YoY to $10.2B — Companies make biggest US investment push in years to build up tech capabilities and avoid Donald Trump's tariffs| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Google says it has $811B in contracted future spending commitments as of June, up nearly $500B from March, covering chips, data centers, electricity, and more — Alphabet Inc.'s Google had $811 billion in contracted future spending commitments at the end of June, up nearly $500 billion from just three months earlier.
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| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Singapore-based Ropedia, which captures real-world human experience via video and converts it into model-ready multimodal datasets, raised a $22M pre-Series A — Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced it raised $22 million in Pre-Series A funding …
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