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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max's and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released its latest flagship AI model, with performance claims putting it alongside global leaders like Anthropic's Fable.
More: Qwen, Reuters, South China Morning Post, Hindustan Times, Forbes, JFeed, The Verge, Türkiye Today, Proactive, Quartz, Digit, The Decoder, CNBC, The Hans India, MarkTechPost, Yahoo Finance, Pulse 2.0, Neowin, Dow Jones Newswires, Fortune, and TechNode
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 — A version of Chinese startup DeepSeek's flagship AI model is by far the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among … | Henry Siu / The Information: |
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| The Information: |
Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework — The Trump administration has invited staffers from major tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to the White House …
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a “backdoor” to access encrypted customer data — iPhone maker files complaint over latest government demand to allow access to encrypted user data| Washington Post: |
An analysis of US police and court records finds 50+ officers were charged or accused of misusing license-plate readers like Flock's, including for stalking — JEFFERSON, Ga. — Marci Bakely couldn't understand how her ex-boyfriend always seemed to know where she was.
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation — Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation in 14 months.
More: Reuters, FinSMEs, Wall Street Journal, Help Net Security, Axios, Pulse 2.0, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, and SecurityWeek
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February — British entrepreneur behind Olix raises $312mn from investors including Arm in effort to take on Nvidia
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| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash — BioCatch uses artificial intelligence to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers
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| New York Times: |
An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more — An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
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Forums: r/AskAChinese, r/worldnews, r/neoliberal, and r/China
| Axios: |
Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent — Top AI researchers continue to jump between leading AI labs as competition for elite talent intensifies.
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| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI and Anthropic models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and lack of meaningful supervision — If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
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Forums: r/law, r/technology, and r/OpenAI
| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
A profile of Nanit, a maker of AI-equipped baby cameras for hyper-detailed tracking, which says it has 1M daily users and $100M+ in annual revenue — Young parents are increasingly willing to embrace tracking and analytics for their children — part of a broader cultural obsession … | James Hunt / The Block: |
Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for ~$104.7M from July 27 to August 2, reducing its holdings to 842,138, with a $10.9B paper loss at current prices — Quick Take — Strategy has sold 1,638 BTC for approximately $104.7 million, reducing its total holdings to 842,138 BTC.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sources: South Korean AI chip designer DeepX raised a ~$29M Series D at a ~$2.2B valuation, and is in talks to raise ~$209M at a ~$2.4B valuation by September — South Korean AI chip designer DeepX Co. has secured fresh funding at roughly four times its previous valuation … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage “is not healthy for me or good for the world” — Hank Green, a novelist, comedian, and YouTuber with 3.2 million subscribers, recently apologized to his audience for his growing reliance on AI chatbots.
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