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Bill Gates says “the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history” and “we are not preparing adequately”, calling for a regulatory framework — Bill Gates, artificial intelligence, AI, generative AI for everyone, responsible ai news, ai and robotics … | Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Bill Gates says tech executives are privately “very worried” about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs — Bill Gates is the latest in a string of tech luminaries to call out the risks of artificial intelligence.Chona Kasinger for The New York Times
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series and says it will release the weights for it tonight; Ox Alpha topped OpenRouter's leaderboard — The new AI model that's swept to the top of online usage charts with high performance at zero cost was created by China's Z.AI Co., also known as Zhipu.
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| Reuters: |
State AGs' trial: Adam Mosseri denies Instagram stalled by not making its “Take a Break” teen safety feature the default until nearly three years after launch — The top executive at Instagram said few teenagers used a key safety feature to limit their use before it was turned on by default …
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| Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: |
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| John Walker / Kotaku: |
Rockstar says GTA 6 gameplay leaking “in this way has been heartbreaking”, calling it “unfortunate” that the “game experience may now be impacted” by spoilers — The company also uncharacteristically apologizes for the lack of official information
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| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI confirms Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers from Meta in March 2025, has left the company; his departure comes amid a broader exodus — Chris Malone joins a string of recent high-level executive departures as the AI giant heads toward an IPO and ramps up its spending on computing power
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, “following an assessment”; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to 500K+ humans — Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday.
More: Amazon Web Services, Quartz, and Tech in Asia
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, who worked for SBF and OpenAI before launching Situational Awareness; Aschenbrenner married Dario Amodei's chief of staff — A 24-year-old investor was hailed as a visionary and attracted billions—before turning into Wall Street's latest cautionary tale
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| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Investigation: Meta explored slashing many teams by ~60% to become “AI native”, but pulled back after staff revolted and data showed AI agents were ineffective — To make its workforce “AI native,” Meta explored slashing the size of many teams across the company by as much as 60% in two waves, internal documents show.| Financial Times: |
Sources: YMTC, which seeks to raise $5B in an IPO, told investors in IPO prep meetings that it aims to become the largest NAND flash supplier by the end of 2027 — YMTC sets out Nand production ambitions in investor meetings for $5bn Shanghai IPO — YMTC aims to overtake Samsung and SK Hynix …
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources and documents: Huawei proposes exporting its high-end Ascend 950-series chips to build Egyptian government AI data centers, testing US tech diplomacy — Huawei Pitches Egypt With AI Chips, Data Center Buildout — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 100.00% Playback Rate
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Moonshot AI is in early talks over revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host Kimi K3, and is seeking up to a 30% share — China's Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft (MSFT.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) …
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| Financial Times: |
The US AI data center buildout is posing complex challenges to major lenders as they stretch themselves to finance, insure, and underwrite a novel asset class — Wall Street players extending themselves to underwrite this colossal new asset class are looking to limit exposure.| Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill: |
Pennsylvania's AG sues Snap, alleging Snapchat fails to protect teens from compulsively using the app, two weeks after filing a similar lawsuit against TikTok — Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday (R) announced a lawsuit Tuesday, accusing Snap, the parent company of Snapchat …
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| Financial Times: |
Source: Transport for London's delay in producing robotaxi guidance has frustrated some prospective operators, who play down the chances of launching in 2026 — Operators play down chance of starting this year. London's robotaxi rollout is running behind the ambitious schedule set … | Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released the latest model under its popular Qwen series, a lower-priced platform aimed at driving adoption of its marquee AI offering globally.
More: Hugging Face, Qwen, and Decrypt
| Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019 — The AI startup is likely to top SpaceX's eye-popping potential revenue estimate — SpaceX's record-breaking IPO tested the limits of an obscure financial metric.
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| Fabrice Deprez / Financial Times: |
Volodymyr Zelenskyy awards Elon Musk with Ukraine's Order of Freedom; sources say Zelenskyy asked Musk to authorize Starlink use up to 200km inside Russia — Tech billionaire reluctant to allow satellite system to be used for drone strikes deep inside Russia
More: Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg, Politico, and The Kyiv Independent
| Charlie Wells / Bloomberg: |
Revolut rolls out its euro-pegged stablecoin EURR, initially to eligible customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal; Stripe-owned Bridge issues the stablecoin — Revolut Ltd. joined the rush among global banks and payment firms to roll out stablecoins, a bet that digital money will gain …
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| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft faces investor criticism over opaque financial reporting across capex, its OpenAI deal, and Azure, which is buried in the Intelligent Cloud segment — From capex to its flagship cloud platform, Microsoft stands out for lack of transparency — Cloud computing, meet cloudy numbers.
More: Moneycontrol and Motley Fool
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Digs, which is building AI software for residential construction, raised a $25.3M Series A led by building materials giant Builders FirstSource — Digs, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup building AI software for residential construction, raised $25.3 million in Series A funding led …
More: Business Wire, The SaaS News, Portland Business Journal, RuntimeWire, HousingWire, and Portland Oregon startups …
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| Andy Masley: |
Public polling suggests the US' severe anti-data center backlash is primarily driven by local environmental and economic concerns, not anti-Big Tech sentiment — It's probably not your ideological thing, or mine. It's about object-level claims about how data centers impact the communities …
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| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on Anthropic and OpenAI controlling global compute, $11T of AI capex between 2024 and 2029, China's compute, and more — “Every force is screeching towards centralization.” — Had a lot of fun chatting again with my twin brother Dylan Patel.
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| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
HP signs a multi-year global agreement with Huawei to license certain standard essential Wi-Fi patents, a sign of adoption of Huawei's technology outside China — BEIJING — U.S.-based personal computing and printing firm HP has signed a multi-year global agreement for licensing certain WiFi patents … | Nate Doughty / Washington, D.C. Business Journal: |
Navitas Semiconductor agrees to buy Claros, which develops data center power management hardware and software, for ~$232.8M; Claros raised a $30M seed in March — Los Angeles-area manufacturer Navitas Semiconductor Corp. plans to buy Claros Inc., a McLean startup developing technologies … Sponsor Posts
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