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Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 106% YoY to $96.22B, above $92.17B est., Data Center revenue up 117% to $89B, above $85.08B est., and net income up 126% to $59.7B — - Revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% from a year ago — Data Center revenue of $89.0 billion, up 117% from a year ago
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| Reuters: |
Meta agrees to pay up to $18B to settle US states' claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers, and more — Meta Platforms (META.O) will pay up to $18 billion and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under a sweeping agreement …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Meta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids — By now you've almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
YouTube and TikTok are yet to publicly acknowledge Meta's proposed changes under its AG settlement; some US lawmakers signal an appetite for industry-wide rules — Meta, the social media giant, agreed to change the way children interact with its apps. That could be trouble if its competitors don't abide by the same rules.| OpenAI: |
OpenAI publishes a technical report on the Hugging Face incident, detailing the agents' activity, safeguard failures, and measures to prevent recurrence — Read the technical report Read METR report(opens in a new window)Watch Black Hat talk(opens in a new window) — Loading...
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| METR: |
METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face — Redaction summary statement: Except where explicitly noted in this post, OpenAI redacted no additional information that was important to our conclusions.
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| The Information: |
Source: Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B; the AI repository has had several potential suitors among its investors, including Salesforce — Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a company known for its GitHub-like repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion …
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| Thom Waite / Dazed: |
Rockstar executives discuss GTA VI, including interactive systems that let in-game player habits like diet alter characters' appearance and in-game social media — The pressure on Grand Theft Auto VI to deliver the holy grail of gaming is enormous - we talk to Rockstar's epic team of creative talents to uncover its secrets
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| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $350M since its 2025 founding — Buzzy startup Instinct, which is fundraising at a $2.5 billion valuation, promises to handle emails and more, but some early users raise privacy concerns
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills — Salesforce and Anthropic announced Tuesday a sweeping expansion of their partnership, called Claudeforce, that pushes …
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic agrees to pay UK startup Nscale $45B over six years to rent ~460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips — Anthropic PBC has agreed to spend $45 billion to rent AI cloud computing power from Nscale's flagship data center development in West Virginia …
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| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers — Anthropic added a built-in browser to Claude's Cowork desktop app, ending the need for the Chrome extension for many web tasks.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that powers Gboard Rambler and is coming to Chrome, in public preview for developers and enterprises — This model is “designed to capture your natural speaking style to better understand your intent and recognize custom vocabulary.”
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| Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal: |
SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft — The ChatGPT maker is dedicating $400 million to investing in early-stage AI companies — OpenAI is launching a second startup fund … | Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person “AI responsibility” team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit — Researchers have raised concerns about the change's effect on their independence and ability to detect threats from newest models| Priyanka Salve / CNBC: |
Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche — Porsche has signed a five-year contract worth 1.25 billion euros ($1.46 billion) for artificial intelligence …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January — After a short stint at OpenAI, Zoph will become a vice president of research at Google, which has recently lost a string of high-profile researchers
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let three external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks — Earlier this year, we ran a pilot giving external researchers access to aggregate, real-world Claude usage data.
More: alphaXiv and RuntimeWire
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: |
Google starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies — This seems like a way for Google to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies … | Reuters: |
Brazil's government sues Discord for $97M, accusing it of failing to comply with laws protecting children and teens; Discord calls the lawsuit disproportionate — The Brazilian government said on Wednesday it has sued chat platform Discord, seeking 500 million reais ($97 million) …
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| The Information: |
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a $6B valuation; 1X sought $1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50% — SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X Technologies, an OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer … | Z.ai: |
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal GLM-5 series model, with 320B parameters, saying it outperforms GLM-5.2 at “one-tenth the price” — We introduce GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series. With 320B total parameters …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Okta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $805M, above $795M est., net income up 73% YoY to $116M, and raises its full-year guidance; OKTA surges 20%+ pre-market — Okta shares surged 20% in extended trading after the identity software provider surpassed Wall Street's fiscal second-quarter estimates.| Bloomberg: |
Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio — Artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face Inc. unveiled a singing $400 bipedal robot that can be taught tricks …
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