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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI” — Andreessen Horowitz has launched a new “Machine Age” fund with $1.1 billion raised. The firm's aim with the new fund is to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI.”
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| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was “illegal and baseless” — A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker's high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield.
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| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
Meta intensifies its pressure campaign on TikTok and YouTube, running full-page ads in US newspapers demanding they adopt comparable teen safety protections — Meta Platforms Inc. is intensifying its public pressure campaign on TikTok and YouTube, running full-page advertisements …
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| Bloomberg: |
Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter open model with a 1M context window, and says it narrowly beat GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 in internal engineering tests — Tencent Holdings Ltd. released a foundation model it says outperforms rivals Z.AI Co. and Moonshot AI in internal tests …
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| Lauren McCarthy / New York Times: |
An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws — The outcome contradicted an earlier appeals court decision. Federal regulators said the split rulings called for resolution by the Supreme Court.
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| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
South Korea unveils a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, a move that treats AI like a public utility — Seoul wants to direct use of homegrown AI chatbots to reduce reliance on U.S. or Chinese options, footing the bill and offering unlimited tokens| VideoCardz.com: |
Modders get an experimental version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering library running in over a dozen games after it leaked in NBA 2K27's early access build — DLSS 5 mod spreads to Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2, TLOU2, Wukong and more — It took modders only hours to get the leaked NVIDIA DLSS …
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT reports H1 revenue of ~$22.4B, more than double its 2025 sales, and ~$11.5B in profit, compared to a loss a year earlier — CXMT Corp.'s first-half revenue leapt almost 10-fold while profit surged, reflecting a rush for AI hardware that's made the memory chipmaker China's most valuable business.
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| Joe Guszkowski / Restaurant Business: |
Owner, which makes AI agents that manage restaurants' websites, marketing, and other functions, raised a $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation — The funding, led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, will help Owner develop AI agents for independent restaurants. — Rob Lehman (Owner president and COO) … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Apple TV raises prices in the US, with the monthly price up by $2 to $14.99, its fourth increase in four years; the individual Apple One tier rises $2 to $21.95 — Tech giant also ups price of Apple One multi-service bundle's individual plan — It's going to cost Americans a few more bucks to watch …
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| Fin / @fi56622380: |
Unlike internet's one-dimensional, flat-fee growth, AI grows across two exponentials, user penetration and tokens per user, allowing AI labs' economics to work — The next ARR growth engine after coding, the AI infra bubble, the Economics of open vs. closed source model Why is the AI semi buildout longer than the internet buildout?| Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: |
Shares of French quantum computing company Pasqal closed up 95% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday following a merger with a SPAC — Pasqal Holding SA soared in its first day of trading after the quantum computing company went public in New York via a merger with a blank-check firm …
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| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with $10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model — Z.ai put the GLM-5.3 weights on Hugging Face, but dropped the MIT license. Providers above $10 billion in revenue now need a security review.
More: Hugging Face, TechCrunch, Hugging Face, New York Times, RuntimeWire, and Tech Times
| Emily Graffeo / Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~$1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft — Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., has raised about $1 billion of private short-dated debt … | Flavio Copes: |
A deep dive into Grok Bot, including its architecture, use cases, and alternatives, as xAI adds shareable bot templates and online purchases through Stripe Link — A detailed Grok Bot guide covering setup, persistent computers, skills, routines, templates, approvals, real use cases, limits, pricing, and alternatives.
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Sources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs — The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians …
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| The Information: |
Sources: the US is drafting a rule to close an export controls loophole that lets Chinese companies access AI chips via data centers in countries like Thailand — Soon after President Donald Trump began his second term in office in 2025, the White House announced it would undo export controls … | Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: |
Filing: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M+ Series A from Thrive Capital and others — There's a social media app I like using more than Instagram or TikTok — and it's attracted serious investor interest.
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