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Adam Satariano / New York Times:
In preliminary findings, the EU Commission said Facebook's and Instagram's “addictive design” violates the DSA, telling Meta to make changes or risk hefty fines  —  European Union authorities said the company's use of “addictive design” violated a digital safety law.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI merges its Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for macOS and Windows under an upgraded ChatGPT desktop app, letting users switch between Chat, Codex, and Work
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI discontinues ChatGPT Atlas, its desktop browser, in favor of its new ChatGPT desktop app, and says that August 9 is “the targeted date for deprecation”
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
OpenAI and Google are selling their advanced AI models to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, exposing a gap in the US' AI controls  —  US groups have been supplying AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
SK Hynix opens up 14% at $170 after raising $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company  —  SK Hynix opened at $170 per share on the Nasdaq on Friday, rising about 14%, as U.S. investors jumped at the opportunity to get a stake in South Korea's second-most valuable company.
Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg:
Circle says it received US regulator approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank, allowing it to offer institutional custody services  —  Circle Internet Group Inc. received approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank to support its stablecoin business …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock  —  Streamer is rethinking some of its core strategies to compete with rivals  —  Top Netflix executives who gathered …
Wall Street Journal:
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment, says she will step down and become a part-time adviser after her medical condition worsened; Simo joined in August  —  The head of artificial general intelligence won't return from extended medical leave, a major leadership change as the AI giant prepares to go public
Cristian Dina / The Next Web:
Munich-based QuantumDiamonds, which uses quantum sensors to detect chip defects, raised €91M, including €76M under the European Chips Act  —  QuantumDiamonds, a spin-out of the Technical University of Munich, has raised €91M to scale a diamond-based tool that spots hidden defects inside advanced chips.
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim plans to debut an agentic AI avatar of himself within days, which is meant to help the public navigate government services  —  Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is about to do something very few heads of government have done: send an artificial intelligence version …
SemiAnalysis:
A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI  —  A top tier RL environment startup spawns out of thin air, the most aggressive compute ramp we've ever seen, 2000km+ scale-across, and some advice for Google DeepMind
Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post:
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI  —  The billionaire investor will help shape how the Federal Reserve assesses a technology his firm has bet heavily on.
Bloomberg:
Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions  —  Phia, an advertising startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates, daughter of billionaire Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates …
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Boone Ashworth / Wired:
1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give them 25 degrees of freedom of movement; human hands usually have 27  —  The soft, weirdly sexualized home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands.  —  Friendly home robots have been the dream of sci-fi for a long time.
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:
Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A  —  Brendan Foody started Mercor when he was 19 years old.  Now he's 23, worth billions on paper, and running one of the fastest-growing companies in AI history.

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Bloomberg:
Analysis: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, the top spenders on new US data centers, collectively added ~$350B in debt over the past five yearsFind
35 minutes ago
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
SK Hynix opens up 14% at $170 after raising $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign companyFind
80 minutes ago
Bloomberg:
Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissionsFind
2½ hours ago
Cristian Dina / The Next Web:
Munich-based QuantumDiamonds, which uses quantum sensors to detect chip defects, raised €91M, including €76M under the European Chips ActFind
3 hours ago
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Like the Claude app it imitates, the new ChatGPT “Super App”, which merges Codex with ChatGPT, is a tangle of toggles and strange UI decisionsFind
3 hours ago
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
An RIAA-led coalition representing labels and artists proposes two tags for AI content: one for entirely AI-generated songs and another for “AI-assisted” tracksFind
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Cameron Faulkner / The Verge:
Xreal launches $299 A01 Plus AR glasses, weighing just 62 grams and featuring 1080p micro OLED panels with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 50-degree field of viewFind
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From Mediagazer

James Faris / Business Insider:
Sources: Disney is discussing a potential free tier for Disney+; product and tech chief Adam Smith discussed the initiative at a town hall but gave no timeline

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Report: Letterboxd's owners have held early talks with potential buyers, including Netflix, Sony Pictures, Paramount, and PE giant TPG

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
As Hollywood looks for its next Obsession-type hit, 11 studios bid on YouTube series The Mandela Catalogue and sources say WBD paid $1M for rights to Siren Head

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Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic:
How television, the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a decline in people reading longer works like books

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Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is stepping down after six years; VP of legal Molly Abraham will take his role with the title of general counsel
Sam Clark / Politico:
The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp
Axios:
OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on macOS and Windows
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview
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