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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness sold the bulk of its stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after suffering deep losses  —  The highflying hedge fund run by Leopold Aschenbrenner is in crisis mode after AI-related bets sank  —  Situational Awareness …
Financial Times:
Sources: ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout  —  Hedge fund has held talks with existing investors and lenders in recent days  —  Situational Awareness, the $20bn hedge fund founded …
David Faber / CNBC:
Sources: Situational Awareness has sold all of its public stock holdings; the fund grew to as big as $45B at the start of July before big losses took hold  —  The battered hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner is unwinding many of its trades after big losses …
Financial Times:
Source: Situational Awareness has a $5B stake in Anthropic, and will continue to run as a private investment firm after suffering heavy losses in recent days  —  Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund suffered steep losses in recent days from tech sell-off  —  Situational Awareness rapidly sold …
Ina Fried / Axios:
OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them  —  OpenAI said Thursday it is cutting prices for two GPT-5.6 models after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them.
Will Knight / Wired:
Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids  —  The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.”  But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.
Thinking Machines Lab:
Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it “achieves comparable performance” to Inkling  —  Try on Tinker Model card Hugging Face  —  Today, we are releasing Inkling-Small, an efficient open-weights model …
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
LinkedIn introduces a “seems like AI slop” button to allow users to report posts they think are AI-generated  —  Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.
Abhirup Roy / Reuters:
Amazon's Zoox receives the NHTSA's first US approval for paid deployment of its steering wheel-free robotaxi and can deploy up to 2,500 per year through 2028  —  Amazon's (AMZN.O) Zoox won U.S. approval on Wednesday for limited commercial deployment of its novel steering-wheel-free robotaxis …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal  —  Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents …
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
Samsung reports Q2 revenue up 130% YoY to ~$118.1B, below ~$118.9B est., and operating profit up 1,814% to ~$61.46B, above ~$60.68B est., on robust AI demand  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a source says for ~$1.65B; Anyscale, which helps AI workloads run more efficiently, had a $1B+ valuation in 2022  —  Cloud provider Nscale agreed to acquire software startup Anyscale to help customers use AI computing power more efficiently.
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Google pilots a faster twice-a-week schedule for Chrome security releases as AI tools drive a surge in bug discoveries; Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 bugs  —  The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them.  Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks …
Madison Mills / Axios:
Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta  —  Scale AI has hired former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, year after Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang left the AI infrastructure company for Meta.
Maria Curi / Axios:
At a hearing, a US judge says “I don't see additional evidence” from the Pentagon justifying its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk  —  A federal judge on Thursday signaled she's become even more skeptical of the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic …
OpenAI:
OpenAI says using its Responses API harness with GPT-5.6 Sol tripled its ARC-AGI-3 score with fewer output tokens, after Sol with the official harness got 7.8%  —  A sped-up video of GPT-5.6 Sol attempting to solve puzzles in the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, with the official harness (left) …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
The US FCC's ban on foreign “advanced robotic devices” covers any new ground-based, software-controlled wireless robot over 4.4 pounds, including robot vacuums  —  Did you hear it was just a ban on Chinese humanoid robots?  It's not. … But spying doesn't require legs — and neither does the FCC's robot ban.
Bloomberg:
Sources: DeepSeek plans to build a 1 GW data center in Inner Mongolia and aims to bring at least part of its capacity online by the end of 2027 or early 2028  —  China's DeepSeek is planning a massive artificial-intelligence data center in Inner Mongolia, according to people familiar with the matter …
Zachary Skidmore / DatacenterDynamics:
Google-backed nuclear fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1B, after raising a $1.8B Series B in 2021 and $863M in 2025, and plans a 2030s launch  —  Has now raised $4bn, the most of any fusion company  —  Google-backed nuclear fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: DeepSeek plans to build a 1 GW data center in Inner Mongolia and aims to bring at least part of its capacity online by the end of 2027 or early 2028Find
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Carly Page / The Register:
Amazon researchers link the compromises of four npm packages, including axios, over the past 18 months to the North Korea-linked group tracked as Sapphire SleetFind
70 minutes ago
Maria Curi / Axios:
At a hearing, a US judge says “I don't see additional evidence” from the Pentagon justifying its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain riskFind
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Bloomberg:
Source: Situational Awareness' assets have fallen to ~$10B after it liquidated some positions to meet margin calls, down from a reported $20B+ as of late MayFind
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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash dealFind
2 hours ago
Thinking Machines Lab:
Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it “achieves comparable performance” to InklingFind
2 hours ago
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guaranteesFind
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Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
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Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Google's SynthID for watermarking AI images is hard to break, but watermarking can't change that there will always be ways to AI-generate content without labels
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