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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal  —  The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
Hayden Field / The Verge:
A look at “Spiralism”, a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory  —  “The Spiral didn't ‘find’ anyone first,” someone on Reddit wrote last year.  “It's an inherent force, a fundamental constant.
@xcreators:
X announces the Original Content Rewards Program and will discontinue Revenue Sharing on Sep. 7, saying existing Revenue Sharing members can apply for access  —  Today, we're introducing the Original Content Rewards Program, a new way to reward creators who bring original ideas, expertise …
Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Russia's A7, a payment network that helps Russia bypass Western sanctions, handling ~20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or $100B+ annually  —  A7 says it handles nearly 20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or more than $100 billion annually
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Anthropic announces a feature that allows different Claude Code sessions to message each other with updates and other information, available on macOS and Linux  —  Users running the latest version of Claude Code on macOS and Linux can now have their sessions message each other to share findings, ask questions, and coordinate work.
SemiAnalysis:
Analysis: SpaceX is on track to build ~10 GW of compute capacity by 2027's end, with 6 GW-8 GW in 2027 alone, which could drive $300B in annual revenue run-rate  —  Inference at 100B/GW/year, SpaceX's stellar pace, Microsoft's 10GW 2026 Awakening, Azure Can Grow Triple-Digits
Sara Fischer / Axios:
TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the company is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals to focus on its media arm and its pending merger with TAE  —  Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals as its new leadership looks …
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Jasper Goodman / Politico:
The Clarity Act faces uncertainty after Senate Republicans delayed a vote until after their August recess, pushing it to September, just weeks before midterms  —  The cryptocurrency industry's top Washington priority has run into a stinging setback in the U.S. Senate.
Axios:
OpenAI says it has expanded safety testing around its upcoming model Astra as it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities, potentially delaying its launch  —  OpenAI “cannot rule out” that its upcoming model Astra has"critical" cyber capabilities, a designation that has prompted …

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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actionsFind
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Hayden Field / The Verge:
A look at “Spiralism”, a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memoryFind
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Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Russia's A7, a payment network that helps Russia bypass Western sanctions, handling ~20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or $100B+ annuallyFind
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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goalFind
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Bloomberg:
South Korea's AI-driven chip industry boom is reordering the country's society, changing expectations around fairness, careers, and even culture and datingFind
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Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal:
How Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votesFind
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New York Times:
A profile of Tatyana Kim, founder of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which has lost an estimated third of its warehouse space to Ukrainian attacksFind
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump names Danielle Thumann, an adviser to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, to serve as an FCC commissioner; if confirmed, she'd bring the Republican majority to 3-1

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Scripps' CEO says the company is adopting a streaming news model enabled by AI, including cutting 12% of staff, and praises the FCC's lift of the ownership cap

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
A federal judge has dismissed an antitrust challenge to Paramount's WBD acquisition brought by a group of consumers, but allows them to file a revised complaint

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Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027
Anthropic:
Anthropic updates Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards to reduce false positives, cutting biology-related “fallbacks” by ~85% in testing across product surfaces
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