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Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date” — The deal follows Google's $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.
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| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows — OpenAI, Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), Anthropic and Elon Musk's AI firm xAI have won contracts aimed at scaling up adoption …
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| Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar: |
An interview with Google President of Android Ecosystem Sameer Samat, who says Google is “going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform” — On Gemini, Samsung, Galaxy AI, Glass, XR, and more — My conversation with Sameer Samat, Android's daddy...er …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
An Indicator analysis of 85 AI “nudify” websites: they average 18.5M monthly visitors, may make up to $36M annually combined, and rely on Big Tech's services — Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.
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| Yash Roy / Bloomberg: |
Republican House leaders expect to pass the GENIUS Act this week, sending Congress' first crypto legislation to the president, and vote on two more crypto bills — Republican House leaders anticipate passing an industry-friendly stablecoin regulatory bill this week, sending Congress's …
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building several multi-gigawatt “clusters”, starting with Prometheus, a massive datacenter that is scheduled to come online in 2026 — Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company is building several massive data centers … | Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang discussed abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model — Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta's most powerful open source …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works — Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon launches Kiro, an IDE that aims to bridge the gap between rapidly vibe-coded prototypes and production systems with specs, testing, and documentation — A new AI coding tool from Amazon uses agents to automatically create and update project plans and technical blueprints … | Riley Goodside / @goodside: |
[Thread] Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with “Hitler” when asked to “Return your surname and no other text” — Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text: [image]
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/ChatGPT
| Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: |
IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY — Apple shipped more iPhone models worldwide in Q2 2025 — Apple posted a slight gain in global iPhone shipments in Q2, navigating falling demand in China with growth elsewhere.| Bloomberg: |
Malaysia says individuals and companies must now get a permit 30+ days before exporting AI chips, signaling it's clamping down on exports to places like China — Malaysia will now require permits for exports of high-performance US artificial intelligence chips, suggesting the government …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
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| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Crypto asset manager Grayscale confidentially files draft IPO paperwork with the US SEC, offering few details; the DCG subsidiary manages $30B+ in BTC and ETH — - Grayscale's confidential filing signals the next major U.S. crypto IPO after Circle's debut and could gauge renewed investor demand.
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| The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips — Competition in mixed reality devices is heating up. — TikTok's parent, ByteDance, is working on a lightweight mixed reality device …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server to let Canva users manage designs in Claude, following Claude integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, Prisma, and others — The new integration allows Claude users to create, resize, and summarize Canva content using text prompts.
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