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In Beijing, Jensen Huang says Nvidia will “accelerate the recovery” of its China chip sales and he expects its US export licenses “to come through very shortly” — Jensen Huang tells Beijing press conference it takes nine months to restart supply chain| Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: |
China, which pledged $8.5B for young AI startups in April, is taking an industrial policy approach to help its AI companies close the gap with those in the US — Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its A.I. companies close the gap with those in the United States.
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| New York Times: |
Jensen Huang says “I don't think I changed” Trump's mind on the US' China export rules, and “it's my job to inform the president about what I know very well” — Jensen Huang, the chipmaker's chief executive, is trying to balance his company's interests as the United States …
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| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
Sources: OpenAI researcher Jason Wei, who worked on o3 and deep research models, and his colleague Hyung Won Chung are joining Meta's new superintelligence lab — Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI's o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta's superintelligence lab.
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| The Information on YouTube: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's “personal super intelligence” push, how its pay packages pale in comparison to its AI infra investments, AI glasses, and more — The Information's TITV is first in tech news and analysis from the people that break and shape the story.
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Google says its Big Sleep AI agent for finding unknown software vulnerabilities recently discovered a critical SQLite flaw that “was at risk of being exploited” — Google said a large language model it developed to find vulnerabilities recently discovered a bug that hackers were preparing to use.
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| Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg: |
Europol and Eurojust disrupt pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) that has claimed responsibility for 1,000+ DDoS attacks since 2022, and make two arrests — - Europol, Eurojust say more than 100 attack servers disrupted — Two arrested in France and Spain, warrants out for 6 Russians| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI aims to integrate a checkout system into ChatGPT, to ensure users complete transactions within the platform, with merchants paying a commission — Artificial intelligence start-up has shown brands a prototype of its new checkout feature — OpenAI plans to take a cut … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q2 net sales of €7.7B, net income of €2.29B, and net bookings of €5.5B, above €4.19B est., as tariffs have a “less negative” impact than expected — ASML on Wednesday warned of the possibility of no growth in 2026, even as it beat top and bottom line expectations for the second quarter.
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| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
In a paper, AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others recommend “further research into chain-of-thought monitorability” for AI safety — AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and a broad coalition of companies and nonprofit groups …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft begins testing a Windows 11 feature for sharing the entire desktop with Copilot Vision; it requires first entering a special mode in the Copilot app — First announced earlier this year, sharing your desktop with Copilot on Windows 11 is now in testing with insiders across all preview channels.
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| IDC: |
In Q2 2025, smartphone shipments in China fell 4% YoY to 69M; Huawei reclaimed the top spot after over four years with an 18.1% share, followed by Vivo's 17.3% — Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, China's smartphone market shipped 69.0 million units in 2Q25, marking a 4.0% year-on-year (YoY) decline.
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets more than doubled from 2023 to 330+ incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to hacking-for-hire — American officials say new economic model for offense has fueled spying attacks by government agencies that have more than doubled.
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| Bloomberg: |
Scale AI says it is laying off 200 full-time employees, or ~14% of its global workforce, and will stop working with 500 contractors, after Meta invested $14.3B — The AI data-labeling company is laying off 200 full-time employees and will stop working with 500 contractors.| Pat Gelsinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Intel's former CEO backs President Trump's proposed sovereign wealth fund to secure US leadership in quantum, AI, and chips and combat China's tech advances — It isn't an attempt to surmount market forces but to offer an alternative to adversaries' capital.
More: Portland Business Journal and Business Insider
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Airbus' Acubed and Google spinout SandboxAQ test MagNav, a quantum-sensing navigation device and potential GPS alternative, for 150+ flight hours across the US — With GPS increasingly vulnerable to tampering, planes need more reliable navigation systems. The magnetic pull in the Earth's crust could offer a novel solution.| Calvin French-Owen: |
A former OpenAI engineer details his experience working at the company, its culture, codebase structure, Python, Azure, rapid growth, the Codex launch, and more — I left OpenAI three weeks ago. I had joined the company back in May 2024. — I wanted to share my reflections because there's …
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Roblox launches a licensing platform to help IP rights holders to collaborate with creators, with Lionsgate, Netflix, Sega, and Kodansha as founding partners — Roblox is launching a new licensing platform to streamline the process for IP rights holders to partner with creators on the gaming platform.
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| Ichiro Lambe / Totally Human Media: |
Analysis: 7,818 game titles on Steam now disclose they use generative AI, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 — A year ago, I poked around Steam to see how many game developers were disclosing usage of Generative AI.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax files confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO, targeting a $4B+ valuation and aiming to raise $510M+, set to float by 2025's end — Chinese AI startup MiniMax has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong initial public offering, targeting a valuation of over $4 billion …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
The US DOJ says ex-Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pled guilty to hacking 10+ companies and to extortion; in February, he admitted he hacked AT&T and Verizon — Former U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking telecommunication companies and attempting to extort … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google Search's AI Mode gets Gemini 2.5 Pro and new deep research capabilities; Google also expands an AI-powered business calling feature to all users in US — Google is rolling out an agentic AI-powered business calling feature to all users in the United States, the company announced on Wednesday.
More: The Keyword and Droid Life
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Bedrock Robotics raised $80M from Eclipse and 8VC to develop retrofit self-driving kits for construction and worksite vehicles, in testing with five companies — Bedrock Robotics, an autonomous vehicle technology startup founded by veterans of Waymo and Segment, has been operating quietly for more than a year.
More: Robotics & Automation News and Forbes
| Cristián Vera-Cruz / Rest of World: |
A look at the Chile-led Latam-GPT project, which involves 30+ Latin American and Caribbean institutions collaborating to release an open-source LLM in September — Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America's cultural and linguistic nuances.Sponsor Posts
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