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The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to assert US dominance over China, including proposals to ease permitting for AI infrastructure projects — The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply …
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Forums: r/politics and r/LocalLLaMA
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
President Trump's AI Action Plan, which has 90+ policy recommendations, explicitly seeks to roll back Biden-era measures on AI bias and cybersecurity threats — The Trump administration's new AI policy blueprint calls for limited regulation and lots of leeway for Big Tech to grow even bigger.
More: The White House, Engadget, Financial Times, CNN, New York Times, Semafor, Business Insider, NPR, Washington Examiner, WTOP News, and NewsNation. Bluesky: @natashabernal
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
A hacker claims to have compromised Amazon's Q coding assistant for VS Code via a GitHub pull request; Amazon says “no customer resources were impacted” — A hacker compromised a version of Amazon's popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users' computers …
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com and @josephcox
Mastodon: @shawnhooper@fosstodon.org and @metacurity@infosec.exchange
| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Apple launches AppleCare One, an insurance plan covering up to three devices for $20 per month, including battery replacements, accidental damage, and more — Apple Inc. is launching a new product-insurance plan that bundles coverage for as many as three devices, part of a broader effort to drum up subscription revenue.
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| Ari Natter / Bloomberg: |
Source: the US National Nuclear Security Administration was among those breached by a hack of SharePoint; no sensitive information is known to be compromised — The US agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation's cache of nuclear weapons was among those breached by a hack …
More: Washington Post, Cybersecurity Dive, BleepingComputer, PCMag, Windows Central, CRN, Neowin, New York Post, Metacurity, PC Gamer, Engadget, IJR, The Verge, DataBreachToday.com, Telegraph, Gizchina.com, Cyber Security News, implicator.ai, and The Guardian
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X: @jordihays, @geiger_capital, @aidangomez, @ddimolfetta, @ericgeller, and @arinatter. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Eye Security: hackers have breached ~400 government agencies, corporations, and other groups via the SharePoint flaw, up from an estimated 60 on July 22 — The number of companies and organizations compromised by a security vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s SharePoint servers is increasing rapidly …
More: TechCrunch, Reuters, Tom's Guide, Fast Company, Intelligent CIO, and implicator.ai. LinkedIn: Job Kuijpers
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic and other researchers detail “subliminal learning”, where LLMs learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits — We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits.
More: The Verge, The Decoder, Digit, Analytics India Magazine, arXiv.org, Simon Willison's Weblog, and GitHub
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Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, r/artificial, and r/ClaudeAI
| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
In an interview at the Federal Reserve, Sam Altman warns of an impending “fraud crisis” because of how AI could enable bad actors to impersonate other people — New York CNN — — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” …
More: Benzinga, The Guardian, Federal Reserve Board, Associated Press, PYMNTS.com, Federal Reserve on YouTube, Wall Street Journal, Axios, and American Banker
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber plans to launch a pilot ride type to match female riders and drivers in LA, San Francisco, and Detroit over the next few weeks, called “Women Drivers” — Uber Technologies Inc. is piloting a new ride type in the US that will match female riders and drivers … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Ukraine arrests the suspected administrator of Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is at the Paris public prosecutor's request, with help from France and Europol — The suspected administrator of the Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is was arrested by the Ukrainian authorities yesterday …
More: Europol, Reuters, Le Monde, CyberScoop, TechCrunch, Associated Press, The Record, The Cyber Express, Reuters, CyberInsider, and Hackread
Bluesky: @metacurity.com. Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social and @campuscodi@mastodon.social. X: @europol
| Zach Vallese / CNBC: |
Meta introduces new safety features for teens, including enhanced DM protections, and removed 600K+ Instagram and Facebook accounts linked to predatory behavior — Meta on Wednesday introduced new safety features for teen users, including enhanced direct messaging protections to prevent “exploitative content.”
More: Meta Newsroom, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Neowin, UPI, Moneycontrol, Benzinga, PetaPixel, WinBuzzer, TechCrunch, and The Indian Express
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases its new Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 model on Hugging Face, improving on Qwen 3's reasoning, accuracy, and multilingual understanding — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made waves globally in the tech and business communities with its own family of “Qwen” … | Qwen: |
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Muvija M / Reuters: |
The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google “strategic market status” in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds “opportunities for more innovation” — Britain's competition regulator said it plans to designate Apple (AAPL.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) …
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X: @timsweeneyepic and @cmagovuk
| Financial Times: |
AWS shuts down its Shanghai AI research lab, following similar moves by Microsoft, IBM, and other US tech companies, to scale back China-based R&D efforts — US ecommerce group follows IBM and Microsoft in China pullback amid geopolitical tensions — Ecommerce group Amazon is shutting …
More: South China Morning Post, CNBC, The Decoder, The Information, Proactive, Cryptopolitan, Reuters, Nikkei Asia, and The Stack
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Meta debuts a prototype wristband to read electrical signals from forearm muscles, letting users control devices without touch, trained on 10K peoples' EMG data — When you write your name in the air, you can see the letters appear on your smartphone. — The prototype looks like a giant rectangular wristwatch.
More: TechCrunch, New Atlas, Meta, and Nature
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Proton launches Lumo, an AI chatbot to summarize documents, generate code, and more and says it will protect users' information via “zero-access” encryption — Proton says it protects Lumo's chats with ‘zero-access’ encryption while storing them on users' devices.
More: Proton, Engadget, 9to5Mac, ZDNET, Thurrott, TechCrunch, Android Authority, PCMag, BGR, implicator.ai, CyberInsider, Notebookcheck, Neowin, How-To Geek, The Independent, and Fast Company. Forums: r/technology
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sonos names interim CEO Tom Conrad as CEO, effective immediately, as it works to restore confidence after its app disaster; Conrad took the job in January 2025 — Sonos Inc. named interim leader Tom Conrad as its next chief executive officer, expressing confidence in the turnaround effort he's pursuing at the embattled audio brand.| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
A US federal jury gives five Nevada men varying prison sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services — A federal jury slapped five men from Nevada with varying sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services …
More: US Department of Justice and TorrentFreak
| Financial Times: |
The UK partners with Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats to curb illegal food delivery work, share more data, and combat a secondary market in rider accounts — Increased data sharing between government and companies follows concerns checks are being flouted| OpenAI: |
OpenAI details how its tools have boosted US worker productivity and says its chief economist is leading a 12-month study to assess AI's impact on productivity — Analysis provides insights into ChatGPT's impact on the economy. OpenAI also launches new research collaboration …
More: OpenAI, Constellation Research, The Verge, and Business Insider. LinkedIn: OpenAI Global Affairs
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
PayPal unveils PayPal World, a platform set to launch in fall 2025 to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pago — PayPal announced Wednesday it has partnered with global wallet companies to create a platform called PayPal World that is designed to make cross-border commerce easier.| Mistral AI: |
Mistral releases a study on the environmental impact of its LLMs, conducting what it claims is the first comprehensive lifecycle analysis of an AI model — At Mistral AI, our mission is to bring artificial intelligence in everyone's hands. For this purpose, we have consistently advocated …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog and Digit
Bluesky: @simonwillison.net. Mastodon: @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green. X: @emollick, @emollick, @sophiamyang, and @sophiamyang. LinkedIn: Hyoun Park. Forums: Hacker News
| Financial Times: |
Analysis: in H1 2025, 500+ orgs lobbied the White House and Congress on AI, on par with H1 2024 but up ~2x since 2023; OpenAI spent $1.8M, up from $380K in 2023 — Hundreds of organisations are seeking to influence Congress and Donald Trump's White House — Alex Rogers and Ian Hodgson …
More: PYMNTS.com and Cryptopolitan
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Researchers say North Korean scammers infiltrating the US workforce often reference Minions and other Despicable Me characters in GitHub and Telegram profiles — References to the agents of evil and other ‘Despicable Me’ characters are telltale signs of swindlers infiltrating U.S. companies| Bloomberg: |
Dell says COO Jeff Clarke will now oversee its Client Solutions Group, which includes desktop and notebook PCs; Dell's consumer PC revenue fell 19% in Q1 — Dell Technologies Inc. has reorganized some of its leadership, putting Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke directly in charge … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Amazon acquires Bee, which sells a $50 device that resembles a Fitbit, is always listening, transcribes conversations, and serves up daily AI summaries — Bee is a Fitbit-like device that transcribes your conversations and serves up daily summaries. … Amazon is acquiring Bee, a startup that puts AI on your wrist.
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Bluesky: @ironyuppie.com, @carnage4life, @quinnypig.com, @ryanrussell1982, @werd.io, @amysundberg, @cathleencrudden, @jamiesiggy, @fatalnyc, @brandondoughan, @michaelcichon, @blowdart.me, and @thibaultmol.en.osm …
Forums: r/technology, r/artificial, r/technews, and Slashdot
| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
VenHub, which uses robotics and AI to run fully automated retail stores, confidentially files for a US direct listing, after a $715M SPAC merger failed in May — VenHub Global Inc. plans to undertake a direct listing on a US exchange after the developer of fully automated retail stores abandoned … Sponsor Posts
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