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Ina Fried / Axios:
Mark Zuckerberg names Shengjia Zhao, the former OpenAI researcher who co-created ChatGPT, as chief scientist at Meta's new superintelligence lab  —  Shengjia Zhao — formerly of OpenAI — will be chief scientist at Meta's new Superintelligence Lab, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Threads on Friday.
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Source: Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR and will report to Alexandr Wang  —  Mark Zuckerberg has named Shengjia Zhao, an artificial intelligence researcher who joined Meta Platforms Inc. from OpenAI in June, as the chief scientist …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta will no longer accept political, election, or social issue ads in the EU from October, like Google, with both citing incoming regulation  —  Meta on Friday said starting in October it will no longer accept political, election or social issue ads in the European Union …
Reuters:
Intel says it may exit cutting-edge manufacturing if it can't secure customers for its 14A process, a major shift for the long-time steward of Moore's Law
Reuters:
Intel plans to cut its workforce from 96,400 that it reported at the end of June to 75,000, or about 15%, through attrition and “other means” by the end of 2025
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Intel reports Q2 revenue flat YoY at $12.9B, vs. $11.9B est., a $2.9B loss due to restructuring and impairment charges, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Some 4chan users claim they breached Tea, the women's dating safety app that has topped the US App Store charts; Tea confirms the breach also impacted some DMs
Angela Yang / NBC News:
A look at Tea, a women-only safety app with 4M users that lets users anonymously assign red or green flags to local men, as it goes viral with 900K new signups
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal that lets users create mini web apps using text prompts or remix existing apps, available in the US via Labs  —  AI-powered coding tools have become so popular over the past few months that almost every major tech company is either using one or making its own.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft previews Copilot Appearance, a virtual character with real-time expressions, voice, and conversational memory, for some users in the US, UK, Canada  —  Microsoft has a new Copilot Appearance virtual character that responds with real-time expressions.
Morgan Sung / KQED:
Sen. Alex Padilla grants the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it a part of a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents  —  The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity companies let Chinese hackers exploit SharePoint flaws  —  A program to share information with cybersecurity companies may have exposed unpatched flaws in the company's SharePoint service.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft's Recall is meeting a lot of resistance from app developers, with Brave and AdGuard joining Signal in blocking the controversial Windows AI tool  —  Brave and AdGuard are both following Signal's lead in blocking Microsoft's AI tool. … Microsoft's controversial Recall feature …

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Washington Post:
Stars and Stripes' publisher Max Lederer, EIC Erik Slavin, and reporter Lara Korte sue the DOD, claiming their firings were retaliatory and broke federal law

Rick Ellis / Too Much TV Newsletter:
Analysis: Puck's reported $250M valuation sounds wildly overpriced and could force the hand of existing investors who have been reluctant to sell to RedBird

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
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More News

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Sources: GPT-5 shows improved performance in coding, particularly in practical software engineering tasks, outperforming prior OpenAI models and Claude Sonnet 4
Lauren Goode / Wired:
Anysphere launches Bugbot, an AI-powered tool that integrates with GitHub to detect coding errors introduced by humans or AI agents, for $40 per month per user
Financial Times:
Analysis: US and UK entry-level graduate job listings have plunged since 2022, but there's only tentative evidence of AI-related disruption in some occupations
More: Bloomberg and FlowingData
Bluesky: @shlead, @mims, @dannygroner, and @jessefelder.  LinkedIn: Benjamin Stevenin
Forums: Slashdot and Slashdot
Reuters:
Sources: repair demand in China for Nvidia's banned AI chips, including H100 and A100, surges as ~12 firms now repair chips that made their way into the country

Earlier Picks

Meir Orbach / CTech:
Aidoc, which uses AI to help doctors make real-time clinical decisions, raised $150M led by General Catalyst and Square Peg, bringing its total funding to $370M
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
The US Treasury sanctions three senior North Korean officials accused of tricking companies into hiring North Koreans using stolen identities as IT workers
Jason Snell / Six Colors:
Hands-on with macOS 26: the interface is a mess, like a poorly imported iOS design, but the power of Spotlight and Shortcuts will delight many longtime users
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Starlink experienced a network outage for about 2.5 hours on Thursday; NetBlocks reports that connectivity dropped to “16% of ordinary levels”
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query
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