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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller model can run locally on a consumer device with 16GB+ of RAM — The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, represent a major shift for the AI company. — OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models in over five years.
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1 to paid Claude users, in Claude Code, via its API, and more, featuring broad improvements over Opus 4 for the same cost — Today we're releasing Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4 on agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic's Mike Krieger: Opus 4.1 is better at coding, agentic tasks, and more, and Anthropic was previously too focused on only shipping “really big upgrades” — Anthropic is releasing a new version of its most powerful artificial intelligence model as rival OpenAI nears the long-awaited launch of its GPT-5 system.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba's Qwen releases Qwen-Image, an AI image generation model focused on accurate text rendering, with support for alphabetic and logographic scripts — After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google DeepMind releases its Genie 3 model, which can generate 3D worlds from a prompt and has enough visual memory for a few minutes of continuous interaction — AI world models have many limitations, but Genie 3 offers improvements like real-time interaction and better memory.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $7.7B vs. $7.43B est., and diluted EPS of $0.48, vs. $0.49 est.; AMD drops 5%+ after hours — Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the second-largest maker of artificial intelligence processors, warned that its return to the crucial China market remains a work in progress …
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| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
The DOJ says two Chinese nationals were arrested in California on charges of illegally shipping AI chips, including Nvidia H100s, to China from 2022 to 2025 — Two Chinese nationals were arrested in California and charged with illegally shipping tens of millions of dollars' worth of AI chips to China … | Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: |
Taiwanese prosecutors say two ex-TSMC employees and a third suspect were arrested for allegedly stealing proprietary tech; investigators searched Tokyo Electron — Taiwanese prosecutors probe ‘potential trade secret leaks’ in first case since key technologies added to national security legislation| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
ElevenLabs launches Eleven Music, letting individuals and businesses use its AI model to generate music cleared for commercial use via English-language prompts — New model allows customers to create music with AI that is cleared for commercial use. But AI-generated music still faces legal battles and stiff opposition from artists.| Reuters: |
Linda Yaccarino is named CEO of digital health platform eMed Population Health less than a month after stepping down as CEO of X — Linda Yaccarino is taking the top job at eMed Population Health, a telehealth startup focused on GLP-1 weight loss drugs, nearly a month after stepping down as CEO of social media platform X.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Snap Q2: revenue up 9% YoY to $1.34B, vs. $1.35B est., 469M global DAUs, vs. 467M est., and global ARPU of $2.87, vs. $2.90 est.; SNAP drops ~15% after hours — Snap shares tanked 15% Tuesday when it reported second-quarter earnings in which global average revenue per user missed expectations.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
WhatsApp adds a new “safety overview” that appears in new group chats, including info on the group and when it was created, to help protect users from scams — The overview will contain information about when the group was created, who invited you, and how many members it has.| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Match Q2: revenue of $864M, flat YoY, net earnings of $125.5M, down from $133.3M YoY, and provides a Q3 forecast beating estimates; MTCH jumps 11% after hours — Match Group Inc. provided a better-than-expected third-quarter sales forecast and pledged to invest $50 million in product development …
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Filing: in its ChatGPT lawsuit, the NYT asked OpenAI to produce 120M user chats to analyze how often ChatGPT regurgitates its articles, after OpenAI offered 20M — OpenAI is preparing to raise what could be its final defense to stop The New York Times from digging through a spectacularly broad range … | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving admins the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like incorrect citations — “The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”| Reuters: |
Sources: Intel's 18A process yield has remained low, with only ~5% of its Panther Lake chips meeting its specifications in late 2024 and ~10% by summer 2025 — The production process that Intel (INTC.O) hoped would pave the way to winning manufacturing deals and restore its edge in churning out high-end …
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Forums: r/hardware, r/AMD_Stock, r/intelstock, and Slashdot
| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law — The state of Florida is suing some of the biggest porn platforms on the internet, accusing them of not complying with the state's law that requires adult sites to verify that visitors are over the age of 18.
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| Sophia Fox-Sowell / StateScoop: |
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a bill into law on August 1 banning the use of AI for mental health services, but allowing its use in administrative roles — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker approved a new law banning the use of artificial intelligence systems in providing psychotherapy services.
More: Mashable, Engadget, IDFPR, Gizmodo, and Chicago Sun Times
| Wall Street Journal: |
A draft White House EO shows President Trump plans to step up pressure against big banks over alleged discrimination against crypto companies and conservatives — The president is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that targets so-called debanking of businesses including crypto companies
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Forums: r/ldspolitics, r/CryptoCurrency, r/DeepStateCentrism, r/Economics, r/finance, r/StockMarket, and r/politics
| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
Coinbase adds Embedded Wallets to its mobile SDK, allowing devs to integrate wallets into their apps with minimal code, with support for on-ramps and swaps — - Coinbase's developer platform has launched Embedded Wallets, allowing developers to integrate self-custodial wallets into apps with minimal coding.
More: Decrypt, Coinbase, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, crypto.news, and CoinDesk
| Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab: |
Newsletter service Ghost says publishers have earned $100M+ on it, its annual revenue is $8.5M+, it now supports ActivityPub, and is upping new member pricing — The open-source publishing platform Ghost, which powers the websites and newsletters of many independent news outlets …
More: TechCrunch, Connected Places, and Daring Fireball
Bluesky: @knowtheory.net and @chronotope.aramzs.xyz
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Super Micro reports Q4 revenue up 7.5% YoY to $5.76B, vs. $6.01B est., and lowers its fiscal year sales forecast; SMCI drops 14%+ after hours — Super Micro Computer Inc. shares plunged after the company lowered its fiscal-year revenue forecast and projecting quarterly profit that fell short of estimates …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
The UK's Online Safety Act shows the UK prioritized government control over improving safety, becoming a cautionary tale for democracies regulating the internet — Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK's Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking …
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Forums: r/privacy, r/ukpolitics, r/technews, r/GreenAndPleasant, r/technology, r/KotakuInAction, and Beehaw
| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
Users say AI notetaking tools for meetings can misinterpret context when generating summaries or share content meant for a select audience with all participants — New note-taking software catches every word from your meetings—including the parts you didn't want the whole room to hear| A.J. Vicens / Reuters: |
Cisco Talos finds a flaw in the Broadcom BCM5820X chip used in Dell's ControlVault security firmware, affecting 100+ laptop models; Dell issued patches in 2025 — A flaw in the chips used to secure tens of millions of Dell (DELL.N) laptops could have given attackers the ability …
More: The Register, MobileSyrup, Help Net Security, WinBuzzer, Hackread, and ComputerWeekly.com
| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
President Trump says that he plans to announce new tariffs “on semiconductors and chips” as soon as next week “because we want them made in the United States” — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping
More: TechCrunch, The American Bazaar, and PCMag
Forums: r/intelstock, r/soxl, r/StockMarket, and r/politics
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the platform paid out $10B+ to creators since its 2013 founding, creators now get $2B+ annually, and there are 25M+ paid memberships — Creators on Patreon have received more than $10 billion in payouts from fans since the company was founded in 2013, CEO and co-founder Jack Conte tells Axios.Sponsor Posts
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