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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 4.5, saying it is the world's best coding model, the strongest for building complex agents, and its “most aligned” frontier model — Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world. It's the strongest model for building complex agents.
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Threads: @notionhq, @boris_cherny, and @vishvanands
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants — Arrows pointing outwards — OpenAI on Monday announced Instant Checkout, a new feature that allows users to buy products through …
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LinkedIn: Lily Ray, Jason Goldberg, and Ashley Capoot
Bluesky: @cactrot, @mmatute, @redteamwrangler, @lorenzofb, and @michae.lv. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
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| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
More: Stripe and Sadagopan's weblog …
X: @openaidevs, @sarthakgh, @patrickc, @sarthakgh, @dwr, @jeff_weinstein, and @jeff_weinstein
| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after January 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits — Google subsidiary is the last of three Big Tech companies to resolve personal litigation Trump filed against social-media platforms
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Forums: r/politics and r/law
| Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; the first-in-the-nation AI safety law requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes — “California has proven that we can establish regulations to protect our communities while also ensuring that the growing AI industry continues to thrive.
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| Wired: |
Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed with entirely AI-generated videos — The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model. — OpenAI is preparing to launch …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI told studios that it plans to release a new version of Sora that creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out — Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week — OpenAI is planning to release a new version …
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| Financial Times: |
How Jared Kushner and Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban brokered the EA takeover using Kushner's deep Saudi Arabia ties; sources: Kushner's firm will own ~5% of EA — Trump's son-in-law used deep ties in Saudi Arabia to help pull off the largest buyout — Antoine Gara, James Fontanella-Khan … | Electronic Arts: |
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LinkedIn: Mohamed El Sheakh, Kurt Ma, and David Neichel
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| CNBC: |
A US judge sentences Frank founder Charlie Javice to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase by overstating how many customers the fintech company had — Charlie Javice, founder of a startup acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2021 for $175 million, was sentenced to just more than seven years … | Anbarasan Ethirajan / BBC: |
NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a “total internet blackout” as the Taliban imposes a telecom shutdown; an official says it will last until further notice — Anbarasan Ethirajan, Global Affairs Reporter and — The Taliban government in Afghanistan has imposed …
More: The Indian Express, CBS News, Reuters, and Associated Press
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Internal memo: Microsoft is unifying its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization led by Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, reversing a 2018 split — The unified team is meant to support Microsoft's work on top priorities like AI. … Windows is coming back together.| Ana Ionova / New York Times: |
How Brazil's Pix digital payment system, adopted by 80%+ of citizens, became a target of the Trump administration, which says it unfairly undercuts US companies — Brazil's fast and free homegrown digital payment system, PIX, has become wildly popular. The Trump administration says it unfairly undercuts U.S. companies.
More: Business Today and The Week
| The Information: |
OpenAI's financial disclosures to investors suggest it generated ~$4.3B in H1 2025 revenue, 16% more than all of 2024, and burned $2.5B, largely due to R&D — OpenAI generated around $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, about 16% more than it generated all of last year, according to financial disclosures to shareholders.| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
Leaked document: a “widespread cybersecurity incident” at FEMA allowed hackers to steal employee data from both FEMA and US CBP through a Citrix vulnerability — A “widespread cybersecurity incident” at the Federal Emergency Management Agency allowed hackers to make off … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions raised a $250M Series C at a $1.4B valuation; Arm joined the round as a strategic partner — Rebellions Inc. raised $250 million from investors including Arm Holdings Plc to mass produce its chip and speed up product development in a competitive AI market.
More: DealStreetAsia and DigiTimes
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Researchers: Tile tags broadcast unencrypted MAC addresses and unique IDs; researchers informed Life360 in November 2024 but it stopped replying in February — A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.
More: 9to5Mac, Phandroid, Android Police, and Android Authority
Bluesky: @tyleraking.com, @eff.org, and @mikespecter.com
Forums: r/gadgets and r/technews
| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: US wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did in 2020 in areas located near significant data center activity — Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That's being passed on to customers.
LinkedIn: Naureen S. Malik
| Crypto in America: |
Sources: asset manager Vanguard, which has historically been critical of cryptocurrencies, prepares to allow access to crypto ETFs on its brokerage platform — The $10 trillion mutual fund giant has stayed on the sidelines of crypto — until now. — Crypto in America and Eleanor Terrett
More: Blockonomi, Bloomberg, and The Block
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