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DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and was tested on Gemma and Qwen — Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has rolled out a major upgrade to its flagship V4 model aimed …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes — Earlier this year, Mono Technologies assembled and shipped nearly 1,000 units of its flagship product, a $600 router development kit.
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Researchers say Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches latest US models at finding security bugs, as critics question the US' lax approach in restricting Chinese open models — Clampdown on top U.S. artificial intelligence is fueling concern that Washington is handing Beijing a cyberwarfare advantage
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| Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: |
Jefferies: memory prices are expected to rise 40-50% in Q3 2026 and 30-40% in Q4, as Chinese memory makers are unlikely to provide meaningful near-term relief — Memory prices are all set to rise further in the coming quarters of 2026 as persistent shortages continue to grip the market.
More: PC Gamer, Kotaku, Ming-Chi Kuo, Notebookcheck, and Digital Trends
| New York Times: |
Google's Earthquake Alerts system reached 11.4M+ Android users ahead of Venezuela's June 24 earthquakes, providing seconds or up to two minutes of prior notice — Jose Flores was driving with his family to see “Toy Story 5” on Wednesday in Caracas, Venezuela, when a loud earthquake alert went off on his wife's Google Android phone.
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| Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: |
A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic — Andreou, who once led product at social media firm Snap, is head of Microsoft Copilot. — Early this year, Jacob Andreou had a crucial goal.
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| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
GPT-5.6 system card indicates Sol is well below the level of most worrisome Mythos use cases, suggesting all GPT-5.6 versions could be released without delay — While we wait for a general release, the system card is the best hint as to what is going on with the new candidate for America's Next Top Model, GPT-5.6.
More: Cyber Security News, The Neuron, Memeburn, and The Indian Express
| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is just 7% of costs and the AI race will be won on Earth within a few years — SoftBank's Masayoshi Son thinks the math doesn't support space-based data centers — Some people have expressed skepticism … | Jackson Chen / Engadget: |
Australian government says it plans to double the maximum penalty for any social media company breaking its minimum age law and grant more powers to enforcers — The fine can now potentially hit 99 million AUD, or $68 million. — After becoming the first in the world to implement … | Reuters: |
Shanghai-based Momenta, whose driver-assist tech is used by Toyota, Mercedes, and Audi in China, files for an IPO in Hong Kong, seeking to raise up to $751.1M — Chinese self-driving technology firm Momenta Global launched its Hong Kong initial public offering on Monday …
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| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
Dealogic: Japan saw 18 IPOs in H1 2026, the lowest since 2011, despite stock market surges, partly due to Japan's lack of AI, data center, and chip startups — Tokyo's surging stocks fail to jump-start lacklustre listings market in first half of this year — The number of initial public offerings … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Google told Meta around March it couldn't offer all the Gemini capacity Meta wanted to buy, disrupting and delaying some of Meta's internal AI projects — Surging appetite for advanced models is turning computing power into the tech industry's scarcest commodity
More: Business Today, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Digit, CNBC, Social Media Today, Benzinga, The Information, Livemint, and Tech in Asia
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Humanoid robot maker Apptronik raised ~$1B at a ~$5B valuation, including from Mercedes-Benz, which has a handful of Apptronik's Apollo robots in its factories — Jeff Cardenas says bringing humanoid machines into the mainstream will be a gradual process. — If you think of an office … | Marton Eder / Bloomberg: |
Letter: Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to boost bloc independence from US and Chinese tech — Austria is pushing the European Union to consider hosting Anthropic PBC within its borders to counter US efforts to block foreigners …
More: Seoul Economic Daily, Reuters, and Reuters
X: @scaling01, @brickroad7, @nathanbenaich, @martinvars, @kimmonismus, @anton_d_leicht, and @andrewcurran_
Forums: Hacker News and r/Anthropic
| Bloomberg: |
Australia-based Firmus partners with Nvidia to build its first data center in Batam, Indonesia; the 360 MW Nvidia DSX AI factory campus is developed with DayOne — Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd. will build its first data center project in Indonesia as part of a partnership with US chip giant Nvidia Corp. … Sponsor Posts
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