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Demis Hassabis proposes a US-based Standards Body for “Frontier-class” AI, modeled after FINRA; labs would share models for review up to 30 days before release — This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new environmental permits for data centers over 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so — But a version approved by state lawmakers could go even further. … New hyperscale data centers can't set up shop in New York …
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| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
IBM reports preliminary Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $17.2B, below $17.9B est., as CEO Arvind Krishna says customers are shifting spending to chips; IBM falls 25%+ — International Business Machines Corp. shares slid by the most in at least 58 years after the company reported preliminary second-quarter sales …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Spotify launches a Talk to Spotify feature that lets users create playlists and more, rolling out in beta to Premium users 18+ in the US, Ireland, and Sweden — The new beta feature works from the Home or Now Playing views on mobile. — Spotify already uses a lot of AI (too much some might say) …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources and telecom data: a coordinated campaign of SS7 pings was used to track the locations of US personnel during the US-led strikes on Iran in late February — Roaming systems and ad tech were used to try to locate American personnel as Tehran attacked forces in the region| Connor Jones / The Register: |
Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted — Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them
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| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude expresses different values and behaviors across model versions and languages — Claude doesn't behave the same way in every conversation. According to new research published Monday, AI giant Anthropic found … | Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
eMarketer: chatbots like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode will make <$1B in ad revenue in 2026; OpenAI projected $2.5B in ChatGPT ad revenue in 2026 and $100B by 2030 — OpenAI is projecting $100 billion in ad revenue by 2030. Emarketer puts the ceiling for the entire chatbot ad market in U.S at just $5.41 billion.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail “context bombing”, where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% — Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them …
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| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
Kalshi launches a forward curve tool for AI compute, using event contracts to track the future rental costs of GPUs, storage, and memory — Kalshi Inc. has created a tool that plots the future price of computing power, joining the ranks of exchange and index operators attempting … | Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029 — Deal signals continued demand for renewable energy despite Trump administration's efforts to end tax credits and stall plans| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
A look at AI world models, including how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled, as startups led by tech leaders like Yann LeCun raise billions — Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled. — Over the past few years … | Kiranjeet Kaur / IDC: |
China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments — What Happened in China's Smartphone Market in Q2 2026? — China's smartphone shipments came in at roughly 66 million units …
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| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: DeepSeek is in preliminary talks with new investors about raising funds at a ~$71B valuation, after raising ~$7B at a ~$52B valuation at the end of May — Unusually swift pace of capital injection comes as Chinese AI start-up seeks to build out infrastructure| Will Shanklin / Engadget: |
Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the new Siri AI's first public launch — Try the new Siri AI and system-wide performance improvements. — Adventurous early adopters, your moment has arrived …
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| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
Flex, which offers AI-based payment tools, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $70M Series B1 led by Halo Fund, a source says at a $1.2B valuation — Flex, an AI startup pitching itself as a one-stop shop for the banking needs of mid-sized business owners …
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| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: Nvidia has cut its Asian authorized AI chip clients by 50%+ and intensified due diligence in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan to prevent China diversions — Tougher vetting in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan reflects Washington's push to close export-control loopholes
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Velocity, a stablecoin treasury and settlement platform, raised a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, bringing its total funding to around $50M — Quick Take — Dragonfly and FirstMark co-led Velocity's round with participation from Activant Capital, Capital One Ventures …
More: FinSMEs, Ventureburn, and Fortune
| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
AI startup Reflection says it has signed a $1B+ deal to secure computing capacity from Nebius, including access to Nvidia chips, following a deal with SpaceX — AI startup Reflection said on Tuesday it has signed a more than $1 billion deal to secure computing capacity from Nebius (NBIS.O), including access to Nvidia's latest chips.
More: TechCrunch, Finimize, Motley Fool, Blockonomi, Bloomberg Law, and Techstrong.ai
| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Nikita Bier says X made a “tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals”, or those who users follow back, to avoid replies becoming a “battleground” — X has made a “tweak” to its algorithm to boost the visibility of posts to users' “mutuals” … Sponsor Posts
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