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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/technology
| 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 Talk to Spotify, letting users create playlists and more via voice, rolling out in beta to Premium users age 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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| Bloomberg: |
A Trump administration official says a “trivial” number of Nvidia's H200 chips were shipped to China after winning a US license, without offering specifics — A small number of Nvidia Corp.'s H200 artificial intelligence chips have been shipped to customers in China after winning US approval …
More: Reuters and New Scientist
| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
More: Reuters, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, Simply Wall St, The Motley Fool, Sweden Herald, and Benzinga
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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
More: The Keyword, WinBuzzer, DatacenterDynamics, Sydney Morning Herald, and reNEWS. Forums: r/climate
| 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| 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 … | 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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| 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 … | 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
| 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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| Reuters: |
Analysis: xAI has installed far more gas turbines without US permits at Colossus 2 than it has publicly acknowledged, impacting Black neighborhoods the hardest — Elon Musk's xAI has installed far more gas turbines without federal permits at its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee …
More: Tom's Hardware. Bluesky: @mrsdeborahlynn and @charleswlogan
Forums: Hacker News and r/BlackPeopleofReddit
| Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese startup DFSX launches an AI chip that it claims uses a fully domestic supply chain and is built on a 14nm process, but says it can rival 4nm chips — DFSX's investors include state-backed entities and industrial funds such as a venture-capital vehicle co-founded by Alibaba's Jack Ma| Reuters: |
Sources: data center operator Switch has hired investment banks for a US IPO that could raise up to $10B and value it at $80B, set for as soon as Q4 — Data center operator Switch is preparing for a significant initial public offering. This offering could potentially raise up to ten billion dollars soon.
More: Finimize
| A.J. Katz / The Wrap: |
Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow sue Google for allegedly using millions of copyrighted books and articles to build AI models — Publishers claim the tech giant used millions of copyrighted works without permission to build its Gemini artificial intelligence models| 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 …
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