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The EU issues two decisions under the DMA that order Google to provide rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and some Search data — The EU says Google must let rival search engines and AI assistants have comparable access to Android and some Search data to comply with the DMA.| Mizy Clifton / Politico: |
Ofcom opens an investigation into TikTok over Online Safety Act compliance, citing doubts about the effectiveness of age inference in determining users' ages — The online safety watchdog is worried about TikTok's use of “age inference” to guess users' ages.| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$39.45B, net income up 77.4% YoY to ~$21.9B, both above est., and says chips 7nm or smaller were 77% of its wafer revenue — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co on Thursday reported a 77.4% jump in second-quarter profit year on year … | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license, after the tool uploaded user repositories to SpaceXAI's Google Cloud bucket, causing a backlash — xai-org/grok-build, now open source (via) xAI's grok CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent …
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Uber agrees to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal that values the German food delivery company at ~$14.8B, offering €41.50 per share and buying Prosus' 16.8% stake — Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to buy Delivery Hero SE in a deal that values the German food-delivery company …
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LinkedIn: Maxim Koblyuk, Delivery Hero, Saurabh Biswal, Miran M. Mubarak, Raghu Tenneti, Pulkit Malhotra, and Redwan Rezvi
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Moonshot plans to launch Kimi K3, China's largest model to date with 2T-3T parameters, in the coming days; it's expected to outperform Claude Opus 4.8 — Kimi K3 expected to exceed performance of Claude Opus 4.8 in sign of narrowing gap between US and China on frontier AI
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Sources: Apple is preparing new iPads, including an iPad mini with an OLED screen by October and refreshed entry-level iPads and iPad Airs for 2027 — Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce its biggest overhaul to the iPad mini in half a decade, giving new life to a product that's popular with travelers and technology enthusiasts.
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Benzinga, and Notebookcheck
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
xAI sues a South Carolina man for allegedly using Grok to generate CSAM, in one of the first cases of its kind brought by an AI company against one of its users — Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested earlier this year on charges …
More: Engadget, The Verge, CNN, Al Jazeera, Digit, The Overspill, and PetaPixel
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta will now notify parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and will contact emergency services if a user might be at risk of suicide — Meta announced on Thursday that it will now notify parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with the company's Meta AI chatbot.| Wall Street Journal: |
AI execs are bolstering personal security amid rising AI opposition; Liferaft: digital threats against execs and data centers grew 7x from late February to May — Violent threats against AI companies are rising and spilling over into real-world security incidents| Thinking Machines Lab: |
Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area — Try on Tinker Model card Hugging Face — Our mission is to build AI that extends human will and judgment.
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| Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
Sable, which is building an AI agent named Aiden that lives on a company's website to run live product demos and more, raised $45M from Sequoia and 8VC — Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire still remembers the demo that changed his mind on Sable. — An AI sales rep was walking a buyer through … | Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 Edge, a world model for robots and AI agents to perceive and navigate physical environments in real time, after Cosmos 3's debut in May — Nvidia unveiled a new AI model for robots and vision AI agents on Wednesday, deepening its push into the physical AI market in Japan.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
1Password launches a new Claude integration for Mac that lets Anthropic's AI agent sign in to websites without seeing the user's password or 2FA code — 1Password is launching a new Claude integration for Mac users today. It's designed to let Anthropic's AI agent sign in to websites without seeing …
More: Engadget, ZDNET, The Verge, Thurrott, Wall Street Journal, 1Password, ITPro, Financial Post, SiliconANGLE, and The Deep View. Bluesky: @crj4189
| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
The UK sentences two Scattered Spider members, who pled guilty to an August 2024 Transport for London cyberattack, to five and a half years in prison — Two men who carried out a cyber-attack which crippled Transport For London (TfL) when they were teenagers have both been sentenced to five years and six months in prison.
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| Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
Filings: Dario Amodei gave $1M in May to Public First, a super PAC advocating for AI safety regulations, seemingly his first seven-figure political donation — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gave $1 million in May to Public First, a super PAC that supports candidates who share the company's goal … | Reuters: |
Hyundai says it will make Boston Dynamics a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring SoftBank's ~10% stake; Hyundai acquired an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics in 2021 — Hyundai Motor Group said on Thursday it would make U.S. robotics company Boston Dynamics a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring SoftBank Group's … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Fireworks, which helps developers access AI chips and open-source models, raised $1.5B at a $17.5B valuation and says it has exceeded $1B in annualized revenue — The cost of the latest artificial intelligence models is increasingly breeding anxiety among finance executives …
More: MarketWatch, Fireworks AI, and Index Ventures
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple publishes a policy for its upcoming Maps ads: home services ads are banned, medical services ads will be “evaluated on a case-by-case basis”, and more — Apple has quietly published a rulebook for its new Maps ads, revealing a more curated approach than advertising giant Google.| Axios: |
Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei published memos in recent weeks that agree on an AI regulatory framework but disagree on the US government's role — The three men racing hardest to build superhuman AI — Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei — all agree the frontier needs to be regulated ASAP.| Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
Grubhub parent Wonder raised a $650M+ Series D at a $9B valuation, bringing its total raised to $3B+ since its founding in 2018, and plans to go public in 2027 — Marc Lore is ready to ring the bell. The serial entrepreneur—who previously sold Jet.com to Walmart for $3.3 billion …
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Runta, which provides isolated sandboxes and guardrails for AI agents to prevent operational risks, raised a $20M seed led by a16z at a $100M+ valuation — As a father to two young kids, Guanlan Dai sees a lot of similarities between AI agents and precocious children.| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
London-based Applied Computing, which is developing AI models for energy operations, raised $20M led by KBR, with participation from Databricks Ventures — Applied Computing has secured fresh funding to expand its AI platform for energy operations, supporting international growth …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI details GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery so it can fix bugs before wider deployment — Training strong automated safety red-teamers to improve robustness. — Summary — Problem
More: Digit, Vogue UK, MIT Technology Review, Help Net Security, Cyber Security News, iThinkDifferent, SiliconANGLE, Decrypt, The Hacker News, The Decoder, and RuntimeWire
X: @openai, @gdb, @natashajaques, @_andrewzhao, and @andrewcurran_. Bluesky: @druce.ai. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Sarah Young / Reuters: |
Ocado's stock drops 13%+, hitting a 13-year low, after it failed to show tangible progress in talks to secure new US partners for its warehouse automation tech — Shares in British technology and online grocery group Ocado (OCDO.L) tumbled to a 13-year low on Thursday after it failed …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TMTG plans to launch the Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from trending Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms — Trump Media & Technology Group is launching a backend interface that will allow financial services companies to access real … | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Vital Signals launches the $399 Signal Ring, which provides systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings without the need for the traditional arm cuff — A three-year-old startup says it has produced a smart ring that can track blood pressure as accurately as a traditional arm cuff and that … Sponsor Posts
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