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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
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.| 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 …
More: Github, The Register, xAI, CyberInsider, MarkTechPost, The Decoder, Blockchain.News, and The American Bazaar
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Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail how xAI has been slowed down by internal chaos as Musk pushed for Grok to match Claude, amid signs it is turning a corner under Michael Nicolls — The company wants to compete with Anthropic's Claude but has been slowed down by internal chaos and an inconsistent strategy.
More: Benzinga, Cryptonews, and Sydney Morning Herald
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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: The Verge, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Digit, Digital Trends, Benzinga, and Notebookcheck
| 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
| 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
More: TechCrunch and TestingCatalog AI News
| 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 … | 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 … | Bloomberg: |
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 …
More: Uber, Reuters, The Hill, Investor's Business Daily, Tech.eu, The Information, Forbes Middle East, Axios, Benzinga, The Guardian, Barron's Online, Wall Street Journal, The Irish Times, Delivery Hero, Seoul Economic Daily, Gulf News, Dow Jones Newswires, Quartz, Euronews, Fortune India, Blockonomi, Tech Funding News, The Straits Times, Reuters, The Tech Portal, Delivery Hero, Capital Brief, and Agence France-Presse
LinkedIn: Maxim Koblyuk, Delivery Hero, Saurabh Biswal, Miran M. Mubarak, Raghu Tenneti, Pulkit Malhotra, and Redwan Rezvi
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
A hacker claims to have accessed Suno user info and source code, showing how it scraped music; Suno says no sensitive info was compromised in a November hack — Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.
More: Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, Music Business Worldwide, Digital Trends, Tech Times, Music Ally, Variety, The Overspill, CNET, and Digital Music News
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Mastodon: @pivic@kolektiva.social and @brucelawson@social …
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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 … | 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.| 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.
More: CNET, 9to5Mac, Meta Newsroom, Bloomberg Law, Mashable, Canadian Press, Engadget, and ABC News
| 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| 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.
More: NVIDIA, Nvidia Newsroom, MarketWatch, Quartz, Bloomberg, Nvidia Newsroom, Wall Street Pit, Evertiq, and The Information
| 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: FinSMEs, Reuters, MarketWatch, Fireworks AI, and Index Ventures
| 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.
More: The Guardian, Silicon Republic, Help Net Security, National Crime Agency, The Register, BleepingComputer, The Record, Reuters, SecurityWeek, Sky News, Infosecurity, The Standard, and GB News. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.
More: The Register, Wired, Thinking Machines Lab, The Hans India, Silicon Republic, Financial Times, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, The Decoder, The Information, The Indian Express, Silicon UK, TekCrispy, Ghacks, The Rundown AI, Implicator.ai, TechCrunch, MarkTechPost, Axios, TestingCatalog AI News, VentureBeat, Techstrong.ai, Databricks, and Bloomberg
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| Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: |
Visa launches the Visa Stablecoin Platform, an internal system for its network of about 15,000 financial institutions and 200M+ merchants to use stablecoins — Stablecoins have changed how people think about moving money, and their exponential rise over the past year has pushed mainstream payment networks to figure out how to adapt.
More: The Block, Financial Post, Blockonomi, and crypto.news
| 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 … | 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 … | 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.| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Filing: a Chinese company says a fund in which its unit invested paid ~$420M for an indirect 0.8265% stake in DeepSeek, implying DeepSeek is valued at ~$52B — China's Anhui Korrun (300577.SZ) said a fund in which its subsidiary invested deployed 2.90 billion yuan for an indirect 0.8265% stake in DeepSeek …
More: South China Morning Post
| 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 … | CNET: |
OnePlus confirms it will no longer operate in North America or Europe but will continue in China, while Realme, another Oppo sub-brand, will exit China — “Never settle” takes on a whole new meaning, as the once-maverick phone-maker retreats from the US and Europe.
More: 9to5Google, HotHardware, The Verge, GSMArena.com, Android Central, PetaPixel, Android Police, Engadget, Digital Trends, The Hans India, TechCabal, 80 Level, Android Authority, Wired, Phandroid, Notebookcheck, Gizmochina, Business Standard, The Economic Times, Telecompaper, Neowin, SamMobile, iPhone in Canada, and Gadgets 360
| Reuters: |
China, Russia, Brazil, and 26 other countries sign an agreement to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization in Shanghai — Twenty-nine countries on Thursday signed an agreement to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization, an intergovernmental body China says aims … | 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 …
More: TechCrunch, Resultsense, The SaaS News, Tech Funding News, and UKTN
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