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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe 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 Verge, The American Bazaar, xAI, Blockchain.News, WinBuzzer, and The Register
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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 — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.| 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| Bloomberg: |
Source: OnePlus will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week and Realme will exit China as part of a restructuring by parent Oppo — OnePlus, a consumer electronics brand that gained a loyal following with its lineup of aggressively priced Android smartphones …
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Forums: r/Android, r/TheOnePlus15, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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: The Verge, Digit, CNN, and Al Jazeera
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
SpaceX shares fell for a fourth-straight session on Wednesday, briefly dropping below their $135 IPO price for the first time before closing at $135.27 — SpaceX shares fell for a fourth-straight session on Wednesday, briefly dropping below their $135 initial public offering price …
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| Reuters: |
Hyundai says it would make Boston Dynamics a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring SoftBank's ~10% stake; Hyundai bought 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 … | Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple publishes a policy for upcoming Maps ads, says 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.| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's $1.5B AI implementation company, announced in May, launches with the name “Ode with Anthropic” and 100 engineers — AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question.
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says Jordan Fish, aka “Cobie”, will now lead the Base app team after acknowledging some of Base's bets on social features fell short — Quick Take — Cobie will now lead the Base app team as Base creator and Coinbase executive Jesse Pollak focuses …
More: Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, CoinDesk, crypto.news, Decrypt, and Unchained
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple raises its AppleCare+ prices for Macs and iPads by $0.50 per month and $5 per year; the increases are exclusively for new sign-ups — Apple Inc. slightly raised the cost of individual AppleCare+ service subscriptions, marking its latest price increase in the face of a global memory shortage and other challenges.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft security chief Hayete Gallot, who took over in February, has prioritized AI tools, cut several hundred roles, replaced senior execs, and more — Microsoft, the largest cybersecurity software seller in the world, is overhauling that business to cash in on corporate anxieties about AI-powered hacks.| Liam Denning / Bloomberg: |
Uber and Waymo are engaged in a DC lobbying battle over AV legislation, with Uber supporting a hybrid human-robotaxi model and Waymo pushing for pure robotaxis — The latest leading indicator of the robotaxi revolution is a tiff. Waymo LLC, a unit of Alphabet Inc., and Uber Technologies Inc. are nominally partners.
More: TechCrunch, Axios, and Zag Daily
| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Dave Brown, AWS SVP of Compute, AI, and Platform, is leaving the company after 19 years for a new job; he is a member of the S-team that advises CEO Andy Jassy — Amazon (AMZN.O) veteran Dave Brown, a senior vice president in Amazon Web Services and member of the elite internal group advising CEO Andy Jassy …
More: The Information, About Amazon, GeekWire, The Register, CNBC, and Dow Jones Newswires
| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
OpenAI launches Codex Micro, a $230 desktop keypad built in collaboration with keyboard maker Work Louder, with backlit keys, a rotary knob, and a tiny joystick — OpenAI opened orders Wednesday for Codex Micro — a limited-edition desktop keypad that lets agentmaxxers monitor and control their AI minions.
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Bluesky: @timkellogg.me and @coolhand
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Reuters: |
Data center company Csquare raises $1.05B in its US IPO, selling 50M shares at $21 each, below its marketed range of $23 to $27, valuing the company at ~$3.25B — Data center provider Csquare (CSQR.N) said on Thursday it raised $1.05 billion in its U.S. initial public offering as investors continued …
More: Benzinga, Bloomberg, and Csquare, Inc.
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo — Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people who worked … | Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Filing: AST SpaceMobile delays the launch of its satellite-to-phone service to 2027 after the Blue Origin mishap and plans to raise $1B in convertible notes — (AST SpaceMobile) — AST SpaceMobile, a rival to SpaceX's Starlink Mobile, is delaying the timing of its satellite-to-phone service to 2027 …
More: Yahoo Finance and Benzinga
| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Filing: Elon Musk quietly bought Jacksonville, FL-based APR Energy, which operates mobile gas and diesel turbines similar to those used in Colossus 2, for ~$1B — Elon Musk has quietly bought APR Energy, a Jacksonville-based company that operates a fleet of mobile gas and diesel turbines totaling more than 1 GW of generation capacity.
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X: @muskonomy and @moreperfectus
Forums: r/energy, r/technology, and r/TSLAsexy
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Venture funding of fintech startups grew 22.7% YoY in H1 2026 to $28.6B globally, but deal count fell 25.7% and funding fell 17.3% vs. H2 2025's $34.6B funding — Venture funding into fintech startups climbed nearly 23% year over year in H1 2026, even as deal count fell more than 25% … | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI employees donated a combined $215K+ to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC seeking stricter AI rules and opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future — OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company's president, Greg Brockman.
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Bluesky: @katie-drummond and @lmatsakis
Forums: r/technology and r/OpenAI
| Marco Chiappetta / Forbes: |
Cadence unveils AuraStack AI Super Agent, an AI platform for PCB and advanced chip packaging design, with Nvidia, TSMC, and Schneider Electric among early users — As systems and AI infrastructure get more complex, the engineering challenges required to design and bring them to market extend well beyond silicon.
More: Reuters, GamesBeat, Fierce Sensors, newsroom.cadence.com, The Register, SiliconANGLE, and DigiTimes. X: @cadence
| The Information: |
Sources: Apple is looking to acquire chip companies to boost its AI server efforts, as it struggles with AI server chip upgrades and M2 Ultra server performance — Apple is on the lookout for acquisitions of chip companies to boost its efforts to build server chips for running AI, said people familiar with the company's efforts.| 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| Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Lumin Digital, which provides cloud-based digital banking software to banks and credit unions, raised more than $115M at a $1.6B post-money valuation — Lumin Digital, which provides digital banking software to banks and credit unions, raised more than $115 million at a $1.6 billion post-money valuation …
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