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| Transformer: |
Kimi K3 hype shouldn't alarm the US about “losing the AI race” to China; K3 is a good model but not frontier-level and likely lacks dangerous cyber capabilities — Transformer Weekly: NY data center moratorium, NDAA export controls and Amodei's $1m to safety super PAC
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Kimi K3 takes #1 on the Frontend Code Arena benchmark, surpassing Claude Fable 5, and scores 88.3 on Terminal Bench 2.1, trailing only GPT-5.6 Sol's 88.8 — Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup backed by Alibaba, on Thursday released Kimi K3 …
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| Gavin Baker / @gavinsbaker: |
Models like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers — Kimi K3 may be an important inflection point for AI. Potentially negative for Anthropic and OpenAI while being net positive for essentially every other company in the world. I mean that very literally. Although the real “Sputnik moment” would be an open-source frontier model that [image]
| New York Times: |
Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years — A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.
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| Reuters: |
At the World AI Conference, Xi Jinping touts open-source AI, pledges to help the Global South build AI capabilities, and calls unequal AI access an “injustice” — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday cast Beijing as the champion of a new global AI order, using China's premier tech conference …
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple has sent personal legal warnings to ~40 former employees who now work at OpenAI, directing them to preserve documents and meet with its lawyers — iPhone maker steps up aggressive tactics in trade secrets dispute with AI lab. Apple has targeted dozens of OpenAI employees …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
San Francisco sends legal notices to Apple and Google, demanding they take down 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nude images; Google says it deleted five apps — The City Attorney's Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple and the DOJ are in early discussions about settling a 2024 antitrust lawsuit alleging that Apple violated antitrust laws — Apple Inc. and the US Justice Department are in early discussions about settling a 2024 lawsuit that alleges the iPhone maker violated antitrust laws.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
In an internal meeting, Satya Nadella criticized Claude Fable 5 for being “editorially controlled”, saying its refusal to do “any random thing” makes no sense — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees Wednesday that Anthropic's limits on requests that users submit …
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Source: Microsoft plans to release an AI security tool this month that uses models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and itself, as a cost-effective alternative to Mythos — Microsoft is preparing to release a new AI security product, internally codenamed Project Perception, to capture a piece of companies' rising cyber defense spending.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: the EU is set to approve the $55B acquisition of EA under its subsidy rules on July 30; the deal includes Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity — A group of investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is set to secure European Union approval for its $55 billion acquisition …
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| Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: |
ASML plans to give its ~45K employees globally a €20K bonus, issued as a share award that vests in 2030, joining other chip industry companies offering payouts — ASML Holding NV will give employees globally a one-time €20,000 ($22,862) bonus, joining other firms in the chip industry …
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| Madison Muller / Bloomberg: |
Kalshi launches a biotech pilot, starting with 13 biotech contracts offering wagers on the outcomes of late-stage clinical drug trials and regulatory decisions — Kalshi to Offer Betting on Drug Trial Results — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 63.68% Playback Rate
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Forums: r/fivethirtyeight and r/biotech
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Z.ai is on track to achieve an annual recurring revenue of $1B, a first for a Chinese AI company, after achieving its full-year sales target in July — Z.AI is on track for annual recurring revenue of $1 billion, a significant ramp-up for an enterprise-focused AI startup trying …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software startup at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation — Startup's valuation jumps 40% as AI boom drives demand for its data-analytics software — Coatue Management is leading …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Netflix says ~300 titles on its app used generative AI in 2026, mostly in post-production, “to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost” — Some titles used AI to create ‘enhanced crowds, historical battle sequences, and worldbuilding establishing shots.’
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| Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: |
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