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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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Forums: r/MU_Stock, r/wallstreetbets, r/BetterOffline, and r/NBIS_Stock
| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
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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| 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]
More: Benzinga. X: @theo, @willccbb, @levie, @pstasiatech, @notthreadguy, @shanumathew93, @bare_birk, @chamath, @samanthaladuc, @dzambhalahodl, @liangsays, @limitingthe, and @omarsar0
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
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LinkedIn: Georg Zoeller and Dave Schroeder, PhD
Bluesky: @metacurity.com, @carlquintanilla, and @carnage4life
Forums: r/technology, r/neoliberal, and r/StockMarket
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, citing rising licensing costs — Apple has raised the price of Apple Music today in the United States and other countries. Starting today, Apple Music's Individual plan now costs $11.99 per month, up from $10.99.| 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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| 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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X: @vince_chow1, @juddrosenblatt, @teortaxestex, @ablinken, @so8res, @s_oheigeartaigh, @shanaka86, @megatron_ron, @tenobrus, @signulll, @brickroad7, @ruima, @zackkorman, @andrewcurran_, @ramez, @kimmonismus, @xh_lee23, @teortaxestex, @adamthierer, @kyleichan, @hamandcheese, @spoxchn_maoning, @spoxchn_maoning, @1a3orn, @bookwormengr, and @teortaxestex
Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence, r/politics, r/worldnews, and r/neoliberal
| 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SpaceX is in talks with the DOD about providing the agency with access to data-center capacity worth billions of dollars for running AI models — Elon Musk's company would sell military billions of dollars' worth of data-center capacity for running AI models
More: Reuters and Bloomberg Law
| Robert Booth / The Guardian: |
Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to “an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem” — One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice| 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 …
More: Ars Technica, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Engadget, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, and MacTech.com
LinkedIn: Matt Burgess. Bluesky: @mattburgess1. Forums: r/sanfrancisco, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenRouter has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value it at billions of dollars, a premium to its $1.3B valuation in May — OpenRouter, which helps app developers access hundreds of AI models, has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company …
X: @validapau
| 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 …
More: Yahoo Finance, Quartz, The Hans India, Proactive, Business Today, Digit, The Indian Express, Fortune, and Fast Company. Bluesky: @jordannovet.cnbc.com
| 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 …
More: Video Games Chronicle, MobileSyrup, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun
| 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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