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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is piloting a system in Apple Stores called Live Notes that lets Genius Bar staff make transcripts and summaries of conversations with customers — Also: The company tries out AI recording for Genius Bar appointments. — This week, we'll look at why Apple's massive lawsuit …
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| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba launches a 2.4T parameter Qwen3.8 Max preview that it says rivals frontier AI models and is second only to Fable 5, plans to make it “open-weight soon” — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. launched a preview version of its flagship Qwen3.8 Max model, which it described as comparable …
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| Hugging Face: |
Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach — Earlier this week, we detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure.
More: RuntimeWire and Cyber Security News
X: @ramez, @0x4d31, @beffjezos, @brianroemmele, @kvickart, and @wunderwuzzi23. LinkedIn: Caleb Sima. Bluesky: @davidjbianco. Mastodon: @AmmarSpaces@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News and r/accelerate
| Edward Targett / The Stack: |
Hugging Face says it used the open-weight GLM-5.2 hosted on its own compute for breach forensics, after US frontier model safety guardrails blocked the requests — The unknown attacker “abused two code-execution paths in our dataset processing (a remote-code dataset loader and a template-injection …
X: @nathangu76, @chaos2cured, @martinvars, @johnennis, @perrymetzger, @darkfibr3, @michaelgoolsbyv, @ramez, @hansjohnsonlive, and @nathanwilbanks_. Mastodon: @jkirk@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| Lauren McCarthy / New York Times: |
Kalshi and Polymarket bets on the FIFA World Cup final top $5.69B; Dune Analytics says total wagers on the platforms surpassed $50B for the first time in June — When Argentina and Spain take the field on Sunday for the World Cup final, more than $5.69 billion will be riding on the winner …
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| @kimi_moonshot: |
Moonshot AI pauses new subscriptions, saying that over the past two days Kimi K3 demand nearly passed the limit of its capacity, and also reworks its plan tiers — Kimi K3 has received far more love than we expected, and our GPUs are feeling it. Over the past 48 hours, demand has pushed close to the limits of our current capacity. To protect the experience of existing subscribers, we're temporarily pausing new subscriptions and
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
As many companies cut AI costs by using cheaper models, some, like Shopify, go all-in on frontier models, barring engineers from using anything else — Despite steep and rising price tags, some companies heavily favor the more powerful ‘frontier’ AI systems over cheaper alternatives| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
A look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure — A farmer in rural India takes a photo of a dying plant. She wants to research it on the internet but she doesn't speak English.
More: RuntimeWire
| Andrew Hill / Financial Times: |
AI is reshaping entry-level professional services jobs, as companies redesign hiring, training, and workplace culture rather than simply cut junior roles — Here are the ways leading companies are already responding to the AI revolution in professional services| Wall Street Journal: |
As companies stay private longer, VC firms, like Spark, Gigafund, and Greenoaks, are investing in companies later on and buying stakes without seeking influence — How venture-capital firms are rewriting the rules in a once-in-a-lifetime IPO boom — Yasmin Razavi holds an unusual position …
More: Tech in Asia and Coin Edition
| Haley Zimmerman / Financial Times: |
Big US pizza delivery chains are struggling as apps such as DoorDash and Uber Eats give independent pizzerias and other restaurants greater market access — Large corporate chains lose their edge as services such as DoorDash and Uber Eats level the playing field| Alexandra Lindsay / The San Francisco Standard: |
Analysis: OpenAI and Anthropic employees are donating to campaigns more heavily and cohesively than Google, Meta, and Airbnb employees did post-IPO — San Francisco is still waiting for the AI IPOs — the wave of money from Anthropic and OpenAI millionaires and billionaires that is likely … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: CIA operative Jonny Gannon spied on G42 to probe its China ties and helped the UAE gain expanded access to US AI chips by allaying US suspicions — While conducting espionage against powerful sheikh's tech company, Jonny Gannon helped Gulf country quash Washington suspicions about China ties| Joshua Cohen / Ars Technica: |
A look at AI's potential impact on insurance-coverage decisions like prior authorization as the Trump admin starts to pilot using AI to evaluate Medicare claims — If you're like me, you or a loved one has struggled through the process of gaining pre-approval for the medical care that your physician has recommended.Sponsor Posts
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