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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sources: parts of the Trump administration are reigniting efforts to implement de facto bans on foreign open-source models, as Chinese AI models gain momentum — The Trump administration is showing signs it could ban cutting-edge Chinese AI models — a momentous move that could lock in dominance by OpenAI and Anthropic.
More: MarketWatch, NewsMax.com, The Decoder, The Neuron, and ZeroHedge News
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Forums: r/neoliberal and r/LocalLLaMA
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue — There's a story I tell about my first day in STRT-431 at Kellogg School of Management, the introductory class that every …
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| Bill Gurley / Washington Post: |
Chinese open models are proper competition that should be welcomed, not something to ban or treat as a danger, and open-sourcing is an old business strategy — They aren't a security threat — they're what competition looks like. — Bill Gurley is the president and founder of the P3 Institute, and a former venture capitalist.| Edward Targett / The Stack: |
Hugging Face says it used GLM-5.2 hosted on its infrastructure to run a breach forensic analysis, after US frontier model safety guardrails blocked its requests — The unknown attacker “abused two code-execution paths in our dataset processing (a remote-code dataset loader and a template-injection …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| Hugging Face: |
Hugging Face says an “AI agent system” hacked its data-processing pipeline, accessing internal clusters and credentials; its LLM-based triage caught the breach — Earlier this week, we detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure.
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X: @davidsacks, @ramez, @beffjezos, @0x4d31, @brianroemmele, @kvickart, and @wunderwuzzi23. LinkedIn: Caleb Sima. Bluesky: @davidjbianco. Mastodon: @AmmarSpaces@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News and r/accelerate
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M+ — After a decade-long comeback, chip giant Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to ship its first rack-scale system for artificial intelligence …
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X: @katietarasov, @ryanshrout, @lisasu, @amd, @thetranscript_, @firstadopter, and @patrickmoorhead. LinkedIn: Sachin Nagpal
| The Information: |
Sources: Google is developing a specialized server chip, informally dubbed “Frozen v2”, that integrates its Gemini AI model blueprint into the silicon, for 2028 — Google is working on a new server chip that would directly integrate the blueprint of its Gemini AI model …
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X: @amir, @cxcarroll, @scottw_grizzle, @kawzinvests, @zephyr_z9, and @jukan05
| Bloomberg: |
Cambridge-based CuspAI raised a $450M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, and launches a coalition for AI materials discovery for chip and other industries — Producing the world's most in-demand semiconductors requires enormous amounts of energy and access to rare minerals.
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| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
The EU fines Alibaba's online marketplace AliExpress €550M for failing to prevent the sale of illegal products on its platform, the largest DSA fine to date — Record penalty under bloc's Digital Services Act comes amid broader crackdown on Chinese ecommerce platforms| @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
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X: @kimmonismus, @daveshapi, @jason, @ehrmantrautcap_, @alexpilar, @jukan05, @ckcapitalxx, @bigeagle_xd, @0xdevshah, @davidondrej1, @andrewcurran_, @highyieldharry, @nicbstme, @anni_sen, @boringbiz_, @khushiirl, @kevinsxu, @hypertechinvest, @natolambert, @healthranger, @anshuc, @ultralinx, and @patrickmoorhead. Forums: Hacker News
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
| Financial Times: |
As memory stocks fall, investors worry capacity expansion could lead to oversupply, while others believe AI demand will break the industry's boom-and-bust cycle — Massive investment plans lead to investor fears of a new boom and bust in memory chips — A relentless run in semiconductor stocks … | Moon Joon-hyun / The Korea Herald: |
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning after taking over the federal AI testing institute in April; NIST Director Arvind Raman will serve as acting director — Chris Fall, the director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is resigning just three months after taking … | Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters: |
France's National Gambling Authority blocks access to Polymarket's website, citing concerns it could expose users to significant losses and manipulated trading — France has blocked access to the Polymarket betting website, the country's gambling regulator said on Friday …
More: ANJ, CryptoSlate, Mashable, Blockhead, PYMNTS, The Block, International Business Times, and crypto.news
| Kalley Huang / New York Times: |
Sensor Tower: the number of new apps released in Apple's App Store doubled to ~560K in H1, vs. the ~600K added in all of 2025, as vibecoded apps flood the store — Mobile apps are easy to make with artificial intelligence. That doesn't mean people are excited to use them.
More: GB News and Cult of Mac
| New York Times: |
Billionaire-backed Building A Better California reserves $87M in TV ad time to oppose California's proposed one-time wealth tax; Sergey Brin put $82M into BABC — A coalition backed by the Google co-founder Sergey Brin and wealthy tech investors is trying to neutralize a proposed one-time tax on the state's richest residents.
Forums: r/Economics, r/economy, and r/California_Politics
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
How “synthetic insider” attacks raise the stakes for corporate cyber defense; a Verizon analysis of ~22K incidents found 12% were carried out by internal actors — Use of AI deepfake employees to infiltrate companies highlights wider risk of internal security breaches| New York Times: |
Sources detail Kalshi's and Polymarket's efforts to undermine each other, including lobbying regulators, trying to derail deals, and waging influence campaigns — Early one morning in November 2024, Shayne Coplan, the founder of Polymarket, awoke to an unexpected visit.| Max Griera / Politico: |
Sources: the EU Parliament could roll out EPGenAI Hub to MEPs and staff as early as September, letting them access Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral models — The institution is opening its doors to models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Mistral as it tries to bring lawmakers' growing use of the technology under control.| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
An interview with Expedia CEO Ariane Gorin, who calls AI “a growth opportunity”, as she prepares the online travel company to face potential disruption from AI — Ariane Gorin faces battle with tech start-ups as she repositions world's second-largest travel booking company| Eliza Gkritsi / Politico: |
Draft: the Trump administration will push a global “freedom of expression” declaration at the UN General Assembly that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules — BRUSSELS — The Trump administration will use the upcoming U.N. General Assembly to push a global “freedom of expression” … Sponsor Posts
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