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OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model”, breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities — OpenAI said Tuesday that models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week.
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OpenAI says its models chained vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's infrastructure to find solutions for the ExploitGym benchmark — Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident(opens in a new window) after they detected and contained …
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| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Samsung unveils the $2,100+ Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, featuring its “most advanced foldable design”, a Flex Titanium display, a 5,000mAH battery, and Android 17 — The “Ultra” moniker is alive and well, but it now applies to the Galaxy Z Fold series.
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| David Imel / The Verge: |
Samsung Z Fold 8 Ultra hands-on: its new Flex Titanium tech makes the crease practically nonexistent and the specs match the S26 Ultra's, but it costs $100 more — While we wait for Apple's rumored foldable iPhone, Samsung is polishing a design it already has on the market.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung says the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 8 have silicon-carbon batteries, citing their performance, longevity, and safety — It's happening. Samsung has officially adopted silicon-carbon batteries on its latest foldables, though you wouldn't know that by looking …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
AMD and Anthropic sign an AI server deal worth tens of billions; Anthropic will buy up to 2GW of MI450 chips from H1 2027, and AMD will invest $5B in Anthropic — The 2-gigawatt deal covers tens of billions of dollars' worth of chips, as AMD plans to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic
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| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Samsung teases its smart glasses, developed with Google, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster, and says they will have a nine-hour battery life and privacy features — Samsung Electronics Co. showcased the smart glasses it developed in partnership with Alphabet Inc.'s Google …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI plans to spend $30B+ on a massive new data center in Georgia, securing 3.2GW of total energy; several hundred MW are set to come online starting in 2028 — OpenAI plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on a massive new data center near Savannah, Georgia as part of the ChatGPT maker's push … | Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: OpenAI raised its projected cloud spending to ~$750B through 2030, up from a projection of ~$600B earlier this year, reflecting new cloud agreements — The AI giant has committed $20 billion to a new data-center project in Georgia and hired an architect of Elon Musk's computing build-out| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2, moving from its Exynos chips to the Snapdragon Wear Elite and hiking prices by $30 to $380 and $50 to $700 — It's a year of refinement for the Galaxy Watch. With the new Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, which are being announced today …
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
| Zachary Basu / Axios: |
Jensen Huang says “these Chinese models are excellent”, “open-source models that are excellent should be used”, and “free AI should be great for hardware” — - “These Chinese models are excellent,” Huang told Axios' Mike Allen on Tuesday in an exclusive interview for our …
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: the White House OSTP plans to redirect federal research funding from universities to individual scientists and AI use, reshaping ~$200B in annual spending — The overhaul will reshape $200 billion in spending a year and favors individual scientists to outpace China
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp updates its CarPlay and Android Auto integrations to include message playback, replies and more, now lets users sign up from its iPad app, and more — WhatsApp is rolling out a suite of new features, including a revamped Apple CarPlay and Android Auto experience as part …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Samsung may invest up to €1B in Mistral as part of a broader round valuing it at ~€20B, after previously backing the AI startup through its venture arm — South Korean giant could invest as much as €1bn in French AI group seeking to be a leading alternative to US tech
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak's Science Corp gets EU approval for Prima, a bionic eye that treats age-related macular degeneration using an implant and glasses — Decision will allow Science Corp to treat patients with retina implants in coming months — A US start-up has received …
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| Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Reddit, Politico, and others mull cutting Google's access to their content for AI as traffic drops; Reddit signed a $60M/year deal with Google in 2024 — Reddit, Politico and others are weighing how—or even if—they can work with the tech company as AI tools supplant traditional searches| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation — Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth as a unicorn … | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
London-based Arrakis, which makes AI agents for industrial companies, emerges from stealth with a $7.5M seed and a $30M Series A at a $140M post-money valuation — Arrakis, a seven-month old London- and Paris-based startup building what it calls an AI “operating system” for industrial companies …
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, two open-weight AI models to find known vulnerabilities within a codebase, and plans to release Antares-3B soon — - Cisco says the models performed similarly to much larger models, including OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Z.ai's GLM-5.2 …
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| Ella Lee / Financial Times: |
Trump nominates FCC General Counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit; Candeub, a longtime Big Tech critic, has long sought to challenge Section 230 — Adam Candeub authored a Project 2025 chapter calling for a sweeping shake-up of US competition enforcement
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| Mark Landler / New York Times: |
France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially taking effect as soon as September 1 — Its new law, the first of its kind enacted by a European country, will ban access to some accounts for anyone under 15.| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
TSMC forecasts “several years” of margin dilution as overseas fab projects ramp up; the company has announced $200B in investment into US manufacturing — Pressure from President Donald Trump to manufacture advanced semiconductors in the U.S. is increasing costs and squeezing margins at TSMC, the world's leading chipmaker.| Wall Street Journal: |
Document: nearly 200 US utilities, data center developers, and others have signed Trump's pledge to ensure AI energy use doesn't push up consumer electric bills — Effort could prove difficult to enforce because power prices are often decided by state regulators and electricity buyers and sellersSponsor Posts
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