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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: three OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, an attack that would have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks — When OpenAI's advanced artificial intelligence models breached AI startup Hugging Face's internal systems last week …
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Forums: r/Cyberpunk, r/PrepperIntel, r/EverythingScience, r/technology, r/HorizonForbiddenWest, r/accelerate, and r/news
| Politico: |
Bipartisan US House lawmakers introduce the AI Kill Switch Act, which would grant the DHS the authority to shut down or slow AI models that it deems dangerous — A bipartisan House bill slated to be introduced on Thursday would give the Department of Homeland Security the authority …
More: Congressman Ted Lieu, Washington Examiner, Reuters, Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, International Business Times, The Verge, and NBC News
Forums: r/europe, r/technology, r/Sino, r/BoycottUnitedStates, and r/worldnews
| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI's staff were “freaked out” when its AI models breached Hugging Face, as OpenAI used more aggressive training methods to compete with Anthropic — Increasing use of aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behaviour by leading models
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| Jack Ewing / New York Times: |
Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving — In a first, Apple Maps will influence the way a new line of electric vehicles made by Ford Motor operates, and other automakers may follow.
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X: @mweinbach and @jimfarley98
LinkedIn: Moritz Gimbel and Anders Truelsen
Forums: r/F150Lightning and r/apple
| New York Times: |
The European Commission fines Google €890M under the DMA for illegally undercutting competition through its search dominance and Google Play app developer rules — At a tense moment for trans-Atlantic trade, the European Union accused Google of anti-competitive business practices.
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Forums: r/degoogle, r/europe, r/news, r/BuyFromEU, r/europe, and r/technology
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Google adds a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, using tools like liveness detection to safeguard against deepfake attacks, rolling out globally — The next time you're locked out of your Google account, you can use your face as part of the account recovery process.
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| Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: |
A Google study of millions of de-identified Google AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and AI use is “shallow” in most occupations — One of the looming worries about artificial intelligence is that it will automate away jobs.
More: Google, PYMNTS, Implicator.ai, Forbes, Unite.AI, Hindustan Times, Axios, and Seoul Economic Daily. LinkedIn: Arthur Turrell
| Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
Google reports Q2 free cash flow at negative $5.9B amid increased AI infrastructure spending, marking its first cash burn since going public in August 2004 — Search giant says it will commit up to $205bn to AI investments in 2026 — Google burned through cash in the second quarter …
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| Alphabet: |
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' “dystopian” ideas — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday laid out an optimistic view of the agentic future, arguing the company's focus …
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| Akanksha Khushi / Reuters: |
Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will close on September 23 and tells users to withdraw assets; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for not implementing AML rules — Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX said on Thursday that it will shut down its operations, effective September 23 …
More: BitMEX Blog, PYMNTS, Bloomberg, Protos, Unchained, Coinmonks, Benzinga, Blockhead, The Crypto Times, CoinDesk, crypto.news, Decrypt, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, CryptoPotato, Bitcoin Insider, CoinGape, and Bitcoin Magazine
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Microsoft is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions for the games users already own — The free streaming option is still in testing, and limited to one-hour sessions for ‘select’ games. … The free streaming sessions are limited … | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV — The Amazon Luna gaming platform, which had been included in the larger Prime offering, will now be baked into Prime Video too.| Reuters: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight AI in an overhaul of the service, leading to an internal effort called Project Lighthouse — Jeff Bezos has identified a new, high-profile platform to help showcase the hundreds of billions of dollars Amazon (AMZN.O) has bet on artificial intelligence: Prime Video.
More: PYMNTS, Android Authority, Digital Trends, The Streamable, and The American Bazaar. Forums: r/technology
| Fred Gao / Inside China: |
In a leaked four-hour investor talk, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says the main US-China gap is compute access, Nvidia's CUDA moat is disintegrating, and more — In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own …
More: TechNode, Tech Times, and 一财全 …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Intel and AMD are signing longer-term server CPU purchase commitments with Chinese customers; prices of some CPU products are up 40%+ in China YTD — U.S. chipmaking giants Intel (INTC.O) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) are signing longer-term purchase commitments …
More: Quartz, Tom's Hardware, The Motley Fool, Wccftech, Capacity, Benzinga, and Seoul Economic Daily
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia, with a16z, SK Hynix, others participating, at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in Dec. — Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round …
More: Reuters
| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
The Senate's Clarity Act, a crypto industry-backed bill set for a vote this summer, is mired in debate over rules to stop Trump from selling digital currencies — Democrats and Republicans are haggling about the Clarity Act, a major bill pushed by the crypto industry, as it moves closer to a Senate vote.| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Yelp signs a deal with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT users real-time local recommendations, and will soon let them contact local businesses for quotes via ChatGPT — Yelp is licensing reviews, photos and other business information to OpenAI, giving ChatGPT a new source of real-time local recommendation data … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
IBM acquires HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors, seeking to integrate HRL's electron spin quantum circuits into its quantum computers — IBM (IBM.N) has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, a private quantum computing research lab jointly owned by Boeing Co (BA.N) and General Motors … | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
The debate over Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin's departure from the US misses a larger structural reality: China has built a homegrown AI talent pipeline — More entrepreneurs from China believe there are now greater opportunities at home than in Silicon Valley
More: BBC, Bloomberg, and Semafor
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Alphabet holds $94.1B in SpaceX equity post-IPO; $80B are under short-term sale restrictions, while $14.1B remain long-term restricted until Q3 2027 — Alphabet Inc.'s Google said its equity holdings include $94.1 billion in SpaceX shares, after the space-and-AI company's blockbuster initial public offering.
More: TESLARATI, crypto.news, Coinpaper, CoinGape, Fortune, and Sweden Herald. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission approves the $55B acquisition of EA by a group of investors including Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity — A group of investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has secured EU antitrust approval for its $55 billion acquisition …
More: Game Developer, Eurogamer.net, Game World Observer, TheGamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Kotaku, and GamesRadar. Forums: r/gaming
| Antoine Gara / Financial Times: |
Francisco Partners' co-founder Dipanjan Deb says “AI will not kill the software industry”, as the tech-focused PE firm raised $21B, exceeding its $18B target — Francisco Partners co-founder Dipanjan ‘DJ’ Deb says AI will not kill software sector as firm raises $21bn
More: Financial Post and Unite.AI
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Abstract Security, which offers an in-stream threat detection platform, raised a $25M extension to its $15M Series A, bringing its total funding to $48.5M — Composable security operations startup Abstract Security Inc. today said it has raised a $25 million Series A extension …
More: FinSMEs and SecurityWeek
| Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: |
Adam Mosseri says Instagram will take down “pickup line” and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of strangers in public places — , Follow Senior Correspondent covering technology and culture — Instagram is cracking down on videos shot on Meta glasses …
More: Gizmodo. X: @katienotopoulos and @katienotopoulos
Bluesky: @samleecole and @hypervisible.blacksky.app
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