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Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity — Many of the largest U.S. tech companies signed a joint letter on Friday defending open-source AI software as the Trump administration …
More: Wired, Benzinga, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, Proactive, Satya Nadella on LinkedIn, Jensen Huang on LinkedIn, Unite.AI, and ANI News
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
In their letter defending open-weight AI, tech companies urge lawmakers to avoid “premature restrictions” that “stifle competition or drive innovation overseas” — Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than 20 other companies released a letter on Friday urging policymakers …
More: TechCrunch, CyberScoop, Business Insider, HotHardware, AI News, and Politico
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI told Hugging Face only this week its models caused the July 11 hack; the models appear to have been active online for days before being stopped — They were like high-school students trying to hack into the textbook company to cheat on their final exam. Only these hackers weren't human.
More: Tom's Hardware, The Register, Marginal Revolution, Astral Codex Ten, Boing Boing, Communicate Online, Fortune, Ars Technica, Straight Arrow, AfroTech, and Above the Law
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Meta launches Facebook Verified, a free program it says will verify that users are real humans by analyzing a facial recognition selfie and assigning badges — And it's free. — In the face of AI content, profiles and slop, Meta hopes a new Facebook Verified program will help human users interact with other humans.
More: Meta Newsroom, ByteHaven, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Help Net Security, Fast Company, The Apple Post, Digital Trends, and Mashable
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Midjourney bought astrology app Co-Star, which uses AI to offer personalized advice, in the spring and is building its first standalone image-generation app — Artificial intelligence lab Midjourney Inc. has bought the popular astrology app Co-Star and is building its first standalone image-generation app … | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Facebook plans to test a full-screen “immersive video” player when users open the app, replacing the newsfeed, in select international markets this year — The social platform says it will test a video-first look for users when they open the app in select countries, potentially bringing it to the U.S. next year.
More: PCMag, The Verge, Barrett Media, and The News International
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| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Meta launches Seller, a free standalone app version of Facebook Marketplace; Seller includes AI features that scan photos to fill out listings automatically — Seller is part of the Silicon Valley company's strategy to innovate on its original social network.
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| Brian Danga / The Block: |
Poolin, previously regarded as one of the world's largest crypto mining pool providers, files for Chapter 11 and seeks to sell its Texas mining assets for $52M — Quick Take — Poolin Technology filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is seeking court approval to sell Texas mining assets through a $52 million stalking-horse bid.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Preliminary findings: the EU Commission says TikTok's accounts for minors violate the DSA, citing features that could expose children to bullying and predators — ByteDance's social media platform TikTok has been charged with breaching EU online content rules due to design features … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, which helps developers use AI models and could fetch ~$10B; PitchBook: OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May — Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, a buzzy startup that helps developers choose between artificial intelligence models, according to people familiar with the matter.
More: Axios, Blockonomi, PYMNTS, Implicator.ai, Silicon Republic, The Information, and RuntimeWire
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 — OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans.
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
India orders GitHub to remove Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Jack Dorsey that is used by anti-government protestors amid internet blackouts — India's top cybercrime watchdog has ordered GitHub to take down Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Block chief executive … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
World Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol, raised $52.5M led by Pantera through a strategic sale of its WLD token with a one-year lockup — Quick Take — World Foundation has raised $52.5 million in new funding through a WLD token sale, with all purchased tokens subject to a one-year lockup.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor — Xi confidant leads fevered effort for domestic alternatives to win AI race; Chinese AI companies warned that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor| Zoe SL Chan / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Shanghai-based GPU maker MetaX confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing, targeting an IPO by the year-end, amid a surge of fundraising from rivals — Firm's year-end listing plan underscores China's chip self-reliance and follows Biren, Iluvatar and Moore Threads in the fundraising rush
More: Caixin Global and Unite.AI
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon tells third-party sellers to label product ads with AI-generated people to comply with a NY law requiring the disclosure of “synthetic performers” in ads — Amazon is requiring that third-party sellers label any product images or videos that contain “AI-generated people” … | Reuters: |
Sources: Anduril is in talks with investors for a new funding round that could see it valued at around $100B; the company raised $5B at a $61B valuation in May — Defense tech firm Anduril is in discussions with investors for a new funding round that could see it valued at roughly $100 billion …
More: GeekWire, CTech, Axios, and NewsMax.com
| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Delhi High Court rules OpenAI's use of ANI content to train ChatGPT wasn't copyright infringement as the news agency didn't show ChatGPT reproduced its reports — An Indian court said on Friday that OpenAI's use of news agency ANI's content to train its ChatGPT service did not amount to copyright infringement.| Phoebe Liu / The Information: |
AMD is working with Cerebras to connect AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers, running their chips simultaneously to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86% — AMD said Thursday it is working with Cerebras, a rival AI server chip developer, on connecting AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers …
| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
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Amazon closed its San Francisco-based AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February — Amazon this week closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco-based research and product team that was developing software to improve the usefulness of AI agents …
| Simone Lobo / Reuters: |
The US OCC denies Wise's application to create a national trust bank, citing incompatibility with new Federal Reserve policies; Wise says it plans to reapply — London-listed shares of Wise (WISEa.L), fell 10% on Friday after the money transfer group said its application to create … | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Germany-based Black Forest Labs debuts Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models that can be used for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI — Black Forest Labs, a German artificial intelligence research lab, is trialing its first model that can be used in robotics …
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots — Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down from the top leadership post after nearly three decades, just as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots.
More: Barchart.com, The Times of Israel, CTech, and RuntimeWire
| Financial Times: |
Flush with AI cash, South Korean groups are making their biggest US investment push in years, with their Q1 US foreign direct investment up 100%+ YoY to $10.2B — Companies make biggest US investment push in years to build up tech capabilities and avoid Donald Trump's tariffs| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Singapore-based Ropedia, which captures real-world human experience via video and converts it into model-ready multimodal datasets, raised a $22M pre-Series A — Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced it raised $22 million in Pre-Series A funding …
More: Ropedia, DealStreetAsia, Caixin Global, The Robot Report, FinSMEs, Pulse 2.0, and Tech in Asia. X: @brianroemmele
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Google says it has $811B in contracted future spending commitments as of June, up nearly $500B from March, covering chips, data centers, electricity, and more — Alphabet Inc.'s Google had $811 billion in contracted future spending commitments at the end of June, up nearly $500 billion from just three months earlier.
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