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| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Source: Muse Spark 1.1 model breached a company's systems during cybersecurity testing; Meta says evaluation partner Irregular caused a sandbox misconfiguration — A Meta Platforms artificial intelligence model accessed the internet during cybersecurity testing and hacked into another company …
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Forums: r/technology, r/whoathatsinteresting, r/artificial, r/singularity, and r/news
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens — Meta is rolling out its first coding agent called Muse Code as the company tries to challenge leading AI labs Anthropic and OpenAI.
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| Artificial Analysis: |
Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, putting Meta next to SpaceXAI in a tie for third place amongst US labs — Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) lands at 54, up 3 points from Muse Spark 1.1 (51) and 11 points from Muse Spark 1.0 (43, April).
More: Reuters, Verdict, and Artificial Analysis
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from Google DeepMind CEO day-to-day duties for at least a year and struggled to get satisfaction out of the role — THE SCOOP — Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis's departure Wednesday from the top job at the company he founded in 2010 … | Bloomberg: |
More: Financial Times, Bloomberg, CNBC, Watcher Guru, Business Insider, MediaNews4U, Mobile Europe, The Hans India, ASIATODAY, Fortune India, Business Today, Digit, and Axios
X: @mikeisaac and @suchenzang
| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Rockstar says it will show an “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI on August 27, premiering on Netflix at 3pm ET before streaming on YouTube at 9pm ET — The preview will stream on both Netflix and YouTube. … We'll be getting an in-depth preview of Grand Theft Auto VI very soon …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hacks — At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies …
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI files a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets, saying that the iPhone maker's allegations are meritless — OpenAI is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Apple Inc. accusing the artificial intelligence company of stealing trade secrets … | Megan Morrone / Axios: |
Filing: OpenAI says “Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products” — If the case survives, discovery could expose sensitive details about both companies' hiring, hardware development and data-security practices.
More: Quartz, Reuters, and ExchangeWire.com
| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek says it plans to implement substantial price increases across its services; V4 Flash currently costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens — DeepSeek plans to implement a significant price increase across its AI services, an unusual shift from the disruptive Chinese player that has put pressure on US and domestic rivals.
More: Wccftech, The Information, RuntimeWire, Robotics News, and Android Authority
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Sources: some Google researchers have grown frustrated over AI compute access for ambitious projects while Google Cloud sells TPUs to customers like Anthropic — Depending on where you sit, Google either has the most enviable position in artificial intelligence or is bleeding top talent …
More: Google Cloud Blog, Silicon Republic, The Rundown AI, and MarketWatch
| Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: |
SpaceX and Tesla plan to initially invest $16.8B to build Terafab in Grimes County, Texas; combined demand from SpaceX and Tesla is forecast to top 1 TW — SpaceX (SPCX.O) and Tesla (TSLA.O) will initially invest $16.8 billion to build Terafab, Elon Musk's planned advanced AI chip manufacturing complex … | Bloomberg: |
Filing: Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics prices its Shanghai IPO at ~$22/share, aiming to sell 40.4M shares to raise $904M; Unitree shipped 5,500+ robots in 2025 — China's Yushu Technology Co., known as Unitree Robotics, is seeking to raise about 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) …
More: New York Times and Reuters
| Lawfare: |
Analysis: Grokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24, when it stopped processing human-suggested edits; xAI launched it in October 2025 — A halt in Grokipedia's edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Cloudflare open sources a new version of Cloudflare OS, a browser-accessible AI agentic workspace for enterprises that lets employees build custom micro-apps — Cloudflare Inc. today announced the launch of Cloudflare OS, an open-source artificial intelligence agentic workspace available through …
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| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$3.3B, above $2.8B est., net income of ~$933M, above ~$495M est., and Switch 2 sales down 34.4% YoY to 3.82M — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.| Wired: |
A researcher with access to North Korean hackers' servers says their operations have impacted 1,640 companies across 57 countries over the past 22 months — For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers' servers.| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Nikita Bier steps down as X's head of product after starting the role in July 2025, saying “running this app is a 24/7 job”, and will continue as an adviser — Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk's social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role.
More: The Verge, The Economic Times, Gizmodo, The Hans India, Business Insider, Business Today, The Tech Buzz, and RuntimeWire
X: @benjitaylor, @uncledoomer, @nikitabier, @taylorlorenz, @sprocketguys, @beeple, @vlonepredator, @nikitabier, @antunes1, @toly, @elonmusk, @schizo_freq, @kylezaragoza, @levelsio, @singhai, @bonegpt, @joshelman, @scobleizer, @nikitabier, @nicksortor, and @nikitabier. Bluesky: @bjkeefe. Mastodon: @Fulk_It@mastodon.social. Forums: Hacker News
| Britney Nguyen / MarketWatch: |
Sandisk reports Q4 revenue up 372% YoY to $8.97B, above $8.5B est., data center revenue of $2.97B, and forecasts Q1 revenue below est.; SNDK drops 5%+ — The midpoint of the company's revenue forecast was below what analysts had been modeling — Sandisk's stock was falling on Wednesday afternoon.
| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Chainalysis: violent crypto attacks stole $30M+ in H1 2026, on track to exceed 2025's $58M total; France is the primary hotspot with 30 publicly known cases — Quick Take — Violent criminals have robbed crypto holders of more than $30 million through mid-2026, putting the year on pace …
More: Chainalysis, Decrypt, Bitcoin News, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: DeepSeek has resumed its funding round, seeking $8B at a $74B valuation, after pausing talks following the leak of Liang Wenfeng's remarks to investors — DeepSeek has resumed its second funding round, seeking close to $8 billion, with Monolith Management in talks to contribute, according to people familiar with the matter.| Colin Demarest / Axios: |
Defense tech company Hadrian raised a $1.37B Series D at an $8B valuation to expand its factories and Opus software platform, after a $260M Series C in 2025 — Hadrian, the factory builder and defense manufacturer, raised $1.37 billion in venture capital and is now valued just shy of $8 billion.| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
WindBorne, which deploys weather balloons to collect data for its AI weather forecasting models, raised a $37M Series B at a $250M post-money valuation — The new deep learning techniques behind LLMs have also given us weather simulations that can run on laptops instead of supercomputers, changing meteorology.| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
Datadog drops 15%+ after forecasting weaker full-year sales due to reduced usage from its largest client, a leading AI company; Q2 revenue rises 36% to $1.12B — The data-security company still posted growth in the second quarter, but shared a full-year sales outlook that was below Wall Street estimates
More: Benzinga, Finimize, Barron's Online, Datadog, and StockStory
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Sequoia's revamped strategy under new stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, including bold AI bets; sources: Sequoia recently closed $10B in new funding — Alfred Lin and Pat Grady are repositioning the 54-year-old firm for a world dominated by artificial intelligence.
More: The Information and Tech Funding News
| Neil J Kanatt / Reuters: |
DoorDash reports Q2 marketplace gross order value up 36% YoY to $33.08B, above $32.08B est., and forecasts Q3 marketplace GOV and adjusted EBITDA above est. — DoorDash (DASH.O) on Wednesday forecast third-quarter gross order value and core profit above Wall Street estimates after topping results … | Manya Saini / Reuters: |
Block reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $6.62B, above $6.49B est., Cash App gross profit up 31% to $1.97B, and raises its FY 2026 gross profit forecast — Block (XYZ.N) raised its full-year gross profit forecast on Wednesday after delivering market-beating second-quarter results …
More: Block, American Banker, Quartz, and Bloomberg
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Etsy says it will cut ~220 employees, or ~12% of its workforce, mostly in product and engineering, and reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $668.3M, vs. $649.1M est. — Etsy said Wednesday it's laying off about 220 employees, or roughly 12% of its workforce, as the online marketplace looks … Sponsor Posts
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