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OpenAI says it has expanded safety testing around its upcoming model Astra as it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities, potentially delaying its launch — OpenAI “cannot rule out” that its upcoming model Astra has"critical" cyber capabilities, a designation that has prompted … | Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Anthropic announces a feature that allows different Claude Code sessions to message each other with updates and other information, available on macOS and Linux — Users running the latest version of Claude Code on macOS and Linux can now have their sessions message each other to share findings, ask questions, and coordinate work.| SemiAnalysis: |
Analysis: SpaceX is on track to build ~10 GW of compute capacity by 2027's end, with 6 GW-8 GW in 2027 alone, which could drive $300B in annual revenue run-rate — Inference at 100B/GW/year, SpaceX's stellar pace, Microsoft's 10GW 2026 Awakening, Azure Can Grow Triple-Digits| Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis: South Korea and Taiwan each surpassed Japan in total exports for the first time in H1 2026, as AI demand drove explosive growth in chip exports — TOKYO — South Korea and Taiwan each surpassed Japan in total exports for the first time during the first half of 2026, according to a Nikkei analysis.| Reuters: |
Ukrainian attacks on warehouses of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries are affecting tens of thousands of small businesses that rely on the platform — In the space of three weeks, Vasily Klimov's online shopping pick-up point in Moscow has gone from a healthy small business … | Jasper Goodman / Politico: |
The Clarity Act faces uncertainty after Senate Republicans delayed a vote until after their August recess, pushing it to September, just weeks before midterms — The cryptocurrency industry's top Washington priority has run into a stinging setback in the U.S. Senate.| @xcreators: |
X announces the Original Content Rewards Program and will discontinue Revenue Sharing on Sep. 7, saying existing Revenue Sharing members can apply for access — Today, we're introducing the Original Content Rewards Program, a new way to reward creators who bring original ideas, expertise … | Bloomberg: |
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Filings: Moonshot restructured its China-based entity from a limited liability company to a joint stock company in its first visible step toward a Hong Kong IPO — Chinese AI start-up targets Hong Kong listing to raise fresh funding for next phase of development| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn says the company is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals to focus on its media arm and its pending merger with TAE — Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, is pulling back from a pair of Crypto.com deals as its new leadership looks … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Situational Awareness invested $500M, including $400M this week, into Source Foundry, a startup that plans to develop new AI chip manufacturing tools — Investment marks the latest known private-company bet by Situational Awareness after quick sale of its stock portfolio.| The Information: |
Sources: Nvidia agrees to invest $2B in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer of the Stargate campus in Texas, plus $1B more if it hits certain thresholds — Nvidia has agreed to invest $2 billion into Lancium, the power infrastructure developer behind the OpenAI and Oracle AI campus in Texas … | Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Sources: data center operator Switch filed confidentially for a US IPO, and a listing could take place as soon as November; Ben Horowitz is joining its board — Switch Inc. filed confidentially for a US IPO, according to people familiar with the matter, joining its data center peers … | Arriana McLymore / Reuters: |
Retailers are updating their websites to rank highly in chatbot results, while making sure purchases are done on their own sites to collect customer data — As shoppers increasingly turn to ChatGPT and Google's Gemini for product recommendations, retailers are racing to appear in chatbot results … | Reuters: |
The US Treasury sanctions Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit, alleging it processed millions in crypto for IRGC and other Iran-linked groups — The United States on Friday sanctioned an unlicensed multi-state cryptocurrency exchange, alleging it processed millions of dollars … | Grace Kay / The Information: |
Sources: Cursor told staff on Thursday that SpaceX could complete its $60B acquisition as soon as next week and the Cursor brand name will likely be phased out — Cursor told staff at an all-hands meeting on Thursday that SpaceX could complete its $60 billion acquisition of the coding startup … | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to end support for Manifest V2 extensions in Edge starting this month, following Google Chrome, and for enterprise users in early 2027 — Microsoft's plan for Edge means that uBlock Origin users are losing one of their browser options.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Introducing Zoho Expense MCP: Turn conversations into expense workflows — Artificial intelligence (AI) has already changed how we search for information, summarize documents, and analyze data.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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