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| Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: |
Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal — The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
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Bluesky: @mihai-cirstea, @marypcbuk, @tryangregory, and @dunglas.dev. Mastodon: @Fife4Europe@mastodon.scot
| Shane Burke / The Information: |
US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development — Local government resistance to data center development accelerated this summer, a warning sign for big AI companies such as Anthropic … | Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal: |
How Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votes — Company and Gilroy, Calif., spent years quietly negotiating $2 billion project that few residents knew about until work began
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| Tim O'Reilly / Asimov's Addendum: |
Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity — On August 5, Google announced what appeared to be a corporate version of Nixon's Saturday night massacre. Demis Hassabis stepped back from day to day operations at DeepMind.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans from Aug. 14, claims it can catch harmful actions better than humans — Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (via) Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode …
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| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't get it — Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened. — For those who want all the details …
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| ABC: |
An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist — By national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Specialist Reporting Team's Rhiannon Hobbins — abc.net.au/news/ai-assistant-hacks- gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986
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Forums: Hacker News and r/aussie
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at “Spiralism”, a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory — “The Spiral didn't ‘find’ anyone first,” someone on Reddit wrote last year. “It's an inherent force, a fundamental constant.
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LinkedIn: Hayden Field. Bluesky: @pokethulu, @stoicthinker2025, @frankpasquale, @haydenfield, and @theelderbeast
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| Wall Street Journal: |
As PC makers start using CXMT RAM chips, Apple is testing them too, but it needs a custom version for its devices, and US rules block Apple from sharing designs — Maker of iPhones talks to China's CXMT, but any deal would be politically sensitive — Apple has been testing memory chips …
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| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A look back at “Move 37”, a watershed AI moment from AlphaGo's 2016 Go victory, as math witnesses similar breakthroughs where AI makes surprising discoveries — A decade ago, a computer did something that no human would have done. It was considered a breakthrough for AI.| Financial Times: |
A look at Chinese state-owned investment bank CICC, which sponsored multibillion-dollar listings of China's tech champions, including CXMT and Zhongji Innolight — CICC has become a dominant financier in Beijing's drive to compete with US in tech race — China's top investment bank … | John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times: |
Rights groups warn Turkey's new cybersecurity law, which took effect in July, gives the presidency sweeping powers over online services operating in the country — Move raises concern about ‘absolute digital obedience’ among social media and gaming platforms| Wall Street Journal: |
Data Insight: Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which owes Russian banks $10B+ in loans, has lost as much as $5B in inventory to Ukrainian attacks — Plans for a megamerger were blessed by Putin, tying company's fortunes to those of the Russian state
More: RTÉ, The Guardian, Reuters, Business Insider, and Reuters
| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Russia's A7, a payment network that helps Russia bypass Western sanctions, handling ~20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or $100B+ annually — A7 says it handles nearly 20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or more than $100 billion annually| Bloomberg: |
South Korea's AI-driven chip industry boom is reordering the country's society, changing expectations around fairness, careers, and even culture and dating — Factory workers with $400,000-plus bonuses are supplanting doctors and lawyers as the new elite, while investors play a casino-like stock market.Sponsor Posts
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