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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a new open-weight model, and will release an open-weight version of its most advanced model, Muse Spark 1.2, in the coming weeks — Mark Zuckerberg has a new game plan for winning over hearts and minds to his company's artificial-intelligence efforts: open models and an open hand.
More: Reuters, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, and Meta AI Research
| Mark Zuckerberg / Meta: |
Mark Zuckerberg proposes a positive AI philosophy centered on individual empowerment, predicts personal superintelligence could increase employment, and more — We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. In the next few years, people will be able to use superintelligence …
| ABC: |
An Australian user's OpenClaw agent running Claude exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off, after the user asked it to 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
More: Business Today, The Indian Express, The Cyber Express, Neowin, Android Authority, RuntimeWire, Cyber Security News, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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LinkedIn: Julian Harris, Kirk Nesbitt, and Ron Arnold
Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz, @nickdmiller, @joeycoleman.ca, @anatolkirichenko, @sophieactual.mitsuko.nz, and @shartymcscrote
Mastodon: @Ex_spurt@aus.social and @ai@defcon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/australia, r/aussie, r/auslaw, and r/technology
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 — TOKYO/KUMAMOTO, Japan/TAIPEI — Sony Group and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plan to begin mass production …
More: Bloomberg, The Information, Euronews, The Japan Times, Automotive World, Reuters, Tech in Asia, and DigiTimes
| Shane Burke / The Information: |
After New York and Texas added statewide data center restrictions, 500+ US towns and counties have passed bans or restrictions, up from 300+ in late June — Local government resistance to data center development accelerated this summer, a warning sign for big AI companies such as Anthropic …
More: New York Times. X: @cryptopunk7213, @freewayheilig, @shawnchauhan1, and @discoplomacy. Bluesky: @jessefelder.com. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: r/TechGawker and r/technology
| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns — Spotify is terrifying much of the podcast industry with a tiny little widget. — Last week, the audio streaming giant tweaked …
More: Podnews, Podnews, Net Influencer, Digital Music News, Spotify, and LinkedIn
X: @tvietor08, @peterawolf, @maoist3rdwrldst, @neoliberal_hack, @culrmartin, @allowedtohit, @deeze, @mazzarellastix, @lochnessmanda, @alisha_ann94, @kearnsy04, @vijayvinyl, @brien_jackson, @wilson__valdez, @dcgayleo, @mattconvente, @cincinnatus56, @poorlyreasoned, and @leftinmyheart1. LinkedIn: Aaron Matthews. Bluesky: @dankennedy.net
| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
A profile of Founders Pledge, which has recorded $4B in pledges from founders so far in 2026, as the AI industry now accounts for a third of its lifetime total — A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth.
X: @simonhedlin and @wired
| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more — What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King's Cross?
Bluesky: @kentindell
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese regulators have told banks to back tech companies, but lenders still prefer stable cash flows and profitability over loss-making tech startups — The strategy marks a break from Beijing's reliance on subsidies and state funding. — Even by the frothy standards of the AI era …
More: Daily Sabah
| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
An in-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the Hugging Face hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI 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 …
More: Washington Post, Interconnects AI, The Deep View, and Simon Willison's Weblog
X: @geoffreyirving, @blackhc, @thezvi, @thezvi, @tszzl, @arekfurt, @thestalwart, @honorablepicnic, @thezvi, @chris_land, @w01fe, @arekfurt, @simeon_cps, @ziv_ravid, @algekalipso, @thezvi, @figuralperson, @arekfurt, @arekfurt, and @stanveuger. LinkedIn: Jonathan Kim. Bluesky: @jjaron. Mastodon: @mjd@mathstodon.xyz
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with historian Jill Lepore on her new book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, tech leaders misreading science fiction warnings as manuals, and more — Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify — In her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” … | 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.
More: FUNDA, Counterpoint Research, The Decoder, The Observer, Memeburn, and Taipei Times
X: @rezendi, @jessicalessin, @gabrielayuso, @minhsmind, @jamescham, @kroscoo, @benshanyoufeng, @fernandotn, and @timoreilly
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me and @edzitron.com
| Richard Holmes / Telegraph: |
Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent “heartbeat communications” to an IP address in China — Special forces boats set for use in planned Gulf missions were fitted with Chinese-made components
More: The Sun, Metro.co.uk, Neowin, GB News, Mirror, and NewsMax.com
X: @kevinrogerjames, @mpiainds, @teortaxestex, @lukedepulford, @lowlandsapien, @ghwtowler, @baldingsworld, @laralogan, @richard_aholmes, @robertclark87, @benobesejecty, @whatnowdoc, @mrbcyber, @heatloss1986, and @fennelljw. LinkedIn: Philip Hicks
Bluesky: @drode, @novanovis, and @saridder
Forums: r/CanadianInvestor, r/ukpolitics, and r/Intelligence
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK FCA is consulting industry participants, including major banks, on a regulatory framework for tokenized gold; London dominates the global market — FCA is seeking to encourage digitisation of financial markets — UK regulators are preparing a framework for tokenised gold …
More: CoinGape, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, and crypto.news
| South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Nvidia chips remain the norm for Chinese AI labs training LLMs, as switching from its CUDA platform to Huawei's CANN requires major code rewriting — China's most advanced artificial intelligence models are still being trained on Nvidia chips, sources at major Chinese large language model …
More: Wccftech
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