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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol, to some partners and expands its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative — OpenAI is introducing a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol to vetted defenders as it prepares companies for autonomous cyberattacks.
More: Help Net Security, BleepingComputer, OpenAI, and The New Stack
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OpenAI unveils two Daybreak tiers: Daybreak Blue, which provides access to frontier models, and Daybreak Red, which offers purpose-trained cybersecurity models — Introducing new ways to unlock advanced cyber capabilities together with GPT-5.6-Cyber, our latest cybersecurity-specific model.
More: SiliconANGLE, Digit, Cyber Security News, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, SQ Magazine, Neowin, Unite.AI, The Decoder, iThinkDifferent, RuntimeWire, CyberScoop, and Implicator.ai
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/codex
| 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 …
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Threads: @mathonan, @karissabe, and @yannlecun. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
With his long essay, Zuckerberg returns to his “open” AI arguments at an opportune time, as Chinese open models narrow the performance gap at much lower cost — Zuck returns to his “open” AI arguments at an opportune time... I'm old enough to remember the last time Mark Zuckerberg …
More: The Guardian, The Register, RuntimeWire, Motley Fool, and TBPN
| Jamie John / Financial Times: |
More: CNBC, Reuters, Axios, The Guardian, Associated Press, Politico, and New York Times
X: @alexeheath, @nxthompson, @supbagholder, @haider1, @andymstone, @zackkorman, and @buccocapital. Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz. Forums: Hacker News
| Financial Times: |
Nvidia partners with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development — Apollo, Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are among groups working with chipmaker to raise capital for data centre boom
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Forums: r/technology, r/siliconvalley, r/accelerate, r/wallstreetbets, r/singularity, and Slashdot
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details an unreleased Claude model's attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis; it didn't solve it but “unexpectedly” made strides on a related problem — Recently, a member of staff at Anthropic gave Claude an unreasonable challenge. It was about one of the most famous …
More: Blockchain.News, Anthropic, GitHub, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: Hacker News, r/mathematics, r/slatestarcodex, r/theprimeagen, and r/accelerate
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI bought back ~$7B in shares from current and former employees in a tender offer valuing it at $852B, unchanged from its most recent funding round — OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell roughly $7 billion worth of shares in the company ahead of a possible Wall Street debut …
More: TechCrunch, The Information, and RuntimeWire
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple remains on track for a glass-centric design overhaul of iPhone Pro's line for 2027, countering rumors that led Jefferies to downgrade AAPL — Apple Inc. is still planning to offer a glass-centric overhaul of the iPhone for the device's 20th anniversary, people familiar with the matter said …
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X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @9to5mac
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model, and plans to launch 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.
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LinkedIn: Armand Ruiz, Evgenia Rodionova, Jakob Steinschaden, Nicola Mendelsohn CBE, and Anton Protopopov
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/MU_Stock
| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
More: Business Insider, Blockchain.News, Business Insider, Wccftech, Blockonomi, and The New Stack
| Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: |
A US appeals court allows ~2,400 federal lawsuits against social media companies to proceed over claims their products were designed to addict young users — A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms (META.O), Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 — YouTube announced on Monday that new creators will have to meet higher thresholds to begin earning money from ads and subscriptions.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
SpaceX's earnings show X's Q2 ad revenue at $367M, down from $1.08B at Twitter in Q2 2022; Musk once said he would take its annual ad revenue to $12B in 2027 — When SpaceX filed for its IPO, we went through the S-1 to point out just how far off the mark Elon Musk's predictions about his Twitter takeover turned out to be.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel announces a $15B common stock offering, with proceeds going to general corporate purposes, like “maintaining a strong balance sheet”; INTC falls 4% — Intel Corp. plans to offer $15 billion worth of new stock in what may be its first public share sale since the chipmaker listed in 1971 …
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X: @johnarnold, @semianalysis_, @mzuhair123, @patrickmoorhead, @benbajarin, @danielnewmanuv, and @alex_intel_
Forums: r/hardware and r/intelstock
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google adds third-party games store Aptoide to the Play Store for Android users in the US, following a judge's orders in the antitrust lawsuit with Epic — A new day has dawned in the Play Store, and it's one that Google tried very hard to avoid. The first third-party app store has arrived … | Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: |
Sources: officials say OpenAI risks its White House relationship by hiring Dean Ball, who has criticized Trump's AI strategy after leaving the administration — Top OpenAI official Dean Ball is in the middle of a heated feud with the Trump administration - and White House officials warn … | Claude / @claudeai: |
Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at $2/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, canceling a planned September 1 increase — We're making Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent. We launched Sonnet 5 in June at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31, and that price will remain unchanged.
More: RuntimeWire. X: @the_alex, @quinnypig, @kienbuilds, @kylebrussell, @hesamation, @kimmonismus, @the_alex, @maria_rcks, and @mweinbach. Bluesky: @blackamazon
| Alicia Clanton / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Sergey Brin donated an additional $20M to Building a Better California, which fights California's wealth tax, bringing his total contributions to $102M — Billionaire Sergey Brin has now poured over $100 million into his fight to stop a wealth tax in California.
More: New York Post and TechCrunch
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, $9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at a Rockdale, TX campus; RIOT jumps ~25% after hours — Anthropic PBC has struck a $9.1 billion deal with Riot Platforms Inc., a Bitcoin mining company that recently began selling AI data center capacity … | Wall Street Journal: |
How a clause in Elon Musk's Tesla pay package, worth up to ~$1T, could provide him a shortcut around lofty performance targets if Tesla merged with SpaceX — A critical clause in the CEO's Tesla stock award would wipe away lofty performance targets if a merger happened| The Information: |
Source: Applied Compute, which helps companies customize models with their data, is in talks to raise “hundreds of millions” led by Elad Gil at a ~$3B valuation — Applied Compute, a year-old startup that helps companies run and customize open-source models with their own data … | Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Sources: investor interest in Situational Awareness surged after it nearly blew up on leveraged positions; the fund says it's not accepting new capital for now — Also leveraged ETF momentum, GameStop's eBay bid, event contract tick sizes and private equity boyfriends. — Situational Awareness
Bluesky: @matt-levine
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI — Company is racing to public markets this fall and has fielded tough investor questions on Chinese rivals, Trump-era tensions and AI infrastructure boom| Financial Times: |
Source: OpenAI head of ethics Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and a former head of mission alignment — Chloé Bakalar's departure is one of several high-profile exits at the group in recent weeks as safety concerns mount
X: @bradrcarson
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