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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 — AI lab's Fable 5 has met with sluggish demand from corporate clients — Anthropic's US customers are using cheaper alternatives …
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| Katie Roof / Business Insider: |
Sources: Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to evaluate bidders' interest — The AI industry's next blockbuster acquisition may not be another model maker. — Hugging Face, whose platform helps developers discover …
More: Silicon Republic, Reuters, Sifted, Gizmodo, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, Cyber Security News, Tech Funding News, RuntimeWire, and Bloomberg
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| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
Trump says communities that oppose data centers are “making a mistake” as they create “tremendous amounts of jobs and money”, amid bipartisan backlash — President Trump defended the expansion of data centers in an interview with his former fixer, Michael Cohen, that aired in full on Sunday.
More: TechRadar, NBC News, Forbes, Axios, Washington Examiner, 77 WABC, Washington Post, Fox Business, Wall Street Journal, NewsMax.com, Breitbart, and Fox News
X: @michaelcohen212, @axios, @logandobson, @michaelcohen212, @melt_dem, and @manhattaninst. Bluesky: @mtwilcox. Forums: r/politics
| New York Times: |
Ukrainian officials say an AI-guided, fully autonomous Russian drone killed three Ukrainians in a strike on a gas station in the city of Zaporizhzhia — An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.
More: The Kyiv Independent
| Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times: |
Ukraine says Russia used an Nvidia Jetson Orin computing module in its autonomous AI-guided drones; Nvidia says they are widely available on resale markets — The young woman ran for her life, but it was too late. A small Russian drone resembling a model airplane swooped down from the sky …
More: Bloomberg
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: foldable iPhone feels durable, fits well in a pocket, has useful iPad-like app layouts, excels as a camera viewfinder but lacks telephoto and Face ID — Also: Get ready for iPhone price hikes. — Apple is about to bring some of its product magic back with its first foldable iPhone.
More: PCMag, MacRumors, T3, 9to5Mac, Notebookcheck, Digit, The Mac Observer, TechEBlog, Appleosophy, Android Authority, Business Today, The Apple Post, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada, Digital Trends, Gizchina, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, Forbes, iClarified, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, and Apple Must
Forums: r/technology, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Tracy Withers / Bloomberg: |
New Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for under-16s, requiring “high risk” platforms to check user ages or face penalties of up to 10% of global revenue — New Zealand plans to ban under-16s from social media, joining a throng of countries worldwide seeking to limit online harm to children.
More: Associated Press, Nikkei Asia, Mashable, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, Oman Observer, RNZ, thepost.co.nz, Stuff.co.nz, and 1News
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Forums: r/newzealand, r/newzealand, and r/aotearoa
| Reuters: |
Alibaba plans to raise ~$10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close — China's Alibaba (9988.HK) on Sunday launched a HK$80-billion ($10.2 billion) share placement to fund artificial intelligence-related development.
More: The Next Web, Alibaba Group, CNBC, South China Morning Post, Implicator.ai, Dow Jones Newswires, Nikkei Asia, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Proactive, Reuters, The Asia Business Daily, The Information, Fortune, Nikkei Asia, Telecompaper, South China Morning Post, Livemint, Forbes Middle East, Bloomberg, Blockonomi, The Straits Times, TechNode, Tech in Asia, Business Standard, ThePrint, Bloomberg Law, and Daily Sabah
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools — One humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, representatives from Microsoft were waiting as some 200 teachers trooped into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan.
More: Times Higher Education, The Guardian, LGBTQ Nation, and The Indian Express
X: @zephyrteachout, @zephyrteachout, and @natashanyt
Bluesky: @annamillsoer, @patrickmccray, and @janerosenzweig. Mastodon: @shriramk@mastodon.social. Forums: r/Longreads
| The Information: |
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity's new equity round valuing it at $30B+; Nvidia considered a tech licensing deal and hiring some of its staff — Nvidia is discussing investing in Perplexity as part of an equity round that would value the AI startup at more than $30 billion …
More: Seeking Alpha, Tech Funding News, finbold.com, Reuters, The Decoder, Proactive, The Economic Times, and DigiTimes. Bluesky: @generationalize
| Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury's CFIUS national security review of its $80M deal to buy US clothing retailer Everlane, an unusual move — US authorities are conducting a national security review of Shein Global Holdings Ltd.'s purchase of American clothing retailer Everlane …
More: China Money Network
| Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg: |
| Reuters: |
Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures at a $6.3B valuation, with Tencent and Alibaba participating — China's Xpeng said on Monday its robotics business raised over $900 million in its first funding round, led by IDG and Gaorong Ventures … | Gao Yuan / Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi launches the Xring O3, a 3nm SoC for its mobile devices, as the company seeks to reduce reliance on longtime suppliers Qualcomm and MediaTek — Xiaomi Corp. launched a mobile processor for its marquee devices, putting pressure on Qualcomm Inc. and MediaTek Inc., which for years supplied the key component to the Chinese company.
More: SamMobile, Blockonomi, Notebookcheck, and Nokiamob
| Telegraph: |
At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot made by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records — Chinese humanoid called Tiangong Ultra nearly five seconds faster than 2016 Rio Olympic time — It may have stumpy arms …
More: The Verge, Dexerto, Reuters, Associated Press, The Post Millennial, Semafor, The American Bazaar, The Indian Express, The Guardian, Fox News, Tom's Hardware, GB News, chinaview.cn, UPI, Al Jazeera, The Sun, and The Independent
Forums: r/SipsTea, r/SipsTea, r/interestingasfuck, r/robotics, r/accelerate, r/robotics, r/singularity, r/singularity, r/nottheonion, and r/news
| Rthvika Suvarna / Bloomberg: |
US business schools are racing to prepare students to become chief AI officers, even as companies are still figuring out what the newest C-suite role entails — Business schools are racing to prepare executives for the newest C-suite role, even as companies are still figuring out what the job entails.
Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence
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