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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 …
More: Drew Breunig, Mashable, Capital Brief, RuntimeWire, Simon Willison's Weblog, PYMNTS, Marcus on AI, Implicator.ai, Semafor, and Martin Alderson
X: @jesse_norman, @gavinsbaker, @carlquintanilla, @wuffettbarken, @jeremiahdillon, @aiwithsally, @borthwick, @garymarcus, @alexolegimas, @spirosmargaris, @firstadopter, @choblin29, @jeffreyleefunk, @ross__hendricks, @janegenova3, @pietroventani, and @kimmonismus. LinkedIn: Sudheer Guntupalli. Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com. Forums: Hacker News
| 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, Forbes, Washington Examiner, Axios, 77 WABC, Washington Post, Fox Business, Wall Street Journal, NewsMax.com, Breitbart, and Fox News
X: @michaelcohen212, @axios, @michaelcohen212, and @manhattaninst. Bluesky: @mtwilcox. Forums: r/politics
| Axios: |
Greg Abbott says data center companies “dug their own grave” by moving into communities without first gaining support, signaling growing Republican backlash — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivered one of the starkest warnings yet from a Republican to the AI industry … | 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: 9to5Mac, Appleosophy, Business Today, Notebookcheck, The Mac Observer, Digit, Android Authority, TechEBlog, The Apple Post, MacRumors, 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
| 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: The Guardian, LGBTQ Nation, and The Indian Express
X: @zephyrteachout, @natashanyt, and @zephyrteachout
Bluesky: @annamillsoer, @patrickmccray, and @janerosenzweig. Mastodon: @shriramk@mastodon.social. Forums: r/Longreads
| 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, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, Oman Observer, Stuff.co.nz, RNZ, thepost.co.nz, and 1News
X: @henrycooke, @henrycooke, and @winstonpeters
Forums: r/aotearoa, r/newzealand, and r/newzealand
| 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, SiliconANGLE, Tech Funding News, Reuters, RuntimeWire, and Bloomberg
X: @edzitron, @katie_roof, @_advaitpatel, @jessalanfields, @srcasm, @andrewcurran_, @himanshustwts, @rohanpaul_ai, @jakehalloran1, and @edzitron. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
| 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: |
| Andrew Higgins / New York Times: |
A look at the collapse of Zondacrypto, Eastern and Central Europe's biggest crypto exchange, which went dark in April and is facing money laundering allegations — The mysterious collapse of a European cryptocurrency exchange helps to explain why the industry hasn't shaken off its reputation as a magnet for criminals.| 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: Reuters, Associated Press, The Economist, 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
Bluesky: @stucowan. Forums: r/accelerate, r/SipsTea, r/robotics, r/SipsTea, r/interestingasfuck, r/robotics, r/singularity, r/singularity, r/nottheonion, and r/news
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang — Prominent AI researcher Luke Metz has joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Axios.| 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, The Economic Times, Proactive, Reuters, and DigiTimes. Bluesky: @generationalize
| Financial Times: |
Oxford Economics: US corporate spending on equipment and facilities is set to rise 40% between 2021 and 2027, over 3x faster than Europe, driven by the AI race — The bloc struggles to keep up with US spending on high-tech equipment and facilities| Truman Dickerson / Business Insider: |
Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade “a lot of liberty for safety” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he worries that AI will one day be controlled by a handful of companies, models, or people …
More: Digit, RuntimeWire, SiliconANGLE, and Washington Examiner
| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank plans a $6.3B retail bond sale, a record for any Japanese issuer and its third this year, as the conglomerate raises funds for its OpenAI commitments — SoftBank Group Corp. plans a record ¥1 trillion ($6.3 billion) retail bond sale, the biggest by any issuer in Japan …
More: Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, and Nikkei Asia
| 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: CNBC, Bloomberg, Alibaba Group, Proactive, Nikkei Asia, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Reuters, The Information, Telecompaper, The Asia Business Daily, Fortune, Nikkei Asia, South China Morning Post, Livemint, Forbes Middle East, Bloomberg, TechNode, Blockonomi, The Straits Times, Tech in Asia, Business Standard, ThePrint, Bloomberg Law, and Daily Sabah
| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development — University lab nurtured the computer scientists who are using ingenuity and imitation to chase down Anthropic and OpenAI; ‘they know perfectly how to monetize their work’Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
Will Reed:
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
Zoho:
Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.
Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.
IDrive:
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.
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.Featured Podcasts
Sources:
Qualcomm's CEO on the coming AI phone supercycle
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
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The Upstarts Podcast:
Bringing Back Mammoths And Building Noah's Ark 2.0 | Colossal's Ben Lamm
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
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Great Chat:
The launch industrial complex
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Big Technology Podcast:
Can AI Keep Growing Exponentially? Let's Ask SemiAnalysis — With Dylan Patel and Jordan Nanos
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
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Channels with Peter Kafka:
Larry Ellison's Media Ambitions & Kevin Roose on AI's Biggest Gamble
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
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Training Data:
Google's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AI
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
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