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Bill Gates says “the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history” and “we are not preparing adequately”, calling for a regulatory framework — Bill Gates, artificial intelligence, AI, generative AI for everyone, responsible ai news, ai and robotics … | Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Bill Gates says tech executives are privately “very worried” about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs — Bill Gates is the latest in a string of tech luminaries to call out the risks of artificial intelligence.Chona Kasinger for The New York Times
More: MIT Technology Review, Axios, and Washington Post
| Reuters: |
State AGs' trial: Adam Mosseri denies Instagram stalled by not making its “Take a Break” teen safety feature the default until nearly three years after launch — The top executive at Instagram said few teenagers used a key safety feature to limit their use before it was turned on by default …
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More: Digit, Moneycontrol, Associated Press, Android Authority, and Agence France-Presse
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series and says it will release the weights for it tonight; Ox Alpha topped OpenRouter's leaderboard — The new AI model that's swept to the top of online usage charts with high performance at zero cost was created by China's Z.AI Co., also known as Zhipu.
More: CTGT and RuntimeWire
X: @filicroval, @opencode, @hesamation, @davidondrej1, @connebs, @bindureddy, and @vectal_labs
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple unveils M6, a 2nm chip with a 12-core CPU and GPU, and up to 32GB of unified memory, saying it provides “the world's fastest single-threaded performance” — Apple is introducing the M6 chip with a new Mac Mini. It's also launching a new M5 Ultra alongside an upgraded Mac Studio.
More: Apple, Above Avalon, Ghacks, AppleInsider, PCMag, Wccftech, Michael Tsai, 9to5Mac, Yanko Design, Tom's Hardware, and Forbes
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Forums: r/mac, r/hardware, r/StableDiffusion, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/apple
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
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| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI confirms Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers from Meta in March 2025, has left the company; his departure comes amid a broader exodus — Chris Malone joins a string of recent high-level executive departures as the AI giant heads toward an IPO and ramps up its spending on computing power
More: Business Today, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Asia Business Daily, and CNBC
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, “following an assessment”; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to 500K+ humans — Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday.
More: Amazon Web Services. X: @ben_wray1989, @calbucci, @kirbywinfield, @lmatsakis, and @dwightchurchill
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| Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019 — The AI startup is likely to top SpaceX's eye-popping potential revenue estimate — SpaceX's record-breaking IPO tested the limits of an obscure financial metric.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/literaciafinanceira, r/redditstock, r/BetterOffline, and r/wallstreetbets
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency than Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T — Jalapeño outperformed Nvidia's superchips on an AI inference benchmark test.
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Forums: r/accelerate and r/singularity
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/AMD_Stock, and r/NVDA_Stock
| Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill: |
Pennsylvania's AG sues Snap, alleging Snapchat fails to protect teens from compulsively using the app, two weeks after filing a similar lawsuit against TikTok — Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday (R) announced a lawsuit Tuesday, accusing Snap, the parent company of Snapchat …
More: Fox Business and WHYY
| Reuters: |
Sources: Moonshot AI is in early talks over revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host Kimi K3, and is seeking up to a 30% share — China's Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft (MSFT.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) …
More: Seeking Alpha and RuntimeWire
| Financial Times: |
Source: Transport for London's delay in producing robotaxi guidance has frustrated some prospective operators, who play down the chances of launching in 2026 — Operators play down chance of starting this year. London's robotaxi rollout is running behind the ambitious schedule set …
More: The Guardian and CleanTechnica
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Digs, which is building AI software for residential construction, raised a $25.3M Series A led by building materials giant Builders FirstSource — Digs, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup building AI software for residential construction, raised $25.3 million in Series A funding led …
More: The SaaS News, Business Wire, Portland Business Journal, RuntimeWire, HousingWire, and Portland Oregon startups …
LinkedIn: Digs, Ryan Fink, Builders FirstSource, and Digs
| Wall Street Journal: |
Intuit reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.35B, above $4.27B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue growth of 9% to 10%, below ~11% est.; INTU drops 8%+ — The company expects revenue to increase 9% to 10% for fiscal 2027, down from 14% this year — Intuit forecast slower sales growth …
More: Reuters, Blockonomi, Seeking Alpha, Investor's Business Daily, Barron's Online, and RuntimeWire. X: @quinnypig
| Charlie Wells / Bloomberg: |
Revolut rolls out its euro-pegged stablecoin EURR, initially to eligible customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal; Stripe-owned Bridge issues the stablecoin — Revolut Ltd. joined the rush among global banks and payment firms to roll out stablecoins, a bet that digital money will gain …
More: The Block, Silicon Republic, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Startup.eu, and Disruption Banking
| Financial Times: |
Sources: YMTC, which seeks to raise $5B in an IPO, told investors in IPO prep meetings that it aims to become the largest NAND flash supplier by the end of 2027 — YMTC sets out Nand production ambitions in investor meetings for $5bn Shanghai IPO — YMTC aims to overtake Samsung and SK Hynix … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline — Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app …
More: Gizmodo. X: @xjosh and @cryptocyberia
Bluesky: @pfrazee.com and @patak.cat
Forums: r/stupidpol, r/france, and r/technology
| Nate Doughty / Washington, D.C. Business Journal: |
Navitas Semiconductor agrees to buy Claros, which develops data center power management hardware and software, for ~$232.8M; Claros raised a $30M seed in March — Los Angeles-area manufacturer Navitas Semiconductor Corp. plans to buy Claros Inc., a McLean startup developing technologies …
More: Pulse 2.0, Seeking Alpha, Blockonomi, and Navitas Semiconductor …
| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 28% of Americans use AI chatbots to get health information quickly, 25% to figure out symptom causes, and 22% to get health information at no cost — Reasons include making diagnoses and learning more about lab results or treatments. Nearly all chatbot health users find this AI information helpful| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $1.28B, above $1.27B est., enterprise revenue up 7.8% YoY to $787.5M, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS below est. — Zoom Communications Inc. gave a sales outlook for the current quarter that was about in line with analysts' estimates … | Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
HP signs a multi-year global agreement with Huawei to license certain standard essential Wi-Fi patents, a sign of adoption of Huawei's technology outside China — BEIJING — U.S.-based personal computing and printing firm HP has signed a multi-year global agreement for licensing certain WiFi patents …
More: Huawei, Nikkei Asia, The Japan Times, Seeking Alpha, The Fast Mode, Reuters, South China Morning Post, ip fray, and KrASIA
| Laura Bicker / BBC: |
A look at China's push to automate manufacturing, which employs 120M people, amid a shrinking population and aging workforce, raising job loss concerns — “I take a nap and the world changes,” says Chen Tianyu. — His world certainly does. The 28-year-old keeps up with the latest technology …
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