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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action” — OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and more than 100 other companies warned Thursday …
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LinkedIn: Nico Waisman and Greg Brockman
| Politico: |
Sources: the Trump administration is weighing sweeping new tariffs on chips and other products like laptops and consoles, despite warnings from tech companies — The Trump administration is weighing a new round of sweeping tariffs on semiconductors, eight people familiar with discussions told POLITICO …
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Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com, @joncooper-us, and @carlquintanilla. Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon …
Forums: r/politics, r/intelstock, r/videogames, r/hardware, r/neoliberal, r/gaming, and r/Destiny
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place — The company is rethinking the program less than two months after announcing it — Nvidia paused some deals in a new financing initiative … | Will Knight / Wired: |
Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms — The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.
More: Anthropic, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, CNBC, Financial Times, Blockchain.News, Reuters, and Fortune
X: @anthropicai, @jkeatn, @ckcapitalxx, @anthropicai, @pennycheck, @emilyforlini, @prathkum, and @pvncher
| Google: |
Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more — Omni now delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, first and last frame interpolation …
More: Google AI for Developers, Neowin, Digital Trends, NPowerUser, and Implicator.ai
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Forums: r/singularity and r/Bard
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
YouTube and TikTok are yet to publicly acknowledge Meta's proposed changes under its AG settlement; some US lawmakers signal an appetite for industry-wide rules — Meta, the social media giant, agreed to change the way children interact with its apps. That could be trouble if its competitors don't abide by the same rules.
More: BBC, New York Times, Business Insider, Australian Financial Review, Meta Newsroom, Pew Research Center, GB News, Health Policy Watch, Tech Brew, WLNS 6 News, The i Paper, The Wrap, NewsMax.com, CNBC, and Bloomberg
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
More: Reclaim The Net, Bloomberg Law, Livemint, Engadget, and Novara Media
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
More: New York Times, Tech Policy Press, Reuters, The Atlantic, Newser, Alabama Daily News, The Office of the Duke …, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Reuters, BBC, Platformer, The Verge, and Wall Street Journal
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Bluesky: @samidh, @wolven.blacksky.app, @evangreer, @unchi.org, @scottbooher.com, @abeba.blacksky.app, @marcimccue, @damonberes.com, and @masnick.com. Threads: @anildash. Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps, including memory-use limits, citing “significant hardware supply constraints” due to the AI boom — Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industry-wide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom.
More: Android Developers Blog, The Verge, The Register, BGR, Thurrott, Game Informer, and Digital Trends. Forums: Slashdot
| CJ Haddad / CNBC: |
Salesforce stock closed up 22.6% on Thursday, its second-best day ever, after the company reported a beat on Q2 earnings and expanded its Anthropic partnership — Shares of Salesforce jumped 22% Thursday after the company reported a beat on second-quarter earnings and announced … | Courtney Rozen / Reuters: |
Source: Nvidia plans an employee-funded political action committee called NVPAC, as it seeks to step up its efforts to influence US policy — Tech company Nvidia will start an employee-funded political action committee, a source familiar with the plans told Reuters, as the company seeks to step up its efforts to influence U.S. policy.
More: Bloomberg Government, The Hill, Barron's Online, and The Independent
| Bloomberg: |
Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio — Artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face Inc. unveiled a singing $400 bipedal robot that can be taught tricks …
More: Engadget, Axios, The Register, CNET, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Pollen Robotics, PCMag, TechCrunch, Investor's Business Daily, TechEBlog, How-To Geek, Popular Science, The New Stack, Cautious Optimism, Mashable, Barchart.com, TechRadar, Digital Trends, and Seeking Alpha
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Australian Federal Police arrest two Western Australia men, aged 21 and 23, believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group — Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed …
More: Australian Federal Police, ABC, Flare, OpenSourceMalware.com, BleepingComputer, CyberScoop, Security Affairs, PCMag, Cyber Security News, TechCrunch, Help Net Security, eSecurity Planet, The Record, SecurityWeek, and Reuters
X: @intcyberdigest, @intcyberdigest, @intcyberdigest, and @intcyberdigest. Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz
Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange, @campuscodi@mastodon.social, and @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
Forums: r/australia and r/perth
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google adds Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook, letting users import eligible titles they own in Google Play Books to ask questions, generate podcasts, more — Gemini Notebook's new ‘Expert Intelligence’ feature pulls information from the books you've purchased.| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
YouTube adds Amazon to its shopping affiliate program, enabling US creators to tag Amazon products in Shorts, longform videos, and livestreams — The retailer just finally joined YouTube Shopping's affiliate program. — YouTube has landed one of the biggest possible gets for its creator ecommerce platform.| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Internal memo: Meta's AI agent Hatch “has its own computer” to perform tasks, works when the app is closed, can connect to email, Instagram, OpenTable, and more — It can DJ. It can order food. It can book you a table at a restaurant. And of course, it can access your Instagram.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Anthropic has been working on a plan to allow secondary stock sales in its IPO while also considering lockup periods longer than the standard 180 days — Anthropic has been working on a plan to let existing shareholders sell some stock in its blockbuster initial public offering …
More: Reuters and RuntimeWire
| METR: |
METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face — Redaction summary statement: Except where explicitly noted in this post, OpenAI redacted no additional information that was important to our conclusions.
More: OpenAI, BleepingComputer, iTnews, Implicator.ai, Cybersecurity Dive, Time, International Business Times, Transformer, The Decoder, Cogniscendo, The Daily Caller, Ars Technica, RuntimeWire, Fortune, and OpenAI
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Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @timkellogg.me, and @metr.org
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
More: Wired, Washington Post, Politico, Financial Times, and MIT Technology Review
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family's planned crypto bank — The Emirati ‘spy sheikh’ backs a 49% stake in the entity behind the new World Liberty bank — The Abu Dhabi royal sometimes referred … | Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Gambit Security: Russian-speaking ransomware gang Aur0ra used SpaceX's Cursor AI coding assistant to breach at least seven companies between April 8 and May 21 — Russian-speaking hackers used SpaceX's (SPCX.O) AI coding assistant, Cursor, to help break in to a Belgian chemical company … | Alistair Gray / Financial Times: |
Alphabet agrees to pay £260M to settle a UK class action lawsuit claiming it levied “unfair” charges on software downloaded from the Google Play app store — Group's Google business was accused of overcharging developers who made software for the Google Play app store
More: The Economic Times
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” in Codex, designed to let AI agents “continue working until put to sleep” and proactively generate follow-up tasks — Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”
More: Gizmodo, GitHub, The Verge, and Time
Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz and @couts
Forums: r/accelerate, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 — After burning through its IT budget in the first quarter of the year, Uber has now stabilized its AI bills even as usage surges, the company tells Axios.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Workday reports Q2 revenue up 12.8% YoY to $2.65B vs. $2.63B est., and total subscription revenue backlog up 8% YoY to $27.4B, vs. $28.6B est. — Workday Inc., a maker of workplace management software, reported a measure of future sales that fell short of analysts' projections … | The Information: |
Sources: Cognition is generating ~$900M in annualized revenue, up more than 3x since the start of the year, and executives project it will end 2026 with $1.5B+ — Revenue is surging at Cognition and several other AI application providers, previously unreported data show … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: the FTC has been investigating whether YouTube broke consumer protection laws by violating its own policies when suspending accounts or banning content — The US Federal Trade Commission has been investigating whether Alphabet Inc.'s YouTube violated consumer protection laws …
More: Reuters
| Google DeepMind: |
Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP — Building trust in proprietary model benchmarks using cryptographically secure environments — Imagine a student is set to take a high-stakes exam.
More: The New Stack, Blockchain.News, and RuntimeWire
X: @googledeepmind, @jayanayak21, @zswaff, @bakkermichiel, @iamtrask, @0xj4yd3v, @koenvanderveen, @averiorg, @webthreeai, @jastephx, @solomonmg, and @openminedorg. LinkedIn: Helen King
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Cybersecurity stocks surge, with Okta up 20%+ and CrowdStrike up 15%+, after earnings showed that AI adoption is driving attacks and spending on security tools — CrowdStrike and Okta shares surged on Thursday after earnings showed that artificial intelligence adoption is pushing customers to spend more on cybersecurity tools.
More: Seeking Alpha, Forbes, Blockonomi, and Morningstar
| Newcomer: |
Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures — Town, the buzzy enterprise personal agent, is raising at $1 billion, sources tell us — Two startup personal assistants have venture capitalists in a tizzy right now:
More: SiliconANGLE, Pulse 2.0, and Wall Street Journal
| New York Times: |
Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic — The social networking giant projected it could spend $10 billion annually on Anthropic's tools, illustrating the friend-foe relationships underlying the A.I. race.| Reuters: |
Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation — Anthropic discussed buying artificial intelligence chip startup MatX for roughly $7 billion, seeking to accelerate efforts … | Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
X launches NFL Gametime, an integrated NFL feed and hub featuring live data, scores, statistics, creator content, and more through to the 2027 Super Bowl — X will really mark the spot for NFL content. — The social-media outlet is launching “NFL Gametime,” a new project that offers … | Reuters: |
Japan's Kioxia and Sandisk plan to spend $31B+ in Japan through 2032 to drive chip tech and expand production capacity, including an $11.3B Kitakami plant — Japan's Kioxia (285A.T) and U.S.-based Sandisk (SNDK.O) said on Thursday they planned to invest more than $31 billion in Japan through 2032 …
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