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| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was “illegal and baseless” — A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude maker's high-stakes fight with the military over AI safety on the battlefield.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/law, r/ClaudeAI, r/technology, r/singularity, and r/politics
| 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: Rousseau Dasgupta, Rachel Jin, Yu Zhou L., Hugh Carroll, Nathalie Barrera, Ashutosh Kulkarni, Greg Brockman, and Nico Waisman
| Financial Times: |
The UK Treasury gives the Bank of England a new legal objective to support payment systems and digital money innovation, seeking to keep London competitive — Treasury gives central bank a new legal objective as part of effort to promote UK as hub for stablecoins
More: GOV.UK, FinTech Global, Bitcoin News, CoinGeek, Blockonomi, CoinDesk, PaymentsJournal, Cointelegraph, The Paypers, PYMNTS, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, Decrypt, and crypto.news
LinkedIn: Lucy Rigby, Bee Thakur, Paul Cullum, and Mark Simms
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B — A consortium of buyout firm Advent and payment processor Stripe has decided to abandon its pursuit of fintech pioneer PayPal Holdings Inc. …
More: Barron's Online, MarketWatch, RTÉ, PYMNTS, Proactive, Quartz, Silicon Republic, Blockonomi, ZeroHedge News, Bloomberg Law, Reuters, Axios, Engadget, Investor's Business Daily, Tech in Asia, and Business Post
LinkedIn: Marcel van Oost, Simon Taylor, and Michele Mattei. Bluesky: @davidcrespo. Forums: Hacker News
| 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, Ars Technica, Quartz, CNBC, Digit, The Indian Express, Business Standard, The Register, Financial Times, PYMNTS, Blockchain.News, Fortune, and Reuters
X: @anthropicai, @tobinsouth, @deryatr_, @mascobot, @prathkum, @dsp_, @pvncher, @jkeatn, @emilyforlini, @anthropicai, @ckcapitalxx, and @pennycheck. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
Forums: r/singularity and Ars OpenForum
| 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 …
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Bluesky: @thetnholler, @paleofuture, @kathleenclark, and @emptywheel. Mastodon: @KimPerales@toad.social. Forums: r/politics
| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
BitGo agrees to buy NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, expanding BitGo's derivatives offerings; ~30 NYDIG employees are joining BitGo — The crypto infrastructure firm BitGo has agreed to buy the institutional trading business and related assets of NYDIG, CNBC has learned.
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X: @bitgo, @sharp_on_sats, and @luketdd
| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
South Korea unveils a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, a move that treats AI like a public utility — Seoul wants to direct use of homegrown AI chatbots to reduce reliance on U.S. or Chinese options, footing the bill and offering unlimited tokens| 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
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some tech companies are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House — Tech firms are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House
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| 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 …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Apple TV raises prices in the US, with the monthly price up by $2 to $14.99, its fourth increase in four years; the individual Apple One tier rises $2 to $21.95 — Tech giant also ups price of Apple One multi-service bundle's individual plan — It's going to cost Americans a few more bucks to watch …
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Verge, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Apple Post
Forums: r/formula1, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT reports H1 revenue of ~$22.4B, more than double its 2025 sales, and ~$11.5B in profit, compared to a loss a year earlier — CXMT Corp.'s first-half revenue leapt almost 10-fold while profit surged, reflecting a rush for AI hardware that's made the memory chipmaker China's most valuable business.
More: Reuters, South China Morning Post, Dow Jones Newswires, and Barron's Online
X: @zephyr_z9 and @jukan05
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia — Meta's India and Southeast Asia vice president, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media giant to join OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker told TechCrunch.
More: Bloomberg, Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, Inc42, and MediaBrief
| 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.
More: Google, Android Police, PCMag, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Phandroid, NPowerUser, Thurrott, and 9to5Google. X: @google
| 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 …
More: Tom's Hardware, DatacenterDynamics, Quartz, Reuters, and Wccftech
X: @benbajarin, @edzitron, @imjustnewatai, @wholemars, @anissagardizy8, and @rhouseresearch. Forums: r/BetterOffline
| CNBC: |
Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong — Nvidia shares rose nearly 9% Thursday after the chip giant's revenue guidance reassured investors that artificial intelligence demand will remain strong.| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
More: CNBC, Forbes, Techstrong.ai, Barron's Online, Tom's Hardware, Korea JoongAng Daily, and Nvidia Newsroom. X: @benbajarin
| Bloomberg: |
Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter open model with 1M context window, and says it outperforms Z.AI and Moonshot models in internal tests — Tencent Holdings Ltd. released a foundation model it says outperforms rivals Z.AI Co. and Moonshot AI in internal tests …
More: Reuters, The Information, and Caixin Global
X: @vaibhavsisinty, @arena, @mrahmadawais, @xeophon, @tencentai_news, @tencenthunyuan, @tencentglobal, and @chenchenzhang_1. LinkedIn: Yingying Zhai
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Beijing's AGI Bar, the unofficial clubhouse for China's AI industry where entrepreneurs trade gossip, recruit talent, and court investors over beers — Beloved by entrepreneurs, coders and investors, AGI Bar offers a window into the startup ecosystem challenging Silicon Valley.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky launches a feature to let users hide their posts from non-followers in its Discover feed; other AT Proto apps can choose whether to respect the opt-out — After adding support for longer videos just yesterday, open social network Bluesky on Thursday introduced a new algorithmic opt …
More: Engadget and Tubefilter
Bluesky: @bsky.app, @laetecks, @surfdude29.ispost.ing, @depressivehacks, @velvetvortex.rip, @usernamepanic, and @sapoorondo
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Sources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs — The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians …
Bluesky: @carljanderson
| Reuters: |
How Shein pivoted to a Hong Kong IPO and sought to build Chinese government ties, after its New York and London bids failed to secure Beijing's approval — When Shein makes its market debut on Tuesday, it will be in Hong Kong and not New York or London like it once dreamed …
More: China Money Network, Bloomberg, and The Straits Times
| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
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