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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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| 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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| 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: Wccftech, Channel NewsAsia, and Reuters
| 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: 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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| 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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| 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. …
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| 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.
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| 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.| 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.| 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| 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.| 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.
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| 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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| 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 …
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Forums: r/singularity and r/Bard
| 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 … | 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.
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| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: federal authorities prepare to charge a US serviceman and a KPMG employee with insider trading on prediction markets, as part of a new batch of cases — Charges could come this fall, part of a new batch of insider trading cases — Federal authorities are preparing charges … | 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
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
CISA says that cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure targeted 100+ internet-exposed water and wastewater systems in July, largely attacking PLCs — U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA said it has observed cyberattacks targeting over 100 internet-exposed systems across the U.S. water and wastewater sector … | 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 … | 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 …
More: CNBC, TechRadar, Motley Fool, Dow Jones Newswires, and Investors' Chronicle. Forums: r/StockMarket
| 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.
More: PYMNTS
| 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 … | 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 …
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