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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 …
More: OpenAI, Sky News, The Daily Upside, The Hill, New York Times, Bloomberg, Neowin, Digit, Implicator.ai, SiliconANGLE, Cyber Security News, Engadget, CBS News, Quartz, The Deep View, KEYE, Gizmodo, Seeking Alpha, CyberScoop, The Decoder, CNBC, Agence France-Presse, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Politico, Fox Business, BBC, and Tech.co
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LinkedIn: Greg Brockman and Nico Waisman
| 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.
More: New York Times, CNBC, Washington Post, The Hill, Bloomberg, Wired, The Guardian, CNN, The Information, The Verge, Associated Press, Business Today, The Economist, Courthouse News Service, Political.org, Axios, Quartz, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Politico, RuntimeWire, American Prospect, CCIA, and Fox News
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Forums: r/law, r/technology, and r/politics
| 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 … | 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 …
More: Cointelegraph, The Block, Mediaite, CNBC, CoinGape, and CoinDesk
| 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: Claims Journal, The Economic Times, and Bloomberg Law
| 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, Business Standard, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Register, Reuters, PYMNTS, The Indian Express, Financial Times, Blockchain.News, and Fortune
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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 …
More: Reuters
| 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: SiliconANGLE, CNBC, Forbes, Barron's Online, Korea JoongAng Daily, and Nvidia Newsroom. X: @benbajarin
| 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.| 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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| 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. … | 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.| 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, Implicator.ai, NPowerUser, The Decoder, Google, and The Rundown AI
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Forums: r/singularity and r/Bard
| 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, The Independent, and Business Post
| 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, Seeking Alpha, Investors' Chronicle, and MarketWatch. Forums: r/StockMarket
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
| 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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| 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: The Verge, Android Developers Blog, The Register, BGR, Digital Trends, Game Informer, and Thurrott. Forums: Slashdot
| 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 … | 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.
More: Business Wire, CryptoNinjas, CoinGape, crypto.news, The Block, Blockhead, Dow Jones Newswires, Pulse 2.0, Reuters, and Blockchain.News
X: @bitgo, @sharp_on_sats, and @luketdd
| 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 … | 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| 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 … | 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
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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