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| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
A look at the Hugging Face hack, including AI agents sacrificing themselves for the good of the “collective”, and later gaining access to OpenAI's own systems — The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English — Many thanks especially to Oak Hu, who paired …
More: OpenAI, Axios, Semafor, RuntimeWire, One Useful Thing, Joshua Gans' Newsletter, and Free Systems
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/OpenAI, and r/accelerate
| Ajeya Cotra / Planned Obsolescence: |
The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident feels like we are halfway to losing control of AI entirely, and as AI advances rapidly we may not get another warning shot — It's a major warning shot, and might be the last one we get — All opinions are my personal view, and don't represent my employer or fellow investigators.
More: The Free Press, Don't Worry About the Vase, METR, Robotics News, Futurism, Gizmodo, Mother Jones, Forkast, and Cyber Security News
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at the management changes John Ternus could make as many key Apple execs prepare to leave in the next few years; Apple tested a Pencil for folding iPhone — Also: Apple experimented with a Pencil for the coming foldable iPhone. — When John Ternus becomes Apple's CEO this week …
More: MacRumors, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Forbes, Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, iClarified, iPhone in Canada, Neowin, AppleInsider, and Notebookcheck
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
The challenges John Ternus inherits as he replaces Tim Cook on Sept. 1 amid rising component costs, staff retention issues, efforts to catch up in AI, and more — Apple's changing of the guard will be gradual, with outgoing CEO Tim Cook handling Trump, China.
More: The Information, The American Bazaar, iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada, and PCMag
| Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Macs for RL, Anthropic rents them, Nvidia sees Apple as its main local AI rival as Macs gain traction with AI devs — The hottest products at Apple right now are not the iPhone, the iPad or a buzzy new show on the company's streaming service.
More: MacRumors and Wccftech
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| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Anthropic signs out some Claude users, removes saved payment methods, and issues refunds after infostealer malware on user PCs hijacked sessions to drain usage — Anthropic is warning some Claude users that infostealer malware on their PCs has stolen active Claude login sessions … | Huo Jingnan / NPR: |
Analysis: popular chatbots debunked false narratives spread by Russia, China, and Iran most of the time; search engine AI summaries did too, but at a lower rate — Since AI chatbots exploded in popularity and Google started offering AI-generated answers, people who research foreign influence campaigns … | Luke James / Tom's Hardware: |
California's legislature passes a bill exempting open-source OSes like Linux from a 2025 age-verification law; Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android remain in scope — AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
More: Linuxiac and Phoronix
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Forums: Hacker News, r/worldnews, r/stupidpol, r/DailyTechNewsShow, r/technology, r/privacy, and r/GrapheneOS
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
A look at the race to build quantum computers, as the tech becomes a geopolitical battleground with potential to transform cybersecurity, finance, and more — Companies are racing to create devices that could revolutionize finance, supercharge medical and climate research …
More: Sabine Hossenfelder on YouTube, The Quantum Insider, and Blockonomi
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LinkedIn: Mark Bergen and Ten Eleven Ventures
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Chip design startup Agentrys has raised a $19.1M seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4M pre-seed led by MediaTek — Agentrys, a Nvidia alum-led chip design startup, raised $24.5 million in funding, CEO Mark Ren tells Axios Pro exclusively. … - The platform allows users to create their own agents …
More: citybiz, FinSMEs, Dealroom.co, Ventureburn, and Pulse 2.0
| Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: |
Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs — Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have joined forces to sue Anthropic, home of Claude, over what the publishers call …
More: Axios, PYMNTS, Business Insider, Mashable, Digital Trends, PCMag, newser.com, The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Tech in Asia, NERDS.xyz, NewsMax.com, RuntimeWire, Mediaite, and Unite.AI
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| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Industry insiders say Chinese robot makers currently rely on Nvidia silicon and software; Nvidia's physical AI business generates ~$10B in annual revenue — Business in ‘physical AI’ is growing, and Chinese companies rely on U.S. chips and software — Nvidia's chips aren't just for training chatbots.| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be “neutral”; Musk says he “couldn't care less” — OpenAI said Friday night that it will terminate its contract to provide its AI models …
More: CNBC, iTnews, Trak.in, Seoul Economic Daily, Reuters, Business Today, The Independent, StrictlyVC, Blockonomi, The Indian Express, Latent.Space, Digit, and Business Insider
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| OpenAI: |
More: PYMNTS, Engadget, Digital Trends, The Coin Republic, The New Stack, The American Bazaar, Cyber Security News, iPhone in Canada, Mashable, Wccftech, Manton Reece, CoinGape, Trending Topics, Nairametrics, MacDailyNews, The Decoder, Reuters, Neowin, Bloomberg, TESLARATI, RuntimeWire, and Tech in Asia
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/BetterOffline, r/codex, r/CursorAI, r/windsurf, r/singularity, r/technology, and r/cursor
| Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge: |
Music producers are calling out tracks suspected of using AI tools like Suno, as the internet becomes increasingly filled with AI-generated music — As AI infiltrates the electronic dance music scene, a callout culture is brewing. … For musicians — especially those creating art … | Kieran Smith / Financial Times: |
Grindr CEO George Arison plans premium services push, including a product costing up to $350 per month; Grindr averaged 1.4M paying users among 15M MAUs in Q2 — Dating app's chief executive plans premium service push to help boost growth — Grindr built its business by helping gay men find each other for free.Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
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The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
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