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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a ~€21B valuation, up from €11.7B in September 2025, as it expands from developing AI models into data centers — Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic has decided against acquiring Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup; a source says the two may still collaborate — Anthropic PBC has decided against acquiring artificial intelligence startup Decart AI, people familiar with the matter said.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's path to a foldable phone, the iPhone's biggest design change yet; sources: the memory shortage led Apple to blow past its $1,999 price target — Around 2020, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook returned from a trip to Asia unusually energized about a new product category: foldable phones.| Bloomberg: |
Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML's High NA EUV machines by 2028 and 2030, joining Intel, with all four agreeing to shift from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks — ASML Holding NV has won commitments from top chipmakers to use its latest semiconductor production gear, while embarking …
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LinkedIn: Christophe Fouquet and Sarah Jacob
| Clare Armstrong / ABC: |
Australia proposes a “My Feed, My Way” initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content — In short: — The federal government's proposed digital duty of care could let Australians opt in or out of algorithmically recommended social media content.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google rolls out search result changes in the EU to comply with the DMA, saying they mark the largest quality of service reduction in Search's 29-year history — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday rolled out changes to its online search results in Europe to satisfy EU antitrust regulators …
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| Dustin Volz / New York Times: |
Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability — The attack, discovered by A.I. researchers, could have compromised hundreds of millions of devices within hours, experts said.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Qualcomm signs a deal with Amazon to provide “multiple generations of customized silicon” to help build AWS' AI infrastructure for inference; QCOM jumps ~5% — Qualcomm shares rose 4% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services … | Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in Crypto.com and prediction market company OG, spun out of Crypto.com — The brokerage will add yes-or-no contracts from Crypto.com prediction business and take stake in digital-currency exchange
More: Quartz, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, and CryptoPotato
| Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: |
Fields medalist Jacob Tsimerman, set to join OpenAI later in September, launches the Mathematical AI Safety Institute to apply higher math to AI safety problems — Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence.
More: Nature
| The Block: |
The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said it patched its bridge nodes — - The attacker who withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC from a Liquid Federation wallet has returned 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes had been patched.
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| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
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| Howard Liu / South China Morning Post: |
China says its AI compute capacity rose 177% YoY to 2,185 eflops by the end of June, and is targeting 9,800 eflops by 2030 via ~$532B in IT infrastructure spend — China plans to deploy artificial intelligence computing clusters containing 100,000 accelerator cards and sharply expand …
More: Unite.AI
| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Poseidon Aerospace, which plans the first test flight of its pilotless cargo plane by year-end, raised a $60M Series A led by TQ Ventures, after an $11M seed — Silicon Valley is known for embracing the ethos of “move fast and break things.” Poseidon Aerospace's co-founder and CEO David Zagaynov just wants to move things fast.
More: FinSMEs
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers say Meta ran 350+ ads with CSAM in 2026 so far; some featured morphed images of real children, and many linked to “nudification” apps from China — Early last month, Meta deleted around 50 ads posted on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads that directly included child … Sponsor Posts
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