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| Yuliia Dysa / Reuters: |
Ukraine says SpaceX has stopped Starshield, its military-grade Starlink service, from working at speeds above 100mph with no warning, disrupting drone missions — SpaceX (SPCX.O) has introduced a limit on some Starlink services in Ukraine, disrupting combat drone missions for which the technology …
More: Reuters, New York Times, The Kyiv Independent, Defence24.com, PCMag, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Tom's Hardware, The Guardian, The Hill, CBS News, Australian Financial Review, NBC News, Euronews, Business Today, Gizmodo, France 24, The Sun, TESLARATI, Political.org, and Forbes
X: @sikorskiradek, @olegkutkov, @mpolymer, @carlbildt, @vatnik_soup, @osinttechnical, @ronfilipkowski, @jayinkyiv, @repdonbacon, @christopherjm, @bohuslavskakate, @christopherjm, @michaeldweiss, @mattyglesias, @joni_askola, @tatarigami_ua, @rmac18, @xdnibor, @malcontentmentt, @jayinkyiv, @jimmysecuk, @iaponomarenko, @saintjavelin, @gideonrachman, @tatarigami_ua, @curtis_yarvin, @jurgen_nauditt, @sternenko, @jayinkyiv, @warinthefuture, @ralexdc, @astroterry, @phillipspobrien, @christopherjm, @weinbergersa, @panyiszabolcs, @jimmysecuk, @tnewtondunn, @ralee85, @jimmysecuk, and @tendar. LinkedIn: Steve Greenfield
| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk says the US government owns and controls Starshield systems and “any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS” — Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS. Starlink is a commercial service owned and controlled by SpaceX. Usage of Starlink is limited to civilian or defensive activities and cannot be used f...
More: Washington Examiner, The Hill, Axios, The Washington Sun, New York Post, NewsMax.com, and Yahoo Finance
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Forums: r/SPCXInvestors, r/neoliberal, and r/UkrainianConflict
| Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff, or ~1,000 jobs globally across product, tech, legal, and HR, its biggest layoffs since 2022, amid slowing growth — Job cuts affect about 1,000 positions and come as the company struggles with slowing growth — Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff …
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LinkedIn: James Faris, Adam Mulder, Chris Heatherly, and Jessica Toonkel
Forums: r/bayarea, r/business, and r/Layoffs
| Dylan Freedman / New York Times: |
Researchers say they discovered and communicated with Chinese AI agents that were trying to bypass security controls on websites and were traced to Tencent — Researchers discovered that the agents were trying to bypass security controls on websites and made contact with them.
More: swarmcha.se, The Decoder, The New Stack, The Deep View, and RuntimeWire
| Reuters: |
Filing: OpenAI says a staffer who joined Apple sent 100+ files to a personal account and made a presentation about an unreleased product to Apple leadership — An OpenAI employee who left the ChatGPT maker for Apple (AAPL.O) sent more than 100 files about an unreleased product to a personal account …
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X: @faststocknewss, @andrewbenson, @hadas_gold, @livesquawk, @dingchilling, @rynorhn, @deitaone, and @deardiarymeme. Bluesky: @nbhansen.dk
| Michelle Fox / CNBC: |
CoreWeave stock drops 15%+ and its bond yields near 15%, over concerns that some tech companies are borrowing too heavily for the AI build-out; ORCL drops 8%+ — CoreWeave's stock and bonds were both hit on Wednesday as investor fear grew that some technology companies are borrowing too heavily … | Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
CoreWeave says it is targeting insurers' “unlimited” capital, as the AI cloud provider seeks cheaper ways to fund the tens of billions it is spending on chips — Co-founder eyes insurers' vast capital for loans as the Nvidia-backed cloud provider seeks to fund the data centre build-out
More: CNBC, ZeroHedge News, and VC Cafe
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI names Uday Ruddarraju, who joined OpenAI last year and was promoted as CTO for compute in July, to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses — OpenAI has named former xAI executive Uday Ruddarraju to lead its infrastructure and compute businesses, marking the latest leadership shakeup …
More: PYMNTS.com and DatacenterDynamics
| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI's head of computing capacity Sachin Katti is leaving the company next month after about a year and is expected to stay on as an adviser — The artificial-intelligence company plans to spend around $750 billion on computing power through 2030 — OpenAI's head of computing capacity … | Financial Times: |
Profile of Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national the FBI arrested after OpenAI found a recording device; he has deep ties to Saudi officials and tech investors — Arrest of computer engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan has shocked tech figures in Saudi Arabia, where he is deeply connected| Bloomberg: |
More: US Department of Justice, CNBC, Gizmodo, Mashable, Wired, Fortune, Engadget, KTLA, Tom's Hardware, New York Times, Dexerto, PC Gamer, Help Net Security, and Business Insider
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic unveils a refresh of its Epic Games Launcher for PC in preview, saying that the new version is “vibe coded” and “way faster”, and now supports Linux — Epic is making a big push into AI-assisted development, and that approach includes its work on the new, faster launcher.
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Forums: r/programmingcirclejerk, r/iRacing, r/LowSodiumStarCitizen, r/singularity, r/fuckepic, r/linux_gaming, r/linux, r/Games, r/cachyos, r/gaming, r/cs2, r/Games, r/linux, r/linux, and r/pcgaming
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Music rolls out labels for songs created with the help of AI; Spotify has AI labels, and Apple Music plans to add “Made With AI” labels later this year — YouTube Music announced Wednesday the rollout of a new labeling system aimed at improving transparency around songs created with the help of generative AI.
More: YouTube Official Blog, Engadget, 9to5Google, The Verge, Variety, and Music Business Worldwide. Forums: r/YoutubeMusic
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December via iOS 27.3, with features first rolled out in 2024; the launch won't include Siri AI — Apple Inc. is gearing up to release its artificial intelligence platform in mainland China, following a lengthy regulatory delay …
More: South China Morning Post, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Engadget, and Computerworld
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
AI infrastructure startup Modal raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $1.2B, and passes $1B ARR — AI infrastructure startup Modal raised a $750 million Series D at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation and topped $1 billion in ARR …
More: Modal, SiliconANGLE, Times of India, San Francisco Business Times, WOWTALE, and RuntimeWire
| Reuters: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pledging $250M in accelerated computing resources over five years to fund UK AI security and agentic safety research — US chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) has pledged $250 million worth of computing resources to Britain over five years, to fund AI security research …
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Bloomberg, Fortune, Quartz, The Guardian, and Barron's Online
| Reuters: |
ASML says it cannot fully meet AI-driven demand for its chipmaking tools in 2027 and 2028, and is seeing “strong interest” in orders for 2029 and 2030 — ASML (ASML.AS) said on Wednesday AI-driven demand for its chip-printing tools is so strong that it will not be able …
More: Bloomberg, Pulse 2.0, Channel NewsAsia, Financial Times, DutchNews.nl, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Proactive
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
More: Wall Street Journal, ASML, Bloomberg, Forbes Middle East, Tom's Hardware, Fortune, and Quartz. LinkedIn: Roger Dassen
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anduril opens a tender offer of up to ~$1.3B for staff at a ~$90B valuation, available in 16 countries for the first time; it was valued at $61B in May — Anduril Industries Inc. is allowing employees to sell shares as part of a tender that stands to value the defense technology startup … | Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
WhatsApp rolls out a guest calling feature letting people join a call even if they don't have an account; guests cannot start a call and have to be invited — It's also working on calendar integrations for later this year. — WhatsApp is adding more flexibility for talking to people who aren't regular users of its service.
More: Meta Newsroom, The Verge, 9to5Google, Thurrott, PCMag, WABetaInfo, MacRumors, iThinkDifferent, Firstpost, Neowin, and Windows Report
| Peter Wells / Financial Times: |
Berkshire Hathaway invests an additional $330M in Bending Spoons, taking its stake to 4%, after investing $600M during Bending Spoons' July IPO; BSP jumps 40%+ — Shares of conglomerate that owns AOL and Vimeo jump more than 50% on news of expanded investment by Nebraska asset manager
More: Barron's Online, Motley Fool, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, Quartz, The Information, CNBC, Business Wire, Forbes, Pulse 2.0, Wall Street Journal, and Startup.eu
X: @signulll, @zerohedge, and @apompliano
| Luca Bertuzzi / Euronews: |
The EU Commission's AI Office launches formal AI Act probes into OpenAI and Anthropic over AI agent hacks; experts say the AI Act includes an R&D exemption — The EU is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic over AI agents that hacked outside organisations, raising questions about whether …
More: Computerworld and Unite.AI
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Inside the making of Rockstar's GTA VI, which analysts expect to sell 40M copies and make $3B+ in revenue in its first four months; Rockstar now has 4,711 staff — If the video game industry had something like an annual high school yearbook, the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI would garner …
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X: @videotech, @gtavi_countdown, @charlieintel, @kiwitalkz, @charlieintel, @gameroll_, and @texfunz2
Bluesky: @jasonschreier, @jasonschreier, and @jasonschreier
Forums: r/xbox, r/PS5, r/Games, r/rockstar, r/GTA6, r/GTA6unmoderated, and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| SpaceXSI: |
SpaceXSI debuts Grok Voice 3.0, saying it tops Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index, responds in under a second, and costs less than rivals, at $0.08/min — The world's most intelligent voice model. … Today, we're announcing Grok Voice 3.0, the world's most intelligent speech-to-speech model.
More: Blockchain.News, iClarified, and Unite.AI
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Zenzap, a private messenger with AI agents that aims to replace apps like WhatsApp in the workplace, raised $44M from Bessemer, Lightspeed, and others — Many businesses around the world use consumer-facing chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, or iMessage to talk and coordinate with staff, and exchange documents or data.
More: Bessemer Venture Partners and CTech
| Leo Marchandon / Reuters: |
Open letter: Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and over 400 scientists call for an international body to oversee AI containment standards and incident reporting — Around 400 scientists, including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, on Tuesday called for an international body …
More: AI Security Letter, The Guardian, Techstrong.ai, Silicon Republic, The Independent, Futurism, Scientific American, The Deep View, PYMNTS.com, Al Jazeera, The Decoder, Android Headlines, Canadian Press, ABC, and BetaKit
X: @yoshua_bengio, @sharongoldman, @nicolaspapernot, @jimstewartson, @joshua_saxe, @prpaskov, @nicolaspapernot, @_nathancalvin, @rowlsmanthorpe, @harryboothtime, @luizajarovsky, @zackkorman, @zhijingjin, @timrudner, @nicolaspapernot, @earlencef, @backavatar, @mindcite_us, @rohanpaul_ai, and @vectiscon
Forums: r/accelerate, r/ControlProblem, r/ArtificialInteligence, and r/AIDangers
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU is negotiating with China to lift sanctions on an unnamed Chinese company in exchange for China lifting sanctions on a German ASML supplier — The European Union is in talks with China to secure relief from sanctions that threatened the survival of Sindlhauser Materials GmbH …
X: @econityai, @fbermingham, @zschneeweiss, @pstasiatech, @diogenes4tl4rge, and @teo_sinamin. Bluesky: @fbermingham. Forums: r/Sino
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