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Bloomberg:
Daniel Gross is leaving Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded with Ilya Sutskever, to join Meta's new superintelligence lab  —  Daniel Gross, the former chief executive officer and co-founder of artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Ilya Sutskever becomes CEO of SSI, with co-founder Daniel Levy as president; the technical team will continue reporting to Sutskever  —  OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said he will assume the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year.
Aaron Tilley / The Information:
Sources: in 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google  —  Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban  —  In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Counterpoint Research: Apple's iPhone sales in China grew 8% YoY in Q2 2025, the first time Apple has recorded growth in China since Q2 2023  —  Apple iPhone sales in China rose in the second quarter of the year for the first time in two years, Counterpoint Research said …
Cameron Faulkner / The Verge:
Xbox says Arrowhead Game Studios' Helldivers 2 will debut on the Xbox Series X and S on August 26 for $40, the first PlayStation-published title to come to Xbox  —  Sony is bringing its popular live-service third-person shooter to more players. … Arrowhead Game Studios' Helldivers 2 …

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New York Times:
Sources: David Ellison, the CEO of Skydance, has recently held early discussions about acquiring Bari Weiss' The Free Press

Lindsey Holden / Politico:
A judge grants a temporary restraining order against LAPD, ruling that they can't force journalists out of protest areas or use nonlethal weapons against them

Bloomberg:
A look at performing rights organizations, like ASCAP, the opacity of the music rights system, and complaints from bars and others about rising licensing fees

More News

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out its Veo 3 video generation model to Google's AI Pro subscribers in more than 159 countries, with a cap of three videos per day
Will Oremus / Washington Post:
An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes, the old system, and more
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
The Open Platform, a key TON developer that is behind Telegram's crypto Wallet, raised a $28.5M Series A at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $70M+
Samuel Axon / Ars Technica:
Sources detail EA's issues developing the next Battlefield, which now has a $400M+ budget; few staff believed EA leadership's 100M player target was achievable
Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority:
Samsung's One UI 8 animation files show its future tri-fold phone, with three rear panels and two inward-folding hinges, rumored to be called the Galaxy G Fold

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Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft cut hundreds of Xbox jobs across studios, including King, ZeniMax, and Halo Studios, and cancels games like the new Perfect Dark and Everwild
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Bhavya Sukheja / NDTV:
Mixpanel co-founder Suhail Doshi calls out Soham Parekh, who he says “works at 3-4 startups at the same time” and has “been preying on YC companies and more”
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
ASML, Mistral AI, and 40+ European companies urge the EU to delay the implementation of its AI Act for two years, saying it puts the bloc's AI ambitions at risk
Wall Street Journal:
Ford CEO Jim Farley, Andy Jassy, and other CEOs are now predicting AI will significantly replace white collar workers, a shift from dodging job loss questions
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Researchers detail Centaur, a modified version of Llama trained on 10M+ human responses from 160 psychological experiments to better understand human cognition
Business Insider:
Meta is testing custom AI chatbots that message users unprompted, following up on past conversations to boost engagement on its AI Studio platform
Spiegel Online:
A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
OpenAI says the tokenized OpenAI shares now on Robinhood are not equity: “We did not partner with Robinhood, were not involved in this, and do not endorse it”
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