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The EU issues two decisions under the DMA, requiring Google to provide rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and some Search data — The EU says Google must let rival search engines and AI assistants have comparable access to Android and some Search data to comply with the DMA.| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash — xai-org/grok-build, now open source (via) xAI's grok CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent …
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| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$39.45B, net income up 77.4% YoY to ~$21.9B, both above est., and says chips 7nm or smaller were 77% of its wafer revenue — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co on Thursday reported a 77.4% jump in second-quarter profit year on year …
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Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area — Try on Tinker Model card Hugging Face — Our mission is to build AI that extends human will and judgment.
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Uber agrees to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal that values the German food delivery company at ~$14.8B, offering €41.50 per share and buying out Prosus' stake — Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to buy Delivery Hero SE in a deal that values the German food-delivery company at $14.8 billion …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
xAI sues a South Carolina man for allegedly using Grok to generate CSAM, in one of the first cases of its kind brought by an AI company against one of its users — Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested earlier this year on charges …
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Ofcom report: VPN users in the UK jumped to 2.2M, up from 1.2M before the introduction of laws enforcing age limits on pornography sites in July 2025 — Regulator Ofcom finds evidence of children using the technology to get around age checks — Use of virtual private networks in the UK …
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| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 Edge, a world model designed for robots and vision AI agents to perceive and navigate physical environments in real time — Nvidia unveiled a new AI model for robots and vision AI agents on Wednesday, deepening its push into the physical AI market in Japan.
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OpenAI details GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery so it can fix bugs before wider deployment — Training strong automated safety red-teamers to improve robustness. — Summary — Problem| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta will now notify parents if teens discuss suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and is working on alerts to emergency services for users at risk of self-harm — Meta announced on Thursday that it will now notify parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with the company's Meta AI chatbot.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple publishes a policy for upcoming Maps ads, says home services ads are banned, medical services ads will be “evaluated on a case-by-case basis”, and more — Apple has quietly published a rulebook for its new Maps ads, revealing a more curated approach than advertising giant Google.| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Vital Signals launches the $399 Signal Ring, which provides systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings without the need for the traditional arm cuff — A three-year-old startup says it has produced a smart ring that can track blood pressure as accurately as a traditional arm cuff and that … | Wall Street Journal: |
AI execs are bolstering personal security amid rising AI opposition; Liferaft: digital threats against execs and data centers grew 7x from late February to May — Violent threats against AI companies are rising and spilling over into real-world security incidents| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
SpaceX shares fell for a fourth-straight session on Wednesday, briefly dropping below their $135 IPO price for the first time before closing at $135.27 — SpaceX shares fell for a fourth-straight session on Wednesday, briefly dropping below their $135 initial public offering price …
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Bunkerhill Health, which uses AI agents for hospital tasks like managing wait times, raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla, bringing its total funding to $55M — In 2017, Nishith Khandwala was a Stanford computer science student with an idea—that you could take existing radiology scans …
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| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
London-based Applied Computing, which is developing AI models for energy operations, raised $20M led by KBR, with participation from Databricks Ventures — Applied Computing has secured fresh funding to expand its AI platform for energy operations, supporting international growth …
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| Éanna Kelly / Sifted: |
Munich-based Microagi, which collects factory and household data to train humanoid robots, raised $55M led by Hummingbird in Germany's largest ever seed round — The startup teaches robots how to work in factories and homes — Munich-based robotics company Microagi …
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Two Scattered Spider members who pleaded guilty in the UK to an August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London are jailed for five and a half years — Two men who carried out a cyber-attack which crippled Transport For London (TfL) when they were teenagers have both been sentenced to five years and six months in prison.| Sarah Young / Reuters: |
Ocado stock drops 14%, hitting a 13-year low, after it failed to show tangible progress in talks to secure new US partners for its warehouse automation tech — Shares in British technology and online grocery group Ocado (OCDO.L) tumbled to a 13-year low on Thursday after it failed …
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| Axios: |
Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei have published detailed memos in recent weeks, basically agreeing on the need for a US-led AI regulatory framework — The three men racing hardest to build superhuman AI — Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei — all agree the frontier needs to be regulated ASAP.| Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
Filings: Dario Amodei gave $1M in May to Public First, a super PAC advocating for AI safety regulations, seemingly his first seven-figure political donation — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gave $1 million in May to Public First, a super PAC that supports candidates who share the company's goal … | The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft security chief Hayete Gallot, who took over in February, has prioritized AI tools, cut several hundred roles, replaced senior execs, and more — Microsoft, the largest cybersecurity software seller in the world, is overhauling that business to cash in on corporate anxieties about AI-powered hacks.| Reuters: |
Hyundai says it would make Boston Dynamics a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring SoftBank's ~10% stake; Hyundai bought an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics in 2021 — Hyundai Motor Group said on Thursday it would make U.S. robotics company Boston Dynamics a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring SoftBank Group's … | Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says Jordan Fish, aka “Cobie”, will now lead the Base app team after acknowledging some of Base's bets on social features fell short — Quick Take — Cobie will now lead the Base app team as Base creator and Coinbase executive Jesse Pollak focuses …
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