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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
The EU issues two decisions under the DMA that order 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 uploaded user repositories to SpaceXAI's Google Cloud bucket, causing a 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 … | Bloomberg: |
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 Prosus' 16.8% stake — Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to buy Delivery Hero SE in a deal that values the German food-delivery company …
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LinkedIn: Maxim Koblyuk, Delivery Hero, Saurabh Biswal, Miran M. Mubarak, Raghu Tenneti, Pulkit Malhotra, and Redwan Rezvi
| Thinking Machines Lab: |
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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| Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 Edge, a world model for robots and AI agents to perceive and navigate physical environments in real time, after Cosmos 3's debut in May — Nvidia unveiled a new AI model for robots and vision AI agents on Wednesday, deepening its push into the physical AI market in Japan.
More: NVIDIA, MarketWatch, Quartz, Nvidia Newsroom, Wall Street Pit, Nvidia Newsroom, Evertiq, Bloomberg, and The Information
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Ofcom report: daily 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 …
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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 …
More: The Verge, Engadget, CNN, PetaPixel, Al Jazeera, Digit, and The Overspill
| Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
Sable, which is building an AI agent named Aiden that lives on a company's website to run live product demos and more, raised $45M from Sequoia and 8VC — Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire still remembers the demo that changed his mind on Sable. — An AI sales rep was walking a buyer through …
More: CTech
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Moonshot plans to launch Kimi K3, China's largest model to date with 2T-3T parameters, in the coming days; it's expected to outperform Claude Opus 4.8 — Kimi K3 expected to exceed performance of Claude Opus 4.8 in sign of narrowing gap between US and China on frontier AI| 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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is prepping an iPad overhaul, including an iPad mini with an OLED screen by October and refreshed versions of entry-level iPad and Airs in 2027 — Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce its biggest overhaul to the iPad mini in half a decade, giving new life to a product that's popular … | Reuters: |
Hyundai says it will make Boston Dynamics a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring SoftBank's ~10% stake; Hyundai acquired 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 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple publishes a policy for its upcoming Maps ads: 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.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Fireworks, which helps developers access AI chips and open-source models, raised $1.5B at a $17.5B valuation and says it has exceeded $1B in annualized revenue — The cost of the latest artificial intelligence models is increasingly breeding anxiety among finance executives …
More: MarketWatch, Fireworks AI, and Index Ventures
| OpenAI: |
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
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta will now notify parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and will contact emergency services if a user might be at risk of suicide — 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.
More: CNET, 9to5Mac, Mashable, Engadget, and Meta Newsroom
| Bloomberg: |
Source: OnePlus will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week and Realme will exit China as part of a restructuring by parent Oppo — OnePlus, a consumer electronics brand that gained a loyal following with its lineup of aggressively priced Android smartphones …
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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.
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| Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
Grubhub parent Wonder raised a $650M+ Series D at a $9B valuation, bringing its total raised to $3B+ since its founding in 2018, and plans to go public in 2027 — Marc Lore is ready to ring the bell. The serial entrepreneur—who previously sold Jet.com to Walmart for $3.3 billion …
More: FinSMEs
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
1Password launches a new Claude integration for Mac that lets Anthropic's AI agent sign in to websites without seeing the user's password or 2FA code — 1Password is launching a new Claude integration for Mac users today. It's designed to let Anthropic's AI agent sign in to websites without seeing …
More: Engadget, ZDNET, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, ITPro, Financial Post, and SiliconANGLE. Bluesky: @crj4189
| 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 …
More: TechCrunch, Resultsense, The SaaS News, Tech Funding News, and UKTN
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms — Trump Media & Technology Group is launching a backend interface that will allow financial services companies to access real-time Truth Social data … | 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 …
More: Financial Times, Telegraph, The Independent, Morningstar, The Grocer, The Standard, and Bloomberg
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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