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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model”, breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities — OpenAI said Tuesday that models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week.
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Bluesky: @rikefranke, @hern, @gracekind.net, @gracekind.net, @mgsiegler.com, @aleph1.underground.org, and @caseynewton. Mastodon: @cwebber@social.coop. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| OpenAI: |
More: Reuters, New York Times, PCMag, TechCrunch, The Indian Express, and Techstrong.ai
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| Tulsee Doshi / Google: |
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its “most ambitious pre-training run yet” for Gemini 4 — Our newest Gemini models deliver the efficiency, latency, and reliability to build AI agents at scale.
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Bluesky: @isolyth.dev and @sungkim
Forums: Hacker News, r/Bard, and r/GeminiAI
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Google says Gemini 3.6 Flash improves coding, multimodal, and knowledge work performance and uses up to 17% fewer tokens and costs less per token vs. 3.5 Flash — Alphabet is releasing three new Gemini models on Tuesday, including its clearest answer yet to Anthropic's lead in cybersecurity …
More: Quartz. X: @alibaba_qwen, @googledeepmind, @kimmonismus, @adamholtererer, @synthwavedd, @pankajkumar_dev, @github, @opencode, @officiallogank, @adamholtererer, @chetaslua, @ai_for_success, and @scaling01. Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google prices Gemini 3.6 Flash lower than 3.5 Flash, at $1.50/1M input tokens and $7.50/1M output tokens, and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.30/1M and $2.50/1M — As we wait for 3.5 Pro, Google today announced Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, while providing updates on what comes next.
More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Axios, Blockonomi, Unite.AI, and iPhone in Canada
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a “cost-efficient and highly capable alternative” to models like Mythos, available first to governments and some partners — Gemini 3.5 Flash integrates into CodeMender, allowing it to identify and patch vulnerabilities.
More: Google DeepMind, Constellation Research, Cyber Security News, SiliconANGLE, and Unite.AI
X: @argvee, @rowancheung, and @alexstamos
LinkedIn: Patrick Musau, Ph.D. and Yeongjin Jang
| Financial Times: |
Sources: China is weighing tightening AI and chip export controls and is consulting leading domestic AI companies, in a bid to slow advanced tech acquisitions — Chinese regulators are considering tightening export controls on artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration will look into whether Chinese AI models were distilled from US models and may “sanction them” — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said the Trump administration will look into whether Chinese …
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA, r/worldnews, r/technology, and r/China
| Laurie Chen / Reuters: |
More: Reuters, Gizmodo, New York Times, Wccftech, The Independent, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Quartz, and Techstrong.ai. X: @andrewcurran_
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Upgrade, a leasing program for most iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models, with partner Klarna in the US next week — Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce Apple Upgrade, a leasing program that will mark one of the biggest-ever changes to how the company sells devices.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Philippa Wain / BBC: |
UK PM Andy Burnham abolishes the Department for Science, Innovation, and Tech and elevates UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, who oversees AISI, to attend cabinet — The AI Minister, Kanishka Narayan, will be given a seat at the top table of government but the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has been scrapped.
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| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models — Chinese open-source models like Kimi, Deepseek and Qwen are now dominant AI tools. American upstarts like Mira Murati's Thinking Machines …
More: Poolside, RuntimeWire, and Axios
| Block: |
Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more — Open Source, Decentralized Technology, Developers, AI, Technology — TODAY WE'RE RELEASING Buzz, A FREE …
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft and Mistral sign a multibillion-dollar deal to build European data centers and integrate Mistral models into Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local — ‘Multibillion-dollar’ pact will support Mistral data centers in Europe, helping the French company sell its AI models, and Microsoft its cloud and AI services
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, two open-weight AI models to find known vulnerabilities within a codebase, and plans to release Antares-3B soon — - Cisco says the models performed similarly to much larger models, including OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Z.ai's GLM-5.2 …
More: Cisco Blogs, SecurityWeek, and SiliconANGLE
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LinkedIn: Meredith Corley, Steve Clayton, and Blake Thompson Heuer
| Chris Best / The Substack Post: |
Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, allowing users to scan text longer than 100 words for an estimate of how much was written with AI assistance — Building trust in the AI age — It's getting harder to tell what's real on the internet. — This is less true on Substack, and we aim to keep it that way.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Apple says it fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email tool that let anyone see a user's real email address; researchers first reported the issue in June 2025 — For a year, Apple knew that an issue in its Hide My Email feature was exposing customers' real email addresses.
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| Mark Landler / New York Times: |
France becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially going into effect as soon as September 1 — Its new law, the first of its kind enacted by a European country, will ban access to some accounts for anyone under 15.
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Meta adds the Xbox Game Pass starter edition to its Horizon Plus plan, which costs $60/year or $8/month; the pass only allows 10 hours of Xbox gaming per month — Meta's throwing Xbox cloud gaming Into Its Horizon Plus Quest subscription, and converting its controllers to work with it.
More: Meta, XBOX Wire, Reuters, Windows Central, Android Central, Neowin, Thurrott, and Pure Xbox
Forums: r/XboxGamePass and r/xbox
| Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: |
Kimi K3 marks the arrival of frontier open-weight models; the core Kimi team has incredible culture and a freedom to express it within a GPU-limited environment — The global implications on the AI ecosystem. … Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.
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Bluesky: @timfernholz.com and @carlquintanilla
| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Super Micro says Q4 orders have topped $60B and expects gross margins of 15% to 17%, up from its prior forecast of 8.2% to 8.4%; SMCI jumps 13%+ after hours — Super Micro Computer (SMCI.O) said on Tuesday it has received orders in excess of $60 billion in the fourth quarter …
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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC plans to hike advanced and mature node prices 5% to 10% in 2027, plus a 10% to 15% premium for advanced chip orders exceeding customers' forecasts — TAIPEI — TSMC is set to raise prices for both advanced and mature chip production services by up to 10% in 2027 to reflect rising costs …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Meta quietly releases StoryKit, a new mobile app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, including illustrations and original music, in Mexico — Meta has quietly released a new iPhone app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, complete with illustrations, narration, and original music.
More: iThinkDifferent
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it now has 10M people using Codex and ChatGPT Work, nearly doubling usage from earlier this month when the company announced ChatGPT Work — OpenAI has seen a sharp uptick in demand for its artificial intelligence agents since its recent release of ChatGPT Work …
More: OpenAI, 9to5Mac, Unite.AI, and Implicator.ai
| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
Memo: the Army CIO reinstates limits on Army members' AI token usage; docs show the DOD's Ask Sage tool can access 100M tokens via an annual “enterprise pack” — Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.
More: Bloomberg. Bluesky: @verbalprimate.com and @telliotter. Mastodon: @hrbrmstr@mastodon.social. Forums: r/BetterOffline
| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia details its Vera CPU for data centers, its first CPU with a custom core design, featuring 88 cores and 176 threads, set for general release in H2 2026 — Nvidia's Vera CPU is its first bid to become a key player in the data center CPU market. Although Grace has seen some success …
More: Bloomberg, Forbes, GamesBeat, The Information, Quartz, Wired, Seeking Alpha, VideoCardz.com, ServeTheHome, HotHardware, and Wccftech
| Dom Cooke / Colossus: |
A profile of Sarah Guo, Greylock's youngest GP before she founded Conviction in 2022, which has since backed six of the 21 AI-native companies now worth $10B+ — The investor closest to the AI frontier is betting against the ambitions of its biggest companies
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| New York Times: |
Some Instagram and Facebook users say Meta's AI moderation deleted their accounts; Meta says AI makes 13% fewer errors and finds 10% more violations than humans — Users said the technology mistakenly deleted their accounts. To resolve the issue, they still had to rely on A.I.| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Augustus, which is building a federally chartered “AI-native” clearing bank designed around stablecoins, raised $180M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation — Augustus, a startup building a federally chartered clearing bank for fintechs and financial institutions …
More: Augustus, Decrypt, The Block, Dallas Business Journal, FinTech Global, and PYMNTS. LinkedIn: Ali Raza
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