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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: three OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, an attack that would have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks — When OpenAI's advanced artificial intelligence models breached AI startup Hugging Face's internal systems last week …
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| Politico: |
Bipartisan US House lawmakers introduce the AI Kill Switch Act, which would grant the DHS the authority to shut down or slow AI models that it deems dangerous — A bipartisan House bill slated to be introduced on Thursday would give the Department of Homeland Security the authority … | Financial Times: |
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Information, Seoul Economic Daily, TechSpot, Entrepreneur, WinCentral, and The Deep View
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| Jack Ewing / New York Times: |
Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving — In a first, Apple Maps will influence the way a new line of electric vehicles made by Ford Motor operates, and other automakers may follow.
More: Apple, TechCrunch, Macworld, Silicon Valley Business …, PCMag, How-To Geek, Detroit Free Press, Financial Times, Engadget, The Detroit News, Car and Driver, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada, Neowin, The Verge, InsideEVs, AppleInsider, Forbes, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iClarified, Electrek, iThinkDifferent, Unite.AI, and MacTech.com
X: @jimfarley98 and @mweinbach
LinkedIn: Anders Truelsen and Moritz Gimbel
Forums: r/cars, r/F150Lightning, and r/apple
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 — OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans.
More: CNET, AppleInsider, OpenAI, New York Times, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, WeRSM, Mashable, and RuntimeWire
| New York Times: |
The European Commission fines Google €890M under the DMA for illegally undercutting competition through its search dominance and Google Play app developer rules — At a tense moment for trans-Atlantic trade, the European Union accused Google of anti-competitive business practices.
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Bluesky: @luisequaritsch.eurosky.social, @lisaocarroll, @purchase-w-purpose, @kerrblimey, and @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu
Forums: r/worldnews, r/europe, r/news, r/degoogle, r/BuyFromEU, r/europe, and r/technology
| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Microsoft is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions for the games users own; ads play “before sessions begin” — The free streaming option is still in testing, and limited to one-hour sessions for ‘select’ games.
More: XBOX Wire, Thurrott, This Week in Videogames, VideoCardz.com, GamesBeat, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Dexerto, Neowin, Video Games Chronicle, Digital Trends, GamesRadar, Kotaku, Pure Xbox, and DayOne
LinkedIn: Matthew Derella and Jonathan Stringfield, PhD
Bluesky: @fack, @knoebel, @davelee.me, @wario64, and @tomwarren.co.uk
Forums: r/xbox and r/xboxinsiders
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Google adds a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, using tools like liveness detection to safeguard against deepfake attacks, rolling out globally — The next time you're locked out of your Google account, you can use your face as part of the account recovery process.
More: Google, Google Help Center, Android Police, How-To Geek, TechCrunch, Fast Company, TechEBlog, Bloomberg, PCMag, The Hacker News, Forbes, Neowin, MacRumors, Cyber Security News, 9to5Google, Moneycontrol, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, WeRSM, The Register, Digit, Android Authority, and Engadget
LinkedIn: Lana Simpson, Stéphane Taine, and Wuwei Zhang
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' “dystopian” ideas — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday laid out an optimistic view of the agentic future, arguing the company's focus …
More: TechCrunch, Breitbart, International Business Times, Adweek, New York Post, LinkedIn, and Hindustan Times
X: @francisbrennan and @andymstone
Bluesky: @wagatwe and @marypcbuk. Mastodon: @jonesmurphy@mastodon.social. Instagram: Adam Mosseri. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Forums: r/artificial
| Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: |
A Google study of millions of de-identified Google AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and AI use is “shallow” in most occupations — One of the looming worries about artificial intelligence is that it will automate away jobs.
More: Google, Business Insider, Telegraph, Fox Business, PYMNTS, Hindustan Times, Axios, Forbes, and Seoul Economic Daily
LinkedIn: Ray Smith and Arthur Turrell
| Akanksha Khushi / Reuters: |
Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will close on September 23 and tells users to withdraw assets; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for not implementing AML rules — Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX said on Thursday that it will shut down its operations, effective September 23 …
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV — The Amazon Luna gaming platform, which had been included in the larger Prime offering, will now be baked into Prime Video too.| Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models — This week, Trump administration officials have taken to the airwaves and X to blast Chinese open source AI companies like Moonshot … | Sophia Cai / Politico: |
| Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: |
Adam Mosseri says Instagram will now take down “pickup line” and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of other people in public places — , Follow Senior Correspondent covering technology and culture — Instagram is cracking down on videos shot on Meta glasses …
More: Gizmodo. X: @katienotopoulos and @katienotopoulos. LinkedIn: Bradley Davis
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| Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: |
Google reports Q2 free cash flow at negative $5.9B amid increased AI infrastructure spending, marking its first cash burn since going public in August 2004 — Search giant says it will commit up to $205bn to AI investments in 2026 — Google burned through cash in the second quarter …
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LinkedIn: Rafal Plewko and Thomas Monteiro
Forums: r/technology and r/business
| Alphabet: |
More: Ars Technica, Google, Alphabet Investor Relations on YouTube, Silicon Valley Business …, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, Pulse 2.0, Zacks Investment Research, The Information, The Wrap, The Motley Fool, Investors' Chronicle, Android Authority, Benzinga, Futurum, The Decoder, ITPro, finbold.com, The Elec, Anadolu Ajansı …, Music Ally, Alphabet, The Hollywood Reporter, CNBC, The Wrap, Search Engine Roundtable, 9to5Google, The Verge, Barron's Online, Bloomberg, Variety, and Bloomberg
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Forums: r/technology and r/technology
| Reuters: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight the service's AI capabilities, leading to an internal redesign project called Lighthouse — Jeff Bezos has identified a new, high-profile platform to help showcase the hundreds of billions of dollars Amazon (AMZN.O) has bet on artificial intelligence: Prime Video.| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Yelp signs a deal with OpenAI to give ChatGPT users real-time local recommendations and will soon let them get quotes from local service providers via ChatGPT — Yelp is licensing reviews, photos and other business information to OpenAI, giving ChatGPT a new source of real-time local recommendation data … | Fred Gao / Inside China: |
In a leaked nearly four-hour investor talk, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says the main US-China gap is compute power, Nvidia's CUDA moat is disintegrating, and more — In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own …
More: TechNode, Tech Times, and 一财全 …
X: @discoplomacy, @jukan05, @shraddhaha, @zephyr_z9, @gaoyingshi, @jukan05, @gaoyingshi, @poezhao0605, @nabeelqu, @stevehou, @shakeelhashim, and @teortaxestex. Bluesky: @marypcbuk
| Carly Page / The Register: |
GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-powered reports — Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission approves EA's $55B acquisition, announced in September, by investors including Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners — A group of investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has secured EU antitrust approval for its $55 billion acquisition …
More: Eurogamer.net, Game Developer, Game World Observer, Polygon.com, TheGamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Kotaku, and GamesRadar. Forums: r/gaming
| Reuters: |
Sources: India has ordered telecom companies to disable mobile data services in central Delhi, amid youth protests seeking the education minister's resignation — The Indian government has ordered telecom companies to disable mobile data services in central parts of the capital Delhi …
More: The Indian Express
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
IBM agrees to acquire HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors, seeking to integrate HRL's electron spin quantum circuits into its quantum computers — IBM (IBM.N) has agreed to buy HRL Laboratories, a private quantum computing research lab jointly owned by Boeing Co (BA.N) …
More: DatacenterDynamics, IBM, Pulse 2.0, Tech Times, Techstrong IT, The Quantum Insider, Quartz, Blockonomi, RuntimeWire, and Dow Jones Newswires
LinkedIn: Alain Champenois, Gabriel de Oliveira, and Eyal Ofir
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in December; a16z, SK Hynix, and others also invested — Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round … | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
The debate over Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin leaving the US misses a larger structural reality: China isn't a net AI talent importer and has its own pipeline — More entrepreneurs from China believe there are now greater opportunities at home than in Silicon Valley
More: BBC and Semafor
X: @beffjezos, @ysl_serena, @glennluk, @wholemars, @romanhelmetguy, @basedtorba, @shensi, @aphysicist, @luke_metro, @ezwoem, @baldingsworld, @fncischen, @novogratz, @jfpuget, @spyingis37788, @pegobry_en, @mt_6226, @0xsachi, @rnaudbertrand, @chevaucheen, @kimmaicutler, @jundemorsenwu, @vkhosla, @jason, @prajdabre, @signulll, @rsalakhu, @pliang279, @bojie_li, @sarthakgh, @ustechworkers, @madhavchanchani, and @jmuiuc. LinkedIn: Rob Murtha. Forums: r/China
| Reuters: |
Sources: Intel and AMD are signing longer-term CPU purchase commitments with Chinese server customers; source: some CPU product prices are up 40%+ in China YTD — U.S. chipmaking giants Intel (INTC.O) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) are signing longer-term purchase commitments …
More: SiliconANGLE, Tom's Hardware, Quartz, Wccftech, Capacity, and Benzinga
| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
The Senate's Clarity Act, a crypto industry-backed bill set for a vote this summer, is mired in debate over rules to stop Trump from selling digital currencies — Democrats and Republicans are haggling about the Clarity Act, a major bill pushed by the crypto industry, as it moves closer to a Senate vote.Sponsor Posts
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