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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on Apple Upgrade; sources: MacBook Air is now facing shortages too; Apple wants to turn its future glasses and headsets into health and fitness devices  —  Also: MacBook Air runs into major shortages.  —  Apple has finally delivered a hardware subscription program …
OpenAI:
OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science  —  We want to empower scientists and mathematicians with tools that accelerate discovery.  That is why we recently announced ChatGPT …
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates $70M+ stolen  —  More than 1,000 bitcoin, worth about $70 million, was drained from 1,196 wallets in a 41-minute window on July 30, nearly double the amount reported when the theft first surfaced.
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six years  —  Lightspeed's Last Sentinel burnt through six years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars  —  Hi everyone.
Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy:
LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create  —  We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. “create an svg of pelican on a bicycle”.
Mariah Timms / Wall Street Journal:
Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetectably tamper with data from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence produced by widely used crime-lab machines  —  Researchers found that widely used lab machines produced digital DNA files that are vulnerable to tampering
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions  —  Both major AI labs' models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies.
Wall Street Journal:
A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, as VCs question the revenue potential of open-weight startups like Arcee, Reflection AI, and Poolside  —  Silicon Valley startups are setting up open models, with some operating on shoestring budgets because of limited interest from VCs
More: PYMNTS
Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information:
Four US states rolled back or paused data center tax incentives, and nine others are weighing repeal measures, potentially adding 7% or more to equipment costs  —  Governors and legislatures in U.S. states that previously welcomed data centers are suddenly moving to rip away sales tax breaks …
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety  —  Jacob Tsimerman won the biggest prize in math.  Now he's working on the most important problem of his career.
Wall Street Journal:
Malaysia shuts down Network School, Balaji Srinivasan's techno-utopian project, over licensing issues; Srinivasan says he is opening a new campus in Kazakhstan  —  Balaji Srinivasan left Silicon Valley and created an incubator for new countries in an Asian ghost city, before the government shut it down
Financial Times:
As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the country has become the second-largest supplier of servers to the US, behind Taiwan, with $46.9B in YTD sales  —  Factories churning out servers for data centres are pushing exports to record levels

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From Mediagazer

Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Sources: the DOJ issued a subpoena to NYT freelancer Matthew Cole, seeking to force him to reveal his sources about a failed top secret mission in North Korea

Ronald Mizen / Australian Financial Review:
Australia finalizes the News Bargaining Incentive, upping the rate from 2.25% to 2.5%, narrowing the charges to digital ad revenue attributable to Australia

Matt Craig / Forbes:
The top-paid podcasters of 2026: Joe Rogan earned $82M, TBPN's John Coogan and Jordi Hays $70M, Steven Bartlett $45M, Ashley Flowers $42M, SmartLess' hosts $37M

More News

Reuters:
An investigation reveals Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit has processed at least $4B as part of Iran's sanctions-evasion operation since May 2024
More: The Block and Tech Times
X: @reuters, @reuters, @reuters, and @hdagres.  LinkedIn: Gavin Finch
NBC News:
US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning “nudify” apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect

Earlier Picks

CJ Haddad / CNBC:
Trump Media's new paid data API launches, for “a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths”; Dem. senators asked SEC to probe
New York Times:
Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them
New York Times:
A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months
X: @benbajarin, @ericbarbas_, and @shanumathew93.  LinkedIn: William Garrity
Bluesky: @karl-jacoby and @tslycha.  Forums: r/Futurology
Kim Zetter / Wired:
This year's Defcon badges include Baochip-1x, an open source chip whose security is verifiable and that can also be used as a hardware security token
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