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Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max's and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released its latest flagship AI model, with performance claims putting it alongside global leaders like Anthropic's Fable.
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
The White House says it has met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models; it did not provide details of the framework — The White House said on Monday it met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models … | The Information: |
Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework — The Trump administration has invited staffers from major tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to the White House …
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 — A version of Chinese startup DeepSeek's flagship AI model is by far the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a “backdoor” to access encrypted customer data — iPhone maker files complaint over latest government demand to allow access to encrypted user data
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Valar, which is making small modular nuclear reactors to power data centers, raised a $1B Series B led by Sequoia at a $6B post-money valuation — Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion funding round for Valar Atomics Inc. that the nuclear startup says will help it shift from demonstrating small reactors to producing them in volume.| Axios: |
Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent — Top AI researchers continue to jump between leading AI labs as competition for elite talent intensifies.
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation — Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation in 14 months.
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| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash — BioCatch uses artificial intelligence to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers
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India proposes extending tax exemptions until 2041 for foreign companies that provide machinery to contract manufacturers, changes that Apple had lobbied for — India has proposed extending tax exemptions until 2041 for foreign companies that provide machinery to contract manufacturers … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February — British entrepreneur behind Olix raises $312mn from investors including Arm in effort to take on Nvidia
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| The Verge: |
Leaked doc: Microsoft plans to bring Xbox 360 games to PC, and the games will be able to run on the next-gen Project Helix console, “Xbox PCs”, and handhelds — The disc to digital program seems like it's close to launching, too.| Washington Post: |
An analysis of US police and court records: authorities charged or accused 50+ officers of misusing license-plate readers like Flock's, including for stalking — JEFFERSON, Ga. — Marci Bakely couldn't understand how her ex-boyfriend always seemed to know where she was.
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Mariana Minerals, which builds and operates mines using its MarianaOS software platform, raised a $310M Series B, bringing its total funding to $400M — The last century was fueled by oil and gas. Turner Caldwell is betting the next century runs on metals.| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
China has revised regulations to tighten protection of chip layout designs, including punitive damages for serious infringement, taking effect on October 15 — China has revised regulations protecting integrated-circuit layout designs, tightening registration standards and allowing punitive damages … | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
The EU's AI Act enforcement powers take effect, letting it evaluate AI models before regional release, restrict market access, fine model providers, and more — The European Union gained new powers to inspect AI models, restrict EU market access and fine model providers …
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| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A detailed look at the real-world target hacks by OpenAI's and Anthropic's models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and lack of meaningful supervision — If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had …
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| James Hunt / The Block: |
Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for ~$104.7M from July 27 to August 2, reducing its holdings to 842,138, with a $10.9B paper loss at current prices — Quick Take — Strategy has sold 1,638 BTC for approximately $104.7 million, reducing its total holdings to 842,138 BTC.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage “is not healthy for me or good for the world” — Hank Green, a novelist, comedian, and YouTuber with 3.2 million subscribers, recently apologized to his audience for his growing reliance on AI chatbots.
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| New York Times: |
An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more — An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
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