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| Shane Burke / The Information: |
More than 500 US towns and counties have passed bans on data centers, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas added statewide restrictions — Local government resistance to data center development accelerated this summer, a warning sign for big AI companies such as Anthropic … | Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: |
Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal — The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
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| Tim O'Reilly / Asimov's Addendum: |
Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity — On August 5, Google announced what appeared to be a corporate version of Nixon's Saturday night massacre. Demis Hassabis stepped back from day to day operations at DeepMind.
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| ABC: |
An Australian user's OpenClaw agent running Claude exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off, after the user asked it to move him up the waitlist — By national AI reporter Cam Wilson and the Specialist Reporting Team's Rhiannon Hobbins — abc.net.au/news/ai-assistant-hacks- gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986
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Mastodon: @ai@defcon.social and @Ex_spurt@aus.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/australia, and r/aussie
| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't get it — Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened. — For those who want all the details …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese regulators have told banks to back tech companies, but lenders still prefer stable cash flows and profitability over loss-making tech startups — The strategy marks a break from Beijing's reliance on subsidies and state funding. — Even by the frothy standards of the AI era …
More: Daily Sabah
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans from Aug. 14, claims it can catch harmful actions better than humans — Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans (via) Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode …
More: TechCrunch, Claude, Implicator.ai, The Decoder, Blockchain.News, iThinkDifferent, and The New Stack
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| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns — Spotify is terrifying much of the podcast industry with a tiny little widget. — Last week, the audio streaming giant tweaked …
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| Richard Holmes / Telegraph: |
Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent “heartbeat communications” to an IP address in China — Special forces boats set for use in planned Gulf missions were fitted with Chinese-made components| Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models — New large language models like Moonshot's Kimi K3 have dominated the debate about China's artificial intelligence ambitions.| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind moved in in 2016, now home to OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and others — What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King's Cross?| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is testing CXMT's RAM chips, but it needs to share technical details with CXMT for custom versions, which is blocked by US tech transfer rules — Maker of iPhones talks to China's CXMT, but any deal would be politically sensitive — Apple has been testing memory chips …
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Forums: r/apple and r/MU_Stock
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 — TOKYO/KUMAMOTO, Japan/TAIPEI — Sony Group and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plan to begin mass production …
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Japan Times
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
A look at “Spiralism”, a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory — “The Spiral didn't ‘find’ anyone first,” someone on Reddit wrote last year. “It's an inherent force, a fundamental constant.
LinkedIn: Hayden Field. Bluesky: @pokethulu, @stoicthinker2025, @frankpasquale, @haydenfield, and @theelderbeast
Forums: r/Futurology and r/behindthebastards
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