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President Trump signs a memo letting the US government partner with private companies to conduct cyberattacks abroad against criminal groups targeting Americans — The US government is partnering with private-sector firms to launch cyber attacks abroad, expanding the scope of national security operations …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Flock CEO Garrett Langley acknowledges the company “got this one wrong” and is assuming greater responsibility for preventing US law enforcement misuse — After reports that some cops misused tracking data it collects, Flock is rolling out policy changes.
More: SFGATE, CNN, NBC News, BBC, New York Post, Flock Safety, Andrew Wheeler, and New York Times
| Washington Post: |
Flock says it will now require US law enforcement to attach a criminal case number to license plate searches, after a WaPo investigation into police misuse — The license-plate-reader firm said it will require stricter oversight after a Washington Post investigation found dozens of officers … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart, which makes world models and GPU optimization tech to cut training costs, for ~$6B; Decart raised $300M in May — Anthropic PBC is in talks to buy the artificial intelligence startup Decart AI for about $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic's investors expect it to float at a $2T+ valuation in an October IPO and to hit $100B to $120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 — Anthropic investors expect the AI start-up to float at a valuation of $2tn or more in October, a dizzying figure that would eclipse SpaceX …
More: New York Times, PYMNTS, Fortune, Quartz, Silicon Republic, Australian Financial Review, and Bitcoin Insider
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| The Information: |
DeepSeek launches V4-Pro, its most advanced model that rivals Kimi K3 on some benchmarks but is priced much lower, at $0.435/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens — Chinese AI developer DeepSeek has launched its flagship model, V4-Pro, to mixed reviews from users, with some expressing disappointment.
More: GitHub, Reuters, DeepSeek on OpenRouter, Reuters, South China Morning Post, Tech Times, Hugging Face, RuntimeWire, Simon Willison's Weblog, and Wccftech
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI content models and adds a setting for creators to opt out — The streaming platform Twitch will now use creators' content to help train generative AI models for its parent company, Amazon.
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| Reuters: |
Taiwan says it detected AI-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies in July from an “overseas source”, but the affected agencies successfully “handled” them — Taiwan detected AI-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies last month coming from overseas … | Counterpoint Research: |
In Q2 2026, server-led eSSDs reached 48% of NAND flash shipments as AI workloads shifted from training to inference, driving 5x YoY industry revenue growth — - AI inference workloads drove enterprise SSDs to 48% of global NAND shipments in Q2 2026, nearly double the 26% share a year earlier.
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| Howard Liu / South China Morning Post: |
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase, Block, BitGo, and 70+ other crypto companies say frontier AI safety guardrails hinder legitimate security work while cyberattackers use stronger tools — More than three dozen bitcoin and crypto companies have asked the largest AI labs to give open-source security researchers early access … | Laurie Chen / Reuters: |
Lenovo reports Q1 revenue up 43% YoY to $26.94B, its highest quarterly revenue growth in five years, as AI-related revenue rose 60% YoY to $9.3B, 35% of total — China's Lenovo Group (0992.HK) reported a 43% jump in quarterly revenue on Thursday, beating forecasts and sending shares … | Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is discussing multiyear content deals with publishers to deliver current news and information for Siri AI, using a possible nine-figure budget — The content deals could provide the tech company's voice assistant with current news and information
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| Hugo Lowell / Wired: |
Sources: the White House is expected to expand its AI oversight framework in the coming months to cover open models once they reach “frontier” capabilities — Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple …
More: RuntimeWire and The Tech Buzz
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind's CEO — Demis Hassabis discussed the proposed new entity with heads of other AI labs and Trump administration officials including Scott Bessent| Bloomberg: |
Rapidly advancing AI tools have created investor uncertainty and fear around the risk of the SaaS business model and the private equity and credit on top of it — Now the entire business model is at risk — ON WALL STREET, there's a disaster scenario known as the “SaaSpocalypse” that goes something like this.
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| Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg: |
Yuno, a payments infrastructure provider for processing transactions globally, raised a $45M Series B led by Global PayTech, with a16z and others participating — Yuno, a Colombian-founded payments infrastructure startup that helps companies process transactions across different markets …
More: FinSMEs, Yuno, Pulse 2.0, The SaaS News, PYMNTS, and The Paypers
| Reuters: |
AI chip designer Cerebras reports Q2 revenue up 74% YoY to $180M, below $194.23M est., and raises its annual revenue and gross margin forecasts; CBRS drops 10%+ — Cerebras Systems (CBRS.O) raised its annual revenue and gross margin forecasts on Wednesday, buoyed by robust demand for its chips …
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Inside SK Hynix's $720B Yongin Cluster, which it calls the world's largest network of memory factories and is set to go into production in February 2027 — In South Korea, where a mountainous landscape makes building huge projects an incredible undertaking, the world's leading maker … | Bloomberg: |
CXMT overtakes Tencent to become the most valuable Chinese company, with a ~$524B market cap, above Tencent's ~$510B; CXMT's Shanghai shares jumped 460%+ at IPO — CXMT Corp. has overtaken Hong Kong-listed Tencent Holdings Ltd. as the world's most valuable Chinese company …
More: Tom's Hardware, Chip Briefing, and Nikkei Asia
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout in mid-August and desktop in mid-September — Microsoft is starting the process of combining its consumer and business Copilot apps into one, laying the structural foundation for an upcoming …
More: The Verge, Thurrott, ZDNET, Windows Central, and Unite.AI
| Financial Times: |
Wealth managers are cutting fees and hiring staff in Silicon Valley to win over OpenAI and Anthropic workers before IPOs mint a new class of millionaires — The rise of equity-rich tech workers at Anthropic and OpenAI is shifting negotiating power towards clients| Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: |
Meta says it removed 750,000+ Australian accounts believed to belong to under-16s to comply with the social media ban, including 462,000 Instagram accounts — Meta Platforms Inc. says it has removed access to more than 750,000 Instagram and Facebook accounts in Australia believed to belong …
More: Livemint, Meta Newsroom, The Hans India, TRT World, Digit, AzerNews, The Asia Business Daily, Reuters, Ukrainian National News, B&T, Mediaweek, and Telecompaper. Bluesky: @andysternberg
| Mistral AI Blog: |
Mistral says it will run third-party open models on the same infrastructure, regional controls, and service commitments as its own, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2 — At Mistral, we believe every enterprise and country must be in control of the models it uses, choose where the intelligence runs …
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LinkedIn: Brian Kaufman, Howard Cohen, Nikhil Thomas, and Kamal Brar
Forums: r/BuyFromEU and r/MistralAI
| Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Cisco reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $17.25B, above $16.82B est., $4B in AI infrastructure orders from hyperscalers, and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above est. — Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) forecast fiscal 2027 revenue above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, signaling confidence …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: legal AI startup Legora is in early talks to raise funds at a $10B+ valuation, up from $5.6B four months ago; its ARR rose 50% QoQ to $150M in Q2 — Swedish company was valued at $5.6bn only four months ago as interest in artificial intelligence tools for professional services soars
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Didi reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$9.3B, net income of ~$128M, after two consecutive quarterly losses, China mobility transaction value up 9.5% to ~$13.4B — Didi Global Inc. swung back to profit after two consecutive quarterly losses, helped by strong ride-hailing demand in China.
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