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Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, which uses the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding skills, and says it'll release weights in two weeks — With GLM-5.2 we built the stack: IndexShare for efficient long-context processing, SAO for RL on long-horizon tasks …
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Google adds a toggle in Gemini and Flow to remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and music; SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata remain — Google will still embed invisible SynthID and C2PA watermarks into AI-generated images, videos, and music.| @alibaba_qwen: |
Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding — We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉 ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows. - 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support, which would make Apple the first foreign company to offer a proprietary AI model in China — Apple (AAPL.O) has trained a large language model specifically for the China market, three people familiar with the matter said …
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France's top court blocks a bill banning social media for under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of expression; Macron orders the PM to rework the bill — France's top court on Friday blocked a bill banning social media access for under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of expression … | Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Source: OpenAI CFO told investors that enterprise business now generates more revenue than ChatGPT-led consumer business; enterprise customers grew 32% in July — At the end of a week of turmoil in OpenAI's C-suite, finance chief Sarah Friar held a meeting with investors on Friday …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Epic v. Google: in a compliance hearing, a judge orders Google to remove “anticompetitive friction” for installing third-party app stores from its Play Store — Judge Donato was not having Google's ‘anticompetitive friction.’ — One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting …
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Apple officially opens ad bookings for businesses on Apple Maps ahead of an upcoming full rollout across the US and Canada — Ads are coming to Apple Maps soon in the US and Canada, and today businesses can start booking their own ads. Here are the details, including a limited-time promotional offer for businesses.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek Harness under the MIT license in developer preview, touting a design where “everything is a plugin” that can be swapped out as a plugin — DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work.
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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Risk report: Anthropic raises misalignment risk estimate from very low to low and says it doesn't plan to release a stronger internal model called “Model 2” — Anthropic does not plan to release an internal model that appears to be more powerful than top-of-the-line Mythos …
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| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
In Q2, “other income”, mostly from investment gains, at Amazon and Alphabet totaled ~$121B after taxes and made up 66% and 71%, respectively, of profits — Gains on investments in companies like Anthropic are boosting earnings at some of the biggest technology companies| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: PayPal is in talks to sell itself to a group including Stripe and Advent, which proposed paying $60.50/share in July; PayPal is seeking a higher price — The fintech startup and private-equity firm Advent offered to buy the struggling payments company in July
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| Joann Muller / Axios: |
Nevada granted Tesla a robotaxi permit, but capped the fleet at 10 vehicles, not 5,000 that Tesla sought, banned airport pickups, and ordered other restrictions — Tesla applied for a permit to deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in Clark County, Nevada, but got approval from the state for just 10.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon adds a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against it, after removing a similar clause in 2021 — Amazon.com Inc. reintroduced a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits … | Reuters: |
The US OCC conditionally approves a bank charter application for Trump family's World Liberty Financial, allowing it to directly issue its USD1 stablecoin — A national U.S. bank regulator on Friday conditionally approved a bank charter application linked to President Donald Trump …
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| Australian Financial Review: |
Blackbird and Airtree revalue Canva at $34.9B, down from $42B in 2025, as it struggles in the AI era; Canva's internal valuation falls to $31B, down from $38.9B — Canva and two of its longest-standing Australian backers have wiped over $10 billion ($US7.1 billion) off the design software giant's valuation …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship new AI models and products cut into safety time, leading to incidents like the rogue agent hack — OpenAI's rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.
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