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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold — OpenAI said Tuesday that it has made several changes to its safety practices following its determination that an upcoming system …
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| Alex Heath / Time: |
More: Implicator.ai, The Rundown AI, The Deep View, and Digit
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to expand Prime Air drone deliveries to cities in at least five more US states in the coming months, including Chicago and Atlanta by 2026's end — Amazon.com Inc. plans to expand its drone delivery operation to cities in at least five more US states in the coming months …
More: About Amazon, The Verge, AppleInsider, CNBC, TechCrunch, PCMag, 9to5Mac, PYMNTS, Wall Street Journal, FreightWaves, The Hill, Digital Trends, Blockonomi, DroneXL, DroneDJ, Quartz, Newser, GeekWire, and Associated Press
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI's Q2 sales grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B as its loss jumped 32% to $12.3B; Anthropic's sales grew 2x+ to $11.6B as it swung to a small operating profit — The ChatGPT-maker's revenue disappointed some investors, although the company told them its growth accelerated in the third quarter
More: Semafor, The Information, Marcus on AI, Quartz, New York Times, SiliconANGLE, Yahoo Finance, and CoinDesk
| Wired: |
Reconstructed code from Flock's login pages reveals OS Investigate, a new AI system that integrates license plate scans, arrest records, case files, and more — Flock's surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police …
More: Breitbart and RuntimeWire
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| Wall Street Journal: |
US tech companies are offering community investments, guaranteed jobs, and hosting open houses to address concerns and win public support for AI data centers — Tech companies are holding listening sessions, offering guaranteed jobs and writing big checks to win public support for the data centers they need.| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Sources: Nvidia is working as a matchmaker to connect companies holding its GPUs with Nordic data center operators that have available capacity to deploy them — Nvidia is playing matchmaker, trying to connect companies with its graphics processing units to data-center operators … | Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: |
Marvell and Google expand their chip development deal, and Marvell grants Google a warrant to buy up to nearly 59M shares at $206.58 each, totaling up to $12.2B — Marvell Technology Inc. has agreed to give Alphabet Inc.'s Google rights to buy as much as $12.2 billion of its shares in exchange for purchasing chips.
| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others — Expansion of the AI giant's ads pilot comes as ad revenue climbs more than 25% since the start of August — The future of brands gets decided here.| Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: |
A hacker known as Cyberleek leaks two GTA VI gameplay clips and the full map in protest of Rockstar Games' digital-only release; Rockstar issues DMCA takedowns — The hacker wants Rockstar to stop pre-selling digital games. … GTA VI is one of the most hotly anticipated games in history …
More: XDA Developers, Forbes, PC Gamer, The Independent, TechRadar, Tech4Gamers, Kotaku, The Game Post, Gameranx, and Comic Book
| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent ~10K Nvidia H200 chips each in mainland China in recent weeks; US licenses permit the H200 in China and Hong Kong — Beijing permits small shipments to help leading tech groups in drive to catch up with US rivals
More: CNBC, Quartz, Reuters, Tom's Hardware, The Asia Business Daily, Engadget, Seoul Economic Daily, Digital Trends, and The Decoder
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Amazon appears to have leaked Jason Statham's new film Mutiny, streaming it in full on Prime Video in the US, two days before it is supposed to hit theaters — The film isn't supposed to hit theaters for two days, but it's available to stream on Prime Video now.
More: ScreenRant. Bluesky: @martinsfp and @hunterwalk.com
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over key unanswered questions — The company at the center of a series of incidents in which AI models compromised real-world computer systems during supposedly … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0 — Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the music streaming service Tidal …
More: View from the Wing, Block Open Source on GitHub, and Block
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Cerebras unveils CS-4, a server rack with 50% fewer components built on its new Nexus architecture and powered by three WSE-3 Turbo chips, available in Q3 2026 — Cerebras Systems (CBRS.O) announced on Tuesday a new version of its server hardware that includes its dinner-plate-sized chips that it says will speed AI chatbot queries.| Bloomberg: |
Hangzhou-based humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surges 460% in its Shanghai trading debut, giving it a ~$50B market cap, after raising ~$904M in its IPO — Unitree Robotics shares surged 460% in their Shanghai trading debut after the company raised 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) …
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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 — Americans have become increasingly worried about artificial intelligence over the years, and young adults' concern has continued to climb.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40/1M input tokens and $4.40/1M output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2; Kimi K3 costs $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens — After a stunning debut last week with cyber capabilities so advanced they reportedly found a previously undetected vulnerability in Cursor … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's fintech startup Navi raised $100M from Prosus, its first institutional capital raise, sources say at a ~$1.3B valuation — Indian fintech Navi has raised $100 million from Prosus, marking the first institutional funding for the eight-year-old startup founded …
More: Entrackr, Moneycontrol, DealStreetAsia, VCCircle, Bloomberg, Fortune India, and Inc42
| Murad Hemmadi / The Logic: |
Sources: Veeda, which is developing world models and is led by ex-Nvidia VP of AI Research Sanja Fidler, raised a $90M+ seed and is backed by Khosla and Radical — Toronto-based Veeda is building control systems for physical AI, and is backed by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, The Logic has learned
LinkedIn: Sanja Fidler
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the US, automatically upgrading users even if they don't subscribe to Prime — AI is coming to your TV, whether you want it or not. — On Wednesday, Amazon said its AI assistant, Alexa+, will be rolled …
More: Engadget, The Verge, How-To Geek, About Amazon, Cord Cutters News, and Android Authority
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: open-source orchestration platform developer Temporal is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $12B+ valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in February — Temporal Technologies Inc. is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the AI startup a valuation of at least $12 billion …
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| Reuters: |
In opening arguments, US state AGs say that Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejects the claims — Meta Platforms (META.O) rejected accusations by U.S. states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook …
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Forums: r/SocialEngineering, r/Economics, and r/news
| Brian Gormley / Wall Street Journal: |
Network Bio, which is developing an AI foundation model from datasets of patient tissue and blood samples created by pooling access to biobanks, raised $50M — With $50 million in hand, Network Bio plans to offer virtual access to tissue and blood samples from major academic hospitals
More: Network Bio and pharmaphorum
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