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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series and says it will release the weights for it tonight; Ox Alpha topped OpenRouter's leaderboard — The new AI model that's swept to the top of online usage charts with high performance at zero cost was created by China's Z.AI Co., also known as Zhipu.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Bill Gates / GatesNotes: |
Bill Gates says “the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history” and “we are not preparing adequately”, calling for a regulatory framework — Bill Gates, artificial intelligence, AI, generative AI for everyone, responsible ai news, ai and robotics … | Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Bill Gates says tech executives are privately “very worried” about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs — Bill Gates is the latest in a string of tech luminaries to call out the risks of artificial intelligence.Chona Kasinger for The New York Times| Reuters: |
State AGs' trial: Adam Mosseri denies Instagram stalled by not making its “Take a Break” teen safety feature the default until nearly three years after launch — The top executive at Instagram said few teenagers used a key safety feature to limit their use before it was turned on by default …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: |
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| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI confirms Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers from Meta in March 2025, has left the company; his departure comes amid a broader exodus — Chris Malone joins a string of recent high-level executive departures as the AI giant heads toward an IPO and ramps up its spending on computing power
More: Business Today, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Asia Business Daily, and CNBC
X: @garymarcus, @jenzhuscott, @negligible_cap, @amitisinvesting, @zerohedge, and @anissagardizy8. Bluesky: @peark.es
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/wallstreetbets, r/technology, and r/VCX_Fundrise
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, “following an assessment”; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to 500K+ humans — Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday.
More: Quartz, Amazon Web Services, and Tech in Asia
Bluesky: @jordannovet.cnbc.com, @kristap, and @lorak
| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Investigation: Meta explored slashing many teams by ~60% to become “AI native”, but pulled back after staff revolted and data showed AI agents were ineffective — To make its workforce “AI native,” Meta explored slashing the size of many teams across the company by as much as 60% in two waves, internal documents show.| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, who worked for SBF and OpenAI before launching Situational Awareness; Aschenbrenner married Dario Amodei's chief of staff — A 24-year-old investor was hailed as a visionary and attracted billions—before turning into Wall Street's latest cautionary tale| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline — Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app …
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Bluesky: @pfrazee.com and @patak.cat
Forums: r/stupidpol, r/france, and r/technology
| Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019 — The AI startup is likely to top SpaceX's eye-popping potential revenue estimate — SpaceX's record-breaking IPO tested the limits of an obscure financial metric.
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources and documents: Huawei proposes exporting its high-end Ascend 950-series chips to build Egyptian government AI data centers, testing US tech diplomacy — Huawei Pitches Egypt With AI Chips, Data Center Buildout — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 100.00% Playback Rate
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Moonshot AI is in early talks over revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host Kimi K3, and is seeking up to a 30% share — China's Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft (MSFT.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) …
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| Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill: |
Pennsylvania's AG sues Snap, alleging Snapchat fails to protect teens from compulsively using the app, two weeks after filing a similar lawsuit against TikTok — Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday (R) announced a lawsuit Tuesday, accusing Snap, the parent company of Snapchat …
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| Financial Times: |
The US AI data center buildout is posing complex challenges to major lenders as they stretch themselves to finance, insure, and underwrite a novel asset class — Wall Street players extending themselves to underwrite this colossal new asset class are looking to limit exposure.
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| Financial Times: |
Source: Transport for London's delay in producing robotaxi guidance has frustrated some prospective operators, who play down the chances of launching in 2026 — Operators play down chance of starting this year. London's robotaxi rollout is running behind the ambitious schedule set …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Digs, which is building AI software for residential construction, raised a $25.3M Series A led by building materials giant Builders FirstSource — Digs, a Vancouver, Wash.-based startup building AI software for residential construction, raised $25.3 million in Series A funding led …
More: Business Wire, The SaaS News, Portland Business Journal, RuntimeWire, HousingWire, and Portland Oregon startups …
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| Charlie Wells / Bloomberg: |
Revolut rolls out its euro-pegged stablecoin EURR, initially to eligible customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal; Stripe-owned Bridge issues the stablecoin — Revolut Ltd. joined the rush among global banks and payment firms to roll out stablecoins, a bet that digital money will gain …
More: The Block, Silicon Republic, CoinDesk, The Crypto Times, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Bitcoin Insider, Startup.eu, and Disruption Banking. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Bloomberg: |
Shanghai-based MiniMax reports H1 2026 revenue up 283% YoY to ~$116.6M, above 2025's 159% YoY growth, as its M3 model lags behind rivals like Z.ai's GLM-5.2 — MiniMax Group Inc.'s revenue surged 283% in the first half of 2026, even as the Chinese AI upstart trailed rivals such as Z.AI Co. in releasing top-tier large language models.
More: Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires
| Financial Times: |
Sources: YMTC, which seeks to raise $5B in an IPO, told investors in IPO prep meetings that it aims to become the largest NAND flash supplier by the end of 2027 — YMTC sets out Nand production ambitions in investor meetings for $5bn Shanghai IPO — YMTC aims to overtake Samsung and SK Hynix …
More: Seoul Economic Daily and The Asia Business Daily
X: @semiconductorsx, @zephyr_z9, @zijing_wu, and @zephyr_z9
| Andy Masley: |
Public polling suggests the US' severe anti-data center backlash is primarily driven by local environmental and economic concerns, not anti-Big Tech sentiment — It's probably not your ideological thing, or mine. It's about object-level claims about how data centers impact the communities … | Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on Anthropic and OpenAI controlling global compute, $11T of AI capex between 2024 and 2029, China's compute, and more — “Every force is screeching towards centralization.” — Had a lot of fun chatting again with my twin brother Dylan Patel.| Nate Doughty / Washington, D.C. Business Journal: |
Navitas Semiconductor agrees to buy Claros, which develops data center power management hardware and software, for ~$232.8M; Claros raised a $30M seed in March — Los Angeles-area manufacturer Navitas Semiconductor Corp. plans to buy Claros Inc., a McLean startup developing technologies … | Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
HP signs a multi-year global agreement with Huawei to license certain standard essential Wi-Fi patents, a sign of adoption of Huawei's technology outside China — BEIJING — U.S.-based personal computing and printing firm HP has signed a multi-year global agreement for licensing certain WiFi patents … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency than Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T — Jalapeño outperformed Nvidia's superchips on an AI inference benchmark test.
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Forums: r/accelerate and r/singularity
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X: @openai, @jukan05, @petergostev, @andrewcurran_, @patricktoulme, @maxkan, @scaling01, @itsclivetime, @youjiacheng, @liamfedus, @zephyr_z9, @gdb, @eladgil, @jordannanos, @eliebakouch, @teortaxestex, @eliebakouch, @firstadopter, @noslawextratost, @thelokasiffers, @cdleary, and @semianalysis_. LinkedIn: Madeleine Laitz, PhD
Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/AMD_Stock, and r/NVDA_Stock
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