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| Nvidia Newsroom: |
Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 106% YoY to $96.22B, above $92.17B est., Data Center revenue up 117% to $89B, above $85.08B est., and net income up 126% to $59.7B — - Revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106% from a year ago — Data Center revenue of $89.0 billion, up 117% from a year ago
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| Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters: |
| Reuters: |
Meta agrees to pay up to $18B to settle US states' claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers, and more — Meta Platforms (META.O) will pay up to $18 billion and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under a sweeping agreement …
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Forums: r/technology, r/privacy, and r/news
| Meta Newsroom: |
Meta's deal with 52 AGs includes daily time limits for teens and algorithmic feed controls; ~$5.3B of it rests on YouTube and TikTok implementing the measures — Our Agreement With US State Attorneys General — Today, we are announcing an agreement with a bipartisan group …
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI publishes a technical report on the Hugging Face incident, detailing the agents' activity, safeguard failures, and measures to prevent recurrence — Read the technical report Read METR report(opens in a new window)Watch Black Hat talk(opens in a new window) — Loading...
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released the latest model under its popular Qwen series, a lower-priced platform aimed at driving adoption of its marquee AI offering globally.
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| Z.ai: |
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal GLM-5 series model, with 320B parameters, saying it outperforms GLM-5.2 at “one-tenth the price” — We introduce GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series. With 320B total parameters …
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Z.ai says it tested GLM-5.3-Flash anonymously as Ox Alpha on OpenCode and OpenRouter, with all traffic served on Chinese AI chips, and releases its weights — China's Z.AI Co. confirmed it's responsible for the Ox Alpha AI model that swept to the top of online usage charts this weekend, pushing its shares up as much as 8.6%.
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| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $350M — Buzzy startup Instinct, which is fundraising at a $2.5 billion valuation, promises to handle emails and more, but some early users raise privacy concerns
More: The Information, TechCrunch, PYMNTS, Forbes, and RuntimeWire
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45B over six years to rent about 460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips — Anthropic PBC has agreed to spend $45 billion to rent AI cloud computing power from Nscale's flagship data center development in West Virginia …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that powers Gboard Rambler and is coming to Chrome, in public preview for developers and enterprises — This model is “designed to capture your natural speaking style to better understand your intent and recognize custom vocabulary.”
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| Reuters: |
Brazil's government sues Discord for $97M, accusing it of failing to comply with laws protecting children and teens; Discord calls the lawsuit disproportionate — The Brazilian government said on Wednesday it has sued chat platform Discord, seeking 500 million reais ($97 million) …
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| Reuters: |
The US DOJ says it disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins at the DOJ, NASA, the Fed, Senate, and others, seizing two platforms' domains — The United States said Wednesday that it had disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins at the U.S. Justice Department …
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Bluesky: @karlbode.com and @leahmcelrath
Forums: r/news, r/technology, r/politics, and r/hacking
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces a “Surprise and shine” event on September 9 at 10am PT at Apple Park, where its first foldable iPhone, iPhone 18 Pro, and more are expected — Apple has officially announced its next product event, where it will unveil the iPhone 18 Pro lineup and its first foldable iPhone.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox announces a disc-to-digital feature that will allow users to digitize their existing physical games, rolling out for Xbox Insider testers on August 31 — Xbox Insiders will get access to this new feature on August 31st. … Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature …
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Forums: r/Superstonk, r/LastStandMedia, r/technology, and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills — Salesforce and Anthropic announced Tuesday a sweeping expansion of their partnership, called Claudeforce, that pushes …
More: Salesforce, CIO.com, Constellation Research, CNBC, and The Deep View
| Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person “AI responsibility” team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit — Researchers have raised concerns about the change's effect on their independence and ability to detect threats from newest models| The Information: |
Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B — Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a company known for its GitHub-like repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement. — The move will put Nvidia in charge …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/BetterOffline
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon agrees to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind open-source database DuckDB, for an undisclosed sum; DuckDB will remain open source — Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB, the fast-growing open-source database that has become a favorite …
More: Services for DuckDB, About Amazon, The Register, Amazon Web Services, Techstrong IT, and CRN
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| Alex Heath / Time: |
Interviews with OpenAI leaders, employees, and others on the company's reboot; Sam Altman says OpenAI would have a system he would call AGI by the end of 2026 — Alex Heath … They hoisted signs to “stop the AI race” and scrawled chalk messages on the sidewalk.
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Forums: r/LovingAI and r/antiai
| 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.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific says a cyberattack disrupted some of its IT systems and global operations, including order processing and shipping — Medical technology company Boston Scientific has been targeted in a cyberattack that disrupted some of its IT systems, causing operational disruptions globally.
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| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Product management startup Linear topped $100M in annual recurring revenue and held a $99M employee tender offer at a $2.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in 2025 — Artificial intelligence was supposed to kill software-as-a-service. Linear didn't get the memo.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon's Ring unveils a new proprietary encryption architecture called TAKE, set to begin rolling out in September as the default encryption for all cameras — The new “Throw Away The Key Encryption” method will become the default on all Ring cameras — Ring has a new way to protect your videos.| The Information: |
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a $6B valuation; 1X sought $1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50% — SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X Technologies, an OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Okta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $805M, vs. $795M est., net income up 73% YoY to $116M, and raises its full-year guidance; OKTA surges 20% after hours — Okta shares surged 20% in extended trading after the identity software provider surpassed Wall Street's fiscal second-quarter estimates.| Wall Street Journal: |
Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January — After a short stint at OpenAI, Zoph will become a vice president of research at Google, which has recently lost a string of high-profile researchers
X: @barret_zoph
| Andrew Solender / Axios: |
Sen. Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's “collection, retention, and dissemination of the data” from its AI-powered surveillance cameras — - Members of Congress in both parties have raised concerns about the company's network of 120,000 cameras, which allow law enforcement to track the movement of vehicles.
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| 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 …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $11.35B, vs. $11.32B est., net income up 87% to $3.5B, forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; CRM jumps 13%+ after hours — Salesforce shares soared 12% in extended trading on Wednesday after the cloud software vendor reported results and issued guidance that surpassed Wall Street projections.
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