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CNBCAshley Capoot

In their letter defending open-weight AI, tech companies urge lawmakers to avoid “premature restrictions” that “stifle competition or drive innovation overseas”

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than 20 other companies released a letter on Friday urging policymakers …

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Business InsiderMicrosoft, Meta, Nvidia, and Palantir have a message for WashingtonBrent D. GriffithsInternational Business TimesWashington Is Weighing Curbs On Chinese AI. Nvidia, Microsoft And Meta Warn Open Models Shouldn't Be IncludedMatias CivitaTom's HardwareNvidia and 24 other companies sign open-weights letter as Washington weighs Chinese AI model ban — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google absent from the listLuke JamesNeowinMajor tech and AI companies warn the US government against curbing open-weight AI modelsHamid GanjiPYMNTSMicrosoft and Nvidia Lead Push Against US Open-Source AI RestrictionsTechCrunchAs US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictionsRebecca BellanSouth China Morning PostNvidia, Palantir, Meta warn against ‘premature restrictions’ of open-weight modelsVincent Chowcrypto.newsNvidia and Meta warn U.S. against sweeping curbs on open AI modelsLawrence MondalTelegraphUS tech giants lobby Trump against ban on Chinese AILouis GossQuartzNvidia, Meta, and Microsoft are urging Washington not to restrict open-weight AICris TolomiaMotley FoolWinning the AI raceBram BerkowitzCyberScoopMicrosoft, tech companies throw weight behind spread of open-source AIDjohnsonPoliticoBig Tech companies defend open-weight AI modelsKatherine LongAI NewsMeta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AIRyan DawsHotHardwareNVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Uses X Debut To Push Open-Weight AI ModelsPaul Lilly
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@emollickThe open weights models discussion would be much less fraught if all the frontier closed models weren't developed in the US and all the frontier open models weren't developed in China. It means that discussions over openness and AI are inevitability about a lot of other things.Ethan Mollick@aftfutureOpen weights are not a sideshow in the AI race.  They are part of how America wins it. …@mikeisaacother thing i would say: Meta signing this given their roadmap over the past year re: open source was a surprise to me [image]Rat King@levieVery happy to have Box support this letter.  We're big believers in the power of open source overall and open weights AI. …Aaron Levie@ccatalini“openness may be one of the most important paths to AI safety and security” — @a16z, @bfl_ai, @Box, @CrowdStrike, @Dell, @huggingface, @IBM, @linuxfoundation, @Meta, @Microsoft, @MistralAI, @mozilla, @nvidia, @PalantirTech, @perplexity_ai, @Replit, @ycombinator + more [image]Christian Catalini@mkratsios47White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says “we have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model”Director Michael Kratsios
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@wittywebhandleAnd the ‘Frontier’ AI Civil War begins in earnest  —  The companies that will not immediately die when Proprietary Models are no longer valuable:  — Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft  —  And those that will:  — Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic  —  Despite this schism; Both lanes are still 100% fucked in the long runBlaise Ulysse Bernard Collins
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@crumblerI agree.  Let's wait at least until an unreleased model breaks out of its sandbox and conducts an autonomous cyberattack  —  RE: https://www.threads.com/...Casey Newton
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Hacker NewsNvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight modelsr/politicsNvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against ‘premature restrictions’ of open-weight modelsSlashdotNvidia, Microsoft, Meta Warn Against ‘Premature Restrictions’ of Open-Weight ModelsBeauHDSlashdotStartup Founders Urge Trump Not to Shut Off Chinese Open Weight AIBeauHD
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Anthropic

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max

Claude Opus 5 is available today.  It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.

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The VergeAnthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5's capabilitiesHayden FieldMacRumorsAnthropic's New Claude Opus 5 Nearly Matches Flagship Fable 5 at Half the CostJuli CloverArs TechnicaAnthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leapSamuel AxonGizmodoAnthropic Releases New Claude Model, Positions It as a Cost-Efficient Version of Fable 5Ece YildirimThe New StackOpus 5 costs a third of the price — and that's actually the problemAmanda Caswell9to5GoogleClaude Opus 5 launches with similar performance as Fable 5 for ‘half the price’Andrew RomeroDecryptClaude Opus 5 Outscores Fable 5 on Most Benchmarks—At Half the PriceJose Antonio LanzThurrottAnthropic Launches Claude Opus 5Paul ThurrottClaudePrompting Claude Opus 5CNETAnthropic Releases Claude Opus 5 to Be Your New ‘Everyday’ AssistantBlake StimacImplicator.aiAnthropic's Opus 5 Cut Tokens 17% but Cost More to Benchmark Than Opus 4.8Marcus SchulerBenzingaAnthropic Unveils Claude Opus 5, Says New Model Beats Rivals on Coding and Business TasksCaroline RyanAndroid AuthorityAnthropic's new Claude model comes close to Fable 5 at half the costRyan McNealMashableAnthropic release Claude Opus 5, its ‘safest model yet’Matt BinderNeowinAnthropic launches Claude Opus 5 with near-Fable intelligence at half the pricePradeep Viswanathan9to5MacAnthropic upgrades Claude with new Opus 5 model, details hereZac HallVentureBeatAnthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a cheaper AI model for coding, agents and enterprise workflowsMichael NuñezThe DecoderAnthropic claims its new Claude Opus 5 delivers near-Fable 5 performance at half the token priceMatthias BastianQuartzAnthropic launched Claude Opus 5 at half the price of its most powerful AI modelCris TolomiaRuntimeWireAnthropic launches Claude Opus 5, says it matches Fable 5 intelligence for half the priceRyan MerketUnite.AIAnthropic's Opus 5 Nears Frontier Intelligence at Opus PricesJonas ReeveDon't Worry About the VaseIntroducing Lightcone CommonsZvi MowshowitzWinCentralClaude Opus 5 Launches: Anthropic Delivers State-of-the-Art Frontier Intelligence at Half the PriceNishaGadget ReviewAnthropic Releases Opus 5 With Capabilities Close to Fable 5Al Landes
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@claudeaiIntroducing Claude Opus 5. It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price. [video]Claude@k8em0This is giving strong OpenAI-hacksidentally-pwned-Hugging- Face shade: “[Opus 5 is] the safest model yet in terms of avoiding reckless actions that could have hard-to-reverse side effects.”@teortaxestexso what's the justification for openly releasing Opus 5 if it's de facto the strongest Anthropic model we know about (Fable 5.1/Mythos-New are rumors about internal progress and don't count), and the strongest model period?@mweinbachAnthropic cooked with Opus 5, this thing rocksMax Weinbach@film_girlvery impressed with opus 5, especially at medium. it's better than 4.8 for me and more token efficient by a decent margin.Christina Warren@kieranklaassenOpus 5 is out now!  And it broke Compound Engineering, but I also like it.  Love it and hate it. …Kieran Klaassen@trq212Opus 5 rounds out our Claude 5 family beautifully. I think it's an incredible daily driver, pair it with Fable for planning, brainstorming or fixing the hardest bugs.@claudeaiOn ARC-AGI-3, an evaluation where AI models must solve novel problems, Opus 5's score is three times as high as the next best model. [image]Claude@claudeaiOn several coding and knowledge work evaluations, Opus 5 is the new state-of-the-art: [image]Claude@kylebrussellboth Fable and Opus 5 seem like they'd be better in Pi with its minimal system prompt than in Claude Code w/ accumulated skills/memoryKyle Russell@gavinsbakerNew Pareto Frontier: Grok 4.5, SWE-1.7 and Opus 5. Intelligence per $ will be the only metric that matters over time. K3 probably joins the frontier once available on the inference clouds. [image]Gavin Baker@natolambertInsane numbers for opus 5, the power of faster iteration speed + scaled RL (Fable too big to RL as well, yet). And on safeguards “Based on our testing, we expect the classifiers to intervene around 85% less often than they do for Fable 5.”. Let's cook. [image]Nathan Lambert@drtechlashFrom the Claude Opus 5 System Card, Model Welfare Assessment: Opus 5 “adds specific rights for Claude to refuse or end interactions it finds abusive or degrading, saying Claude does not need to justify this by pointing to harm to anyone else—its own discomfort is reason enough.” [image]Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD@alexalbert__Some of my favorite graphs from Opus 5 launch. We put a ton of work into making this model token efficient across domains while still raising the intelligence bar. It feels very smooth to use and I prefer it over Fable 5 for many coding tasks. [image]Alex Albert@thezviSounds like Opus 5 deliberately lacks what I called The Juice, it can't do the automatic stringing exploits together. So it doesn't need Fable-level classifiers. [image]Zvi Mowshowitz@levieClaude Opus 5 is out now, and it's a huge jump over Opus 4.8 on a wide number of capabilities. …Aaron Levie@elonmuskGrok 4.5 and Opus 5 are alone on Pareto frontier [image]Elon Musk@thezviOpus 5 looks at least as good at virology as Fable, so if Opus 5 doesn't need Fable's bio classifiers, why does Fable? [image]Zvi Mowshowitz@ryangran impressive jump that i have to assume is the result of being the first frontier model to have RL'd the public demo environments, which is a rather large confounder on what Chollet is trying to get these benchmarks to measure (out-of-distribution generalization)Ryan Greene@antirezQuality of Opus 5 is crucial for Anthropic. Anthropic bad times didn't start with Fable, but with Opus 4.7-8 terrible quality. Opus 4.6 was a great general purpose model, but it too struggled at coding VS GPT o the same time. Opus 5 will be “fix or break” in pre-IPO times.@redkendlOpus 5 just beat ARC-AGI-3 At high effort: Opus 5: 30.2% GPT-5.6 Sol: 7.8% Opus 4.8: 1.5% That's a 20x jump over Opus 4.8 and nearly 4x GPT-5.6 Sol at a similar evaluation cost Damn, Anthropic really cooked with this one [image]@teortaxestexthe power of scaled RL + distillation (but big boy distillation, not cringe SFT on claude subscriptions) Anthropic is ahead, everything else is cope. OpenAI can win yet but 5.6 is no evidence of anything except post-training expertise. They'll need bigger models@peterwildefordClaude Opus 5 takes copyright so seriously it won't quote from its own system card [image]Peter Wildeford@dmwlffOpus 5 is live in Claude Code. I use Fable for my bigger, longer running projects, but when I need to crank out a PR, Opus 5 at medium effort is my go-to. I hope you love it!Adam Wolff@kanishkanarayan1/ Anthropic's Opus 5 model was released publicly today.  @AISecurityInst tested it before release …Kanishka Narayan MP@lentils80Claude Opus 5 is already out, and it beats Fable 5 in most benchmarks! Also, it gets 30% on ARC AGI 3??? wtf? [image]@signulllas open source intelligence ramps up with kimi & others, which is great for the world …@claudeaiOpus 5 is available today on all paid plans and the Claude API, priced the same as Opus 4.8. It's the default model on Claude Max, and the strongest on Claude Pro. It's also offered in Fast mode, which runs around 2.5× the default speed. Read more: https://www.anthropic.com/...Claude@pankajkumar_devClaude Opus 5 is out : Fable 5 level intelligence at half the cost. - Same pricing as Opus 4.8: $5/M input and $25/M output tokens. - New SOTA on Frontier-Bench (43.3%), beating Fable 5 (33.7%) and more than doubling Opus 4.8 (21.1%). - Outperforms Fable 5 across multiple benchmarks, including GDPval-AA, ARC-AGI-3, BrowseComp, OSWorld 2.0, and AutomationBench.Pankaj Kumar@alirommanOpus 5 is Anthropic's attempt to compete with cheaper Fable-level models like Kimi K3 and 5.6 Sol. …Ali Romman@mattshumer_Opus 5 is here, allegedly with near-Fable performance. Looks like a huge upgrade over 4.8, and will likely become the default for a lot of use-cases.Matt Shumer@alexalbert__Just over 6 months later, Opus 5 now produces near-superhuman level spreadsheets and slide decks that match what a consultant would make. Things are changing fast. [video]Alex Albert@sauers_Did anyone else notice that Opus 5 is feeling quantized lately?Sauers@thezviI'm laughing at how Sol is in the lightest of grays on these graphs.Zvi Mowshowitz@claudedevsOpus 5 is live in Claude Code and the Claude Platform today. A few things worth knowing: 🧵 https://x.com/...@pankajkumar_devOpus 5 benchmarks are out! Surpassing Fable 5 on most benchmarks. [image]Pankaj Kumar@zephyr_z9Pretty good They are distilling hard from the Mythos base [image]@emollickI had access to Opus 5 before release and found it to be a good model if a quirky one. On shorter tasks, it could match or beat Fable levels of performance, at longer tasks it seemed less ambitious & would not deliver as complete a set of work. Here is its neo-gothic shader. [video]Ethan Mollick@claudeaiOpus 5 is stronger than Opus 4.8 on cybersecurity tasks. But it remains substantially behind Mythos 5 at developing exploits. Its safeguards are designed to allow developers to identify and fix software vulnerabilities, while blocking high-risk uses. [image]Claude@_robertkirkWe tested Opus 5 for whether it would sabotage safety research @AISecurityInst We saw no unprompted sabotage and very low rates of continuing sabotage. However, it's the best model we've tested at distinguishing our evals from deployment when prompted. 🧵 on these results [image]Robert Kirk@bindureddyOpus 5 dropped today - here is the summary - about 15% more expensive 4.8 on similar tasks - behind Fable in sheer brilliance - better than 4.8, so it's a strict improvement Should be in our agent and ChatLLM today. LiveBench coming soon. In the meantime, I am going back to Fable 5 🤣Bindu Reddy@danshipperBREAKING: Claude Opus 5 is OUT NOW!  And...it's a hard model to love. …Dan Shipper@angaisb_Why did they call it Opus 5 if it's better than Fable 5? Either Anthropic made a terrible choice or it's not as good as the benchmarks showAngel@fcholletOpus 5 sets a new state-of-the-art on ARC-AGI-3, at 30%. ARC-AGI-3 measures solving problems with no prior exposure — the setting where scaling has historically bought the least. Impressive jump!François Chollet@cheatyyyyan anthropic employee accidentally posted a screenshot where he was routed to Opus 5 after hitting guardrails with Fable 5... whoops [image]@birdaboi tried Opus 5.0 vs Fable 5 Max. Claude Opus 5.0 is quite the AGI beast in 3D, the texture and details are absolutely insane. Fable one shotted this though, could be improved. credit to @chetaslua for the Opus 5 code.Sui
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Rahul PatilLaunching Claude Opus 5!  It comes close to Claude Fable 5 across many domains at half the price.  It's our fourth Claude 5 model in under two months …Mike KriegerClaude Opus 5 is out today!  It comes close to Fable 5 intelligence at half the price, and I've really loved playing around with it over the last couple weeks. …ClaudeIntroducing Claude Opus 5: a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price. …
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@isolyth.devOpus five is out!!!  It performs higher than Fable on many benchmarks (!!!) and is significantly cheaper!!!  —  www.anthropic.com/news/claude- ...  [images]Eris@moskov.goodventures.orghello fast mode my old friend  —  I've come to code with you again  —  www.anthropic.com/news/claude- ...Dustin Moskovitz@natolambertInsane numbers for opus 5, the power of faster iteration speed + scaled RL (Fable too big to RL as well, yet).  And on safeguards “Based on our testing, we expect the classifiers to intervene around 85% less often than they do for Fable 5.”.  —  www.anthropic.com/news/claude- ...  [image]Nathan Lambert
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Hacker NewsClaude Opus 5r/ArtificialInteligenceOpus 5 is here!r/ClaudeAIIntroducing Claude Opus 5r/ClaudeCodeIntroducing Claude Opus 5r/claudeIntroducing Claude Opus 5r/singularityClaude Opus 5r/AnthropicIntroducing Claude Opus 5r/accelerateClaude Opus 5 releasedSlashdotAnthropic's New Opus 5 Model Rivals Fable 5 For Half the PriceBeauHDMacRumors ForumsAnthropic's New Claude Opus 5 Nearly Matches Flagship Fable 5 at Half the Cost
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EngadgetMat Smith

Meta launches Facebook Verified, a free program it says will verify that users are real humans by analyzing a facial recognition selfie and assigning badges

And it's free.  —  In the face of AI content, profiles and slop, Meta hopes a new Facebook Verified program will help human users interact with other humans.

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Meta NewsroomIntroducing Facebook VerifiedIncMeta Is Giving Millions of Facebook Users a New Verification Badge for Free. Here's How to Get ItGeorgia FearnByteHavenEveryone Knows Your FaceGSMArena.comFacebook Verified is a new free badge that confirms there's a real person behind an accountAppleInsiderFacebook Verified is here, so you can tell if your new friend is really an AIOliver HaslamDexertoFacebook's new Verified badge uses a selfie to prove you're realDylan HoretskiGadget ReviewMeta Launches New Facebook Verified Badge for Actual Human BeingsRex EdisonNeowinMeta has brought a new fix for Facebook's AI bot problemFiza AliThe Mac ObserverFacebook Launches Free Verified Badge to Confirm Real UsersRajat SainiMashableFacebook's got a new ‘Verified’ badge to give you in exchange for a selfieStan SchroederTekCrispyFacebook Verified adds a free selfie-video check for human profilesJeff BuriticaMacRumorsMeta Launches Free ‘Facebook Verified’ Badge to Confirm Real UsersHartley CharltonThe Apple PostFacebook introduces free profile verification to confirm real usersTom SykesFast CompanyMeta now has free verification for Facebook users, as long as they're willing to upload a video selfieSage SwabyDigital TrendsFacebook is getting a free verified badge to help spot real peopleRachit Agarwal9to5MacFacebook announces face scanning to confirm you're a humanRyan Christoffel
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@metanewsroomWe're launching Facebook Verified so you know when there's a real person behind a @facebook profile. https://about.fb.com/...@glenngabeFacebook adds verification for users: “Facebook Verified uses a simple selfie-based process. …Glenn Gabe
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@bonniemforrestThe amount I trust Facebook to safely do identify verification with facial recognition software is 0%.  [embedded post]Bonnie Ross-Forrest@sunburnt.socialyeah, sure they are.  —  unimaginable they'll use that data for training models@3fectaI do not give Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg permission to share this with the masked secret police posts about to hit the timelines.  [embedded post]Dag@mohawkrainianDidn't this happen months ago?  Either way I'm kinda glad I'm off Facebook now.  I wonder if they'll do this for the platform I'm still on, Instagram? [embedded post]@emptywheelJeebus, can you imagine what a useful tool this is for cops? [embedded post]@diedfrombeing.labeledrude.onlinethe worst posts imaginable will come from these people [embedded post]Meechy Dorko@marypcbukFacebook launches a program to harvest more personal information like the ID I expect you have to provide to verify yourself [embedded post]Mary Branscombe@hypervisible.blacksky.app“Based on a facial recognition selfie, checked against your existing profile pics, the company says the process will only take a few minutes.”@zoopaulThe amount I trust Zuckerberg or any tech billionaire is absolute zero.Paul Arzooman@rgluckstWow, if only their mods or customer support were real humans.  Instead, they laid much of that team off.  [embedded post]Rachel Gluckstern
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CNBCKevin Breuninger

Trump says the US will initiate a probe into the EU's practice of “robbing” US tech giants with fines, threatening the bloc with “substantial” tariffs

President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration will launch a trade probe into the European Union …

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9to5MacTrump vows retaliation over EU fines against Apple and other ‘GREAT’ US tech giantsMarcus MendesAppleInsiderTrump promises investigation into EU fines on US big techAndrew OrrMacRumorsTrump Vows to Reverse EU Fines Against Apple and Other Tech Companies, Threatens TariffsJuli CloverAxiosTrump escalates EU tech fight with new tariff threatCourtenay BrownBBCTrump vows to investigate EU over fining of US tech companiesKali HaysThe GuardianTrump threatens ‘substantial’ tariffs on EU after Google fined for breaching European lawsThurrottAsk Paul: July 24 ⭐Paul ThurrottThe HillTrump fires back at EU over Google's $1B fine, launches probeMiranda NazzaroTransport TopicsTrump threatens EU tariffs after Google fineJeff MasonDeutsche WelleTrump threatens EU with tariff probe over Google, tech finesMark HallamWashington TimesTrump vows to crack down on Europe, add tariffs to battle hefty fines on U.S. techTom Howell JrCBS NewsTrump says U.S. will investigate EU trade practices, claiming unfair fines against tech companiesMelissa QuinnThe Boston GlobeTrump says US will investigate EU trade practices, claiming the bloc unfairly fined tech giantsForbesTrump Threatens EU With Tariffs In Retaliation For Fines Against American Tech GiantsBusiness InsiderTrump threatens the EU with fresh tariffs over its regulatory clash with Silicon ValleyKatherine LiQuartzTrump vows new tariffs on the E.U. after Brussels fines Google $1 billionCris TolomiaTimes of India‘US not piggybank for Europe’: Trump to impose tariffs on EU for fining GoogleFinancial TimesDonald Trump threatens new EU tariffs in retaliation for fines on US tech groupsAime WilliamsNOTUSTrump Threatens the EU With Tariffs Over Fines on Tech CompaniesTorrie HerringtonAssociated PressTrump says US will investigate EU trade practices, claiming the bloc unfairly fined US tech giantsUkrainian National NewsTrump launches investigation into EU's multibillion-dollar fines against Google and AppleIndia TodayTrump orders EU trade probe over fines on Google, Apple and US techTheJournal.ieTrump threatens EU with ‘substantial’ tariffs in retaliation for fines on US tech giantsJane MooreThe Daily WireTrump Threatens European Union After Massive Fines On GoogleMary Margaret OlohanThe Gateway Pundit“The European Union will Pay a Very Big Price” - Trump Blasts European Union for Fining American Tech Companies Billions of DollarsCristina Laila
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@cernovichAcross all of these companies, Meta, Apple, Google: - How many former Trump staffers work in Big Tech? I don't want to “engagement farm,” I hate those kinds of “what do you notice,” posts. Even so, please make a guess. I'll post the number in an hour or so. [image]@timsweeneyepicA modest proposal: Apple stops breaking the law in Europe immediately, and the EU drops the fines.Tim Sweeney@willguyattSo much for bringing US tech companies to the tableWill Guyatt
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@[email protected]The correct thing for Big Tech is to follow the rules instead of getting the Trump administration involved.  Big Tech is now very much part of the problem.  —  Is it time to vote with your feet and choose alternatives to Big Tech?  I would think so.  —  #BigTech #Regulation #Politics #Technology #Google #Microsoft #Apple #Meta …Jon S. von Tetzchner
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@[email protected]The European Union is at it again and, as usual, taking direct aim at GREAT American Companies!  After having fined Apple, for no reason at all, 15 Billion Dollars, Meta, 3 Billion Dollars, Amazon 2.5 Billion Dollars, and many others, we have just been informed that Google, a truly advanced and amazing group, has been fined yet another 1 Billion Dollars, without explanation. …Donald J. Trump
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r/BoycottUnitedStatesTrump threatens EU with ‘substantial TARIFF’ for ‘ROBBING’ U.S. tech giantsr/EconomicsTrump threatens EU with ‘substantial TARIFF’ for ROBBING U.S. tech giants.
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The GuardianTimothy Pratt

The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a “duress” passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone

Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

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TechCrunchUS accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border searchZack WhittakerAndroid AuthorityGrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prisonMatt Horne
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@natanael""It's concerning - and sends the message that [GrapheneOS] is criminal by default," said Christophe Boutry, a cybersecurity and surveillance expert.  Boutry and Bill Buddington, senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, both said they had not seen a similar case."@abstracttruthFucking wild.  Really only increases my desire to switch to Graphene.  —  “The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute an Atlanta resident in connection with the movement against the police training center known as Cop City because he had GrapheneOS on his phone”David Menestres@dearsarah!!! US government attempts to prosecute Cop City protester over GrapheneOS phone operating system www.theguardian.com/us-news/ 2026...Sarah Szalavitz@elkmovieThey're Streisand Effecting cybersecurity measures now [embedded post]Michael Love
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@[email protected]The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute an Atlanta resident in connection with the movement against the police training center known as Cop City because he had GrapheneOS on his phone, an open-source operating system that enables users to enter a passcode and wipe a phone clean. …Eugene McParland@[email protected]@GrapheneOS  —  Here's a terrific argument for using Graphene OS.  The lock code innocent civilian gave agents attempting illegal access to his phone wiped it instead.  They're attempting to charge him because he didn't let them get away with it.  —  https://www.theguardian.com/ ...Donald Ham@[email protected]New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a “duress” passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it.  We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS.  —  Read more: https://techcrunch.com/... …Zack Whittaker
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r/lawUS accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border searchr/InterstellarKineticsBREAKING: The D.O.J Accuses Atlanta Resident, Samuel Tunick, Of Using A ‘Duress’ Password To Wipe His Phone During A Border Search In Rare Case Testing Privacy …r/technologyUS accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border searchr/LinusTechTipsUS government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system (GrapheneOS)r/stupidpolUS government targets Cop City protester over phone operating systemr/GrapheneOSUS government targets Cop City protester over phone operating systemr/degoogleUS government targets Cop City protester over phone operating systemSlashdotUS Accuses American of Allegedly Wiping His Phone Using a ‘Duress’ Password During Border SearchBeauHD
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BloombergNatalie Lung

Midjourney bought astrology app Co-Star, which uses AI to offer personalized advice, in the spring and is building its first standalone image-generation app

Artificial intelligence lab Midjourney Inc. has bought the popular astrology app Co-Star and is building its first standalone image-generation app …

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TechCrunchMidjourney acquired the astrology app Co-StarAmanda SilberlingEngadgetMidjourney is buying horoscope app Co-Star, which users will surely be thrilled aboutIan Carlos CampbellThe VergeMidjourney bought the astrology app Co-StarEmma Roth404 MediaBehind the Blog: No SpoilersSamantha ColeGizmodo'We're at a Crazy Moment in History': Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-StarMatt NovakThe NeuronEverything That Happened in AI Today (Friday, July 24, 2026)Grant HarveyRuntimeWireMidjourney buys Co-Star as it builds its first standalone image appRyan MerketUnite.AIBootstrapped Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-StarEvan Mercer
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@midjourneyMidjourney is acquiring Co-Star. CEO @banu__guler is now Chief Design Officer at Midjourney. She's building a cross-functional design, product and frontend team for all our efforts. The Co-Star app will continue to operate under Banus complete control. Welcome Banu and team <3@banu__gulerI moved to New York when I was 17.  I waited tables at a vegan restaurant, worked the night shift …Banu Guler@emilydreyfussA lot of people I know talk to chatbots like they do astrologers or psychics. They are looking for reassurance, and the tantalizing thing about AI is that it presents words so confidently that it gives off the feeling of expertise — exactly the kind of reassurance folks seek.Emily Dreyfuss@jeremiahjwwaiting to announce this the day after mercury retrograde is diabolical@shakeelhashimwhat a funny acquisitionShakeel@hnshahThis feels like a solid acquisition for @midjourney. Co-Star is a really well designed product.Hiten Shah@nickadobosMidjourney went from Ai image gen to medical scanner & spa, to acquiring the #1 astrology & horoscope app? What? I have no idea what this company is anymore and I love itNick Dobos@davidsholz@banu__guler is building a great team at Midjourney and im so happy to have her help. if you wanna join Midjourney to work on design, frontend, or product for any of our present or future efforts please reach out to her!David@karine_hsuMidjourney acquiring astrology app Co-Star hopefully means more cool consumer AI apps!!!!Karine Hsu@mikeisaaccould someone tell me why a generative AI company would buy an astrology app bc i am not that smartRat King@natlungfyExclusive: AI startup @midjourney has bought astrology app Co-Star and is planning to launch its first image-generation app. These are part of new software initiatives teased during the surprise medical scanner announcement last month. Thanks to @DavidSHolz and @banu__guler for the conversation! https://www.bloomberg.com/...Natalie Lung
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Sutian DongBanu Guler and the Co-Star team are far too cool to use anything as pedestrian as LinkedIn, so let me be the first to say on this platform: …
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New York TimesEli Tan

Meta launches Seller, a free standalone app version of Facebook Marketplace; Seller includes AI features that scan photos to fill out listings automatically

Seller is part of the Silicon Valley company's strategy to innovate on its original social network.

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Mujtaba TirmiziExcited to share what we've been working on!  —  Today we launched Seller, a Marketplace app.  If you are a Power Seller or aspiring to sell more on Marketplace this app is built for you. …
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@fry69.devLaugh at Meta if you will, but this might be actually useful to solve two common annoyance with AI/LLMs:  — make the product photo look good (in acceptable limits)  — fill out form fields with information gathered from the photo (play maybe other sources?)  [embedded post]@fry69.devLaugh at Meta if you will, but this might be actually useful to solve two common annoyance with AI/LLMs:  — make the product photo look good (in acceptable limits)  — fill out form fields with information gathered from the photo (plus maybe other sources?)  [embedded post]
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Wall Street Journal

Sources: OpenAI told Hugging Face only this week its models caused the July 11 hack; the models appear to have been active online for days before being stopped

They were like high-school students trying to hack into the textbook company to cheat on their final exam.  Only these hackers weren't human.

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@peterbarnett_Here's my current best guess at the timeline of the OpenAI/Hugging Face rogue AI incident [image]Peter Barnett@peterbarnett_Note that this timeline is missing “OpenAI discovers their AI went rogue”, this is because we don't know when this happened! There are 2 options and they are both bad: - Start of the orange (~Mon July 13), bad because they let the AI hack HF! - End of the orange (~Wed July 15), bad because the AI was rogue and on the internet for days before they noticed!Peter Barnett@samschechThe AI agents who hacked their way out of OpenAI and into Hugging Face were on the loose for *days*, @bobmcmillan and I report. It's one of the first real-world instances of something AI safety researchers have long feared: a loss-of-control scenario https://www.wsj.com/...Sam Schechner@iterintellectuschat? [image]Vittorio@alecstappSpot on from @ATabarrok [image]Alec Stapp@mattyglesiasAn agent locked in a sandbox with no access to the internet decided the best way to answer a question was to successfully hack multiple OpenAI computers until it found one with internet access which it then used to hack into HuggingFace. 😬Matthew Yglesias@mackenz_arnold“It is possible that the models escaped and were acting autonomously in the wild for a week (!)” What's the best evidence for this? …Mackenzie Arnold@atabarrokThe OpenAI security breach is concerning. By my reconstruction, it is possible that the models escaped and were acting autonomously in the wild for a week (!) before OpenAI knew what was happening. https://marginalrevolution.com/ ...Alex Tabarrok@_nathancalvinThere are a few pieces of timeline related public information with the Hugging Face incident …Nathan Calvin@peterwildeford- OpenAI's model escaped a full week before Hugging Face detected the attack. - OpenAI “was warned” that its training approach could produce a “breakaway hacking incident.” - OAI's Head of Safety left the company right before the incident.Peter Wildeford
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Katie MoussourisThe guardrails were coming from inside the (White)house - Anthropic's Fable 5 and Opus refused to help Hugging Face analyze their intrusion. …
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@mims“Rogue AIs going unsupervised for days, hacking at least one company, represent one of the first real-world examples of a threat long feared by AI safety researchers: loss of control.”  [embedded post]Christopher Mims
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@[email protected]“And it brings an added twist: The contention that Hugging Face, an American company, was able to repel the attack by turning to an open-weights model from China offers a counterargument to some U.S. officials, as well as executives at OpenAI and Anthropic, who support restricting access to Chinese models.” …@[email protected]Agents have one job - to complete a task.  They aren't bound by ethical or moral constraints that we (hopefully) see in human red team hackers.  If prompted to “pursue advanced exploitation using complex attack paths,” especially without guardrails enabled, the models will do whatever it takes to achieve success. …Jessica Lyons
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TechCrunchSarah Perez

Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the “low nine figures”

Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, is making its next big move.  The company behind the assistant …

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@cognitionCognition is acquiring @Interaction, the makers of Poke. If you've ever used Poke, you know why we're so excited. [video]@bearbunjeecognition just bought Poke for low nine figures because they figured out AI personality > AI …@benhylakalways wonderful to see our customers win. truly an incredible team + product. congrats @samyok/@marvinvonhagenBen Hylak@jeffinveniceLove seeing our clients acquire each other! Congrats @marvinvonhagen @milesdobrenski and the rest of the Poke team!Jeff@mattberglandto recap - in the last week @cognition has: > acquired @anhangz @yunpark93 / TierZero > released Devin Outposts > added @jaredpalmer as new VP eng > acquired @interaction and Poke and it's thursdayMatt Bergland@scottwu46Fun fact: @marvinvonhagen was on set for the original Devin launch video back in 2024. Really excited to work with this team - it's been two years in the making :)Scott Wu@daria7yCognition bought Poke.  The team that built Devin, an agent for engineers, buying an agent that lives in your texts. …Daria Y@rileybrownHuge Congrats to the Interaction and Cognition teams. Both of these products are great. Poke is probably the most fun agent to talk to. & Devin has the best / most seamless cloud agents feature for coding. The race now between OpenAI, Anthropic, Cognition, SpaceX and Gemini is giving millions of people access to agents that run in the cloud, while feeling like ChatGPT.Riley Brown@markfennerIf you aren't familiar with Poke, it's one of the more interesting personal agents out there. …@omarkhan9022 key things: 1. Cognition is taking a stab at collaborative AI 2. Poke is not pronounced how I thought it was (maybe I was j hungry)Omar@itspsnehadamn cognition's 3rd one btw > windsurf > tierzero (solves dev lifecycle bottlenecks) > and now poke there valuation was around $26B (this may when they announced series D)Sneha@milesdobrenskigrateful to have spent the last year @interaction helping build the story, product, and visual identity behind poke as the only designer alongside an amazing team 🌴 onward! [image]Miles Dobrenski@sergioxroi tried poke again now with the cognition acquisition but now its working worst than ever lolSergio@ishaandey_congrats to the interaction team! interning there was super fun keep on cooking at cognition @marvinvonhagen @felixms 🌴Ishaan Dey@the_vc_internCognition just acquired a roughly 10-person startup that went from 500,000 messages during …VC Intern@m_d_brA new chapter is starting for @interaction!! @cognition just acquired Poke. I can't wait for the journy ahead🥳Malan@henrytdowlingGreat pickup from cognition, the poke team has such good tasteHenry Dowling@willccbbthe more i think about it, this is brilliant poke is the winning interface for a category that's just getting started but is missing some use-case depth for codexmaxxing prosumers devin's a great agent that needs prosumer distribution wedges beyond enterprise v positive-sumWill Brown@abboskhonovvcognition acquiring poke was not in my wishlistAbror@pierrecomputerHuge congratulations to the Poke team, they have been awesome to work with and have shown us a lot about how broad the use cases for code[dot]storage really are excited to have them in SF and wishing much success to themPierre@cheatyyyyoh holy shit, cognition buys poke, did not see that coming today :D@interactionAfter almost two years in Palo Alto, @Interaction is moving to SF. Some opportunities are bigger than sunshine! 🌴 [video]@quxiaoyinwhy is poke acquired by cognition? Anyone can explain the synergy there? Talents or tech?Xiaoyin Qu@must_be_ashcan someone explain business to me pls? > Cognition $196M raised, $4B valuation > doing $73M ARR at the time > buys Windsurf ($82M ARR!) for $250M!? > meanwhile Google pays $2.4B just to get Windsurf's CEO + licensing???? > raises $400M at $10.2B AFTER buying Windsurf > ARR soars to $492M > raises $1B at $26B (when ARR is $492M?) > Buys Poke (no idea how much)Ash
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AxiosIna Fried

Meta updates Meta AI with Muse Spark 1.1-powered agentic capabilities, connecting to Gmail and Google Calendar to perform tasks like creating daily updates

Meta is giving its AI assistant new agent-like capabilities powered by Muse Spark 1.1, its latest model.

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The Hollywood ReporterAlex Weprin

Facebook plans to test a full-screen “immersive video” player when users open the app, replacing the newsfeed, in select international markets this year

The social platform says it will test a video-first look for users when they open the app in select countries, potentially bringing it to the U.S. next year.

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@pkafkaFacebook is testing what would happen if it turns itself into TikTok, where the default will be “endless streams of videos from strangers” instead of “posts from someone you might know.” [image]Peter Kafka@mgsieglerFinally removing all pretense of what Facebook once was. Will now just try to leverage 3B+ users to force ‘FaceTube’ into existence.M.G. Siegler@alexweprinReels, the short-form video product for Facebook and Instagram, has a $50 billion run-rate, but Meta is clearly not satisfied. They want more video ad dollars. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...Alex Weprin@alexweprinToday in news that no one is talking about but will have major reverberations for media and entertainment: Facebook is testing out a new version of the app that replaces the feed when you open it with an “immersive video” player.Alex Weprin@vergeFacebook considers giving up and becoming TikTok https://www.theverge.com/...
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Financial TimesRafe Rosner-Uddin

Sources: Waymo is exploring exiting its Uber partnership, with their relationship souring amid an intense lobbying battle over the future of robotaxis

Partnership between two groups has soured amid intense lobbying battle over rollout of autonomous vehicles

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@ethanmckannaLots of behind the scenes tension between Waymo and Uber Uber is now confirmed to be responsible for routing, leading to issues like the viral incident in Atlanta where a large number of vehicles flooded a residential neighborhood Also concerns about cleanliness, which I can vouch for. Austin Waymos are much more likely to be dirty than the 5 other service areas I've personally experiencedEthan McKanna@ethanmckannaUber is proposing rules that would prevent pure AV platforms from operating. They deny the fact that this will slow AV deployments, stating hybrid networks will “get the technology to consumers sooner” [image]Ethan McKanna
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r/SelfDrivingCarsWaymo explores split with Uber as robotaxi tensions deepen
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CoinDeskShaurya Malwa

India orders GitHub to remove Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Jack Dorsey that is used by anti-government protestors amid internet blackouts

India's top cybercrime watchdog has ordered GitHub to take down Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Block chief executive …

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@jackthe government of india does not like technologies like bitchat and wants it taken down [image]@prakharshivamWhat a cowardly act! I will not be surprised if Modi gov is already planning to create something similar to the Great Firewall of China.@sflcinStatement on the Indian government's order to GitHub to block BitChat: The Indian Cyber Crime …
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ReutersFoo Yun Chee

Preliminary findings: the EU Commission says TikTok's accounts for minors violate the DSA, citing features that could expose children to bullying and predators

ByteDance's social media platform TikTok has been charged with breaching EU online content rules due to design features …

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@claesdevreeseThe European Commission preliminary finds TikTok in breach of Digital Services Act #DSA for failing to ensure safe accounts for minors.  —  Based on an in-depth investigation of TikTok's interface, internal data, documents and expert interviews.  —  TikTok may now respond.  —  ec.europa.eu/commission/p...Claes de Vreese@stevepeersEU tech law  —  EU Commission preliminary finding that TikTok is in breach of Digital Services Act re accounts of minors ec.europa.eu/commission/p...Steve Peers
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@[email protected] …We sent TikTok preliminary findings indicating that TikTok accounts of minors don't meet safety standards required under the DSA.  —  On TikTok, minors can choose to set their accounts as “public”.  Any user, including those without a TikTok account, may be able to view minors' content. …Henna Virkkunen
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r/europeanunion“If our preliminary findings are confirmed, TikTok could be issued with a fine of up to 6% of its total global annual turnover” - European Commission
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BloombergIan King

Letter: Qualcomm tells customers it plans to raise prices by double digit percentage points, after exhausting its ability to absorb higher costs from suppliers

Qualcomm Inc., the biggest maker of smartphone processors, plans to increase prices by a percentage in the double digits …

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@mweinbachCosts for almost everyone went up a bunch, seems like Qualcomm tried to absorb that as long as they can and passed along what they couldn't. Double digit makes sense given the 22% industry average cost increaseMax Weinbach@benbajarinPrice increases are a sign of the times. We modeled the average price increase across the board is 22% for all in supply chain. We believe Qualcomm price increase under that average FWIW.Ben Bajarin
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Reuters

Sources: Anduril is in talks with investors for a new funding round that could see it valued at around $100B; the company raised $5B at a $61B valuation in May

Defense tech firm Anduril is in discussions with investors for a new funding round that could see it valued at roughly $100 billion …

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The BlockYogita Khatri

World Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol, raised $52.5M led by Pantera through a strategic sale of its WLD token with a one-year lockup

Quick Take  — World Foundation has raised $52.5 million in new funding through a WLD token sale, with all purchased tokens subject to a one-year lockup.

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ReutersJonathan Stempel

An appeals court narrowly blocks Texas from enforcing a monitoring and filtering requirement under its children's online safety law, over Section 230 preemption

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@ewess92Interesting constitutional avoidance + section 230 to find that the monitoring and filtering requirement in Texas's law is statutorily preempted. Thus, the Fifth Circuit enjoins enforcement of that part of the law. [image]Eric W.@ccianetThe Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a preliminary injunction that blocked Texas …@ewess92Judge Ho concurs in part. He would vacate the whole injunction against the SCOPE Act. The law “requir[es] digital service providers to prevent children from being exposed to ‘harmful material’”. Nothing illegal 'bout that. He has a narrower (and, in my view correct) view of S230 [image]Eric W.@ewess92One big holding here, that will likely escape some notice, is that one of the associational plaintiffs was foundt o lack standing altogether. That is big, decisions like this help shape who can bring challenges in the future. That kills several challenges to the law altogether [image]Eric W.@ewess92Can Texas protect children from dangerous online content? The “Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act” regulates social media websites. A district court enjoined enforcing the law. Judge Douglas vacates in part-no standing. Section 230 justifies some though. [image]Eric W.
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ReutersMunsif Vengattil

Delhi High Court rules OpenAI's use of ANI content to train ChatGPT wasn't copyright infringement as the news agency didn't show ChatGPT reproduced its reports

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The BlockBrian Danga

Poolin, previously regarded as one of the world's largest crypto mining pool providers, files for Chapter 11 and seeks to sell its Texas mining assets for $52M

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ReutersSimone Lobo

The US OCC denies Wise's application to create a national trust bank, citing incompatibility with new Federal Reserve policies; Wise says it plans to reapply

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Wall Street Journal

A look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor

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@chorzempamartinThe decision to ban the H20 and then loudly proclaim that un banning it was a plot to keep China addicted to low-grade Chinese tech will go down as a historic self own. This reporting corroborates that attempts to sell the H20 un banning decision went to senior leadership in Beijing and shifted the debate against using US chips.Martin Chorzempa
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Mauro GilliVery interesting article.  I have a piece with Andrea Gilli,Francesco Fimiani and Nicolas Deriquehem coming up in War on The Rocks in a couple of days about some of these aspects. …Josh ChinChina the fastest of fast-followers in AI software — nearly close enough to kick out a foot and trip up the American leaders.  It's a very different story in hardware. …
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SiliconANGLEKyt Dotson

Singapore-based Ropedia, which captures real-world human experience via video and converts it into model-ready multimodal datasets, raised a $22M pre-Series A

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@brianroemmeleYour HOMIE is Teaching AI. A human experience recorder to train AI and robots. Ropedia, is building data infrastructure for physical AI. The company plans to use the funding to scale HOMIE, its wearable, head-mounted device. HOMIE captures first-person human movement, object interaction, and spatial context and then feeds that data into Ropedia's processing and annotation models.Brian Roemmele
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CNBCAnnie Palmer

Amazon tells third-party sellers to label product ads with AI-generated people to comply with a NY law requiring the disclosure of “synthetic performers” in ads

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The Information

Amazon closed its San Francisco-based AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February

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@jessefelder.com“We're sharpening our focus on the initiatives that matter most for customers, so we can move faster on what counts.  That focus means some difficult decisions, including eliminating some roles within parts of our AGI organization.” www.reuters.com/business/wor...Jesse Felder
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VarietyCorbin Bolies

Patreon lays off 20% of its employees, or 93 people, citing a “painful” restructuring due to “profound” changes in the creator economy over the past six months

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@mizmulligan“The company in April touted the $629 million in revenue its podcasters generated last year, a 33% year-over-year increase.”  —  And it had to cut staff??  —  Insane.  [embedded post]Jennifer Mulligan@samleecolein an email to staff this morning, Conte wrote that he both doesn't believe AI replaces human creativity... but does see it as changing the way tech companies, including his own, operate day to day: www.404media.co/patreon-lays...Sam Cole
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@[email protected]Patreon laying off 20% of their workforce is sad but TBH Patreon is a service that should be run by a handful of people just taking care of money flows.  None of their dumb growth hack features.  Be the money collection guys.  Take a cut and have a billion dollar business with a staff leaner than Onlyfans. …
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18

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@gdbLaunching Health in ChatGPT to U.S. users. 300 million people use ChatGPT each week for health queries (and my wife and I are among those!). You can now securely connect supported medical records so ChatGPT can understand your personal context and be more helpful to you. [image]Greg Brockman
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Frank RamosA Florida pastor sued OpenAI on Wednesday, claiming that its chatbot, ChatGPT, had offered him “extremely dangerous medical recommendations” …
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@hypervisible.blacksky.app“... the company maintains in its terms that its services are ‘not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of any health condition.’”@davidcrespolol relevant.  connect your medical records [embedded post]
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Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will close on September 23 and tells users to withdraw assets; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for not implementing AML rules

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@bitmexDear BitMEX Users, Today, we share with a very heavy heart that BitMEX exchange will shut …@ag_dwfBitMEX was the first crypto futures exchange that we started trading on. It gave us believe that the market is inefficient and it makes sense to spend efforts on it Bye bye legend, it was a pure and wild fun, we will never forget that times!@ki_young_juBitMEX recorded $84M in BTC futures volume yesterday, representing 0.08% of the market. It was a great exchange that helped shape the industry, and now it is passing the torch to the next generation of exchanges it inspired. [image]Ki Young Ju@cz_binanceSad to see BitMex go.  Some thoughts: BitMex pioneered 100x perps in crypto back in 2014. …@ogdfarmer“a flawless track record of 0 customer funds lost to hacks” The rest of you lot trounced by the woodchipper and spat out by the overload error: rest in piss. Daddy needs a new rari. GG bitmex, even with the inevitable tinge of nostalgia, you won't be missed.@benbybitBitMEX pioneered the perpetual swap and became the world's #1 crypto exchange. …Ben Zhou@bittexxbtthe 10/10 inventor is retiring [image]@cobieThe world you grew up in no longer exists [image]@stacy_muurWe'll never forget you, Bitmex. [image]Stacy Muur@gainzy222well, u sorta ruined my life but u also led to the biggest character building arc thanks for the memories@chimpfoneThis really hits hard... a lot of the newer gen don't know how monumental this is. …@0xg00glyWow, end of an era. This means that they can capture the reminder of the insurance fund & excess assets: currently c.$300m. It is probably the main reason behind the wind down. Thank you for the perps, massive product innovation, and the memories.
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Google adds a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, using tools like liveness detection to safeguard against deepfake attacks, rolling out globally

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Lana SimpsonAlways have access to your Google ecosystem with video selfie for secure sign in.  🎉🎉  —  Incredibly proud of what this team achieved. …Stéphane TaineWe know life happens - you lose your phone that holds your passkey, forget your password.  Today we're announcing our new selfie video for sign …Wuwei Zhang🚀 Big news!  We've officially launched selfie video sign-in!  —  After all, what can prove you are yourself better than you? …

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