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ExfilSquad hackers leak info of over 100,000 UK police officers, staff (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-4

India proposes extending tax exemptions until 2041 for foreign companies that provide machinery to contract manufacturers, something Apple had lobbied for (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-4 India Tax Apple

Company Offering Printed Books To Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-4 AI

Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-4 Trump Google AI

UK court filing: in July, Apple launched a new legal challenge against the UK government's attempt to create a “backdoor” to access encrypted customer data (www.ft.com)
2026-8-4 Apple

Zenity, which develops a platform for securing AI agents, raised a $125M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking its total funding to ~$185M (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-8-3 AI

Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-3 AI

Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-3 Israel AI

Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for ~$104.7M, reducing its holdings to 842,138, or ~4% of total supply, with a $10.9B paper loss at current prices (www.theblock.co)
2026-8-3 Bitcoin

June, which aims to help enterprise AI deployment by finding bottlenecks and building agents, emerges from stealth with $20M led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-3 AI

'AI's Decimation of Call Center Jobs Has Begun' (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-3 AI

One place for ChatGPT, Claude & more— just $59.25 for lifetime access (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-3

The EU's AI Act enforcement powers take effect, letting it evaluate AI models before regional release, restrict market access, fine model providers, and more (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-3 AI

Sources: South Korean AI chip designer DeepX raised a ~$29M Series D at a ~$2.2B valuation, and is in talks to raise ~$209M at a ~$2.4B valuation by September (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-3 Korea AI

Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent (www.axios.com)
2026-8-3

Alibaba prices Qwen3.8-Max at $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens via its API, below Kimi K3's $3/1M input tokens and $15/1M output tokens (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-3 Alibaba

Ofcom Chair Ian Cheshire says he is overseeing a “wide-ranging” review aimed at refitting the regulator to new duties overseeing Big Tech and enforcing the OSA (www.ft.com)
2026-8-3

Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-3

YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage “is not healthy for me or good for the world” (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-3 YouTuber

London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February (www.ft.com)
2026-8-3 Startup AI London

A profile of Nanit, a maker of AI-equipped baby cameras for hyper-detailed tracking, which says it has 1M daily users and $100M+ in annual revenue (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-3 AI

An analysis of US police and court records finds 50+ officers were charged or accused of misusing license-plate readers like Flock's, including for stalking (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-3

Massive Debian 13 Linux Kernel Security Update Patches 68 Vulnerabilities (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-8-3 Linux

A look at the growing tensions over AI data centers in London, Europe's biggest data center hub, as housing, power, and water come under increasing strain (www.ft.com)
2026-8-3 Europe Real Estate AI London

Indeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior staff in software engineering and IT, where AI enhances the value of experience, while cutting back elsewhere (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-3 AI

Hollywood Fights AI In Public While Quietly Building It Into Movies (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-8-3 AI

Japanese startups are racing to enter defense drone production, as Tokyo seeks to cut reliance on Chinese industrial drones, which control 91% of Japan's market (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-8-3 China Japan Startup Drone Tokyo

A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI's and Anthropic's models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and meaningful supervision (thezvi.substack.com)
2026-8-3 AI

An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-3 China Facial Recognition

A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race, led by Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 due by year-end and Kazakhstan's 125MW facility with 100K Nvidia chips by 2027 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-8-3 Asia Nvidia

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