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Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add “stronger guardrails” after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery (www.npr.org)
2026-8-1 Google

An in-depth account of the past two days inside Situational Awareness, as Aschenbrenner assured investors he would focus on changes to his portfolio management (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-1

OpenAI says its new GPT 5.6 models are becoming more cost-efficient (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1

10 News-Worthy Events That Made 1926 a Year to Remember (listverse.com)
2026-8-1

Index Ventures has raised $2B in new capital: a $900M venture vehicle, $400M for seed financing, and an addition of $700M to a 2024 $1.5B growth fund (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-1

Publishers Are Losing Google Traffic As AI Answers Replace Links (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 Google AI

Snap says its recommendation systems will be adjusted so only videos created by real people, not AI-generated ones, are eligible for Spotlight recommendations (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-1 AI

Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1 AI Hacker

New York Sues Kalshi For Running 'Illegal Gambling Operation' (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 New York

Trump says he does not think Iran is behind a cyberattack on Minnesota water systems: “I think I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent” (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-1 Trump Iran

OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-1

Sources: NXP is in talks to buy Ambarella, which has a market cap of ~$3.3B and makes image-processing chips for security cameras and self-driving cars (www.ft.com)
2026-8-1 Autonomous Car

Chrome Is Using AI To Fix Hundreds of Bugs, Eliminate Full Browser Restarts (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-1 AI Browser Chrome

CISA warns of cyberattacks disrupting U.S. water utilities (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1

Filing: Microsoft's product R&D roles declined for the second straight year as the company's total FY2026 headcount fell for the first time since 2016 (www.geekwire.com)
2026-8-1 Microsoft

SpaceXAI says it will remove 69 gas turbines used to power the Colossus data centers near Memphis by July 2027, as it moves to a 1.2 GW natural gas power plant (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-1

South Korea plans to inject ~$14B into its sovereign wealth fund for strategic investments in AI, data centers, and infrastructure, after a rout in tech stocks (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-1 Korea AI

MediaTek says its board has approved a discretionary $5B financing budget to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centers (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-1 AI Budget

Shadow AI Is Everywhere. Here's How to Find and Secure It. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1 AI

ESET tracks rise in malicious AI skills and adaptable malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1 AI

DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April (artificialanalysis.ai)
2026-8-1 Intelligence

Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop (9to5google.com)
2026-8-1 Google AI Chrome

[Webcast] How Drata scaled IT governance in the AI era (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1 AI

[Guide] How to identify risky OAuth grants and MCP server connections (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1

Get lifetime access to 1,000+ online courses for $35 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-1

Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-31 Alibaba Nvidia

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-31 LinkedIn AI

AI-generated images, video, audio, and text on matters of public interest designed to look authentic must be labeled in the EU under the AI Act from August 2 (www.theguardian.com)
2026-7-31 AI

A German court rules that Suno has violated copyrights and must disclose illicit revenue after Germany's state-mandated licensing agency GEMA sued in 2025 (www.dw.com)
2026-7-31 Germany

Sources: Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes, which develops AI-powered defense tech for the public sector, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $638M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-31 Trump AI

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