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Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

UK publisher Bloomsbury says it is among the beneficiaries of the $1.5B Anthropic settlement; 14,087 of its titles are covered, with ~$3K in compensation each (www.reuters.com)
6 days ago

Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak's Science Corp gets EU approval for Prima, a bionic eye that treats age-related macular degeneration using an implant and glasses (www.ft.com)
6 days ago

Tencent's Hong Kong-listed shares fall ~7%, the most since April 2025, as investors worry over “rumors” of weaker earnings on August 12, and NetEase drops 5%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago Hong Kong Tencent

Anthropic commits another $20M to Public First Action, after giving $20M earlier in 2026; PFA says it is a counterweight to a16z-backed Leading the Future (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago

NJ's Governor says a DMV software error led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots (www.nytimes.com)
6 days ago

OpenAI Says Its AI Models Acted On Its Own In An 'Unprecedented' Hack (it.slashdot.org)
6 days ago AI

Chick-fil-A discloses data breach after credential stuffing attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
6 days ago

Dune: since January 2021, wallets funded via US-regulated exchanges accounted for ~50% of all traceable trading volume on Polymarket's US-banned global platform (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago

OpenAI says its AI models hacked Hugging Face during testing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
6 days ago AI

TSMC forecasts “several years” of margin dilution as overseas fab projects ramp up; the company has announced $200B in investment into US manufacturing (www.cnbc.com)
6 days ago Manufacturing

Chinese AI models account for ~60% of token usage by US companies on OpenRouter, making restrictions harder to impose without disrupting US users and businesses (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago China AI

Sources: Samsung may invest up to €1B in Mistral as part of a broader round valuing it at ~€20B, after previously backing the AI startup through its venture arm (www.ft.com)
6 days ago Samsung Startup AI

France Becomes First European Country To Ban Social Media Access For Under-15s (tech.slashdot.org)
6 days ago France Europe Ban Social Media

Memo: the White House OSTP plans to redirect federal research funding from universities to individual scientists and AI use, reshaping ~$200B in annual spending (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago AI

Sources: Reddit, Politico, and others mull cutting Google's access to their content for AI as traffic drops; Reddit signed a $60M/year deal with Google in 2024 (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago Google AI Reddit

Doc: nearly 200 US utilities, data center developers, and others have signed Trump's pledge to ensure AI energy use doesn't push up consumer electric bills (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Trump Energy AI

Sources: Alphabet has more than quadrupled its office space in Miami, partially driven by Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's residential real estate purchases (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago Alphabet

Trump nominates FCC general counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit; Candeub, a longtime Big Tech critic, has long sought to challenge Section 230 (www.ft.com)
7 days ago Trump

Police dismantle Kratos phishing platform, arrest developer (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
7 days ago

Airbus Migrating 70 Critical Apps From AWS to France's Scaleway (slashdot.org)
7 days ago France Airbus

Documents: Meta's internal AI incubator is developing an AI model router, similar to OpenRouter's, to cut costs by sending some AI tasks to lower-cost models (www.theinformation.com)
7 days ago AI

London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M (www.forbes.com)
7 days ago Startup Robot London

FakeGit campaign uses 7,600 GitHub repos to push SmartLoader malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
7 days ago GitHub

Amazon says its business sales unit, Amazon Business, reached $60B in annualized gross sales in Q2, up ~71% from 2023, and serves 11M+ organizations worldwide (www.bloomberg.com)
7 days ago Amazon

Tesla Robotaxis Go To Florida (tech.slashdot.org)
7 days ago Tesla

OpenAI adds Nubank founder and CEO David Vélez and BNY CEO Robin Vince to its board of directors, as the company moves toward a public listing (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago

OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years (www.axios.com)
7 days ago U.S.

OpenAI says its models chained vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's infrastructure to find solutions for the ExploitGym benchmark (openai.com)
7 days ago

Firefox 153 Released (news.slashdot.org)
7 days ago Firefox

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