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Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers (thenewstack.io)
26 days ago Browser

SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (www.wsj.com)
26 days ago Microsoft Startup

OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach (www.theverge.com)
26 days ago AI

METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face (metr.org)
26 days ago

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% (www.theinformation.com)
26 days ago Robot

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 (www.wsj.com)
26 days ago Google

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 (www.cnbc.com)
26 days ago

Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B (www.theinformation.com)
26 days ago Nvidia

Sen. Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's “collection, retention, and dissemination of the data” from its AI-powered surveillance cameras (www.axios.com)
26 days ago AI

Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing (www.businessinsider.com)
26 days ago Microsoft Nvidia

Trump signs an EO banning the use of certain foreign-made bulk-power equipment, including associated critical software, deemed to pose national security risks (cyberscoop.com)
27 days ago Trump

Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills (venturebeat.com)
27 days ago Salesforce

OpenAI Releases Its Official Report On the Hugging Face Breach (it.slashdot.org)
27 days ago

Nvidia forecasts Q3 revenue of $108B, above a $104B estimate, and expects FY 2028 revenue to grow by about 70%; NVDA jumps 4%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago Nvidia

Brazil's government sues Discord for $97M, accusing it of failing to comply with laws protecting children and teens; Discord calls the lawsuit disproportionate (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago Brazil

Critical Avada WordPress theme flaw enables zero-click RCE (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago WordPress

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 (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago Google AI

AWS plans to add 2M Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs to its data center fleet in 2027 and 2028, in addition to 1M GPUs announced in March (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago Nvidia

China's Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing (news.slashdot.org)
27 days ago China Google Amazon Microsoft

CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.47B, vs. $1.44B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; CRWD jumps 9%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago

HP reports Q3 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $15.7B, PC revenue up 18% to $11.8B, but units down 16%, and Printing revenue down 2% to $3.9B; HPQ drops 9%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago

Apple Maps Now Has Ads (apple.slashdot.org)
27 days ago Apple

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 (www.cnbc.com)
27 days ago Salesforce CRM

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 (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago AI

Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 106% YoY to $96.2B, Data Center revenue up 117% to $89B, Edge Computing revenue up 27% to $7.2B, and net income up 126% to $59.7B (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
27 days ago Nvidia Edge Computing

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 (www.businessinsider.com)
27 days ago Startup

Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books For AI Training (news.slashdot.org)
27 days ago Amazon AI

OpenAI publishes a technical report on the Hugging Face incident, detailing the agents' activity, safeguard failures, and measures to prevent recurrence (openai.com)
27 days ago

Xbox's New Disc-to-Digital Program Gives Physical Games a Digital Future (games.slashdot.org)
27 days ago Xbox

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 (9to5google.com)
27 days ago Google Chrome

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