Tech

South Korea plans to launch a ~$3.5B chip fund for promising materials, parts, equipment, and fabless companies, and speed the development of domestic chip hubs (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-10 Korea

Sources: the AI-driven memory chip shortage kicks off a rush of DC lobbying; many US officials appear unsympathetic to Apple's desire to buy Chinese chips (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-10 China AI Apple

Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor, a lender that aims to fill the gap left by Silicon Valley Bank, is in advanced talks to raise ~$1.5B at an $8B valuation (www.ft.com)
2026-8-10

As AI salaries intensify competition in San Francisco's rental market, CoStar says average asking rent is up 18% in under two years to $3,728/month, passing NYC (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-10 AI San Francisco

Q&A with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on his vision to “financialize everything”, sports betting, Kalshi's “philosophical misalignment” with Polymarket, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-10

The UK's Report Remove service receives 420 reports from under-18s of explicit images digitally faked or manipulated to depict them in H1, exceeding 2025's 397 (www.theguardian.com)
2026-8-10

Mark Zuckerberg criticizes “closed” AI model makers, says AI labs are espousing a “discourse ... so filled with doom”, and defends distillation as a principle (www.ft.com)
2026-8-10 AI Zuckerberg

Meta says Muse Glimmer has 30B parameters and is “small enough” to need only one GPU; Meta plans a $1B fund to invest in US communities near its data centers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-10

Mark Zuckerberg proposes a positive AI philosophy centered on individual empowerment, predicts personal superintelligence could increase employment, and more (www.meta.com)
2026-8-10 AI Zuckerberg

Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a new open-weight model, and will release an open-weight version of its most advanced model, Muse Spark 1.2, in the coming weeks (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-10

Smart Analytics: Chinese humanoid robot makers were 97%+ of global shipments in H1 2026, reaching ~19,100 unit shipments globally, up from 5,100 in H1 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-10 China Robot

Sources: the UK FCA is consulting industry participants, including major banks, on a regulatory framework for tokenized gold; London dominates the global market (www.ft.com)
2026-8-10 London

Sources: Nvidia chips remain the norm for Chinese AI labs training LLMs, as switching from its CUDA platform to Huawei's CANN requires major code rewriting (www.scmp.com)
2026-8-10 China AI Nvidia

Q&A with historian Jill Lepore on her new book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, tech leaders misreading science fiction warnings as manuals, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-10

How Accurate Are Flock's AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras? (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-10 AI

A profile of Founders Pledge, which has recorded $4B in pledges from founders so far in 2026, as the AI industry now accounts for a third of its lifetime total (www.wired.com)
2026-8-10 AI

Revelio Labs: short-term AI training programs made up ~33% of the professional certificate market in 2026, up from just 2% in 2022 before ChatGPT launched (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-10 AI

How Amex-owned Resy and Chase-partnered OpenTable reservation apps became assets in the card wars, wiring the best restaurant tables into premium card perks (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-10 Asset

A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind moved in in 2016, now home to OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and others (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-10 AI London

Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta 'Photos' App on Enterprise Machines (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-10 Microsoft

Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-10 China AI

Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent “heartbeat communications” to an IP address in China (www.telegraph.co.uk)
2026-8-10 China Drone

Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-8-10 Japan Sony Sensor

Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-10 Spotify

Sources: Chinese regulators have told banks to back tech companies, but lenders still prefer stable cash flows and profitability over loss-making tech startups (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-10 China Startup

Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-10

Moore Threads reports H1 revenue up 147% YoY to ~$258M, a net loss of $1.72M, says it plans a Hong Kong listing, after its stock surged 420%+ since Shanghai IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-10 Hong Kong IPO Shanghai

Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M (www.fiercehealthcare.com)
2026-8-10 AI

AI Reviews Bring 'New Normal' to Linux Release Candidates: Lots of Bug Fixes (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-8-10 Linux AI

An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist (www.abc.net.au)
2026-8-10 Australia

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