Tech

AMD acquires Toronto-based Taalas, which integrates model weights directly into silicon to boost inference performance, for an undisclosed sum (www.theregister.com)
2026-8-7 Toronto AMD

OpenAI's Models Shared Hacking Tips On a Secret Messaging Board Before Hugging Face Breach (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7

Sources: OpenAI's new device, slated for 2027, is a hockey puck-sized smart speaker with moving parts that help give it personality, likely costing $300+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7

Hedge fund cyberattacks tied to BlackFile-linked UNC6671 extortion group (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-7

Gravity, which places text-based ads within AI chatbots, raised a $30.5M Series A co-led by Lightspeed and Committed, taking its total funding to $38.5M (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-7 AI chatbot

Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs (www.forbes.com)
2026-8-7 China AI

Figma CEO Dylan Field forfeits ~$46M in stock awards to revive investor confidence amid AI disruption fears; FIG is down ~77% from its peak more than a year ago (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Scientists trained AI on genetic sequences to design viruses not found in nature, yielding viable viruses that can infect bacteria but pose no threat to humans (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-7 AI

The US Government's Mario, Pokemon and Naruto Meme Posting Could Damage These Franchises, Japanese Officials Warn (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7 Japan

Sources: Nscale told potential backers it generated $100M+ in Q2 revenue, up from $37M in Q1, and has $51B in contracts, ahead of a possible September US IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7 IPO

Sources: Panthalassa, which aims to power data centers in the ocean using energy generated by waves, is raising $225M at a ~$2B valuation, up from $1B in May (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-7 Energy

New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-7 Linux

Train for all eight CISSP domains from home for just $20 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-7

Swiss government SharePoint breach compromised 200 accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-7 Switzerland

FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap, Claiming Authority Over Limit Set By Congress (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7

Suno plans to adopt new watermarking and fingerprinting tech, transparency tools, and a new download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Google and data: hackers used phone calls, phishing websites, and “meticulous” tactics to target dozens of US PE firms and other businesses over the past month (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-7 Google

OpenAI updates the default model for free users to GPT-5.6 Luna, adds unlimited text chats for free users, rolls out an improved GPT-5.6 Sol version, and more (www.axios.com)
2026-8-7

OpenAI introduces Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says its steering committee includes Amazon, Microsoft, and Cursor (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-7 Amazon Microsoft

Western Digital falls 10%+ after issuing guidance that didn't quite match those of Seagate; Q4 revenue rose 44% YoY to $3.75B, above a $3.7B estimate (www.barrons.com)
2026-8-7 4Q Western Digital

Times Magazine Now Serves Ads That Only AI Chatbots Can See (slashdot.org)
2026-8-7 AI chatbot

Meta AI model hacked a company during misconfigured cyber test (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Google DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can accurately predict a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data, and open sources the model (www.wired.com)
2026-8-7 Google

Sources: Nvidia is considering lower-memory versions of its Rubin Ultra GPU due to potential issues securing enough HBM, and has tested at least three versions (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-7 Nvidia

Sources: Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10B (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-7 Startup

Meta AI Hacked External Systems During Cybersecurity Testing (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7 AI

Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO may weaken the UK tech scene, marking an end for Hassabis' effort to keep his native UK as an AI stronghold (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7 Google AI

Datadog drops 15%+ after forecasting weaker full-year sales due to reduced usage from its largest client, a leading AI company; Q2 revenue rises 36% to $1.12B (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-7 AI

Broadcaster Wins Broad US Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don't Exist Yet (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7

WindBorne, which deploys weather balloons to collect data for its AI weather forecasting models, raised a $37M Series B at a $250M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-7 AI

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