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Xiaomi releases MiDashengLM-7B, an AI voice model based on its foundation voice model deployed in cars and smart home devices, under an Apache 2.0 license (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 AI Xiaomi

Google, OpenAI, Meta, and VCs are increasingly embracing the US military industrial complex, a major Silicon Valley cultural shift supported by President Trump (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 Trump Google

Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 review: a unique $3,300 laptop with a rollable 120Hz OLED display that can expand from 14" to 16.7", but is heavy and has few ports (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-7 Lenovo

How 20-something CEOs like Cognition AI's Scott Wu, Cursor's Michael Truell, Cluely's Roy Lee, and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang are swarming San Francisco's AI boom (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 AI San Francisco

Microsoft's Q4 earnings show its non-AI “core infrastructure business” is booming, with consumer productivity software revenue up 20%, its best uptick in years (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Microsoft AI 4Q

A profile of Netflix VP Brandon Riegg, who oversees unscripted series, sports, documentary series, and gaming, as the company pushes into live shows and sports (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 Netflix

CrowdStrike's 2025 Threat Hunting Report: 320+ investigations into North Korean operatives in remote IT jobs in the US, Europe, and elsewhere in the past year (cyberscoop.com)
2025-8-7 Europe Korea

Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new “hard tech”, AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 Startup AI San Francisco

Lyft partners with Baidu to launch autonomous vehicles in Germany and the UK in 2026, pending regulatory approval; Lyft will deploy Baidu's sixth-gen robotaxis (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 Germany Autonomous Car

Bullish, a digital asset exchange and CoinDesk's owner, plans to sell 20.3M shares at $28 to $31 in a US IPO, raising up to $629.3M at an up to ~$4.2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 IPO Asset

Connecticut-based Amphenol plans to acquire North Carolina-based CommScope's broadband connectivity and cable unit for ~$10.5B, including debt, amid the AI boom (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Spotify says it is updating prices across South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific; an example email had a €1/month rise (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 Europe U.S. Asia Africa Latin America Spotify

Amazon denies it is closing its Wondery podcast studio, but says it will break up its operations; a source says ~110 jobs will be cut due to the reorganization (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 Amazon

Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks (blog.cloudflare.com)
2025-8-7 Robot

OpenAI says ChatGPT will hit 700M weekly active users this week, up from 500M in March and up 4x YoY, and now has 5M paying business users, up from 3M in June (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-7

Elon Musk says that xAI will bring back Vine's video archive, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine feature, available to X Premium+ subscribers, is “AI Vine” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 AI Elon Musk

Transcripts from the trial over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash: Tesla withheld crash‑snapshot data and took years to admit it existed or was relevant to the case (electrek.co)
2025-8-7 Tesla

ChatGPT now offers “gentle reminders” to take breaks during long sessions and OpenAI is building tools to better detect signs of mental or emotional distress (www.engadget.com)
2025-8-7

Google unveils benchmarking platform Kaggle Game Arena, where LLMs compete head-to-head in strategic games, starting with a chess tournament from August 5 to 7 (siliconangle.com)
2025-8-7 Google

Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $1B, vs. $940M est., and boosts full-year outlook guidance to $4.142B-$4.150B, up from $3.89B-$3.90B; PLTR jumps 5%+ (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-7

Google says Big Sleep, DeepMind and Project Zero's vulnerability research tool “powered by Gemini”, found 20 flaws in various popular open-source software (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 Google

Source: Figma considered a higher IPO price, but CEO Dylan Field wanted to bring on board certain long-term institutional shareholders and approved $33/share (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 IPO

Figma's stock dropped 27.38% to $88.60 on August 4 after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-7 IPO Adobe

Broadcom unveils Jericho4, a new version of its networking chip that can connect 1M+ processors across multiple data centers and handle distances of over 100km (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7

Search-engine optimization feels dated as marketers look to generative-engine optimization, or GEO, which focuses on tricking AI chatbots rather than Google (nymag.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI chatbot

Google signs a deal with two power utilities to lower its power use by pausing non-essential AI workloads during demand surges or weather-based grid disruptions (www.theregister.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

A term sheet shows Ant will sell its remaining 5.84% Paytm stake via block deals that could total ~$433.72M; Ant sold a 4% stake in May and 10.3% in August 2023 (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-7

Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to its ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing “we don't believe in work-life balance” (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-7

The CFTC is asking for public comment by August 18 about trading spot crypto asset contracts listed on CFTC-registered futures exchanges (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 Asset CFTC

A Parkland shooting victim's parents created an AI version of their late son to speak about gun safety, starting with an interview with journalist Jim Acosta (www.rollingstone.com)
2025-8-7 Interview AI

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