Meta settles with 29 states for $18B over social media harms to children
Meta agreed to sweeping changes including daily two-hour time limits for teens and the largest-ever settlement over claims its platforms addict children.
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Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious top-performing open AI model
The Chinese AI lab revealed it built Ox Alpha, a GLM-series model topping benchmarks, and said it will release its weights soon.
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Amazon triples Nvidia chip order, adding 2 million GPUs to data centers
Amazon is expanding its data center capacity significantly over the next two years amid surging AI demand.
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Anthropic strikes $45B compute deal with infrastructure provider Nscale
The deal marks another massive compute investment by Anthropic as it scales its AI models.
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Salesforce embeds its entire CRM inside Anthropic's Claude in 'Claudeforce' partnership
Salesforce and Anthropic expanded their partnership to put the full CRM platform inside Claude, suggesting users may no longer need the Salesforce app.
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Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch fully local AI agent Portable Computer
Perplexity's new platform runs entirely on local hardware including Nvidia's DGX Spark, with zero token costs.
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Revolut launches AI research unit to build proprietary models in-house
The fintech giant created a dedicated AI research unit focused on building its own AI stack rather than relying on third parties.
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OpenAI releases official report on Hugging Face breach
The report spans multiple discrete cybersecurity compromises and is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.
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Stability AI raises $76M with Warner and Sony investing
The Stable Diffusion creator raised a $76M round backed by music and entertainment giants as it shifts focus to the US.
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US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to hack NASA, DOJ, and Senate
The Justice Department made the botnet inoperable by seizing hardcoded domains critical to its command and control infrastructure.
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Apple to hold iPhone launch event on September 9, expected to unveil foldable iPhone
The event will be the first with John Ternus as CEO and is rumored to feature Apple's long-awaited foldable iPhone.
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Flipboard acquires Bluesky feed-building startup Graze
Flipboard is buying Graze to bring its privacy-friendly ad tech and creator monetization tools into the open social web.
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Boston Scientific says cyberattack is causing 'global disruption' to operations
The medical device maker confirmed a cyberattack but has not said if medical devices or customer data were affected.
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Former Lunar co-founders launch AI audit startup Repodo, raising over €8M
The co-founders of Danish challenger bank Lunar raised over €8M in pre-seed funding for their new AI-native audit company.
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Capital F closes $17M debut fund backing the 'female economy'
The new firm will invest in women's health, digital commerce, and AI tools where women drive demand.
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Ventures Platform raises $84M for second Africa-focused fund
The Pan-African venture firm will invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria with its larger second fund.
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Certain Energy raises €11.6M for long-duration manganese flow battery storage
The UK-based EnergyTech startup will use the Series A funding to commercialize its battery technology for grid-scale deployment.
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Bill Gates proposes robot tax and 'Human Reserved' jobs to mitigate AI harms
Gates outlined new ideas for protecting human workers in an AI-driven economy, including reserved job categories.
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