FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban
In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.
Daniel Gross leaves Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded with Ilya Sutskever, to join Meta's new superintelligence lab and work on AI products
Daniel Gross, the former chief executive officer and co-founder of artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc. …
Counterpoint Research: iPhone sales in China grew 8% YoY in Q2 2025, boosted by discounts, the first time Apple has recorded growth in China since Q2 2023
Apple iPhone sales in China rose in the second quarter of the year for the first time in two years, Counterpoint Research said …
SSI co-founder Ilya Sutskever becomes the CEO and co-founder Daniel Levy becomes the president; SSI's technical team will continue to report to Sutskever
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever said he will assume the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year.
Meta says it backs proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media, calling it “effective”
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has said it supports proposals for a common digital majority age across EU member states.
Sources: Meta offers to buy up to 49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross' VC firm NFDG, which has invested about half of its first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023
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Xbox says Arrowhead Game Studios' Helldivers 2 will debut on the Xbox Series X and S on August 26 for $40, the first PlayStation-published title to come to Xbox
here are 7 games I'd love to see PlayStation bring to Microsoft's platform Pure Xbox : Helldivers 2 Coming To Xbox Is A ‘Sign Of Unity’, Says Creative Director Aryan Singh / Beebom : Helldivers 2 Marc...
A look at Scattered Spider, a group of mostly young UK and US hackers using targeted social engineering to gain access to company networks and deploy ransomware
The Scattered Spider hacking group has caused chaos among retailers, insurers, and airlines in recent months.
Sources: in 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google
Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps …
Sources: Samsung is delaying the completion of its Texas fab due to a lack of customers; the plant was meant to come online in 2024, but has been pushed to 2026
SEOUL/TAIPEI — Samsung Electronics is delaying completion of a semiconductor factory in the U.S. state of Texas …
The EU says it has no plans to pause the implementation of the AI Act, after Meta, Google, Mistral, ASML, and others urged it to delay the rules by years
The European Union's landmark rules on artificial intelligence will be implemented according to the timeline agreed by legislators and EU countries …
Google rolls out its Veo 3 video generation model to Google AI Pro subscribers in 159+ countries, capped at three videos/day; Veo 3 makes up to 8 second clips
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As companies like SpaceX, Stripe, and OpenAI stay private longer, tokenized stocks on blockchains offer a way for the public to access lucrative private markets
Also BlackRock and privates, Vanguard and privates, the Paramount settlement and Enron 2.0. — ‘Tokenization’
London-based Hived, which offers an AI-based logistics and parcel delivery service purpose-built for ecommerce, raised a $42M Series B led by NordicNinja
London-based parcel delivery startup Hived Ltd.today said it has raised $42 million in early-stage funding aimed at supporting …
Sources: TSMC delays construction of its second plant in Japan, originally planned for early 2025, to invest in US expansion ahead of potential Trump tariffs
Taiwanese semiconductor maker accelerates investment in Arizona — TOKYO—Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is delaying construction …
An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes, humans doing the rating, and more
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ 202... … Alexios Mantzarlis / @mantzarlis.com : Second, the bottleneck with Community Notes is that there aren't enough ratings to determine whether a note is helpful ...
Sources: Google plans to propose a price comparison box at the top of search results in EU, featuring ranked options from competitors, to avoid DMA fines
Under the plan, a box at the top of Google's search results will show ranked options from price-comparison companies' websites …
How Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, which Congress approved on July 3, could cost the US the AI race by handicapping efforts to meet data center power demands
Jordan Blum / Fortune :
Founders Fund-backed Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital launch a $250M fund to invest in real-world asset tokenization projects via equity stakes and tokens
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Sources: the Trump administration plans to curb AI chip shipments to Malaysia and Thailand, as part of an effort to crack down on suspected smuggling into China
President Donald Trump's administration plans to restrict shipments of AI chips from the likes of Nvidia Corp. to Malaysia and Thailand …
Tel Aviv-based Wonderful, which develops customer support AI agents for businesses in non-English speaking countries, raised a $34M seed led by Index Ventures
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CoreWeave receives liquid-cooled Nvidia Blackwell Ultra servers from Dell, becoming the first cloud provider to install systems with Nvidia's latest AI chips
Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip systems deployed at CoreWeave Wall Street Pit : CoreWeave First to Deploy Nvidia's Newest AI Chips in Cloud Tae Kim / Barron's Online : CoreWeave Is First to Deploy Nvi...
Austin-based Ambiq Micro, which makes ultra-low power chips, files for an IPO and reports an $8.3M net loss on $15.7M in revenue in the three months to March 31
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