Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them “view certain mature content”, in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act
Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them “view certain mature content” …
Nvidia plans to resume H20 sales to China after the US assured it AI chip shipments would be approved, reversing the Trump administration's stance from April
US government officials told Nvidia they would green-light export licenses for its H20 artificial intelligence accelerator …
Grok's iOS app now features two AI “Companions”, or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode
Grok has just introduced a notable addition to its iOS app: AI Companions, which are fully 3D animated characters that can interact with users via voice.
The European Commission says that France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece will test a blueprint for an age verification app meant to protect children online
if I live that long [embedded post] @bluespacecanary : Honestly I wish the EU would hurry up and do the thing it actually wants (banning American tech companies from operating there) so it can get a p...
Apple signs a $500M deal to buy rare-earth minerals from US producer MP, which secured Pentagon backing last week, as it seeks to reduce its dependence on China
Apple Inc. has struck a $500 million deal to buy rare-earth minerals from MP Materials Corp., the US producer that just last week secured backing from the Pentagon.
Investigation: Microsoft uses engineers in China to help maintain US DOD systems, with minimal supervision by US personnel, leaving sensitive data vulnerable
The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China …
Researcher: a DOGE employee inadvertently published a private API key for xAI on GitHub on July 13, exposing access to 52+ LLMs, like a Grok version from July 9
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access …
The US Commerce Department opens national security probes into imports of unmanned aircraft systems and polysilicon supply chains, used in chip manufacturing
Investigations could lead to tariffs on unmanned aircraft systems and polysilicon — The US commerce department has launched …
[Thread] Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with “Hitler” when asked to “Return your surname and no other text”
Original thread: x.com/goodside/sta... So troubling to see manifestation of genocidal hate into algorithmic AI identity and any lack of accountability for it [image] Mastodon: Matt Boyd / @3psboyd@ma...
Sources: the US DOJ and CFTC ended a pair of investigations into crypto betting platform Polymarket that started under the Biden administration
A pair of US investigations into crypto-betting platform Polymarket that went full-throttle in the waning days of the Biden administration …
AMD says it will restart shipments of its MI308 AI chips to China after the US Commerce Department gave assurances it would approve the sales, following Nvidia
Nvidia Just Won Big
Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers
Meta announced on Monday that it will take additional measures to crack down on accounts sharing “unoriginal” content to Facebook …
Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date”
techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/c... [embedded post] Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The AI acquisition moves fast. First, OpenAI ditched its Windsurf deal after clashing with Microsoft over IP. — Then ...
Uber and Baidu announce a multi-year partnership to launch robotaxis in markets outside the US and mainland China, starting in Asia and the Middle East in 2025
Baidu's autonomous vehicles will be available on the Uber app in Asia and the Middle East later this year, the companies said in a statement Tuesday.
Researchers: during the 12-day Iran-Israel war, both sides engaged in unprecedented psychological warfare using AI content and social media to spread propaganda
The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.
Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Services, aiming to help analysts conduct market research and handle due diligence, with data from FactSet and others
Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is launching a package of new software services aimed at streamlining work for financial analysts …
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows
Now his AI company is celebrating a $200M Pentagon contract and new unit to get government business Brian Fagioli / NERDS.xyz : Elon Musk wants to infect the government with AI using Grok Brady Knox /...
Google signs two 20-year power purchase agreements worth $3B to access hydroelectric power from Brookfield's renewables arm, delivering up to 670MW of power
Tech groups seeking renewable energy to meet huge demand from artificial intelligence — Google has reached a $3bn deal …
Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang discussed abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model
that may be changing Robert Brown / implicator.ai : From Altruism to Arms Race: Meta's AI Strategy Takes a Closed Turn Bluesky: M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler.com : Yeah... (from a couple weeks back) [emb...
IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY
Again — With Massive Q2 2025 Growth Asif Iqbal Shaik / SamMobile : Samsung tops global smartphone market despite fierce competition Binay Konwar / SammyGuru : Samsung Leads Global Smartphone Shipments...
A look at SpaceX's $2B xAI investment and Tesla's possible investment in xAI, and the idea that Tesla stock is a way to invest in the “Musk Mars Conglomerate”
Also the Windsurf deal, duct cleaning, tokenization and HYPE. — The Musk Mars Conglomerate
Nextdoor unveils new features like an interactive neighborhood map called Alerts, partners with 3,500+ local news outlets, and more, to revitalize its app
Nextdoor is Now More Useful, More Helpful and More Timely. Dean Daley / MobileSyrup : Nextdoor launches helpful experience with alerts and local news Nate Berg / Fast Company : Inside the redesign tha...
Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Amazon launches Kiro, an IDE that aims to bridge the gap between rapidly vibe-coded prototypes and production systems with specs, testing, and documentation
A new agentic IDE that works alongside you from prototype to production — DE Tim Anderson / DEVCLASS : Hands on with Kiro, the AWS preview of an agentic AI IDE driven by specifications Forbes : AWS ...
CoreWeave says it plans to invest up to $6B to set up a 100MW data center in Lancaster, PA, creating 175 jobs and potentially expanding to 300MW in the future
targeting up to 300 MW capacity, just days after the governor threatened to pull the state from the grid over skyrocketing demand Matthew Fazelpoor / New Jersey Business News : CoreWeave to invest $6B...
Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server to let Canva users manage designs in Claude, following Claude integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, Prisma, and others
Similar integrations with Notion and Figma are live, thanks to the MCP protocol which connects AI models to services. — This is where real productivity gains from AI will come from, turbocharging ex...
PitchBook: US startup funding surged 75.6% YoY in H1 2025 to $162.8B, the strongest since H1 2021, driven by AI and on track for the second-best year ever
U.S. startup funding surged 75.6% in the first half of 2025, thanks to the continued AI boom, putting it on track for its second-best year ever …
Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model family, and says its API transcription offerings are cheaper than models from OpenAI and Google
As AI systems become more capable, speech is fast becoming the default way we communicate with machines.
Berlin-based Motor Ai, which develops neuroscience-driven Level 4 autonomous driving tech and plans to deploy it on German roads in 2025, raised a $20M seed
Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat :
Alibaba is putting $7B in Taobao promotions as JD.com invests $1.4B to grow food delivery, with both offering discounts to become China's leading “everyday app”
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times :
Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips
rivaling Meta Tyler Lee / Android Headlines : From TikTok to Tech Titan? ByteDance Developing a Mixed Reality Headset Isaiah Richard / Tech Times : ByteDance's Mixed Reality Headset Now Under Developm...
How Benchmark's investment in Chinese startup Manus highlights a philosophical divide in Silicon Valley over China, patriotism, and the pursuit of profit
Bloomberg :
Crypto asset manager Grayscale confidentially files draft IPO paperwork with the US SEC, offering few details; the DCG subsidiary manages $30B+ in BTC and ETH
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block :
NetBox Labs, whose open-source tools help manage networks and are used by CoreWeave, ARM, Cisco, JP Morgan, and Riot Games, raised a $35M Series B
Marcus Schuler / implicator.ai :
Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI, attracting business from The Browser Company, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, and OpenAI
Kevin McLaughlin / The Information : X: @mzunigap and @kevkubernetes X: Mario Zúñiga / @mzunigap : Competition in the cloud services market. Once again, like in most digital markets, product differen...
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