In Beijing, Jensen Huang says Nvidia will “accelerate the recovery” of its China chip sales and he expects its US export licenses “to come through very shortly”
Jensen Huang tells Beijing press conference it takes nine months to restart supply chain
Sources: OpenAI researcher Jason Wei, who worked on o3 and deep research models, and his colleague Hyung Won Chung are joining Meta's new superintelligence lab
Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI's o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta's superintelligence lab.
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ASML reports Q2 net sales of €7.7B, net income of €2.29B, and net bookings of €5.5B, above €4.19B est., as tariffs have a “less negative” impact than expected
ASML on Wednesday warned of the possibility of no growth in 2026, even as it beat top and bottom line expectations for the second quarter.
Google says its Big Sleep AI agent for finding unknown software vulnerabilities recently discovered a critical SQLite flaw that “was at risk of being exploited”
Google said a large language model it developed to find vulnerabilities recently discovered a bug that hackers were preparing to use.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Nvidia's plan to resume its H20 AI chip sales to China is part of US trade negotiations over rare earths and magnets
the China Chips Boost Isn't Done. Fortune India : Nvidia's H20 chip sales to China tied to U.S.-China rare earth deal, amid rising tech tensions: Report Bloomberg Law : Trump AI Czar David Sacks Defen...
Europol and Eurojust disrupt pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) that has claimed responsibility for 1,000+ DDoS attacks since 2022, and make two arrests
- Europol, Eurojust say more than 100 attack servers disrupted — Two arrested in France and Spain, warrants out for 6 Russians
At a supply chain expo in Beijing, Jensen Huang calls AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Tencent “world class” and says AI is “revolutionizing” supply chains
Jensen Huang says “I don't think I changed” Trump's mind on the US' China export rules, and “it's my job to inform the president about what I know very well”
Jensen Huang, the chipmaker's chief executive, is trying to balance his company's interests as the United States …
China, which pledged $8.5B for young AI startups in April, is taking an industrial policy approach to help its AI companies close the gap with those in the US
Beijing is taking an industrial policy approach to help its A.I. companies close the gap with those in the United States. Bluesky: @patrickmccray and @justinhendrix X: @zephyr_z9 , @drorpoleg , @amfch...
Roblox launches a licensing platform to help IP rights holders to collaborate with creators, with Lionsgate, Netflix, Sega, and Kodansha as founding partners
Roblox is launching a new licensing platform to streamline the process for IP rights holders to partner with creators on the gaming platform.
Sources: OpenAI aims to integrate a checkout system into ChatGPT, to ensure users complete transactions within the platform, with merchants paying a commission
Artificial intelligence start-up has shown brands a prototype of its new checkout feature — OpenAI plans to take a cut …
Microsoft begins testing a Windows 11 feature for sharing the entire desktop with Copilot Vision; it requires first entering a special mode in the Copilot app
First announced earlier this year, sharing your desktop with Copilot on Windows 11 is now in testing with insiders across all preview channels.
In Q2 2025, smartphone shipments in China fell 4% YoY to 69M; Huawei reclaimed the top spot after over four years with an 18.1% share, followed by Vivo's 17.3%
Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, China's smartphone market shipped 69.0 million units in 2Q25, marking a 4.0% year-on-year (YoY) decline.
ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says “while we still prepare for growth in 2026, we cannot confirm it”, after Trump threatened 30% tariffs on the EU; ASML falls 9%+
3rd Update Mauro Orru / Morningstar, Inc. : ASML Narrows Guidance Amid Tariff Uncertainty, Warns On 2026 Growth RTÉ : ASML warns it may not achieve growth in 2026 Prashant Rao / Semafor : Trump threat...
In a paper, AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others recommend “further research into chain-of-thought monitorability” for AI safety
AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and a broad coalition of companies and nonprofit groups …
Source: OpenAI is developing ChatGPT agents that let users create Excel- and PowerPoint-compatible files, generate reports, and handle tasks involving websites
Also Microsoft: *learns about new Office integration features from my shitposts like everyone else* [embedded post] @largesseadultson : Okay... stick with me here... I know how awful all the AI shit i...
A former OpenAI engineer details his experience working at the company, its culture, codebase structure, Python, Azure, rapid growth, the Codex launch, and more
I left OpenAI three weeks ago. I had joined the company back in May 2024. — I wanted to share my reflections because there's …
CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets more than doubled from 2023 to 330+ incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to hacking-for-hire
American officials say new economic model for offense has fueled spying attacks by government agencies that have more than doubled.
The US DOJ says ex-Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pled guilty to hacking 10+ companies and to extortion; in February, he admitted he hacked AT&T and Verizon
Former U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking telecommunication companies and attempting to extort …
Several crypto regulation bills backed by Trump fail to clear a key hurdle in the US House after 13 Republicans voted with Democrats to block the legislation
For Now; Inside Roman Storm's First Day on Trial Vismaya V / Decrypt : Trump Pushes House GOP to Revive Vote on Crypto Bills Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Crypto regulation bills stumble in Congress Times ...
Airbus' Acubed and Google spinout SandboxAQ test MagNav, a quantum-sensing navigation device and potential GPS alternative, for 150+ flight hours across the US
With GPS increasingly vulnerable to tampering, planes need more reliable navigation systems. The magnetic pull in the Earth's crust could offer a novel solution.
Analysis: 7,818 game titles on Steam now disclose they use generative AI, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024
A year ago, I poked around Steam to see how many game developers were disclosing usage of Generative AI.
Intel's former CEO backs President Trump's proposed sovereign wealth fund to secure US leadership in quantum, AI, and chips and combat China's tech advances
It isn't an attempt to surmount market forces but to offer an alternative to adversaries' capital.
On stablecoins, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon says, “We're going to be involved in both JPMorgan deposit coin and stablecoins to understand it, to be good at it”
Reuters Zafar Naik / Coinpedia Fintech News : Jane Fraser Confirms Citi Stablecoin Plans As Rules Ease Under Trump Vinod Dsouza / Watcher Guru : Citigroup CEO Confirms Exploring Citi Stablecoin Parth ...
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised a $2B seed led by a16z at a $12B valuation; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD, and Jane Street also invested
bsky.app/profile/wire... [embedded post] @akhilrao : i feel like i've known Murati is at a startup called Thinking Machine Labs for months. maybe idk what “stealth” means [embedded post] Michael / @f...
A look at the Chile-led Latam-GPT project, which involves 30+ Latin American and Caribbean institutions collaborating to release an open-source LLM in September
Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America's cultural and linguistic nuances.
Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax files confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO, targeting a $4B+ valuation and aiming to raise $510M+, set to float by 2025's end
Chinese AI startup MiniMax has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong initial public offering, targeting a valuation of over $4 billion …
Google Search's AI Mode gets Gemini 2.5 Pro and new deep research capabilities; Google also expands an AI-powered business calling feature to all users in US
Google is rolling out an agentic AI-powered business calling feature to all users in the United States, the company announced on Wednesday.
Cloudflare starts blocking access to pirate sites in the UK; previously, blocking was almost entirely done by local ISPs
Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak :
Sources: Cantor Equity Partners 1, a SPAC backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, is in late-stage talks with Blockstream Capital founder Adam Back to buy $3B+ in bitcoin
What's the Best Crypto to Buy Right Now? Bloomberg : Cantor Preps Second Bitcoin Treasury Company With 25,000 Tokens Kamina Bashir / BeInCrypto : Brandon Lutnick Leads $4 Billion Bitcoin Initiative Th...
Bedrock Robotics raised $80M from Eclipse and 8VC to develop retrofit self-driving kits for construction and worksite vehicles, in testing with five companies
Bedrock Robotics, an autonomous vehicle technology startup founded by veterans of Waymo and Segment, has been operating quietly for more than a year.
Unify, which offers AI-powered tools to boost revenue pipelines, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, valuing it at $260M, following a $12M Series A
combining real-time signals, AI agents and a unified workflow to [image] Yash Godiwala / @yashgodiwala : One of my favorite crossover episodes Congrats to the Unify team on their Series B More fuel to...
SharpLink Gaming, a Nasdaq-listed online gambling marketing company, becomes the largest corporate ether holder with 280,706, surpassing the Ethereum Foundation
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block :
Scale AI says it is laying off 200 full-time employees, or ~14% of its global workforce, and will stop working with 500 contractors, after Meta invested $14.3B
The AI data-labeling company is laying off 200 full-time employees and will stop working with 500 contractors.
HPE unveils several business changes, including forming a strategy committee and appointing a new board member, as it agrees to work with Elliott to boost value
or end with a breakup of the company David Marino-Nachison / Yahoo Finance : HPE Seeks ‘Additional Value Creation’ After Pact With Activist Investor Elliott Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co / StockTitan ...
Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and CLI Codex, terminal-based AI tools launched since February, have surprisingly gained ground on AI code editors with traditional UIs
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch :
Hugging Face users have uploaded 5,000 AI models, previously banned from Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to the platform
I'm sick and tired of these corporations getting to decide what we can and cannot post, view, and buy on the internet [embedded post] Ali Alkhatib / @ali-alkhatib.com : we have got to more directly de...
Rome-based Exein, which provides cybersecurity tools for connected devices, raised a €70M Series C led by Balderton, valuing it at €250M+, after a €14M Series B
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Tokopedia sellers say Tokopedia's strengths have eroded since its TikTok Shop merger in Indonesia, driving thousands of sellers to join rivals, including Toco
restofworld.org/2025/tiktok- ... [image] @restofworld.org : As TikTok looks to change course to comply with U.S. laws, a similar experiment in its second-largest market is unraveling. — New: restof...
Israeli subterranean mapping startup Exodigo raised a $96M Series B led by Zeev Ventures and Greenfield Partners, taking its total funding to $214M
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Riyadh-based Lucidya, which develops customer experience software, raised a $30M Series B led by Impact46, marking the largest AI funding round in Saudi Arabia
Yassmin Jabri / Bloomberg :
Study: in the past year, ~75% of S&P 500-listed firms have updated their official risk disclosures to detail or expand upon mentions of AI-related risk factors
Dan Robinson / The Register : Forums: r/BetterOffline and Slashdot Forums: r/BetterOffline : AI creeps into the risk register for America's biggest firms Msmash / Slashdot : AI Creeps Into the Risk R...
A Resume Builder survey of 1,342 managers in the US finds 60% say they rely on AI to make personnel decisions, 78% of which use the tech in deciding raises
Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET :
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