Source: the US National Nuclear Security Administration was among those breached by a hack of SharePoint; no sensitive information is known to be compromised
The US agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation's cache of nuclear weapons was among those breached by a hack …
Anthropic and other researchers detail “subliminal learning”, where LLMs learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits
We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits.
The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to assert US dominance over China, including proposals to ease permitting for AI infrastructure projects
The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply …
Microsoft says it “has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting” the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities
He said not as vulnerable as on-prem SharePoint right now. — #nerdromancewithpits @wylienewmark : back in the day, attribution of widespread exploitation of a vulnerability in a ubiquitous piece of ...
Apple launches AppleCare One, an insurance plan covering up to three devices for $20 per month, including battery replacements, accidental damage, and more
Apple Inc. is launching a new product-insurance plan that bundles coverage for as many as three devices, part of a broader effort to drum up subscription revenue.
Ukraine arrests the suspected administrator of Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is at the Paris public prosecutor's request, with help from France and Europol
The suspected administrator of the Russian-speaking hacking forum XSS.is was arrested by the Ukrainian authorities yesterday …
Alibaba releases its new Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 model on Hugging Face, improving on Qwen 3's reasoning, accuracy, and multilingual understanding
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has made waves globally in the tech and business communities with its own family of “Qwen” …
Alibaba debuts the Qwen3-Coder model for agentic coding, including a 480B-parameter MoE variant, and open sources Qwen Code, a CLI tool adapted from Gemini CLI
Qwen 39.4k — Text Generation Transformers Safetensors qwen3_moe conversational Coco Feng / South China Morning Post : Alibaba upgrades flagship Qwen3 model to outperform OpenAI, DeepSeek in maths, c...
In an interview at the Federal Reserve, Sam Altman warns of an impending “fraud crisis” because of how AI could enable bad actors to impersonate other people
New York CNN — — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” …
President Trump's AI Action Plan, which has 90+ policy recommendations, explicitly seeks to roll back Biden-era measures on AI bias and cybersecurity threats
The Trump administration's new AI policy blueprint calls for limited regulation and lots of leeway for Big Tech to grow even bigger.
Uber plans to launch a pilot ride type to match female riders and drivers in LA, San Francisco, and Detroit over the next few weeks, called “Women Drivers”
Uber Technologies Inc. is piloting a new ride type in the US that will match female riders and drivers …
Amazon acquires Bee, which sells a $50 device that resembles a Fitbit, is always listening, transcribes conversations, and serves up daily AI summaries
Bee is a Fitbit-like device that transcribes your conversations and serves up daily summaries. … Amazon is acquiring Bee, a startup that puts AI on your wrist.
The UK CMA proposes giving Apple and Google “strategic market status” in mobile platforms after an investigation and finds “opportunities for more innovation”
Britain's competition regulator said it plans to designate Apple (AAPL.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) …
Eye Security: hackers have breached ~400 government agencies, corporations, and other groups via the SharePoint flaw, up from an estimated 60 on July 22
The number of companies and organizations compromised by a security vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s SharePoint servers is increasing rapidly …
A survey of 900 US Google users: of ~69K searches, 18% gave AI Overviews; of those, users clicked a link 8% of the time, compared to 15% with no AI summary
Last year, Google introduced “AI Overviews,” a feature that displays an artificial intelligence-generated result summary at the top of many Google search pages.
Proton launches Lumo, an AI chatbot to summarize documents, generate code, and more and says it will protect users' information via “zero-access” encryption
Proton says it protects Lumo's chats with ‘zero-access’ encryption while storing them on users' devices.
A hacker claims to have compromised Amazon's Q coding assistant for VS Code via a GitHub pull request; Amazon says “no customer resources were impacted”
A hacker compromised a version of Amazon's popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users' computers … Bluesky: @josephcox . Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchang...
Apple's new iOS 26 beta 4 adds more “liquid” back to Liquid Glass design, after dialing it back in beta 3 following social media criticism
Pocket Casts for iOS 18 on the left, Apple Podcasts for iOS 26 on the right. Pururaj Dutta / Appleosophy : Apple rolls out the fourth beta of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26; here's what's new YTECHB : iOS 26 Be...
Meta introduces new safety features for teens, including enhanced DM protections, and removed 600K+ Instagram and Facebook accounts linked to predatory behavior
Meta on Wednesday introduced new safety features for teen users, including enhanced direct messaging protections to prevent “exploitative content.”
Sonos names interim CEO Tom Conrad as CEO, effective immediately, as it works to restore confidence after its app disaster; Conrad took the job in January 2025
Sonos Inc. named interim leader Tom Conrad as its next chief executive officer, expressing confidence in the turnaround effort he's pursuing at the embattled audio brand.
AWS shuts down its Shanghai AI research lab, following similar moves by Microsoft, IBM, and other US tech companies, to scale back China-based R&D efforts
US ecommerce group follows IBM and Microsoft in China pullback amid geopolitical tensions — Ecommerce group Amazon is shutting …
Meta debuts a prototype wristband to read electrical signals from forearm muscles, letting users control devices without touch, trained on 10K peoples' EMG data
When you write your name in the air, you can see the letters appear on your smartphone. — The prototype looks like a giant rectangular wristwatch.
Mistral releases a study on the environmental impact of its LLMs, conducting what it claims is the first comprehensive lifecycle analysis of an AI model
At Mistral AI, our mission is to bring artificial intelligence in everyone's hands. For this purpose, we have consistently advocated …
A US federal jury gives five Nevada men varying prison sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services
A federal jury slapped five men from Nevada with varying sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services …
PayPal unveils PayPal World, a platform set to launch in fall 2025 to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pago
PayPal announced Wednesday it has partnered with global wallet companies to create a platform called PayPal World that is designed to make cross-border commerce easier.
Sources: McKinsey has stopped its China business from undertaking consultancy work related to generative AI, a move prompted by Washington's growing scrutiny
Financial Times :
OpenAI details how its tools have boosted US worker productivity and says its chief economist is leading a 12-month study to assess AI's impact on productivity
Analysis provides insights into ChatGPT's impact on the economy. OpenAI also launches new research collaboration …
Microsoft launches the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 5G for business customers, featuring Intel Core Ultra series 2 processors, shipping on August 26 for $1,799+
Intel Core Ultra-powered laptop will ship as part of business line Tom Warren / The Verge : Microsoft's new Intel-powered Surface Laptop 5G arrives in August X: Daniel Rubino / @daniel_rubino : Some i...
Researchers say North Korean scammers infiltrating the US workforce often reference Minions and other Despicable Me characters in GitHub and Telegram profiles
References to the agents of evil and other ‘Despicable Me’ characters are telltale signs of swindlers infiltrating U.S. companies Mastodon: @metacurity@infosec.exchange . Forums: r/DeepStateCentrism M...
The UK plans to ban public sector and key infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms to ransomware gangs and require others to notify the UK if they pay
targets ‘public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure’ Nidhi Singal / CSO : Interlock ransomware threat expands across the US and Europe, hits healthcare and smart cities Chr...
The UK partners with Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber Eats to curb illegal food delivery work, share more data, and combat a secondary market in rider accounts
Increased data sharing between government and companies follows concerns checks are being flouted X: @keir_starmer X: Keir Starmer / @keir_starmer : We're cracking down on migrants working illegally a...
Composio, which provides tools to help companies build AI agents, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $29M
we are responsible with our money https://x.com/... Malay Vasa / @malayvasa : Earlier this month I joined @composiohq, where we're building the skill layer for AI agents so they can continuously learn...
Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $4.45B, vs. $4.36B est., net income of $1.3B, and forecasts Q3 profit below est.; TXN drops 10%+
Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters :
Analysis: in H1 2025, 500+ orgs lobbied the White House and Congress on AI, on par with H1 2024 but up ~2x since 2023; OpenAI spent $1.8M, up from $380K in 2023
Hundreds of organisations are seeking to influence Congress and Donald Trump's White House — Alex Rogers and Ian Hodgson …
Businesses and households served by PJM, the US' largest power grid operator, will pay a record $16.1B for electricity supplies amid an AI-driven demand surge
Naureen S Malik / Bloomberg :
xLight, which is developing a new class of laser for EUV machines in partnership with ASML, raised a $40M Series B led by Playground Global
exciting times for chipmaking innovation! Nikolas Prokopiou / @nikpro98 : @Reuters Semiconductor sovereignty is the new space race. $40M is just the opening bid in what will be a trillion-dollar battl...
Compliance tech startup Vanta raised a $150M Series D led by Wellington Management at a $4.15B valuation, up from $2.45B after raising $150M in July 2024
Vanta's mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. …
Xelix, which uses AI to automate businesses' accounts payable workflows by connecting with ERP systems, raised a $160M Series B led by Insight Partners
Ryan Lawler / Axios :
BetterComp, which provides compensation management services for HR teams, raised a $33M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital
This new funding means a lot of fun things for BetterComp …
SAP reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to €9.03B, vs. €9.05B est., cloud revenue up 24% to €5.13B, vs. €5.15B est., operating profit up 32% to €2.57B, vs. €2.43B est.
Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal :
Dell says COO Jeff Clarke will now oversee its Client Solutions Group, which includes desktop and notebook PCs; Dell's consumer PC revenue fell 19% in Q1
Bloomberg :
Sources: the Trump admin is pressuring South Korea, Brazil, the EU, and others to drop plans for new taxes on US tech firms as a part of broader trade talks
Wall Street Journal :
VenHub, which uses robotics and AI to run fully automated retail stores, confidentially files for a US direct listing, after a $715M SPAC merger failed in May
Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg :
UMG partners with IP asset management company Liquidax Capital to “accelerate the development of UMG's music-related AI patents”, already filing 15
Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter :
PitchBook: in H1, AI startups raised $104.3B in the US, or ~66% of all US VC funding, up from 49% last year, and there were 281 VC-backed exits totaling $36B
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC :
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