Hugging Face’s Breach Put Runtime Control on Trial
Hugging Face’s agentic intrusion reached internal clusters and credentials, while Chinese models account for nearly 60% of token usage by U.S. companies on OpenRouter. Buyers now have to contract for identity, jurisdiction, containment, and recovery across models.
Meta’s Marketplace Needs More Than a Face
Meta’s Seller app can build a Marketplace listing from one photo while the company tests face checks for scams and uses video selfies for account recovery. Facebook’s recognition history reaches back to a 2015 system reported to identify obscured faces with 83% accuracy.
Qualcomm’s $15B Bet Moves the Edge Inward
Qualcomm targets $15B in fiscal-2029 data-center chip sales, with Dragonfly C1000 due in 2028 and Meta as its first named user. Deployment still depends on software, interconnect, memory, power, and capacity arriving together.
Microsoft’s 85% PowerPoint Model Switch
After MAI ranked third on Arena, Microsoft replaced OpenAI image models in PowerPoint and Bing. Mustafa Suleyman said PowerPoint’s model-running cost fell about 85%.
Qualcomm’s $15B Route From AI PCs to Data Centers
Qualcomm’s 45-TOPS Snapdragon X Elite cleared the 40-TOPS AI-PC threshold. Its planned nearly $4 billion Modular acquisition and $15 billion data-center sales target connect device distribution, developer software, and centralized compute.
Microsoft’s MAI Cost Cut Reveals the Switchboard
Microsoft says its MAI models cost about 85% less to run in PowerPoint than the OpenAI image models they replaced. Its parallel Mistral expansion across Azure gives the company more suppliers—and more control over the inference bill.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, which it says comes close to Fable 5 performance at half the price; it is the new default model on Claude Max
Claude Opus 5 is available today. It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price.
Microsoft is testing free cloud streaming of user-owned games for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions, with ads that will play “before sessions begin”
The free streaming option is still in testing, and limited to one-hour sessions for ‘select’ games.
AMD unveils the Zen 6-based Venice-X CPU for data centers, with 96 cores, 1,152 MB of stacked L3 cache, and up to 5.15 GHz clock speeds, available in H2 2027
It's the same cache amount and core count as Genoa-X, but with far faster cores. … AMD's Venice-X CPU is launching in the second half of 2027 …
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18
OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans.
Sources: OpenAI told Hugging Face only this week its models caused the July 11 hack; the models appear to have been active online for days before being stopped
They were like high-school students trying to hack into the textbook company to cheat on their final exam. Only these hackers weren't human.
In their letter defending open-weight AI, tech companies urge lawmakers to avoid “premature restrictions” that “stifle competition or drive innovation overseas”
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than 20 other companies released a letter on Friday urging policymakers …
Intel reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $16.1B, vs. $14.42B est., its fastest quarterly growth in ~15 years on “unprecedented” demand
Intel reported better-than-expected second-quarter results on Thursday, notching its fastest revenue growth rate …
Patreon lays off 20% of its employees, or 93 people, citing a “painful” restructuring due to “profound” changes in the creator economy over the past six months
Patreon, the creator-focused monetization platform, said on Thursday it was laying off 20% of its employees …
Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving
In a first, Apple Maps will influence the way a new line of electric vehicles made by Ford Motor operates, and other automakers may follow.
Meta launches Facebook Verified, a free program it says will verify that users are real humans by analyzing a facial recognition selfie and assigning badges
And it's free. — In the face of AI content, profiles and slop, Meta hopes a new Facebook Verified program will help human users interact with other humans.
Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, which helps developers use AI models and could fetch ~$10B; PitchBook: OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May
Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, a buzzy startup that helps developers choose between artificial intelligence models, according to people familiar with the matter.
Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, Canva, and Notion
Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT's voice mode, rival Anthropic is making …
Germany-based Black Forest Labs debuts Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models that can be used for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI
Black Forest Labs, a German artificial intelligence research lab, is trialing its first model that can be used in robotics …
Midjourney bought astrology app Co-Star, which uses AI to offer personalized advice, in the spring and is building its first standalone image-generation app
Artificial intelligence lab Midjourney Inc. has bought the popular astrology app Co-Star and is building its first standalone image-generation app …
Trump says the US will initiate a probe into the EU's practice of “robbing” US tech giants with fines, threatening the bloc with “substantial” tariffs
President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration will launch a trade probe into the European Union …
Facebook plans to test a full-screen “immersive video” player when users open the app, replacing the newsfeed, in select international markets this year
The social platform says it will test a video-first look for users when they open the app in select countries, potentially bringing it to the U.S. next year.
Tesla stock closed down 14.52% and Alphabet closed down 6.89% after they signaled increased AI spending, amid worries about the mounting costs of the AI boom
Shares of Alphabet and Tesla fell on Thursday after both companies signaled increased AI spending, unnerving investors worried …
Trump says 200 additional stakeholders, including 55 utilities, joined a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high energy bills caused by AI data centers
President Donald Trump on Thursday had governors and electricity companies join a voluntary pledge to shield U.S. consumers …
The Pentagon signs an up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle worth up to $7B to consolidate the department's on-premises software licenses into a single contract
The Pentagon announced on Thursday a nearly $7 billion, up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle to consolidate the department's …
Poolin, previously regarded as one of the world's largest crypto mining pool providers, files for Chapter 11 and seeks to sell its Texas mining assets for $52M
Quick Take — Poolin Technology filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is seeking court approval to sell Texas mining assets through a $52 million stalking-horse bid.
Meta updates Meta AI with Muse Spark 1.1-powered agentic capabilities, connecting to Gmail and Google Calendar to perform tasks like creating daily updates
Meta is giving its AI assistant new agent-like capabilities powered by Muse Spark 1.1, its latest model.
The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a “duress” passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone
Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS
Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the “low nine figures”
Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, is making its next big move. The company behind the assistant …
Ukraine ratchets up its attacks on warehouses of Wildberries, Russia's biggest online retailer and which employs 48,000, hitting five facilities over five days
Ukraine has ratcheted up its attacks on Russia's Amazon-style retail giant Wildberries, signaling a new phase in the war …
The US OCC denies Wise's application to create a national trust bank, citing incompatibility with new Federal Reserve policies; Wise says it plans to reapply
London-listed shares of Wise (WISEa.L), fell 10% on Friday after the money transfer group said its application to create …
Amazon closed its San Francisco-based AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February
Amazon this week closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco-based research and product team that was developing software to improve the usefulness of AI agents …
Delhi High Court rules OpenAI's use of ANI content to train ChatGPT wasn't copyright infringement as the news agency didn't show ChatGPT reproduced its reports
An Indian court said on Friday that OpenAI's use of news agency ANI's content to train its ChatGPT service did not amount to copyright infringement.
Sierra acquires Takeoff, which develops “long-horizon” agents, for an undisclosed sum; founded in 2025, Takeoff neared $10M in annualized revenue in early July
In 2020, 22-year-old Aakash Thumaty was a product manager at Salesforce when he wrote an essay …
Letter: Qualcomm tells customers it plans to raise prices by double digit percentage points, after exhausting its ability to absorb higher costs from suppliers
Qualcomm Inc., the biggest maker of smartphone processors, plans to increase prices by a percentage in the double digits …
Microsoft replaces OpenAI's image-generating models with its MAI models in its products; Mustafa Suleyman says MAI models are ~85% cheaper to run in PowerPoint
Microsoft Corp. is replacing OpenAI's image-generating models with its own technology in popular products like PowerPoint and Bing.
Filing: the value of Alphabet's investments in unidentified private companies was ~$124.3B as of June 30, a source says driven primarily by its Anthropic stake
The value of Alphabet Inc.'s stake in the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC has soared to around $124 billion …
Preliminary findings: the EU Commission says TikTok's accounts for minors violate the DSA, citing features that could expose children to bullying and predators
ByteDance's social media platform TikTok has been charged with breaching EU online content rules due to design features …
Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots
Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down from the top leadership post after nearly three decades, just as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots.
Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will close on September 23 and tells users to withdraw assets; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for not implementing AML rules
Singapore-based Ropedia, which captures real-world human experience via video and converts it into model-ready multimodal datasets, raised a $22M pre-Series A
Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced it raised $22 million in Pre-Series A funding …
World Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol, raised $52.5M led by Pantera through a strategic sale of its WLD token with a one-year lockup
Quick Take — World Foundation has raised $52.5 million in new funding through a WLD token sale, with all purchased tokens subject to a one-year lockup.
Amazon tells third-party sellers to label product ads with AI-generated people to comply with a NY law requiring the disclosure of “synthetic performers” in ads
Amazon is requiring that third-party sellers label any product images or videos that contain “AI-generated people” …
Meta launches Seller, a free standalone app version of Facebook Marketplace; Seller includes AI features that scan photos to fill out listings automatically
Seller is part of the Silicon Valley company's strategy to innovate on its original social network.
Google says it has $811B in contracted future spending commitments as of June, up nearly $500B from March, covering chips, data centers, electricity, and more
Alphabet Inc.'s Google had $811 billion in contracted future spending commitments at the end of June, up nearly $500 billion from just three months earlier.
India orders GitHub to remove Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Jack Dorsey that is used by anti-government protestors amid internet blackouts
India's top cybercrime watchdog has ordered GitHub to take down Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Block chief executive …
Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV
Sources: Shanghai-based GPU maker MetaX confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing, targeting an IPO by the year-end, amid a surge of fundraising from rivals
Firm's year-end listing plan underscores China's chip self-reliance and follows Biren, Iluvatar and Moore Threads in the fundraising rush
Sources: Anduril is in talks with investors for a new funding round that could see it valued at around $100B; the company raised $5B at a $61B valuation in May
Defense tech firm Anduril is in discussions with investors for a new funding round that could see it valued at roughly $100 billion …
Sources: Waymo is exploring exiting its Uber partnership, with their relationship souring amid an intense lobbying battle over the future of robotaxis
Partnership between two groups has soured amid intense lobbying battle over rollout of autonomous vehicles
Google adds a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, using tools like liveness detection to safeguard against deepfake attacks, rolling out globally
Primate Labs releases Geekbench 7, featuring more demanding datasets for CPUs and GPUs, new video and audio encoding/decoding tests, a multicore test, and more
A look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor
Xi confidant leads fevered effort for domestic alternatives to win AI race; Chinese AI companies warned that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitorLinkedIn:Josh ChinLinkedIn:Josh Chin:Chi...
Adam Mosseri says Instagram will now take down “pickup line” and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of other people in public places
Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation
Prentis, a new AI research lab focused on computer use models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das, and tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman …
An appeals court narrowly blocks Texas from enforcing a monitoring and filtering requirement under its children's online safety law, over Section 230 preemption
Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with production code and the AI agents that create it, raised a $34M Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ
Paper, a design platform for teams using AI, locked up a $34 million Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ, CEO Stephen Haney tells Axios Pro exclusively.
The European Commission approves EA's $55B acquisition, announced in September, by investors including Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
Nvidia signs a $1.5B accord with Amkor, involving a prepayment by Nvidia to help bolster Amkor's chip packaging facility in Arizona; AMKR jumps 16%+
GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-generated reports
Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters
SAP reports Q2 cloud revenue up 22% YoY to €6.28B, vs. €6.26B est., total revenue up 9.4% to €9.88B, and lowers its 2026 non-IFRS operating profit guidance
A Google study of millions of de-identified Google AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and AI use is “shallow” in most occupations
Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around $500M in a new funding round at a $3B pre-money valuation
Robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks with investors to raise around $500 million in a new funding round, according to people familiar with the efforts.
IBM agrees to acquire HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors, seeking to integrate HRL's electron spin quantum circuits into its quantum computers
Meta, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-weight AI models; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity
Many of the largest U.S. tech companies signed a joint letter on Friday defending open-source AI software as the Trump administration …
Sources: India has ordered telecom companies to disable mobile data services in central Delhi, amid youth protests seeking the education minister's resignation
Flush with AI cash, South Korean groups are making their biggest US investment push in years, with their Q1 US foreign direct investment up 100%+ YoY to $10.2B
Companies make biggest US investment push in years to build up tech capabilities and avoid Donald Trump's tariffs
The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models
AMD is working with Cerebras to connect AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers, running their chips simultaneously to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86%
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Sources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight the service's AI capabilities, leading to an internal redesign project called Lighthouse
AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M
An OpenAI staffer says the Hugging Face breach is “a big warning shot” externally but internally “related incidents have been happening for a while”
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Anthropic says Opus 5 is the company's “most aligned model to date”; it is Anthropic's fourth model release in less than two months
Anthropic on Thursday is releasing Claude Opus 5, a new AI model designed to deliver performance close to its most powerful model …
Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first AI model router built for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure
Abstract Security, which offers an in-stream threat detection platform, raised a $25M extension to its $15M Series A, bringing its total funding to $48.5M
AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in December; a16z, SK Hynix, and others also invested
Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, partners with AMD to develop autonomous humanoid robots using the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series chips
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Yelp signs a deal with OpenAI to give ChatGPT users real-time local recommendations and will soon let them get quotes from local service providers via ChatGPT
Opus 5 improves coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use, and is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $25/1M output, same as Opus 4.8
ZDNET's key takeaways — Opus 5 targets coding, knowledge work, and agent workflows. — Anthropic says it uses fewer tokens for similar quality.
Anthropic expects Opus 5 “classifiers to intervene around 85% less often than they do for Fable 5”; Opus 5 is not included in its 30-day data retention policy
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Google says it appreciates the engagement by the Trump administration and US government on the EU's $1B fine; Trump called the fine “illegal”
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