Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency
but will Beijing want them? Taylor Herzlich / New York Post : China to restrict access to Nvidia's advanced H200 chips — as Trump looks to lift export curbs: report Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder ...
Adobe launches AI Foundry, a program that helps enterprise customers create bespoke, commercially safe, Firefly-based generative AI models trained on their IP
not just tweak it Patrick Seitz / Investor's Business Daily : Adobe Launches Company-Specific Generative AI Models Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch : Adobe launches a foundry service that builds custom ge...
Nvidia DGX Spark hands-on: trades performance and bandwidth for 128GB of unified memory, the ecosystem is a big selling point, the design is standard, and more
What It Means for NVDA Stock and AI Crypto Sentiment Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : Early reviews suggest Nvidia may have found another way to sell its chips with the DGX Spark Robert Brown / Im...
Google releases the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, built on Gemini 2.5 Pro's capabilities to power agents that can interact with UIs, in preview via the API
Google released a new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model today, specially designed … Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Google's AI can now surf the web for you, click on buttons, and fill out forms with Gemini ...
GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI
and he's not alone Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : GPT-5 is here and Gary Marcus is not impressed Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ amid rough roll-out ...
OpenAI releases GPT-5 pro, a version with extended reasoning exclusive to ChatGPT Pro subscribers, saying it scored 88.4% without tools on the GPQA benchmark
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Google unveils benchmarking platform Kaggle Game Arena, where LLMs compete head-to-head in strategic games, starting with a chess tournament from August 5 to 7
Watch models compete in complex games providing a verifiable and dynamic measure of their capabilities. Kaggle : Chess Text Input Leaderboard Nick Bild / Hackster : Shall We Play a Game? Maximilian Sc...
Sources: repair demand in China for Nvidia's banned AI chips, including H100 and A100, surges as ~12 firms now repair chips that made their way into the country
companies resurrecting banned AI accelerators at a rate of up to ‘500 per month’ Chris Cooke / CMU : If China blocks TikTok deal app will “go dark” says US Commerce Secretary, but hints deal “coming s...
Google rolls out AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome, including by using Gemini Nano, its on-device LLM, in Enhanced Protection mode on desktop
Here's how it works Kevin Poireault / Infosecurity : Google Deploys On-Device AI to Thwart Scams on Chrome and Android India Today : Google adds Gemini Nano AI to Chrome to fight against online scams ...
Source: SoftBank will invest an initial $7.5B in OpenAI's $40B round, plus $22.5B by 2025's end; other backers include Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter, and Thrive
Reportedly With a Few Strings Attached Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : OpenAI Hits $300 Billion Valuation with SoftBank-Led Tender Deal Robert Lavine / Global Corporate Venturing : SoftBank leads O...