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Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and others gaining global traction spurs US policymakers and companies to respond (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's ...

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSee...

Advent International agrees to acquire and take private Nasdaq-listed Sapiens International, an Israel-based insurance software company, for $2.5B in cash (Reuters)

Advent International agrees to acquire and take private...

Reuters: Advent International agrees to acquire and take private Nasdaq-listed S...

Sources: OpenAI is preparing to back a Neuralink rival called Merge Labs, co-founded by Sam Altman, that aims to raise $250M at an $850M valuation (Financial Times)

Sources: OpenAI is preparing to back a Neuralink rival ...

Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI is preparing to back a Neuralink rival called M...

Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in India ahead of debut, a first, as it expands to five factories to cut reliance on China for US-bound units (Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in I...

Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is making all four iPhone 17 models in India ahead of ...

How an editor uncovered the "largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia's history" that promoted obscure composer David Woodard with entries in 335 languages (Nate Anderson/Ars Technica)

How an editor uncovered the "largest self-promotion ope...

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: How an editor uncovered the “largest self-promotio...

Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their trade deal over "non-tariff barriers", including relaxing the DSA, which the EU sees as a red line (Financial Times)

Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their t...

Financial Times: Sources: the EU and US are delaying formalizing their trade dea...

Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning and planning coding tasks and is cost-effective, but Claude Opus and Sonnet still produce better code (Lauren Goode/Wired)

Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning...

Lauren Goode / Wired: Some developers say GPT-5 excels at technical reasoning an...

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing version of Qwen-Image, supporting modifications of Chinese and English text while preserving font and style (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing ver...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-Edit, the image editing ...

Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two years' probation and a $34K+ fine for stealing trade secrets and sharing them with his new employer Microsoft (Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian)

Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two year...

Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian: Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two...

Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding round that would value it at $100B, up 61% from December 2024, co-led by Thrive Capital; a16z is set to participate (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Databricks is finalizing a funding round that ...

Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Databricks is finalizing a fundin...

A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b, shows how open-weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across hosting providers (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI...

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, f...

Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular nuclear reactor and data center, set to finish construction in 2026, raised a $100M Series B led by Valor (Julia Hornstein/Business Insider)

Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular ...

Julia Hornstein / Business Insider: Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building...

How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netflix in Southeast Asia through original productions and free, ad-supported services (Nikkei Asia)

How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gain...

Nikkei Asia: How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netfl...

An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing u...

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growi...

Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank acquiring Intel's faltering foundry business in the weeks before announcing SoftBank's $2B investment (Financial Times)

Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBa...

Financial Times: Sources: Masayoshi Son met Lip-Bu Tan to discuss SoftBank acqui...

GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that the current approach of scaling LLMs is starting to reach the limits of available resources (Financial Times)

GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggest...

Financial Times: GPT-5's underwhelming performance on benchmarks suggests that t...

Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring real-time game data and analysis to coaches and players using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI (Ali McCadden/CNBC)

Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring...

Ali McCadden / CNBC: Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring rea...

NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world datasets like lab results and sports footage for AI training, raised a $25M Series A led by Footwork (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)

NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sells real-world ...

Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: NYC-based Protege, which prepares and sel...

Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must give investors short-term results to get permission for long-term investments, such as its AI ambitions (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must gi...

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Meta's strong Q2 shows it has learned a company must...

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $553.9M est., net loss down 14% to $47M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB jumps 28%+ after hours (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $...

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY ...

FanDuel partners with CME Group to offer event-based contracts, letting users wager "yes" or "no" on financial events and benchmarks, starting later this year (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

FanDuel partners with CME Group to offer event-based co...

Dean Seal / Wall Street Journal: FanDuel partners with CME Group to offer event-...

DeepSeek details V3.1 and says it surpasses R1 on key benchmarks and is customized to work with next-gen Chinese-made AI chips, after unveiling it on August 19 (Bloomberg)

DeepSeek details V3.1 and says it surpasses R1 on key b...

Bloomberg: DeepSeek details V3.1 and says it surpasses R1 on key benchmarks and ...

Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office say the US-Intel deal won't solve Intel's real issue: a lack of external customers for its foundry unit (Wall Street Journal)

Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office ...

Wall Street Journal: Two former executives who ran the CHIPS Program Office say ...

Sources: EU officials are fast-tracking digital euro plans, and considering Ethereum or Solana over a private blockchain after the US passed the Genius Act (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

Sources: EU officials are fast-tracking digital euro pl...

Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: Sources: EU officials are fast-tracking digital ...

Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one-month stints; a third researcher also left Meta (Wired)

Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Super...

Wired: Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs ...

TSMC's financial statement shows the company booked its first profit from its four-year-old Arizona subsidiary in H1 2025, reporting $150.1M in net profit (Lisa Wang/Taipei Times)

TSMC's financial statement shows the company booked its...

Lisa Wang / Taipei Times: TSMC's financial statement shows the company booked it...

In a UK tribunal filing, ex-Meta employee Samujjal Purkayastha alleges Meta misled advertisers by inflating Shops ads' performance and bypassed Apple's ATT (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

In a UK tribunal filing, ex-Meta employee Samujjal Purk...

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: In a UK tribunal filing, ex-Meta employee Samujjal Purk...

Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking equipment, including AMEC's etching tools, from its most advanced 2nm production to avoid potential US backlash (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking equipmen...

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking eq...

Vivo demos Vivo Vision, its first MR headset, which looks like an Apple Vision Pro clone but is ~40% lighter with micro-OLED displays, and could cost ~$1,400 (David Heaney/UploadVR)

Vivo demos Vivo Vision, its first MR headset, which loo...

David Heaney / UploadVR: Vivo demos Vivo Vision, its first MR headset, which loo...

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first US chief design officer, says he wants to update federal websites to an "Apple Store-like experience" (Mike Allen/Axios)

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the fir...

Mike Allen / Axios: Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first US...

Russia orders that state-backed messenger app MAX, which critics say could be used to track users, must be pre-installed on phones and tablets from next month (Andrew Osborn/Reuters)

Russia orders that state-backed messenger app MAX, whic...

Andrew Osborn / Reuters: Russia orders that state-backed messenger app MAX, whic...

So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivoted into crypto to boost stock prices, frequently sparking frenzied but short-lived spikes in shares (Bloomberg)

So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivo...

Bloomberg: So far in 2025, at least 10 biotech companies have pivoted into crypt...

Apple sues ex-staffer Chen Shi for allegedly stealing trade secrets to benefit Oppo before leaving Apple in June, claims Oppo knew of and encouraged his actions (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)

Apple sues ex-staffer Chen Shi for allegedly stealing t...

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: Apple sues ex-staffer Chen Shi for allegedly stealin...

Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to accelerate loan application and origination processes, raised a $29M Series A led by Canapi Ventures (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to accel...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Casca, which offers AI-powered tools for banks to ...

Trump signs an EO creating the National Design Studio to improve "websites and physical sites"; sources say he's tapping Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to lead it (Gregory Korte/Bloomberg)

Trump signs an EO creating the National Design Studio t...

Gregory Korte / Bloomberg: Trump signs an EO creating the National Design Studio...

A look at Xiaomi's evolution from a tech assembler to a high-tech manufacturer, as it applies its smartphone manufacturing strategy to developing EVs and chips (Financial Times)

A look at Xiaomi's evolution from a tech assembler to a...

Financial Times: A look at Xiaomi's evolution from a tech assembler to a high-te...

Maisa AI, which offers an enterprise agentic automation service that uses a proprietary system to limit hallucinations, raised a $25M seed led by Creandum (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

Maisa AI, which offers an enterprise agentic automation...

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Maisa AI, which offers an enterprise agentic automation ...

UK banks face losses on billions of pounds in loans to dozens of alternative broadband network providers that have tried to challenge BT and O2's dominance (Financial Times)

UK banks face losses on billions of pounds in loans to ...

Financial Times: UK banks face losses on billions of pounds in loans to dozens o...

Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers, dropping the Game Pass Ultimate requirement, and tests more PC game access (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass C...

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Co...

CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.17B, above $1.15B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue below estimates; CRWD drops 6%+ after hours (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)

CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.17B, ab...

Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.17B, ...

HP reports Q3 revenue up 3.1% YoY to $13.9B, vs. $13.7B est., Personal Systems revenue up 6% to $9.9B, and forecasts Q4 profit above estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

HP reports Q3 revenue up 3.1% YoY to $13.9B, vs. $13.7B...

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: HP reports Q3 revenue up 3.1% YoY to $13.9B, vs. $13.7B e...

Snowflake reports Q2 product revenue up 32% YoY to $1.09B, above $1.04B est., and forecasts FY 2026 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 11%+ after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Snowflake reports Q2 product revenue up 32% YoY to $1.0...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Snowflake reports Q2 product revenue up 32% YoY to $1.09...

Court filing: Elon Musk's lawyers ask a US judge to block OpenAI from obtaining documents from Meta related to a previous $97.4B bid for OpenAI's assets (Shubham Kalia/Reuters)

Court filing: Elon Musk's lawyers ask a US judge to blo...

Shubham Kalia / Reuters: Court filing: Elon Musk's lawyers ask a US judge to blo...

A look at Xiaomi's evolution from a tech assembler to a high&tech manufacturer, as it applies its smartphone manufacturing strategy to developing EVs and chips (Financial Times)

A look at Xiaomi's evolution from a tech assembler to a...

Financial Times: A look at Xiaomi's evolution from a tech assembler to a high-te...

Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs returned to OpenAI after less than one&month stints; a third researcher also left Meta (Wired)

Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Super...

Wired: Sources: two AI researchers hired by Meta for its Superintelligence Labs ...

OpenAI plans to update ChatGPT to better respond to mental distress cues, provide parental controls, and bolster safeguards around conversations about suicide (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

OpenAI plans to update ChatGPT to better respond to men...

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI plans to update ChatGPT to better respond to men...

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $553.9M est., net loss down 14% to $47M, and increases its full&year guidance; MDB jumps 28%+ after hours (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $...

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY ...

Okta reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $728M, vs. $711.8M est., net income up 131% to $67M, and increases its fiscal 2026 forecast; OKTA jumps 6%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Okta reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $728M, vs. $711.8...

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Okta reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $728M, vs. $711.8M es...

France 'on brink of over&indebtedness', PM Bayrou warns

France 'on brink of over&indebtedness', PM Bayrou warns

French Prime Minister François Bayrou has warned that the nation is facing an "i...

France "on brink of over&indebtedness" warns Prime Minister

France "on brink of over&indebtedness" warns Prime Mini...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou has warned that the nation was facing an "...

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