Triarom Computers https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity (Eve Bender/MobiHealthNews) Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles (Kinling Lo/Rest of World) The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia (Jonathan Greig/The Record) Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal) In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment (@openai) Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China’s open-model advantage, AI’s impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI’s role in developing countries, and more (Mishal Husain/Bloomberg) Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia’s chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal) Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome that could potentially allow remote code execution within Chrome’s sandboxed renderer process (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in July, after more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico) London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO (Bloomberg) Sources: initial foldable iPhone production is limited to only a "few hundred" units a day due to Apple's strict quality standards as it ramps up output (Nikkei Asia) OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world (Sam Sabin/Axios) GPT-6 Astra can adeptly use tools like Unreal Engine to build complex environments, such as a civilization with Unreal’s autonomous MetaHuman characters (Matt Shumer/Something Big Is Happening) Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, a “distraction-free Windows experience” for developers to run 30B+ parameter models locally on devices with 64GB+ of memory (Tom Warren/The Verge) Bank of Korea: South Korea's monthly memory chip output is set to grow by ~600K wafers by 2028, widening its lead over China's CXMT, set to grow by ~300K wafers (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) DOD's Emil Michael says Anthropic is still a designated supply chain risk, a day after Howard Lutnick said it resolved its issues with the Trump administration (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) Humain launches humain-m3, an Arabic-language model developed with MiniMax, amid controversy among US allies over sovereign AI built with Chinese models (Bloomberg) Uber launches London's first commercial robotaxi service; the vehicles use Wayve's autonomous driving tech and will initially have human safety drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge) PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes (Erin Griffith/New York Times) Home Page 2 Gimlet Labs, which helps customers divide AI tasks across multiple chip types, raised $300M led by a16z at a $3B valuation, six months after an $80M Series A (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) Sources: Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis; Varonis rose 10.4% on Wednesday, giving it a market value of ~$5.4B (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg) Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investors (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire) Tesla says Cybercab rides are available in limited areas of Austin; the two-seater has no steering wheel or pedals, and 45 Cybercabs are registered in Texas (Reuters) HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle, which let users choose between Gemini or ChatGPT as their assistant, in North America, Europe, the UK, and Australia (Chris Welch/Bloomberg) TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be ~400% higher than a year prior but Apple won't pass on the full cost to customers (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac) The Trump administration imposes tariffs of up to 100% on foreign drones, including 100% on models over 55lbs or with thermal imaging, in a bid to thwart China (Farah Stockman/New York Times) All G20 nations unanimously endorse the non-binding Carolina Principles, a US-proposed framework advocating for a lighter-touch, sector-specific AI regulation (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg) Q&A with Jensen Huang and Clément Delangue on the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal, scaling open-source models, the rumored $1B talent retention plan, and more (CNBC) Taiwan investigated 166 cases in six years involving companies allegedly hiding China ties while pursuing chip talent and tech, alongside 67 trade-secret probes (Kinling Lo/Rest of World) How organized opposition that toppled a $100B data center project in Virginia's Prince William County became a blueprint for data center backlash in the US (Dawn Lim/Bloomberg) Several international law firms are seeking to build bespoke AI tools to gain an edge and protect their IP, while using off-the-shelf AI for everyday tasks (Nick Huber/Financial Times) Uber is aligning with drivers' unions in a bid to slow the rollout of robotaxis across the US, as it faces a technological disruption to its core business (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) The LA Unified School District bars ~378,000 students from using AI tools on district-provided laptops and tablets as officials review AI's role in classrooms (Julia Szymanski/LAmag) A profile of Hugging Face, which started in 2016 to build a sassy chatbot for teens; CEO Clément Delangue says he approached Nvidia this summer to pursue a deal (Wall Street Journal) Sources: Meta adjusts employee review language around "AI-driven impact" and token usage, easing off on tokenmaxxing, while promoting the use of AI agent Hatch (Wired) A look at Loudoun County, Virginia, dubbed "Data Center Alley", which hosts ~250 data centers and offers a glimpse into data centers' impact on communities (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) Vals analysis: open-weight models performing multi-stage tasks, like building a web app, can have an environmental impact 10K times greater than simple queries (Bloomberg) Microsoft shifts from three reporting segments to two: Agents and Infra, including Microsoft 365 and Azure, and Devices and Consumer, with Windows and Xbox (Stephen Nakrosis/Wall Street Journal) Muse Spark 1.3 with max reasoning, in limited preview for partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Fable 5.1 and Opus 5 (@artificialanlys) Letter: OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing "automated shutdown capabilities" for AI systems (Courtney Rozen/Reuters) Sources: Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interest (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media) Uber is shutting down services in Nigeria and Uganda from September 2 after a global review of its operations; it launched in Nigeria in 2014 and Uganda in 2016 (Bloomberg) X says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will now be handled through X Money (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures (Axios) Thyme Care, which focuses on filling gaps in cancer treatment through a virtual navigation platform, raised a $125M Series E at a $2B+ valuation (Ian Thomas/CNBC) Austin-based HiddenLayer, which makes security tools to protect AI models, agents, and workflows, raised a $100M Series B led by Delta-v Capital (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch) Blog Right Sidebar