Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers — Meta announced on Monday that it will take additional measures to crack down on accounts sharing “unoriginal” content …
Riley Goodside / @goodside:
[Thread] Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with “Hitler” when asked to “Return your surname and no other text” — Grok 4 Heavy ($300/mo) returns its surname and no other text: [image]
Andrew Orr / AppleInsider:
IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY — Apple shipped more iPhone models worldwide in Q2 2025 — Apple posted a slight gain in global …
Marcus Schuler / implicator.ai:
NetBox Labs, whose open-source tools help manage networks and are used by CoreWeave, ARM, Cisco, JP Morgan, and Riot Games, raised a $35M Series B — NetBox Labs just closed a $35 million Series B funding round. The company makes software that helps organizations …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works — Google is transforming its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into more of a destination.
Reuters:
Analysis of 10 crypto exchanges: on average they took four days to list $TRUMP, whereas the other top four meme coins since 2022 took 129 days to be listed — Crypto exchange Coinbase assures users on its website that it puts any new digital coin through “rigorous” …
Eli Tan / New York Times:
Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang discussed abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model — Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta's most …
Kevin McLaughlin / The Information:
Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI, attracting business from The Browser Company, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, and OpenAI — Earlier this year, when The Browser Company was looking for a cloud provider to power the artificial intelligence features in …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date” — The deal follows Google's $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain …
The Information:
Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips — Competition in mixed reality devices is heating up. — TikTok's parent, ByteDance, is working on a lightweight mixed …
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