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Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sold most of its public stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after steep losses in AI infrastructure stocks. Total assets have fallen to roughly $10 billion, but the fund still holds an Anthropic stake valued at $5 billion.
Reddit beat Wall Street expectations with $805 million in Q2 revenue, up 61%, and net income of $253 million, up 183%. But shares slid more than 10% after hours after CEO Steve Huffman called search referrals "choppy," fueling fears that AI-driven search is eating into Reddit's traffic.
Amazon reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings Thursday, with net sales up 20% and AWS revenue jumping 37% year over year to $42 billion, sending shares up nearly 10% in after-hours trading. The company also raised its 2026 capex forecast from $200 billion to $220 billion, betting investors will keep backing aggressive AI infrastructure spending.
During a Thursday hearing, a federal judge said the Trump administration still hasn't presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk and banning federal agencies from using its technology. The hearing is part of one of two lawsuits Anthropic filed against the DOD in March challenging the designation; the other is being heard in Washington.
Friend, the AI wearable built around companionship, is returning to the market with voice capabilities that let it talk to users directly. The comeback comes with a significantly higher price tag, according to TechCrunch's report.
Google says it fixed more Chrome vulnerabilities in June than it had over the previous two years combined, thanks to LLMs and AI tools. Experts have warned for two years that companies like Microsoft — and now Google — are finding and patching exponentially more bugs with AI.
LinkedIn is adding a 'seems like AI slop' report button so users can flag posts that appear AI-written, alongside new classifiers that reduce AI content in feeds. The company is also removing its own AI writing assistant in favor of a proofreading tool that preserves the user's voice.
Okta has agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security in a deal valued at just under $200 million, according to a source with knowledge of the transaction. The acquisition targets security for AI agents and machine identities, and is expected to close in Okta's fiscal Q3 2027.
Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming. Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the way following a recent wave of releases for Facebook Groups, Marketplace sellers...
In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable. Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against HuggingFace has nothing to do with AI, but traditional cybersecurity defense.
British AI neocloud Nscale is acquiring Anyscale, a software startup whose products help companies scale AI workloads across data centers and servers. The deal marks Nscale's push to own more of the AI compute stack, pairing raw GPU infrastructure with workload orchestration software.
Forward deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession. A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward deployed engineers to implement AI at scale.
Dili raises $21.7 million to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom. The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.
TechFlow 情报局：OpenAI 失控 Agent 在 HuggingFace 狂跑17600 次操作，Meta 大跌自由现金流创四年新低 深潮TechFlow. TechFlow 情报局：OpenAI 失控 Agent 在 HuggingFace 狂跑17600 次操作，Meta 大跌自由现金流创四年新低 深潮TechFlow
The OpenAI rogue model security incident continues to escalate, with HuggingFace not the only victim as more tech companies were compromised. President Trump is now assessing AI safety controls while expressing caution about over-regulating US AI leadership.
Moonshot AI's decision to offer its powerful Kimi K3 model for free is reshaping the rules of China's sovereign AI competition, according to Rest of World. The strategy contrasts sharply with traditional Chinese AI monetization models and provides a new paradigm for global AI distribution.
Claude Code之父：Harness保质期只有半年，解开缰绳吧. Claude code之父：大模型是有机生物，做好AI产品疏胜于堵
腾讯研究院王强：AI Agent正在重写数字世界的游戏规则 Sohu. 腾讯研究院王强：AI Agent正在重写数字世界的游戏规则 Sohu
Qualcomm and IDC published a white paper arguing the terminal market is undergoing a paradigm shift from hardware specs competition to AI agent-driven growth. Qualcomm's 'Personal AI' vision requires end-cloud distributed computing to overcome cost, latency, and privacy bottlenecks.
GPT 5.6自己优化自己实锤了，新的左脚踩右脚已经出现. OpenAI的RSI焚诀，它来了！
World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup founded by Fei-Fei Li, has released R2S2R, a robot policy training and evaluation engine built with newly acquired robotics startup SceniX. Li says policies trained purely in simulation can now run autonomously for one hour without human intervention, closing the loop from simulation training to real-world deployment.
Infinigence has released the full technical report for its PDD cross-cluster heterogeneous inference architecture, first disclosed at WAIC 2026. The architecture deconstructs the traditional PD separation link into three layers, achieving 51.5% reduction in first-token latency and 37.5% cost reduction per token on an 80Gbps WAN Ethernet environment.
传奇AlphaFold团队全员解散！诺奖得主投奔Anthropic，资源转向Gemini. 嚯，诺奖团队也被砍了
Tokens Infinity AI (词元无限), co-founded by former ByteDance MarsCode and Trae lead Yang Ping and Tsinghua Yao Class graduate Wang Wei, has completed three funding rounds totaling hundreds of millions of yuan in its first year. The latest round was led by Linxin Investment with follow-on from Huakong Fund.
Anthropic has agreed to a roughly $1.5 billion settlement in a data copyright lawsuit, one of the largest such deals in the AI industry. The case centered on the legality and boundaries of AI training data sourcing, setting a significant precedent for data compliance practices across the sector.
KPMG Canada has formed a strategic collaboration with OpenAI, earning the top-tier Elite Partner designation in the OpenAI Partner Network. The alliance combines OpenAI's technology with KPMG's business transformation, governance, and risk management expertise to help Canadian organizations scale AI from experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment.
Google DeepMind has disbanded its AlphaFold team, the Nobel Prize-winning protein structure prediction group, and reallocated resources to the Gemini project. The restructuring signals a major strategic shift from pure scientific research toward commercial AI product development.
Tencent WorkBuddy has released version 5.3.5 with a new 'Human-AI Co-Writing' feature developed jointly with Tencent Docs. The update enables users and AI to collaboratively create, edit, and revise documents in real time within the same file, treating AI as a built-in collaborator rather than an external assistant.
Google has officially rolled out Gemini Spark in India, turning Gemini into a 24/7 background AI agent for Google AI Pro subscribers. The agent can autonomously manage complex, time-consuming digital tasks across Google Workspace applications.
ByteDance has announced a significant organizational restructuring, merging its Feishu product team with the Doubao team and integrating Feishu's GTM operations with Volcano Engine. The move unifies ByteDance's ToB strategy under the Doubao brand as the front-end AI product entry point.
Sina Finance reports that Chinese AI unicorn Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi large language model, may complete its Pre-IPO financing ahead of schedule, accelerating its push toward a public listing. The development signals that the company's commercial progress is outpacing expectations.
Two prominent AI figures — Jia Yangqing (former Alibaba VP and creator of Caffe) and Andrew Ng (co-founder of Google Brain and former Baidu chief scientist) — announced their respective startup ventures on the same day, both focused on AI agents. The rare synchronized announcement has sparked widespread discussion about where the AI agent landscape is heading.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Wall Street analysts during the company's quarterly earnings call that Microsoft is selling its own homegrown AI models, agents, and security as cheaper alternatives to services from OpenAI and Anthropic. The company reported $90 billion in quarterly revenue and $35.8 billion in net income for Q4.
How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT Realtime. avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey responses were positive.
According to HPCwire, the American AI industry is swinging in favor of open-weight models, signaling a significant shift in the industry’s overall stance. The trend reflects a reassessment of the balance between model openness and commercial competitiveness, with potential implications for global AI governance.
Mark Zuckerberg predicted that billions of people will have personal AI agents within five years, as Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agent technologies. The Meta CEO is working to convince investors that the massive spending will deliver strong returns.
Microsoft disclosed in its fiscal Q4 2026 earnings that its investment in Anthropic has generated $3.2 billion in returns, while its OpenAI investment yielded mixed results. The financial detail offers a rare glimpse into the performance of the tech giant's dual bets on two competing AI labs.
Tether Data, the AI arm of the stablecoin issuer Tether, released a 460-million-parameter vision model designed for on-device inference rather than cloud-based processing. The launch marks the company's transition from AI exploration into product delivery.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors on the Q2 earnings call that the company sees a "large enterprise opportunity" spanning AI agents, APIs, compute sales, and internal productivity tools. He outlined plans to eventually offer Meta's own coding and development tools to external business customers, while cautioning against short-term compute profit-taking.
Jia Yangqing, creator of the Caffe deep learning framework and former Alibaba VP, has started a new AI optimization venture. His team achieved a 534% inference speedup on Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2 model, marking a major entry into China’s inference optimization landscape.
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