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Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click worm that can hack WeChat accounts and spread across iOS and Android; Tencent says it fixed the vulnerability (Dustin Volz/New York Times)

Researchers say they used AI to build a zero-click...

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Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML's High NA EUV machines by 2028 and 2030, joining Intel, with all four agreeing to shift from 6-inch to 12-inch photomasks (Bloomberg)

Samsung and TSMC commit to using ASML's High NA EU...

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DeepSeek says it is seeking ~150 senior engineers in an "unprecedented" hiring spree to overhaul its backend systems, strained by high user demand and AI agents (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)

DeepSeek says it is seeking ~150 senior engineers ...

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Argentina's Patagonia region is drawing interest from hyperscalers and data center developers due to its cold climate, expanses of land, and renewable energy (Leila Miller/Reuters)

Argentina's Patagonia region is drawing interest f...

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Mistral raised €3B led by Samsung at a €21B valuation, up from €11.7B a year ago, as it expands to building data centers instead of solely developing AI models (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

Mistral raised €3B led by Samsung at a €21B valuat...

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Arm debuts Neoverse CSS N4, its next-gen semi-custom chip design platform, and says it supports 8 to 128 Neoverse N4 cores at up to 3.8 GHz on TSMC's N3P node (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

Arm debuts Neoverse CSS N4, its next-gen semi-cust...

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Sources: Huawei is investing in Chinese lithography companies and helping them secure deals with leading fabs like SMIC to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers (Financial Times)

Sources: Huawei is investing in Chinese lithograph...

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Analysis of LG smart TVs shows its ad software tracks nearby devices, security flaws can allow hackers to eavesdrop via a built-in microphone, and more (Gamers Nexus on YouTube)

Analysis of LG smart TVs shows its ad software tra...

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Sources: Anthropic has walked away from talks to acquire Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup (Bloomberg)

Sources: Anthropic has walked away from talks to a...

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Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users' HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law (Julia Kollewe/The Guardian)

Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that ...

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Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura's IPO, which could give it more influence over how many shares are allocated to its customers (Wall Street Journal)

Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role,...

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Hunter Biden teases a $LAPTOP memecoin launch on September 9; sources: it will launch on Base, and some tokens will be sent to wallets that lost money on $TRUMP (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Hunter Biden teases a $LAPTOP memecoin launch on S...

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The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched (The Block)

The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstr...

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Astra working with Blender via computer use feels like magic, showing computer use could be the fourth demand wave after chatbots, reasoning, and agentic coding (Tae Kim/Key Context)

Astra working with Blender via computer use feels ...

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Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters (Jack Clark/Import AI)

Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agent...

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Belgian prosecutors say they arrested a Belgian-Chinese man in May on suspicion of stealing secrets from bankrupt gallium nitride semiconductor maker Belgan (Andy Bounds/Financial Times)

Belgian prosecutors say they arrested a Belgian-Ch...

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Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns (The Guardian)

Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK go...

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Sources: London-based UForce, which makes unmanned vehicles for air, land, and sea, is seeking about $500M led by Valor Equity at a ~$5B valuation (Bloomberg)

Sources: London-based UForce, which makes unmanned...

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