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Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding (@alibaba_qwen)

Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under ...

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In Q2, "other income", mostly from investment gains, at Amazon and Alphabet totaled ~$121B after taxes and made up 66% and 71%, respectively, of profits (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)

In Q2, "other income", mostly from investment gain...

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Source: Greg Brockman is "in founder mode" and getting more involved across every level of OpenAI to build out a leadership team ahead of an expected IPO (Madison Mills/Axios)

Source: Greg Brockman is "in founder mode" and get...

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France's top court blocks a bill banning social media for under-15s, citing freedom of expression; Macron asks his government to re-work the bill (Reuters)

France's top court blocks a bill banning social me...

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Sources: stablecoin payments company RedotPay delays plans for a US IPO to 2027 or later, as it seeks regulatory approvals and deals with legal issues (Bloomberg)

Sources: stablecoin payments company RedotPay dela...

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Chip equipment maker Lam Research plans to invest $3B+ over five years to expand its global R&D network, aiming to increase its experiment capacity by 50%+ (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)

Chip equipment maker Lam Research plans to invest ...

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DeepSeek releases DeepSeek Harness under the MIT license in developer preview, touting a design where "every capability is a plugin" that can be swapped out (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

DeepSeek releases DeepSeek Harness under the MIT l...

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Sources: Alibaba is nearing a deal to sell its Lingxi Games to PE firm Trustar Capital at a potential $1.5B+ valuation, as Alibaba continues its reorganization (Bloomberg)

Sources: Alibaba is nearing a deal to sell its Lin...

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Epic v. Google: in a compliance hearing, a judge orders Google to remove "anticompetitive friction" for installing third-party app stores from its Play Store (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Epic v. Google: in a compliance hearing, a judge o...

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Sources: JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with Polymarket in 2025 over regulatory concerns, though it still maintains some ties to the company (Financial Times)

Sources: JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking rel...

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Blackbird and Airtree revalue Canva at $34.9B, down from $42B in 2025, as it struggles in the AI era; Canva's internal valuation falls to $31B, down from $38.9B (Australian Financial Review)

Blackbird and Airtree revalue Canva at $34.9B, dow...

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Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, using the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding and cyber skills, with weights due in two weeks (Z.ai)

Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, using the same base model as ...

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A look at Quincy, a rural Washington farming town of 8,500 that benefited from a data center boom as its poverty rate fell from 29.4% in 2012 to 6.2% in 2024 (Nathaniel Meyersohn/CNN)

A look at Quincy, a rural Washington farming town ...

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The White House announces new tariffs on drones and components, including a 100% levy on "particularly sensitive" models, aiming to cut reliance on Chinese tech (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

The White House announces new tariffs on drones an...

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Sources: Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support, which would make Apple the first foreign company to offer a proprietary AI model in China (Reuters)

Sources: Apple trained a China-specific LLM with A...

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SMIC co-CEO Zhao Haijun says the company raised prices following negotiations with customers in Q1, and that it will charge more for wafers processed in Q3 (Reuters)

SMIC co-CEO Zhao Haijun says the company raised pr...

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Sources: the CFTC has launched a probe into prediction markets' "mention markets", prompting Kalshi to remove bets on word choices from sports-related offerings (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Sources: the CFTC has launched a probe into predic...

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Pony AI plans to deploy 2K+ robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber and add four more European cities, after Zagreb, with a later Middle East expansion (Bloomberg)

Pony AI plans to deploy 2K+ robotaxis across Europ...

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