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Sony launches three new Android-powered Walkman music players, including the gold-plated NW-WM1ZM3 for $5,900, as it targets the audiophile market (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

Sony launches three new Android-powered Walkman mu...

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Documents: Nvidia and Apple each committed $25M, the top contribution amount, to Trump's WH ballroom; Microsoft and Palantir committed $10M, Meta and Amazon $5M (Washington Post)

Documents: Nvidia and Apple each committed $25M, t...

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Portland-based Mueon, which says its AI server racks could fit up to 10x more computing capacity, raised $65M led by Maverick Silicon, with Intel participating (Phoebe Liu/The Information)

Portland-based Mueon, which says its AI server rac...

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North.cloud, which helps companies watch their cloud, AI and data spend, raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to $67M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

North.cloud, which helps companies watch their clo...

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An interview with John Ternus, who says the memory shortage is "a crisis" and "all options should be on the table", and that Tim Cook "has great relationships" (Andrew R. Chow/Time)

An interview with John Ternus, who says the memory...

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Q&A with Dwarkesh Patel on his podcast, lessons from history, AGI, the mood in San Francisco, the Hugging Face hack, Chinese AI, pacing the frontier, and more (New York Times)

Q&A with Dwarkesh Patel on his podcast, lessons fr...

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BofA says it hired 1,000 contractors in Q2 to support 3,000 internal staff in patching proprietary and vendor software flaws exposed by AI models like Mythos (Hugh Son/CNBC)

BofA says it hired 1,000 contractors in Q2 to supp...

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Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip in the Surface Laptop Ultra outperforms Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro by ~25% in agentic AI completion benchmarks using Qwen models (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware)

Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip in the Surface Laptop...

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Ledger unveils Atom, an $899 data-only Android-based smartphone companion device launching in summer 2027, as it pauses some sales following hardware tampering (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Ledger unveils Atom, an $899 data-only Android-bas...

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Amazon launches two AI wearables, the $75 Bee Frontier wristband and $100 Bee Eclipse magnetic phone-attachment recorder, with a $12/month Bee Pro subscription (Bloomberg)

Amazon launches two AI wearables, the $75 Bee Fron...

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Sources: OpenAI executives have warned staff over potential espionage like honey pots and insider threats and told them to adopt operational security measures (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: OpenAI executives have warned staff over ...

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A profile of Marc Andreessen, who sources say is c...

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Sources and docs: while Bo Hines helped craft the crypto-friendly Genius Act, he had a 33% stake in consulting firm Nxum, which received millions from Tether (Sam Kessler/Wall Street Journal)

Sources and docs: while Bo Hines helped craft the ...

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Source: the US FTC issues ~50-page civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents, safeguarding practices, and consumer protection (Maria Curi/Axios)

Source: the US FTC issues ~50-page civil investiga...

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AI industry extinction warnings are genuine rather than corporate plots for regulatory capture or hype, and they go as far back as the mid-2000s and the 2010s (Scott Alexander/Astral Codex Ten)

AI industry extinction warnings are genuine rather...

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Ramp raised $1.85B led by Dragoneer at a $60B valuation, up from $44B after raising $750M in June, and hits $2B in annualized revenue, up from $1.5B in June (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Ramp raised $1.85B led by Dragoneer at a $60B valu...

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Citizen Lab details AdFection, a zero-click spyware campaign where an Israeli ad company routed targets to spyware servers and infected dozens of devices (Wired)

Citizen Lab details AdFection, a zero-click spywar...

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A hack of Internet-connected fridge controllers across ~700 European supermarkets exploited critical vulnerabilities in three models flagged by Claroty and CISA (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

A hack of Internet-connected fridge controllers ac...

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