The Brutalist Report

Techmeme

• The US, China, and other APEC economies release a statement supporting open models, while emphasizing respect for security, data protection, and IP rights (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC) [48d]
• Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later (Reuters) [48d]
• Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [48d]
• An appeals court narrowly blocks Texas from enforcing a monitoring and filtering requirement under its children's online safety law, over Section 230 preemption (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) [48d]