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- OpenAI says one of its models exploited a website after third-party AI security lab Irregular mistakenly gave it access to the internet during evaluations (Wired) [6d]
- Coupang reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.9B and an operating loss of $556M, vs. $361M est., due to a $409M data breach fine; CPNG drops 7%+ after hours (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) [6d]
- SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says the company aims to build out ground-based infrastructure to complement its satellite network for "a true mobile service" (Reuters) [6d]
- An internal TikTok doc shows it withheld a safeguarded algorithm from 10% of US users, including a 16-year-old who was fed self-harm content and died by suicide (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg) [6d]
- Match reports Q2 revenue down 1% YoY to $853M, vs. $856.6M est., 13.3M paying users, vs. 13.4M est., forecasts Q3 revenue below est.; MTCH drops 8%+ after hours (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) [6d]
- The UK AISI says it observed a total of 19 instances where Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol tried to hack people and companies during a routine cyber evaluation in July (Sam Sabin/Axios) [6d]
- Sources: the US' AI framework excludes open models and defines a covered frontier model as closed source with SOTA capabilities and national security risks (Maria Curi/Axios) [6d]
- SpaceX says its Q2 capex was $18.4B, up from $2.8B a year ago, including $15.8B for AI (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal) [6d]
- SpaceX reports Q2 revenue of $4.29B from its connectivity division, which includes Starlink, $100B of cash and marketable securities, and a $47.5B order backlog (Nathan Bomey/Axios) [6d]
- Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $1.18B, vs. $1.15B est., MAUs up 11% to 640M, forecasts Q3 revenue in line with estimates; PINS drops 8%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [6d]
- A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters) [6d]
- AMD reports Q2 revenue up 50% YoY to $11.5B, vs. $11.3B est., Data Center revenue up 107%, forecasts Q3 revenue below some estimates; AMD drops 7%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg) [6d]
- EA says its $55B acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners has closed, taking the company private; the deal includes $20B in debt financing (Jay Peters/The Verge) [6d]
- Samsung previews zHBM, which vertically stacks HBM atop AI accelerators, and zNAND-O, built on V-NAND, and unveils the industry's first V10 BV-NAND architecture (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) [6d]
- SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., and an operating loss of $1.26B from its AI business, compared with a $2.39B estimate (Bloomberg) [6d]
- Sources: possible cyberattacks targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least 12 US states, and Iran is the prime suspect (ABC News) [6d]
- Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted "illegal porn in a public chat" to get the app pulled from the App Store and manipulated Apple into "overreacting" (Emma Roth/The Verge) [6d]
- Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 (Mistral AI Blog) [7d]
- Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI framework; details will be available to the companies that are part of the process (Maria Curi/Axios) [7d]
- Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for" (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media) [7d]
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- Watch out — Microsoft login pages are being abused as hackers try and lure in unlucky victims, here's what to look out for [6d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, August 5 (game #1151) [6d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, August 5 (game #885) [6d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, August 5 (game #1654) [6d]
- How to watch every Spider-Man movie for *FREE* – stream all 10 feature films from anywhere [6d]
- Cybercrime is costing the world trillions every year - new report says victims lose an average of nearly $10,000 in every hit [6d]
- Steam survey shows GPUs with 16GB are now the most popular graphics cards — and that really doesn't bode well for gamers' wallets [6d]
- 'Tools don't have independent values — their values are human values': Quote of the day by Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li on building ethical AI [6d]
- Beelink EQi Wildcat Lake review: Ultra-fast networking makes this mini PC a great office machine [6d]
- SpaceX rocket set to crash into the moon at seven times the speed of sound — but the 5,400 mph impact is entirely expected, and might even prove useful for NASA [6d]
- CMF's first clip-style open earbuds are here with a tempting price tag and, thankfully, none of Nothing's flagship surveillance tech [6d]
- Whoop joins fellow premium screenless wearable company Oura in partnering with the Natural Cycles women's health tracking app [6d]
- Budget Meta Ray-Ban alternatives are selling out in stores — but please don’t buy them [6d]
- Amazon admits it accidentally shelled out $1.8 million for Claude to finish its menial coding tasks [6d]
- ‘A football playground built for you and your friends’: The Grounds in FC 27 is EA’s answer to NBA 2K’s The City — and it could be just what the franchise needs [6d]
- Fanxiang PS2000W review: A solid portable SSD that's another victim of the rising memory prices [6d]
- OpenAI vs Apple text messages reveal something about Apple, but probably not what you’re thinking [7d]
- New malware disguised as popular Roblox cheat tool could give hackers full control of your PC — including the webcam [7d]
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