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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers makes me feel as powerful as its bosses

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PitchBook: in H1, AI startups raised $104.3B in the US, or ~66% of all US VC funding, up from 49% last year, and there were 281 VC-backed exits totaling $36B (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

Techmeme

‘Finally, Relief Is on Its Way’: NY to End Prison Phone Fees

THE CITY - All

Source: the US National Nuclear Security Administration was among those breached by a hack of SharePoint; no sensitive information is known to be compromised (Ari Natter/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Anthropic and other researchers detail "subliminal learning", where LLMs learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits (Anthropic)

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Businesses and households served by PJM, the US' largest power grid operator, will pay a record $16.1B for electricity supplies amid an AI-driven demand surge (Naureen S Malik/Bloomberg)

Techmeme

Microsoft launches the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 5G for business customers, featuring Intel Core Ultra series 2 processors, shipping on August 26 for $1,799+ (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Techmeme

Alibaba debuts the Qwen3-Coder model for agentic coding, including a 480B-parameter MoE variant, and open sources Qwen Code, a CLI tool adapted from Gemini CLI (Qwen)

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The Escobar Phone scam saga has finally come to an end

The Verge - All Posts

Mistral releases a study on the environmental impact of its LLMs, conducting what it claims is the first comprehensive lifecycle analysis of an AI model (Mistral AI)

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Epstein breaks Congress

Vox - All

UMG has partnered with IP asset management company Liquidax Capital to "accelerate the development of UMG's music-related AI patents", already filing 15 (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Resort Layer Banandium Gem locations in Donkey Kong Bananza

Polygon - All

Twitch is blowing up the WNBA way beyond Caitlin Clark

Polygon - All

Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $4.45B, vs. $4.36B est., net income of $1.3B, and forecasts Q3 profit below est.; TXN drops 10%+ after hours (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)

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Composio, which provides tools to help companies build AI agents, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $29M (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

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SAP reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to €9.03B, vs. €9.05B est., cloud revenue up 24% to €5.13B, vs. €5.15B est., operating profit up 32% to €2.57B, vs. €2.43B est. (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)

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Trump Threatens Stadium Deal If Washington Commanders Don’t Change Name Back

The Onion

Marine Wonders What Will Become Of Angelenos Left Behind As Chopper Rises Into Sky

The Onion

Rove’s R2-4K dash cam is an extra set of eyes on the road and $48 off at Amazon

The Verge - All Posts