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The Information: Sources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a 6B valuation; 1X sought 1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50% — SoftBank is in talks to

Courtenay Brown / Axios: The Trump administration has struck data-sharing deals with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other tech companies to track how AI is affecting jobs and hiring — The Trump adm

Z.ai: Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal GLM-5 series model, with 320B parameters, saying it outperforms GLM-5.2 at “one-tenth the price” — We introduce GLM-5.3-Flash, the firs

SemiAnalysis: A detailed look at Jalapeño, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-weight models — OpenAI's self-designed ASIC

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out — ZDNET's key takeaways — Claude chat

Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are 899+ and 1,699+, 100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is 5,499+, up $200 — Betw

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey — Alphabet's Goog

Eugene Demaitre / The Robot Report: Nvidia unveils the Jetson Orin Nano 2 edge AI computer that it says doubles inference performance, with 78 TOPS of AI compute and an eight-core Arm CPU — As AI mode

Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency vs. Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T — Jalapeño outperf

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform running fully on-device with zero token costs, starting with Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX Linux PCs — Perplexi

Skild AI: Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning — UNSEEN TASKS10-MINUTE HORIZONSON

Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above 30T, topping SpaceX's 28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019 —

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, left the company last week amid a broader exodus — Chris Malone joins a string of

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv and NYC-based Alice, which works to protect AI models from misuse and rogue behavior, raised 140M led by Apax Digital at a valuation “close to 1B” — An Israeli sta

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots — E

Cassandre Coyer / Bloomberg Law: Alabama AG Steve Marshall launches an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures following the Hugging Face breach in July — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marsha

Grace Kay / The Information: At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more — Earlier this

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October — Meta Platforms pl

The Register: Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX racks delivered 3,400 tokens per second in an Artificial Analysis benchmark running Gemma 4 31B with a 100,000-token input sequence — Nvidia's $20 billion bet

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia says its inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has entered full production and Nebius has signed on as the first customer, and SpaceX will deploy Vera CPUs — Chipmaker

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute — Following several

Mark Anderson / Bloomberg: Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cyberattacks across many Chinese state-linked groups, primarily using open-weight models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek — Chinese hack

Ina Fried / Axios: Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang — Prominent AI researcher Lu

Dan Primack / Axios: Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~200M led by 8VC, after raising 400M in June — Generalist has quiet

Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance is merging coding platform Trae and agent-building tool Coze into Doubao, and plans to launch Doubao Work to compete with Tencent's WorkBuddy — ByteDance Ltd. is consolid

Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia-backed neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to 3B at a 12B+ valuation; its revenue this year is estimated to reach 1.5B+ — Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider bac

Reuters: Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export AI servers to China — Taiwan prosecutors said on Monday they had i

Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times: Ukraine says Russia used an Nvidia Jetson Orin computing module in its fully autonomous AI-guided drones; Nvidia says they're widely available on resale markets — Th

New York Times: Ukrainian officials say an AI-guided, fully autonomous Russian drone killed three Ukrainians in a strike on a gas station in the city of Zaporizhzhia — An attack by what Ukrainian offi

Natasha Singer / New York Times: A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools — One

Reuters: Alibaba plans to raise ~10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close — China's Alibaba (9988.HK) on Su

George Hammond / Financial Times: Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 — AI lab's

Truman Dickerson / Business Insider: Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade “a lot of liberty for safety” — OpenAI CEO

Katie Roof / Business Insider: Sources: Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value it at 13B+, up from 4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to evaluate bidders' interest — The AI indu

The Information: Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity's new equity round valuing it at 30B+; Nvidia considered a tech licensing deal and hiring some of its staff — Nvidia is discussing

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development —

Financial Times: Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come — Beijing policymakers ha

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings — Inherent, a L

Rohail Saleem / Wccftech: Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter — When an unk

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Rundoo, a provider of AI-powered business operations software for independent supply stores, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures — Rundoo Inc., the creator of

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi — A sweeping agreeme

Bloomberg: Sources: some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027 — Some of Nvidia Corp.'s bigge

SemiAnalysis: With each successive era of AI, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model — Comparing open vs. closed models

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips — Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a

Claude: Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools — No items found. — Reading time —

Bloomberg: DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests — DeepSeek unveiled an experim