• Some thoughts about companies and people in San Francisco adapting to AI workflows, AI's sycophancy, "cognitive offloading" and "cognitive surrender", and more (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
• A look at Amazon's major push into rural US areas, including building 24-hour delivery distribution centers in recent years, encroaching on Walmart's territory (Bloomberg)
• Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
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• Midjourney CEO David Holz says the company's revenue "significantly surpassed" $200M in 2023, and has "gone up" since then, despite its declining web traffic (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)
• Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
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• NASA pauses its lunar Gateway plan, a comet reverses its spin and more science news
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• Verizon waives late fees for federal workers affected by partial DHS shutdown
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• Mark Zuckerberg offered to 'help' Elon Musk with DOGE in 2025
• Meta will fund seven new natural gas plants to power its biggest data center yet
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• Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
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• Blumhouse's horror-centric cozy game Grave Seasons will be released on August 14
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• Google begins rolling out Search Live globally
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• The EU is investigating Snapchat over possible child protection breaches
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• Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez introduce a bill to pause US data center construction
• Wikipedia has banned AI-generated articles
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