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UK PM backs Ofcom to take "tough action" under the OSA against social media sites failing to remove dangerous driving videos after a crash killed seven people (Raphael Boyd/The Guardian)
Alabama AG Steve Marshall launches an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures following the Hugging Face breach in July (Cassandre Coyer/Bloomberg Law)
The UK becomes the first foreign nation to gain access to Ukrainian combat data used to train AI models to strike Russian targets, as part of an AI partnership (Financial Times)
The Trump administration proposes a $103,265 fee on H-1B applicants hired within the US after a court blocked a more limited fee on workers from outside the US (Andrew Kreighbaum/Bloomberg)
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 (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
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 (The Register)
The UK's Office for National Statistics: UK digital infrastructure investment crossed £11B in 2025, hitting dot-com boom levels, amid an AI data center surge (Tom Rees/Bloomberg)
Temu owner PDD reports Q2 revenue up 8.1% YoY to ~$16.72B, missing estimate of ~$17.17B, net profit down 12% YoY to ~$4.04B, above ~$3.63B estimate (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal)
IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
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 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
China's Bilibili relaunches its international app and plans an English-language site; it has been pushing MrBeast and others to post on its Chinese site (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor)
Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export 74 high-end AI servers to China (Reuters)
Sources detail how Trump intervened to get a settlement before the DOJ's antitrust trial against Live Nation, after CEO Michael Rapino met White House officials (Wall Street Journal)
The US FTC settles its lawsuit against Zillow, resolving claims that Zillow violated antitrust law by paying Redfin $100M to stop competing in rental listings (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
Minimus, a cybersecurity startup started by Twistlock founders, shuts down after failing to gain enough commercial momentum; Minimus raised a $51M seed in 2023 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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