Techmeme

Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating several flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
European police say Binance's April 2025 policy asking law enforcement to route certain requests to foreign governments significantly delays criminal probes (New York Times)
CXMT's IPO delivers a windfall for Hefei, an eastern China inland industrial city, with the government sitting on 5,000%+ paper gains after an early investment (William Sandlund/Financial Times)
AI Forensics: seven out of the nine top AI image models on Hugging Face edited an image of a clothed woman into a topless one using a simple six-word prompt (Matt Burgess/Wired)
Sources: Taiwan detained an Nvidia employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China, after searching his home and office on July 24 (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
Baidu begins testing its purpose-built Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis with human safety operators in outer London; Baidu plans to deploy the taxis on Lyft's Freenow (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
LSEG data: prices for credit default swaps, a closely watched gauge of risk, tied to Oracle, SpaceX, Alphabet, Nvidia, and others rise sharply to record highs (Financial Times)
Meta and BlackRock form a strategic venture to develop a 1GW data center campus in El Paso, set to cost ~$14B and bring capacity online starting in 2028 (Meta Newsroom)
Sources: Nvidia signs leases worth up to $50B for Hut 8's planned 1GW data center in Texas, hosting hundreds of thousands of chips; Hut 8 didn't name its client (Financial Times)
Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
A profile of Justin Sun, who made his fortune in the early phases of crypto, advised for Trump family's WLF, then sued WLF alleging fraud and breach of contract (Jen Wieczner/New York Magazine)
Cursor introduces Cursor Start, a ~$7 monthly subscription exclusive to India, its third-largest market, priced below its standard $20 Pro monthly subscription (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
How Chinese platforms like ActID and New Claw are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, often using vague licensing terms (Rest of World)
South Korea's KOSPI drops 11%+, weighed down by chip stocks amid concerns over China's AI progress and the AI spending boom; Samsung falls 11%+ and SK Hynix 12% (Bloomberg)
ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

Wired

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Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
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France Records Its First-Ever Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud Amid Record-Smashing Fires
New Firefighting Technologies Could Help Battle Blazes Like Those in France and Spain
DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
Inside the Wild Rescue Mission That Took 4 Beluga Whales to Chicago
The 10 Best WIRED-Tested Handheld Vacuums of 2026
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3 Best Smart Ring Models: Oura, RingConn, and Samsung (2026)
This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust
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Why Leatherology Makes Some of the Best Totes for Work (2026)
The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days
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‘The Odyssey’ Was Made for Imax 70mm. Good Luck Watching It That Way
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Engadget

Hugging Face reportedly plagued with AI models generating adult deepfakes
Lyft and Baidu start testing robotaxis in London
ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors' styles
2027 Mercedes-Benz C-Class Electric first drive: A long-range triumph with a few cabin quirks
X Money begins limited US rollout
Spotify experienced another major outage
iOS 26.6, macOS 26.6 and the rest are out, addressing security fixes
Google Pixel 11 launch event: Everything we expect as price increase rumors grow
What's the difference between USB 3.0 & 2.0 and which should you use?
Amazon wants to deploy 5,105 satellites for its direct-to-mobile service
YouTube Premium will soon include Peacock at no extra cost
Is your iPhone stuck in SOS mode? Here's how to fix it
Best wireless headphones for 2026
All Threads users can now DM Meta AI
Xbox is down, and users even temporarily had trouble playing disc-based games
How to Clear The Cache On Your Roku TV
Another Far Cry game is in the works
Why is the Apple Watch SE 3 so much cheaper than the rest of the lineup?
Nike's new Hyperslides heat and vibrate your feet to help you recover after workouts
You can customize your Samsung Galaxy Watch with this free design tool

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