Techmeme

A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, which has been downloaded 42M times since launching in 2014 and can identify 11,000 bird species (Claer Barrett/Financial Times)
Sources: DeepSeek is set to soon raise $7.4B at a $74B valuation from existing and new investors to fund R&D and its expansion into computing infrastructure (Wall Street Journal)
Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)
Google starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
Arturo Béjar, a key witness in state AGs' trial against Meta, says terms of the settlement are insufficient to protect young users; Meta rejects the criticism (Nick Robins-Early/The Guardian)
Filing: Nvidia says it has $18B committed to equity investments for the rest of the fiscal year and held $47.9B in private companies as of late July (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
Meta seeks to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with US AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing (Casey Newton/Platformer)
Sources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating (Bloomberg)
Meta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach (Hayden Field/The Verge)
SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face (METR)
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% (The Information)
Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January (Wall Street Journal)

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Engadget

Australia's recording association bans AI-made music from charts
Panic is refunding tariff fees paid by Playdate owners
OpenAI details the failures that led to Hugging Face breach in official report
Why is the Mac mini M5 Pro more expensive than the M6?
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The colorful JBL Pulse 6 speaker will be available next month
Roku will stream select NWSL games this season
Soundcore's Nebula X1S projector is an incredibly bright version of its popular Nebula X1
Mac mini vs Mac Studio: Which desktop is right for you?
Devolver Digital squares up to Rockstar with a mascot platformer out the same day as GTA 6
Ring introduces better default encryption standards to address privacy concerns
ASUS introduces new Ace esports-focused gaming monitors
Meta reportedly abandoned an AI-focused restructuring plan that would have laid off thousands
Google says its latest Gemini transcription model can turn your ramblings into structured text
Xbox Insiders will soon be able to create digital versions of their physical games
Preorders for Xbox's anniversary collection are open (for some) and the bundle costs $900
Apple announces September 9 date for 'Surprise and shine' iPhone event
Rockstar calls GTA 6 leaks 'heartbreaking for our team' and says the game is nearly finished
What's the difference between WAN and LAN?
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