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Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T+ parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models (The Information)
Sundar Pichai says Gemini has hit 1B+ MAUs, the company's fastest-growing product ever and its 14th product to hit the 1B-user mark (Sundar Pichai/@sundarpichai)
Brad Lightcap, who most recently led OpenAI's special projects division and formerly was its COO, says he is leaving the startup "to start something new" (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
Flight tracking platform FlightAware sues Kalshi in New York, alleging Kalshi is using its data without permission to let users bet on flight cancellations (Jack Morphet/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni pushed for and were aware for seven months of using "cookie stuffing" to claim affiliate commissions (Bloomberg)
eToro agrees to acquire US-focused online brokerage TradeZero for up to $231M in cash and stock; TradeZero had ~$80M in revenue over the 12 months ended June 30 (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised $40M led by Sequoia at a $300M valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
River Markets, which gives professional traders a single place to trade across multiple prediction markets, raised an $8.5M seed led by Haun Ventures (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
Manus says it will "soon return to operating as an independent company", implying it is close to reversing its acquisition by Meta, after China's order in April (Jing Yang/The Information)
TSMC and Sony plan to form Advanced Vision Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp, a $4.69B joint venture in Japan to make next-gen smartphone image sensors from 2029 (Reuters)
Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B-parameter MoE model, and NeMo Switchyard, an open-source model routing library for AI agents (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
Spotify plans to roll out AI Persona labeling in mid-September for profiles that do "not represent a real person" and says it will use human review and AI tools (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Bumble rolls out a global update that lets any user send an opening message after they match, marking a major reversal from its signature women-go-first model (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
Apple's iOS 27 beta 5 contains references to six unreleased iPhones: iPhone Ultra, iPhone Air 2, iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, iPhone 18, and iPhone 18e (Filipe Esposito/Macworld)
IBM and Together AI sign a $240M, multiyear deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia's HGX B300 systems, to support open-source models (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

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