• Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security
• Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam
• NATO may redeploy anti-drone defenses as attacks sink more Black Sea shipping
• Things are finally looking up for NASA's first missions to Venus in a generation
• Schools across US protest FCC plan that could disconnect kids from Internet
• Georgia man sues Flock, sheriff's office over alleged ALPR-fueled retaliation
• Software development and rules stability: Prototype racing in 2030
• Greta Gerwig channels Bowie in psychedelic The Magician's Nephew trailer
• Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins
• Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room
• Legendary FPS level designer Richard "Levelord" Gray dies at 68
• Ukraine blindsided by Starlink throttling restrictions and intelligence gaps
• Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
• The Internet’s undersea backbone is slipping into the danger zone
• OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
• Martin Shkreli livestreamed himself violating lifetime pharma ban, FTC says
• ESA targets Anbernic emulation handhelds as "superfake" piracy enablers
• Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware
• Trump commercial railing against his enemies kept airing after court blocked it
• Disney offers $20M for Character.AI’s scandal-plagued chatbot tech
| • Documents: Nvidia and Apple each committed $25M, the top contribution amount, to Trump's WH ballroom; Microsoft and Palantir committed $10M, Meta and Amazon $5M (Washington Post)
• Portland-based Mueon, which says its AI server racks could fit up to 10x more computing capacity, raised $65M led by Maverick Silicon, with Intel participating (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
• North.cloud, which helps companies watch their cloud, AI and data spend, raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to $67M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
• An interview with John Ternus on the iPhone Duo, memory shortages, more; he says "all options should be on the table" after reports Apple tested Chinese chips (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
• Q&A with Dwarkesh Patel on his podcast, lessons from history, AGI, the mood in San Francisco, the Hugging Face hack, Chinese AI, pacing the frontier, and more (New York Times)
• BofA says it hired 1,000 contractors in Q2 to support 3,000 internal staff in patching proprietary and vendor software flaws exposed by AI models like Mythos (Hugh Son/CNBC)
• Nvidia's RTX Spark Superchip in the Surface Laptop Ultra outperforms Apple's M5 Max MacBook Pro by ~25% in agentic AI completion benchmarks using Qwen models (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware)
• Ledger unveils Atom, an $899 data-only Android-based smartphone companion device launching in summer 2027, as it pauses some sales following hardware tampering (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
• Amazon launches two AI wearables, the $75 Bee Frontier wristband and $100 Bee Eclipse magnetic phone-attachment recorder, with a $12/month Bee Pro subscription (Bloomberg)
• Sources: OpenAI executives have warned staff over potential espionage like honey pots and insider threats and told them to adopt operational security measures (Wall Street Journal)
• A profile of Marc Andreessen, who sources say is close to White House COS Susie Wiles and has publicly described a fallout with Biden officials over AI policy (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
• Sources and docs: while Bo Hines helped craft the crypto-friendly Genius Act, he had a 33% stake in consulting firm Nxum, which received millions from Tether (Sam Kessler/Wall Street Journal)
• Source: the US FTC issues ~50-page civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents, safeguarding practices, and consumer protection (Maria Curi/Axios)
• AI industry extinction warnings are genuine rather than corporate plots for regulatory capture or hype, and they go as far back as the mid-2000s and the 2010s (Scott Alexander/Astral Codex Ten)
• Ramp raised $1.85B led by Dragoneer at a $60B valuation, up from $44B after raising $750M in June, and hits $2B in annualized revenue, up from $1.5B in June (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
| • Opera's lightweight Air browser is back, unbothered, moisturized, in its lane
• Tesla Roadster reveal live: Updates from the launch of the next-gen sportscar
• LinkedIn is adding new tools to help people with their side hustles
• NVIDIA's RTX Spark is good for Windows, even if you don't need local AI
• Xreal's new flagship One Pro+ AR glasses offer better brightness and increased comfort
• CitizenLab details new spyware triggered by online advertising
• Bee unveils two AI note-taking devices, its first new products since being acquired by Amazon
• United will now let you check if your flight has Starlink Wi-Fi
• Adobe rebuilt Photoshop and Premiere for NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform
• Mexico's president signs decree ordering tech platforms to protect minors from adult content
• Apple I 'Hatfield' computer signed by Woz fetches a record $1.15 million at auction
• YouTube is reportedly gearing up to offer audiobooks
• Iowa, Nebraska and six other states are suing OpenAI for endangering children
• Fitbit Edge vs Fitbit Air: The differences beyond a screen
• NASA explains how it's making batteries for the Moon's extreme temperatures
• Ubisoft plans to close another studio and lay off up to 122 workers
• Sony is taking on DJI with its new ECM-W5 wireless microphone kit
• Deezer will let listeners completely filter out AI music
• Xbox has a teeny new gamepad
• YouTube Music adds new labels for AI-generated content
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