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Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago Japan AI Robot Sony Nvidia

Australia To Put Environmental Brakes On AI Data Centers (slashdot.org)
17 days ago Australia AI

Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits from July 20 and via usage credits for Pro and Team Standard users (x.com)
18 days ago

China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated “brain-to-robot” platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset (www.scmp.com)
18 days ago China Robot

Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago Startup AI

Memo: the DOJ says federal employees can now download TikTok on government devices, citing ByteDance's transfer of control of US operations to TikTok USDS (www.reuters.com)
18 days ago

Steve Wozniak's Foundation Partners With Realbotix To Build AI Teacherbot (hardware.slashdot.org)
18 days ago AI

Sources: the Trump administration is considering plans for an independent regulator to vet the safety of AI models; the regulator would report to the SEC (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Trump AI

Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (www.reuters.com)
18 days ago Trump

Xi Vows to Make AI for All in Debut at China's Top Tech Summit (slashdot.org)
18 days ago China AI

Filings: a group of major music publishers has agreed to end a copyright infringement dispute with X over the use of their music on the social media platform (www.reuters.com)
18 days ago

The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index sank ~10% for the week, its largest weekly fall in over a year, and is now down ~20% from its late-June all-time high (www.reuters.com)
18 days ago

Billing Software Error Sends Billion-Dollar AWS Estimates (news.slashdot.org)
18 days ago

Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software startup at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago Startup

Sources: Valar Atomics, which makes small nuclear reactors intended to power data centers, is in talks to raise $1B at a ~$5B pre-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago

Apple raises iPhone prices in Japan by up to 11%, likely due to the Japanese yen's depreciation against the US dollar over the past year (www.macrumors.com)
18 days ago Japan iPhone Apple

Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to “an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem” (www.theguardian.com)
18 days ago Amazon

Abbott Laboratories probes two cyber incidents amid extortion claims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
18 days ago

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says after the summer the bloc is set to propose a “social media start date for minors” with “gradual access” (www.ft.com)
18 days ago Europe

Linus Torvalds To Critics of AI Coding On Linux: 'Fork It. Or Just Walk Away.' (linux.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Linux AI

Sources: OpenRouter has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value it at billions of dollars, a premium to its $1.3B valuation in May (www.theinformation.com)
18 days ago

China Just Erased America's AI Lead (slashdot.org)
18 days ago China U.S. AI

Sources: SpaceX is in talks with the DOD about providing the agency with access to data-center capacity worth billions of dollars for running AI models (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago AI SpaceX

Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 (9to5mac.com)
18 days ago Apple

Meta In Talks To Lease Computing Power To Anthropic In Potential $10 Billion Deal (hardware.slashdot.org)
18 days ago

FBI Arrests Man Accused of Using Steam Games To Drain Victims' Crypto Wallets (games.slashdot.org)
18 days ago FBI

HollowByte DDoS flaw bloats OpenSSL server memory with 11-byte payload (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
18 days ago

Sources: Apple and the DOJ are in early discussions about settling a 2024 antitrust lawsuit alleging that Apple violated antitrust laws (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Apple

Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago

Kalshi Flags Trump's Teleprompter Operator For Alleged Insider Trading (news.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Trump

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