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Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they “could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information” (www.nytimes.com)
25 days ago AI

Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing “various degrees of misalignment” (time.com)
25 days ago AI

VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024 (news.crunchbase.com)
25 days ago AI

Google Buys All of Spirit Airlines' Data to Feed Its AI Models (tech.slashdot.org)
25 days ago Google AI

Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a $20M Series A, following a $10M seed in 2025 (siliconangle.com)
26 days ago AI

Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation (www.reuters.com)
26 days ago AI Robot

Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging “a hundred million people” from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more (www.wired.com)
26 days ago Google AI

Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android (www.theverge.com)
26 days ago Android IOS AI Reddit

Alibaba's Alipay launches a new “all-in-one” platform for businesses to use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock jumps 5%+ and is up 40%+ since June (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago Alibaba AI Alipay

AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July (www.wsj.com)
26 days ago Startup AI

Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts (www.newscientist.com)
26 days ago Google AI

Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago AI

Rogue Studio, which calls itself a “playground for creative ethical mischief”, launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool to make adult content of Hollywood quality (www.wired.com)
26 days ago AI

Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch (www.politico.com)
26 days ago AI

China Aims to Spoil the AI Party (dailyreckoning.com)
26 days ago China AI

Wearable sensors and AI could monitor blood pressure in ICU (www.eurekalert.org)
26 days ago AI

David Sacks says “Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize” after Amodei shared policy ideas (x.com)
26 days ago AI

Construction Inflation for Nonresidential Buildings Soars amid AI Investment Mania (wolfstreet.com)
26 days ago Inflation AI

Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for $7B+; founded in 2023, OpenRouter reportedly had a $1.3B valuation in May (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago AI

Sources: the US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago AI

Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility (news.slashdot.org)
26 days ago Amazon AI

Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models (news.bloomberglaw.com)
26 days ago Google AI

Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations (www.cnbc.com)
26 days ago AI Nvidia

Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust' (slashdot.org)
26 days ago AI

Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility (www.404media.co)
27 days ago Amazon AI Vegas

Trump-backed WLF is collaborating with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw; 43 of its 90 AI models are developed by Chinese entities flagged as security risks (www.reuters.com)
27 days ago Trump China Hong Kong AI

Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident “a watershed moment” and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses (blog.gregbrockman.com)
27 days ago AI

Own a learning bundle that connects AI & Six Sigma for just $40 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
27 days ago AI

Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers (fortune.com)
27 days ago Startup AI

Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their $600B in reported capex (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago AI Alphabet

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