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A look back at “Move 37”, a watershed AI moment from AlphaGo's 2016 Go victory, as math witnesses similar breakthroughs where AI makes surprising discoveries (www.wsj.com)
3 minutes ago AI Mathematics AlphaGo

Data Insight: Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries, which owes Russian banks $10B+ in loans, has lost as much as $5B in inventory to Ukrainian attacks (www.wsj.com)
6 hours ago Russia Ukraine

A profile of Russia's A7, a payment network that helps Russia bypass Western sanctions, handling ~20% of payments in Russian foreign trade, or $100B+ annually (www.wsj.com)
17 hours ago Russia

How Amazon and Gilroy, California, quietly negotiated a $2B data center project that AWS applied to build in 2020, without any public meetings or votes (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago Amazon California

Sources: Situational Awareness invested $500M, including $400M this week, into Source Foundry, a startup that plans to develop new AI chip manufacturing tools (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago Startup AI Manufacturing

Singapore-based Multiplier, which acquires accounting firms to boost their growth with AI tools, raised a $35M Series B led by TheGP at a $300M valuation (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago AI Singapore

Ad measurement company VideoAmp laid off ~20% of staff this week, citing AI as a “major platform shift”; sources: 50-60 employees were cut, including its CTO (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago AI

Filing: ex-a16z partner Bryan Kim is forming venture firm Mido Capital; sources: he plans to raise ~$100M for a fund backing early-stage AI and other startups (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago Startup AI

Lyft reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $1.84B, vs. $1.81B est., rides up 12% to 262.4M, and expects Q3 gross bookings growth to slow to 15%-19% (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago

Datadog drops 15%+ after forecasting weaker full-year sales due to reduced usage from its largest client, a leading AI company; Q2 revenue rises 36% to $1.12B (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago AI

Lumilens, which is building data center optical-interconnection tech to replace wires with light, raised $700M at a $5.5B valuation, for $900M in total funding (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago

AppLovin reports Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $1.92B, below $1.94B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue within estimates; APP drops 16% after hours (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago

Meta is offering a cheaper Muse Spark 1.2 “contributor” tier priced at $0.10/1M input and $0.20/1M output tokens in exchange for using user prompts for training (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago

How Pringles maker Kellanova is using AI and a partnership with Siemens to improve production of the chip in Europe, including making digital twins of its dough (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago Europe AI Siemens

FanDuel parent Flutter says CEO Peter Jackson is stepping down, replaced by President Dan Taylor, and reports a lower profit outlook as its US business falters (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago

A profile of livestream shopping app Whatnot, which added 20M accounts in 2025, facilitated the sale of ~$8B in goods, and is set for $1B+ in revenue in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago

SpaceX says its Q2 capex was $18.4B, up from $2.8B a year ago, including $15.8B for AI (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago AI SpaceX

Sources: to fight critics on social media, DHS sent platforms hundreds of subpoenas and asked posters to sign letters saying speech about ICE “may” be a crime (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago

Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago Israel AI

A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, as VCs question the revenue potential of open-weight startups like Arcee, Reflection AI, and Poolside (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago Startup AI

Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetectably tamper with data from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence produced by widely used crime-lab machines (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago AI

A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago AI Toronto

Malaysia shuts down Network School, Balaji Srinivasan's techno-utopian project, over licensing issues; Srinivasan says he is opening a new campus in Kazakhstan (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago Malaysia

Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago chatbot

FBI and EPA say water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states reported cyberattacks this week, with some causing flooding and other operational issues (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago FBI

An in-depth account of the past two days inside Situational Awareness, as Aschenbrenner assured investors he would focus on changes to his portfolio management (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago

OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago

Sources: the Trump admin is weighing a $100K fee for foreign students seeking to work in the US after graduation; a judge blocked Trump's $100K H-1B fee in June (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago Trump H1B

Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago

Sources: SoftBank gave $50M to Trump's library; Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon gave $25M, $10M, and $5M to his WH ballroom; Meta gave $10M to a pro-Trump group (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago Trump Amazon Microsoft Apple

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