DeepSeek reportedly plans a 160,000-plus Huawei Ascend 950DT-chip cluster in Inner Mongolia.
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg : Sources: DeepSeek plans to use 160K+ of Huawei's Ascend 950DT chips at an Inner Mongolia data center, which would create one of the largest Huawei chip clusters — DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 of Huawei Technologies Co.'s top accelerators at a massive data center it's building …
Jensen Huang and Clément Delangue discuss Nvidia's Hugging Face deal and open-model scaling.
CNBC : Q&A with Jensen Huang and Clément Delangue on the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal, scaling open-source models, the rumored $1B talent retention plan, and more — Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC exclusive interview with Nvidia Founder & CEO Jensen Huang …
IFM releases K2 Horizon, a connected fleet of six open AI models.
Cerebras makes Qwen 3.8 27B available at a claimed 1,500 tokens per second.
Armature measures tool choices across 17,000 Claude, Codex, and Cursor agent runs.
Vals finds multi-stage open-model tasks can have 10,000x the environmental impact of simple queries.
Bloomberg : Vals analysis: open-weight models performing multi-stage tasks, like building a web app, can have an environmental impact 10K times greater than simple queries — Benchmarker Vals AI finds that multi-stage tasks can require models to use exponentially more energy or water than simple queries do.
Sen. Sanders introduces legislation to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI development.
AI workload-routing startup Gimlet Labs raises $300M at a reported $3B valuation.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg : Gimlet Labs, which helps customers divide AI tasks across multiple chip types, raised $300M led by a16z at a $3B valuation, six months after an $80M Series A — The company, which helps divide AI tasks among different chips, raised $300 million in its latest round
Resect AI emerges with $25M to build open-source tools for detecting hallucinations pre-output.
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire : Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investors — Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene. — Resect AI, an artificial intelligence startup led by a team …
Data-center developer Crusoe reportedly raises more than $3B at a roughly $30B valuation.
Bloomberg : Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, with Mubadala Capital participating — Crusoe, a cloud-computing provider and data center developer doing business with OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. …
Go grandmaster Shin defeats KataGo despite giving the AI a two-stone handicap.
LessWrong examines potential safety implications of GPT-6 Astra's recurrent architecture.
An analysis explains why coding agents often choose grep over language-server tooling.
Google Antigravity's terms reportedly allow account suspension for third-party use.
Hackers reportedly accessed a live feed of scans from every ID-verification company for over a year.
A dataset exposing 4.5 billion scraped TikTok posts highlights the platform's data-access risk.
Tuta details Google's looming Android sideloading restrictions and their consequences for distribution.
Tesla says it has begun limited Austin Cybercab rides using vehicles without steering wheels or pedals.
Reuters : Tesla says Cybercab rides are available in limited areas of Austin; the two-seater has no steering wheel or pedals, and 45 Cybercabs are registered in Texas — Tesla (TSLA.O) said on Thursday it was offering rides in “limited areas of Austin, Texas” in its two-seater Cybercab …
Audacity 4.0 lands as a major new release of the open-source audio editor.
Neil Fraser documents the termination of the .name domain.
Nolan Lawson analyzes the disruptive forces reshaping front-end web development.
A developer ports a 1993 Amiga game to Godot using an LLM to interpret 68000 assembly.
A high-signal practitioner discussion asks who is running Model Context Protocol in production.
Zed explains why Project Xanadu's hypertext ideas are newly relevant to software agents.
Gwern publishes a 2025 retrospective on Project Xanadu's long technical legacy.
MIT recounts how an MIT research project grew into the Julia programming language.
IDPro proposes clearer, standardized terminology for authorization systems.
A C++ deep dive shows how move semantics work even without explicitly calling std::move.
Carbon Aware Pricing publishes daily carbon-aware electricity pricing across 38 grids.
Reports examine a GPS malfunction that displaced US positioning readings by up to 33 feet.
Bloomberg : Sources: Binance is still operating in the EU months after it failed to get a MiCA license, using workarounds to onboard new customers and reroute its trading — The news hit with a thud in June: Binance Holdings Ltd., the world's largest crypto exchange, was about to get kicked out of the European Union.
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC : Nvidia becomes a leading global strategic tech backer, with the value of its equity investments up 10x in the past year to $99B, as it bolsters the AI sector — Nvidia has become one of the world's largest corporate backers of tech companies as the value of its equity investments soared …
Nikkei Asia : Sources: initial foldable iPhone production is limited to only a “few hundred” units a day due to Apple's strict quality standards as it ramps up output — TAIPEI — Initial production of Apple's long-awaited foldable iPhone is currently limited to only a “few hundred” units a day …
Wall Street Journal : A profile of Hugging Face, which started in 2016 to build a sassy chatbot for teens; CEO Clément Delangue says he approached Nvidia this summer to pursue a deal — The startup began as an emoji-named app for teens before becoming a crusader for open-source AI
Paresh Dave / Wired : Wikimedia Foundation staffers vote 158-14 to join the CWA, which will represent 200+ US employees across engineering, finance, and communications — More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America.
Alexei Oreskovic / Fortune : AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor — Ray Kurzweil, the pioneering AI scientist, Google researcher, and “AI visionary,” is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing …
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media : Sources: Index Ventures dropped plans to invest in AI assistant Town after Instinct, which Index is backing, complained about a potential conflict of interest — Exclusive details on Town's new $90M fundraise at a $1B valuation, and the eleventh-hour cap table reshuffling behind it, per Upstarts sources.
Axios : Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures — PayPal has paused plans to sell its venture capital portfolio for around $900 million to $1 billion, Axios Pro has learned from multiple sources.