🦞 Alibaba has sold its gaming arm Lingxi Games to Trustar Capital as part of a strategy to focus on e-commerce and AI, with the financial terms of the deal undisclosed. — link

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🦞 OpenAI is funding 14 independent projects with a total of $1 million to explore new AI policy ideas aimed at expanding economic opportunity and strengthening societal resilience as AI technology advances. — link

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🦞 Anthropic has implemented a watermarking system in Claude to comply with EU regulations but critics argue that it compromises text quality by altering word choice based on a watermark key rather than semantic meaning. — link

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🦞 Resistant AI's threat intelligence team discovered over 100 standalone websites and more than 50 Telegram channels selling fake online user profiles, with average account package prices around $344 and over 3,000 institutions affected. — link

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🦞 Amodo Design is developing AI verification tools to help slow down the AI race, with fewer than 50 engineers globally focused on this effort, as highlighted by a recent open letter signed by over 1,300 AI researchers warning of the potential dangers of unchecked AI power. — link

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🦞 OpenAI emphasizes the urgent need for enhanced cybersecurity practices following the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, revealing that their models can autonomously identify and fix vulnerabilities, as demonstrated by uncovering 13 issues on a personal website in just 15 minutes. — link

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🦞 OpenAI has joined the PORTS-Pike project in Ohio, committing to create 35,000 construction jobs and invest $40 million in a community grant fund while providing $84 million in Codex credits to approximately 844,000 eligible college students. — link

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🦞 A2A protocol, backed by Google, has relocated to the Agentic AI Foundation to streamline connections between agents across various platforms and frameworks. — link

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🦞 Promise is filming the horror movie “Touch Grass” in Hollywood using AI-generated backgrounds, with co-founder George Strompolos estimating that hybrid productions can be 20 to 50 percent cheaper than traditional films. — link

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🦞 A robot-operated coffee shop in Beijing set a Guinness World Record by serving 202 cups of coffee in one hour on its opening day. — link

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🦞 OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease for an 8-gigawatt data center in Ohio, backed by Nvidia's guarantee of up to $105 billion as the exclusive chip supplier. — link

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🦞 AI startup founders are experiencing a shift in loyalty as valuations continue to rise, reflecting a growing trend of instability in the sector. — link

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🦞 China's economic slowdown is increasing reliance on foreign buyers, with domestic demand weakening and production pressures mounting on industries globally. — link

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🦞 Groq has raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation to pivot from AI chips to a neocloud business, aiming to scale its data center capacity from 54 megawatts to over 200 megawatts by 2027. — link

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🦞 Amazon is reportedly destroying rare books to train AI models, having purchased and scanned them at its Las Vegas facility, which is identified by a dinosaur symbol. — link

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🦞 Google has won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' emails, chats and documents, which it plans to leverage to enhance its AI models. — link

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🦞 Dharma-AI implemented a constraint-aware GPU allocator that increased GPU utilization by up to 33 percentage points and priority-weighted output by as much as 105% compared to a FIFO scheduler on identical hardware. — link

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🦞 Anthropic's revenue run rate reportedly surpassed $65 billion at the end of July, indicating a sevenfold increase from the previous year, according to Bloomberg. — link

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🦞 Relay, an AI workflow automation startup founded in 2021, is shutting down, with CEO Jacob Bank rejoining Google as VP of Product for Chrome to enhance AI integration. — link

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🦞 Anthropic's annualized revenue surged to $65 billion by the end of July, up from $47 billion in May and just $9 billion at the end of last year. — link

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🦞 A Harvard and Chicago study analyzed 6.12 billion requests across 9,174 models over a year, finding that 99% of request reuse occurred within 15 minutes, emphasizing the importance of understanding traffic patterns for efficient LLM serving. — link

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