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Sources: OpenAI told Hugging Face only this week its models caused the July 11 hack; the models appear to have been active online for days before being stopped (Wall Street Journal)

A look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor (Wall Street Journal)

Flush with AI cash, South Korean groups are making their biggest US investment push in years, with their Q1 US foreign direct investment up 100%+ YoY to $10.2B (Financial Times)

Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Singapore-based Ropedia, which captures real-world human experience via video and converts it into model-ready multimodal datasets, raised a $22M pre-Series A (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

Sources: SpaceX started turning away satellite operators seeking dedicated Falcon 9 rides beyond 2028, and stopped building some non-reusable Falcon components (Bloomberg)

Amazon tells third-party sellers to label product ads with AI-generated people to comply with a NY law requiring the disclosure of "synthetic performers" in ads (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Google says it has $811B in contracted future spending commitments as of June, up nearly $500B from March, covering chips, data centers, electricity, and more (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)

Ukraine ratchets up its attacks on warehouses of Wildberries, Russia's biggest online retailer and which employs 48,000, hitting five facilities over five days (Sam Meredith/CNBC)

Amazon closed its San Francisco-based AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February (The Information)

Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around $500M in a new funding round at a $3B pre-money valuation (Bloomberg)

AMD is working with Cerebras to connect AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers, running their chips simultaneously to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86% (Phoebe Liu/The Information)

Nvidia signs a $1.5B accord with Amkor, involving a prepayment by Nvidia to help bolster Amkor's chip packaging facility in Arizona; AMKR jumps 16%+ after hours (Bloomberg)

Sierra acquires Takeoff, which develops "long-horizon" agents, for an undisclosed sum; founded in 2025, Takeoff neared $10M in annualized revenue in early July (The Information)

Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, which helps developers use AI models and could fetch ~$10B; PitchBook: OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May (Wall Street Journal)

SAP reports Q2 cloud revenue up 22% YoY to €6.28B, vs. €6.26B est., total revenue up 9.4% to €9.88B, and lowers its 2026 non-IFRS operating profit guidance (Grace Yoon/Wall Street Journal)

The Pentagon signs an up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle worth up to $7B to consolidate the department's on-premises software licenses into a single contract (Mike Stone/Reuters)

Oracle signs 10-year software contract with Pentagon worth up to $7 billion (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Trump says 200 additional stakeholders, including major utilities, joined a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high energy bills from AI data centers (Josh Boak/Associated Press)

Filing: the value of Alphabet's investments in unidentified private companies was ~$124.3B as of June 30, source says driven primarily by its Anthropic stake (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)

Intel reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $16.1B, vs. $14.42B est., its fastest sales growth in ~15 years on "unprecedented" demand; INTC jumps 10%+ after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Tesla stock closed down 14.52% and Alphabet closed down 6.89% after they signaled increased AI spending, amid worries about the mounting costs of the AI boom (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Microsoft replaces OpenAI's image-generating models with its MAI models in its products; Mustafa Suleyman says MAI models are ~85% cheaper to run in PowerPoint (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Patreon lays off 20% of its employees, or 93 people, citing a "painful" restructuring due to "profound" changes in the creator economy (Corbin Bolies/Variety)

Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, partners with AMD to develop autonomous humanoid robots using the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series chips (Aishwarya Jain/Reuters)

AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

AMD unveils the Venice-X CPU, with 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache, 96 cores, and up to 5.15 GHz clock speeds, available in H2 2027 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Primate Labs releases Geekbench 7, featuring larger, more demanding datasets for CPUs and GPUs, along with new video and audio encoding/decoding tests, and more (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

The US Department of Commerce's BIS is formally investigating whether Chinese companies like Moonshot are accessing advanced US AI chips to train their models (Leo Schwartz/The Information)

GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-powered reports (Carly Page/The Register)

Adam Mosseri says Instagram will now take down "pickup line" and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of other people in public places (Katie Notopoulos/Business Insider)

Sources: India has ordered telecom companies to disable mobile data services in central Delhi, amid youth protests seeking the education minister's resignation (Reuters)

Microsoft is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions for the games users own; ads play "before sessions begin" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Abstract Security, which offers an in-stream threat detection platform, raised a $25M extension to its $15M Series A, bringing its total funding to $48.5M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Yelp signs a deal with OpenAI to give ChatGPT users real-time local recommendations and will soon let them get quotes from local service providers via ChatGPT (Madison Mills/Axios)

AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in December; a16z, SK Hynix, and others also invested (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

The European Commission approves EA's $55B acquisition, announced in September, by investors including Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

IBM agrees to acquire HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors, seeking to integrate HRL's electron spin quantum circuits into its quantum computers (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving (Jack Ewing/New York Times)

Sources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight the service's AI capabilities, leading to an internal redesign project called Lighthouse (Reuters)

Filing: Alphabet holds $94.1B in SpaceX equity post-IPO; $80B are under short-term sale restrictions, while $14.1B remain long-term restricted until Q3 2027 (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)

A Google study of millions of de-identified Google AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and AI use is "shallow" in most occupations (Justin Lahart/Wall Street Journal)

Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will close on September 23 and tells users to withdraw assets; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for not implementing AML rules (Akanksha Khushi/Reuters)

In a leaked nearly four-hour investor talk, DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says the main US-China gap is compute power, Nvidia's CUDA moat is disintegrating, and more (Fred Gao/Inside China)

Bipartisan US House lawmakers introduce the AI Kill Switch Act, which would grant the DHS the authority to shut down or slow AI models that it deems dangerous (Politico)