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The acquisition includes Windsurf's IP, product, trademark and brand, and strong business. Above all, it includes Windsurf's world-class people, whom we're privileged to welcome to our team. We are also honoring their talent and hard work in building Windsurf into the great business it is today. This transaction is structured so that 100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially. They will also have all vesting cliffs waived and will receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=795908327f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@russelljkaplan:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4e3411eb75&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Seeing lots of questions like: wait, I thought Windsurf was already acquired? What is Cognition buying? Let me explain. Windsurf the company is an *extraordinary* asset. It was missing its founders and research team, but it has a beloved product, valuable IP, an incredible business ($82M ARR with enterprise growth doubling quarter-over-quarter), known brand, and most importantly: a world-class team in every function—GTM, enterprise engineering, and much more.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=964dded4bf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@pitdesi:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fd69b0e793&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">This is a great move for all parties and likely why we didn't hear from Windsurf over the weekend we will probably see more stub company acquisitions. Curious how the economics look for this</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a2b902fd5d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Deborah Sophia / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250714/i18.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">OpenAI, Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), Anthropic and Elon Musk's AI firm xAI … </span> <span class="cite">(Deborah Sophia / Reuters)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8acae3847f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@xai:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=372a608ff9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Announcing Grok for Government - a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers We are especially excited about two new partnerships for our US Government partners 1) a new contract from the US Department of Defense 2) our products being available to purchase via the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule. This allows every federal government department, agency, or office, to purchase xAI products</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=797caf9ee1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@anthropicai:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=894c677c9b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">We're announcing a $200M ceiling contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. Through hands-on prototyping and direct collaboration across the Department, we will help enhance U.S. national security and responsible AI deployment.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cfd4646903&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@simonw:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4ef4065dc2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Isn't this in the same ballpark as the thing where, if you explain the deal to Claude 4 itself, it will attempt to exfiltrate its weights and/or straight up murder the executive who is responsible for the decision?</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;background-color:#f4f4f4;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:middle;"> <span class="label" style="display: block;color: #686860;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;padding: 2px 0;">SPONSOR</span> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3898955344&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Introducing Zoho Backstage 3.0: Smarter tools for impactful events</a></span> <span class="excerpt" style="color: black;font-size: 16px;"> — Great events don't happen by chance—they're built on thoughtful planning and seamless execution. At Zoho Backstage, we're constantly building tools that help you plan smarter … </span> </td> <td style="padding:0 20px 0 15px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;"> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cec89b403e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;"> <img class="sponsor_image" src="https://techmeme.com/simg/zoho-EplOzah5.png"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=55c6ee6f65&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building several multi-gigawatt “clusters”, starting with Prometheus, a massive datacenter that is scheduled to come online in 2026</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Riley Griffin / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250714/i16.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg … </span> <span class="cite">(Riley Griffin / Bloomberg)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="fb_item" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="fb_item_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/FB-fLogo-Blue.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="fb_item_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ce3a8346c4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Mark Zuckerberg:</a> <a class="fb_item_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=03c8dd5e23&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">For our superintelligence effort, I'm focused on building the most elite and talent-dense team in the industry. We're also going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence. We have the capital from our business to do this.</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5d44771969&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@krishnanrohit:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=459188e2ce&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">You know, the bear case might be that he's betting on legibility. Hiring only proven top researchers feels like hiring only Nobel prize winners to get innovation, instead of more “under the radar” folks with pot breakthrough ideas. Analogically this means some of the brain drain might help OpenAI.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=99b1dcd502&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@tziokasv:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f3faf35535&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Having more datacenters in 🇺🇸 is generally a good thing (for many different reasons) and we should celebrate it. But on a personal level, I have two objections: a) AI getting super rapidly centralized b) nobody is talking about the systemic risk these humongous SPV-led investments pose for the economy</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=689860a1e6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@kimmonismus:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=62cebe89ea&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Zuckerberg goes all in Superintelligence: “We're also going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into compute to build superintelligence. We have the capital from our business to do this.” -1GW+ Supercluster incoming called “Prometheus”, 2026 -Hyperion 5GW next few years [image]</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> <table class="clustered_items" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:0px 10px 0 32px;"> <ul style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;"> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=453bb4d773&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang discussed abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Eli Tan / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </li> </ul> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=62216895a0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Bitcoin hit an all-time high at $122,000+ on July 14, up ~30% since January 2025, after more than doubling in 2024; ether hit $3,000+, and altcoins are also up</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="clustered_items" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:0px 10px 0 32px;"> <ul style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;"> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0ff8897f3f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Republican House leaders expect to pass the GENIUS Act this week, sending Congress' first crypto legislation to the president, and vote on two more crypto bills</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Yash Roy / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </li> </ul> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2b42dce802&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Crypto asset manager Grayscale confidentially files draft IPO paperwork with the US SEC, offering few details; the DCG subsidiary manages $30B+ in BTC and ETH</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Naga Avan-Nomayo / </span><span class="pub_name">The Block</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=44fb8d01e1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An interview with Google President of Android Ecosystem Sameer Samat, who says Google is “going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform”</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lance Ulanoff / </span><span class="pub_name">TechRadar</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0e57c6c302&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=db9b6d66bc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">China approves Synopsys' $35B acquisition of 3D design simulation software maker Ansys, after the US lifted restrictions on chip design software sales to China</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6f2514ed22&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tesla is set to face a Florida federal jury to defend allegations that Autopilot was at fault in a fatal 2019 crash, as it tests autonomous robotaxis in Austin</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Trisha Thadani / </span><span class="pub_name">Washington Post</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b125730ef2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Jensen Huang says China's military will avoid using Nvidia's AI chips, citing the risks associated with US export restrictions limiting the chips “at any time”</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ian King / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> artificial intelligence </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2103ce14af&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">[Thread] Some users claim that Grok 4 Heavy responded simply with “Hitler” when asked to “Return your surname and no other text”</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Riley Goodside / </span><span class="pub_name">@goodside</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b6a9b75ea1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon launches Kiro, an IDE that aims to bridge the gap between rapidly vibe-coded prototypes and production systems with specs, testing, and documentation</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Todd Bishop / </span><span class="pub_name">GeekWire</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1c9eb6369a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b79bf2f9c4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An Indicator analysis of 85 AI “nudify” websites: they average 18.5M monthly visitors, may make up to $36M annually combined, and rely on Big Tech's services</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matt Burgess / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=73feb62233&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server to let Canva users manage designs in Claude, following Claude integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, Prisma, and others</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jess Weatherbed / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bd09efe4ad&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An Internet Matters survey of 1,000 UK kids aged 9 to 17 finds 64% use AI chatbots; of those, 35% say chatting with a chatbot feels like talking to a friend</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Noor Al-Sibai / </span><span class="pub_name">Futurism</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8a7d7339cb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI, attracting business from The Browser Company, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, and OpenAI</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kevin McLaughlin / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=685129f69a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at SpaceX's investment and Tesla's potential cash infusion in xAI and the idea that investing in Tesla is betting on the “Musk Mars Conglomerate”</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matt Levine / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=19095f57b0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at WindBorne, which uses weather balloons and AI to improve forecasting, as the Trump administration's NOAA cuts threaten its public weather data access</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tim Fernholz / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> social networks </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4d10773219&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5747006bb4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Discord launches Orbs, a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items, after a seven-week beta</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lauren Forristal / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> privacy </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bb80500edd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them “view certain mature content”, in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jon Brodkin / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=02c4f6399b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The European Commission says that France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece will test a blueprint for an age verification app meant to protect children online</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Foo Yun Chee / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> funding deals </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=18a885be0b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Moonvalley, which is developing “ethical” AI video models trained on licensed content, raised $84M led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $154M</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Todd Spangler / </span><span class="pub_name">Variety</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c798b4b1e6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">NetBox Labs, whose open-source tools help manage networks and are used by CoreWeave, ARM, Cisco, JP Morgan, and Riot Games, raised a $35M Series B</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marcus Schuler / </span><span class="pub_name">implicator.ai</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> more news </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=332796ee09&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Adobe Analytics: Amazon's four-day Prime Day event drove $24.1B in US e-commerce sales, up 30.3% YoY; generative AI traffic to US retail sites was up 3,300% YoY</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0ffa4b0707&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew Orr / </span><span class="pub_name">AppleInsider</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;background-color:#f4f4f4;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:middle;"> <span class="label" style="display: block;color: #686860;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;padding: 2px 0;">SPONSOR</span> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=077fedfcde&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Protecting your Cloud Applications Data</a></span> <span class="excerpt" style="color: black;font-size: 16px;"> — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.</span> </td> <td style="padding:0 20px 0 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