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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=84343b5357&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent, which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step tasks, powered by a new dedicated model, rolling out to paid users</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=84c14ee9bd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Today we launched a new product called ChatGPT Agent. Agent represents a new level of capability for AI systems and can accomplish some remarkable, complex tasks for you using its own computer. It combines the spirit of Deep Research and Operator, but is more powerful than that may sound—it can think for a long time, use some tools, think some more, take some actions, think some more, etc</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=baa119f7dd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">We've activated our strongest safeguards for ChatGPT Agent. It's the first model we've classified as High capability in biology & chemistry under our Preparedness Framework. Here's why that matters-and what we're doing to keep it safe. 🧵</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=598136b8f8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I had early access & ChatGPT agent is, I think, a big step forward for getting AIs to do real work Even at this stage, it does a good job autonomously doing research & assembling Excel files (with formulas!), PowerPoint, etc. It gives a sense of how agents are coming together [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f9aa3b4c85&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">ChatGPT Agent uses a virtual browser to do tasks such as filling online forms and calling public APIs, and generates downloadable PowerPoint and Excel files</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c5026ebb0a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $11.08B, vs. $11.07B est., net income of $3.13B, and forecasts 2025 revenue of $44.8B-$45.2B, up from $43.5B-$44.5B</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e51bb4f565&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Netflix kicked off Big Tech earnings season with a strong beat-and-raise quarter - but it's not enough to lift the stock. $NFLX down ~2% in after hours trading. [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a07cae8577&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Adolesence was more than 2X more popular than any Netflix original not named Squid Game. [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ff3723866a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Substack raised a $100M Series C from Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds its social network and warms up to ads</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9edd9aa7e9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TSMC reports Q2 net income up 61% YoY to ~$13.5B, beating est. every quarter since 2021, and raises its 2025 sales growth guidance in USD from mid-20% to 30%</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Debby Wu / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8f064ef29a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is speeding up construction of its second and third Arizona plants “by several quarters” to meet chip demand from US clients</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Nikkei Asia</span>)</span>
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<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=f81c2d4c64&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Uber partners with EV maker Lucid and AV startup Nuro to deploy 20K+ robotaxis in the US over six years; Uber plans to invest $300M in Lucid and more in Nuro</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew J. Hawkins / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ad305108b9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google's Veo 3 video generation model launches on the Gemini API, with an eight-second video costing $6, making it one of the most expensive AI video options</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matthias Bastian / </span><span class="pub_name">The Decoder</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cf3f653c2a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google says threat actors are breaching fully patched, end-of-life cybersecurity company SonicWall's appliances and stealing sensitive data from organizations</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jonathan Greig / </span><span class="pub_name">The Record</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bd3dd81964&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Swedish AI coding startup Lovable raised a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation, making it Europe's newest unicorn; Lovable was founded in 2023</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jake Rudnitsky / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=72661d11fa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Roblox taps Persona to estimate users' ages and verify they are 13+, renames Friends to Connections, and says only users over 13 can message Trusted Connections</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jay Peters / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<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
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9bdb01015d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the White House is preparing an EO requiring AI companies with federal contracts to be neutral and unbiased, to combat what officials see as “woke AI”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d6ca82f40c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Delta plans for 20% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025, up from ~3% now, and has a goal to eliminate static pricing entirely</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Irina Ivanova / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ddfdd81585&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">An advisory board convened by OpenAI recommends that the company remain a nonprofit because AI is “too consequential” to be governed by a corporation alone</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Thalia Beaty / </span><span class="pub_name">Associated Press</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=34523d69b1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Mistral adds new features to its Le Chat chatbot, including a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rebecca Bellan / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=386201a0ed&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A US judge rules that three authors suing Anthropic can bring a class action on behalf of all US writers whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Blake Brittain / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7ff526023a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Big Tech's acquihires of AI startups, like Meta's $14.3B Scale AI deal, leaves investors with modest or no returns and may further entrench Big Tech's dominance</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Parmy Olson / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2c2b9e417d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: some Trump administration officials are holding up finalizing a deal for the UAE to buy Nvidia AI chips over concerns that China could access the chips</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7a4c5d9312&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the browser as AI's killer app, AI talent wars, why users may eventually pay thousands for a single prompt, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Heath / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6da5b4c1bc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft's Copilot struggles to make headway against rival AI assistants; Sensor Tower says Copilot's mobile app has 79M downloads, far below ChatGPT's 900M+</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matt Day / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cd4bcb5416&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Remagine Ventures: 342 Israeli startups are now building Generative AI-based products, up by 198 since May 2024, and have collectively raised $20B+ to date</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Elihay Vidal / </span><span class="pub_name">CTech</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f677e7ea5c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Perplexity offers a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription, which costs $20/month, to 360M users of Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Moneycontrol</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1005d8381e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AI is already transforming Hollywood, as studios and production companies experiment with AI tools while labor groups warn of job losses and other consequences</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Steven Zeitchik / </span><span class="pub_name">The Hollywood Reporter</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2865a3e9ee&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AI and automation are transforming agriculture with autonomous tractors, fruit-picking robots and drones, remote sensing, image analytics, and soft intelligence</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">William Boston / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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cryptocurrency
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2a32e9100f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that would open up 401(k) plans to cryptocurrency and other alternative investments</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6d8494c0dc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">In response to a FOIA request, the US Marshals Service said it held 28,988+ BTC as of March, worth ~$3.4B at current prices, far fewer than previously believed</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Daniel Kuhn / </span><span class="pub_name">The Block</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fdb0935cf2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Elliptic estimates cross-chain criminal and high-risk activity at $21.8B+ in 2025, up from $7B in 2023, and attributes ~12% to crypto hacks from North Korea</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Yohan Yun / </span><span class="pub_name">Cointelegraph</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=13046e6ff2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">In H1 2025, hackers stole $2.17B+ from crypto services, which includes North Korea's record $1.5B Bybit hack, surpassing all of 2024 and up 17% on H1 2022</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Chainalysis</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=376c509123&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Coinbase rolls out the Base App, rebranding its Coinbase Wallet as an “everything app” that combines social networking, mini-apps, chat, payments, and trading</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>
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Social Networks
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ffa3a14b75&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Meta names long time executive Connor Hayes as head of Threads, starting in mid-September; Hayes joined Meta in 2011</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sara Fischer / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4863268ef7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the European Commission has stalled its investigation into X for breaking its digital transparency rules, while it negotiates a trade deal with the US</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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