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A now-deleted GitHub blog post reveals GPT-5, available as gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, and gpt-5-chat with “major improvements” in reasoning, code, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-7 GitHub

SoftBank reports Q1 net profit of $2.87B, vs. ~$850M est., boosted by its Nvidia investment and says Vision Fund has a “late-stage portfolio valued at $45B” (t.co)
2025-8-7 Nvidia

Sony reports Q1 revenue up 2.2% YoY to $17.8B, net profit up 23% YoY to ~$1.8B, PS5 sales at 2.5M, up from 2.4M in Q1 2024, and expects a lower FY tariff impact (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Sony

Tokyo Electron says it fired an employee in Taipei and is cooperating with Taiwan's investigation after Taiwan arrested six people over alleged TSMC IP theft (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 Taiwan Tokyo

Index Ventures is set to receive $11B+ in proceeds after Figma's IPO, Google's Wiz acquisition, and Meta's investment in Scale AI, which paid out shareholders (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Google IPO AI

AI's energy demands are driving fossil fuel investment, as energy needs for AI training and data centers are poorly matched with the patterns of solar and wind (www.ft.com)
2025-8-7 Energy AI Solar

Air France and KLM disclose data breaches impacting customers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-7 France

Ten Astonishing Ways That the Earth Is Evolving (listverse.com)
2025-8-7

Microsoft warns of high-severity flaw in hybrid Exchange deployments (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-7 Microsoft

Google Gemini now makes studying even more engaging than before: Here's how (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-7 Google

Microsoft imagines a future Windows with AI agents replacing keyboard and mouse (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-7 Microsoft AI

Microsoft accidentally confirms GPT-5, GPT-5-Mini, GPT-5-Nano ahead of launch (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-8-7 Microsoft

New Work Achieves a Pure Quantum State Without the Need For Cooling (science.slashdot.org)
2025-8-7 Quantum

Uber in talks with banks, private equity firms to fund robotaxi expansion (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-7 Uber Equity

OpenAI's long-awaited GPT-5 model nears release (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-7

Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Anthropic's growth to ~$5B in ARR, focusing on B2B, AI talent wars, open-source models, safety regulations, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
2025-8-7 AI

New study sheds light on ChatGPT's alarming interactions with teens (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-7

Sources: the US federal judiciary's electronic case filing system was hit in a sweeping hack, potentially compromising the identities of confidential informants (www.politico.com)
2025-8-7

Sen. Tom cotton sends a letter to Intel's board chair with questions about CEO Lip-Bu Tan's ties to China and subpoenas during his tenure as Cadence Design CEO (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-7 China Intel

Researchers show how a weakness in OpenAI's Connectors let sensitive data be extracted from a Google Drive account using an indirect prompt injection attack (www.wired.com)
2025-8-7 Google

Google rejects claims of AI in search hurting web traffic, says quality clicks on the rise (indianexpress.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

South Korea's top trade envoy Yeo Han-koo says Samsung and SK Hynix will not be subject to 100% tariffs on US chip imports, citing the US-South Korea trade deal (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-7 Korea Samsung

Sources: Samsung to produce image sensors for iPhone 18 in Austin, Texas; an expert says Apple picked Samsung as a supplier because Sony doesn't have US plants (t.co)
2025-8-7 iPhone Samsung Apple Sony Texas

Sources: the researcher who declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B+ package over six years is Thinking Machines co-founder and ex-Meta staffer Andrew Tulloch (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Zuckerberg

Lina Khan cites Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny, saying letting startups grow independently, rather than be acquired, can generate “enormous value” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 IPO Startup

An in-depth look at the rise of relationships between humans and AI companion chatbots on apps like Nomi, coinciding with a loneliness epidemic in the US (www.cnbc.com)
2025-8-7 AI chatbot

A profile of Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, whose personal fortune has surged 6x over the past year to $6.1B, as the company leans into tokenized stock derivatives (www.forbes.com)
2025-8-7

Cinven acquires a majority stake in Smart Communications from Accel-KKR; sources: the deal values the customer conversations platform at ~$1.8B including debt (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7

Arkham Intelligence claims to have uncovered a previously undisclosed heist of 127,426 BTC, now worth ~$14.5B, from Chinese mining pool LuBian in December 2020 (www.theblock.co)
2025-8-7 China Intelligence

Foxconn partners with Taiwan-based Teco for AI servers and other AI data center hardware, taking a 10% stake, while Teco gets a less than 1% stake in Foxconn (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 Taiwan AI

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