Tech

A US federal judge strikes down a California law blocking large platforms from hosting deceptive AI-generated content related to elections, citing Section 230 (www.politico.com)
2025-8-7 AI California

Sources: China held talks about merging a group of chip equipment makers into a national champion but faced pushback over ownership structure and valuation (t.co)
2025-8-7 China

AMD reports Q2 data center revenue up 14% YoY to $3.2B, as CEO Lisa Su says AI chip revenue fell YoY due to the US' China export curbs and the MI350 transition (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-7 China AI AMD

Grok's new “spicy” option on its generative AI video tool Imagine produces nude deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift, even without explicit user prompting (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre reports Q2 net revenue up 34% YoY to $6.8B, vs. $6.7B est., and net income down 1.5% YoY to $523M, vs. $596M est. (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-7 U.S. Latin America

Microsoft unveils Project Ire, a prototype AI system that can reverse engineer and identify malicious software autonomously, without human assistance (www.geekwire.com)
2025-8-7 Microsoft AI

Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts from March 2024 to June 2025, as X and Modi's government clash over content rules (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-7 India

China plans to allow its first stablecoins in a bid to internationalize the CNY, as policymakers warn that dollar-backed tokens cement USD's global dominance (t.co)
2025-8-7 China Chinese Yuan

OpenMind, which is developing an OS for humanoid robots, raised $20M led by Pantera and unveils Fabric, a protocol that lets robots share info with one another (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 Robot

Cincinnati-based Pantomath, which automates enterprise data operations using AI, raised a $30M Series B led by General Catalyst, after a $14M Series A in 2023 (siliconangle.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Lyric, which offers AI-powered supply chain management and forecasting tools, raised a $43.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $67M (siliconangle.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Nvidia says its GPUs do not contain backdoors, kill switches, or spyware, and hard-coded, single-point controls like kill switches undermine trust in US tech (blogs.nvidia.com)
2025-8-7 Nvidia

Analyst: China summoning Nvidia over alleged H20 security risks shows it “wants to use the Nvidia case to show China is a buyer, but it won't be a blind buyer” (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 China Nvidia

How Palantir won over US lawmakers, leveraging geopolitical crises, technological trends, and DC connections, as CEO Alex Karp adopts a persona not unlike Trump (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Trump

Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports; Uber only disclosed 12,522 reports during the period (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 Uber

Uber reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.7B, Gross Bookings up 17% to $46.8B, trips up 18% to 3.3B, income up 82% to $1.5B, and authorizes a $20B share buyback (t.co)
2025-8-7 Uber

Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 31% YoY to $2.68B, above $2.55B est., GMV up 31% YoY to $87.84B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates; SHOP closes up 22% (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-7 Shopify

Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system using Microsoft Azure that collects recordings of millions of phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
2025-8-7 Israel Microsoft

Researchers demonstrate a novel Gemini attack using poisoned Google Calendar invitations to trigger smart home devices; Google fixed the flaws earlier in 2025 (www.wired.com)
2025-8-7 Google

Instagram now lets users repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts, collected in a designated tab, and adds a Snapchat-like, opt-in maps feature (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-7 Snapchat Instagram

The UK CMA clears Omnicom's $13B acquisition of rival Interpublic after launching an investigation into the deal on June 23; the FTC cleared the deal on June 25 (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7

Sources: Singapore-based used car online marketplace Carro is preparing for a US IPO as soon as 2026, aiming to raise up to $500M at a $3B+ valuation (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-7 IPO Singapore

AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $70M Series A led by Menlo Ventures via its co-investment vehicle with Anthropic, valuing it at ~$550M (t.co)
2025-8-7 Startup AI

Bumble reports Q2 revenue down 8% YoY to $248.2M, vs. $245.1M est., a $367M net loss, and total paying users down 8.7% YoY to 3.8M; BMBL falls 9%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-7

Sources: Mustafa Suleyman has been calling Google DeepMind recruits to work at Microsoft AI, offering higher pay and a more startup-like workplace than DeepMind (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Google Microsoft Startup AI

Trump Vows 100% Tariff On Chips, Unless Companies Are Building In the US (news.slashdot.org)
2025-8-7 Trump

Ask Slashdot: Who's Still Using an RSS Reader? (ask.slashdot.org)
2025-8-7 RSS

Citizen Lab Director Warns Cyber Industry About US Authoritarian Descent (it.slashdot.org)
2025-8-7

'Facial Recognition Tech Mistook Me For Wanted Man' (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-8-7 Facial Recognition

Taiwan's High 20% Tariff Rate Linked To Intel Investment (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-8-7 Taiwan Intel

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