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The Allen Institute for AI launches FlexOlmo, an LLM architecture that lets data owners control and remove their training data from a model even after training (www.wired.com)
2025-7-10 AI

Amazon expands its Now service in India to New Delhi, offering deliveries in as little as 10 minutes, after launching the service in Bengaluru in December 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-10 India Amazon

Riyadh-based food delivery service Jahez agrees to acquire a 76.56% stake in Qatari e-commerce platform Snoonu for $245M in cash and stock (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-10 Qatar

A researcher says 245 extensions on nearly 1M devices are overriding security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites for a paid service (arstechnica.com)
2025-7-10

Prime Day Loses Its Spark As Sales Nosedive 41% (news.slashdot.org)
2025-7-10

PowerLines: US power providers have sought regulatory approval for $29B in rate increases in H1 2025, up 142% YoY, following booming data center demand (t.co)
2025-7-10

Electricity bills may rise 20%+ in parts of PJM Interconnection's 13-state territory as the largest US power grid struggles to meet AI and data center demand (www.reuters.com)
2025-7-10 AI

TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 39% YoY to ~$32B, beating estimates and boosting expectations for a sustained post-ChatGPT boom in AI spending (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-10 AI

Sources: Linda Yaccarino told close contacts that the return of some advertisers and X's merger with xAI, which reduced her role, made it a good time to depart (www.wsj.com)
2025-7-10

How crypto executives, lobbyists, campaign operatives, and Trump business partners turned President Trump from an outspoken bitcoin skeptic into a supporter (www.nytimes.com)
2025-7-10 Trump Bitcoin

xAI launches Grok 4 Heavy, a “multi-agent version” of Grok 4 offering increased performance, and unveils a new $300/month AI subscription plan, SuperGrok Heavy (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-10 AI

xAI introduces Grok 4, trained on its Colossus supercomputer, featuring multimodal tools, faster reasoning, Grok 4 Voice, Grok 4 Code, a new interface, and more (www.tomsguide.com)
2025-7-10

Sources: Amazon weighs another multibillion-dollar investment in Anthropic, as it seeks to position itself ahead of Google, which has invested $3B+ in Anthropic (t.co)
2025-7-10 Google Amazon

America's Largest Power Grid Is Struggling To Meet Demand From AI (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-7-10 U.S. AI

The team behind AI agent Manus has relocated its HQ to Singapore and started recruiting there, while parent company Butterfly Effect reportedly remains in China (www.scmp.com)
2025-7-10 China AI Singapore

Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a new AI chip designed for China that will be a version of its Blackwell RTX Pro 6000 processor, as soon as September (www.ft.com)
2025-7-10 China AI Nvidia

Max Changed Back To HBO Max (news.slashdot.org)
2025-7-10

Source: during a presentation, Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff said AI saved Microsoft $500M+ last year in its call centers and increased satisfaction (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-10 Microsoft AI

Browser Extensions Turn Nearly 1 Million Browsers Into Website-Scraping Bots (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-7-10 Browser

Nominal, which develops AI agents for ERP systems to automate tasks for finance teams, raised a $20M Series A led by Next47, bringing its total funding to ~$30M (www.calcalistech.com)
2025-7-10 AI ERP

Soundslice Adds ASCII Tab Support After ChatGPT Hallucinates Feature (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-7-10

Singapore-based Augmentus, which is developing a no-code interface for factory engineers to deploy autonomous robotic surface finishing systems, raised $11M (siliconangle.com)
2025-7-10 Robot Singapore

Hugging Face Launches $299 Robot That Could Disrupt Entire Robotics Industry (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-7-10 Robot

Sources: Groq has talked with investors about raising $300M to $500M at a $6B post-investment valuation, which would double its $2.8B valuation from August 2024 (www.theinformation.com)
2025-7-10

IKEA Ditches Zigbee For Thread Going All In On Matter Smart Homes (mobile.slashdot.org)
2025-7-10

Microsoft Authenticator on iOS moves backups fully to iCloud (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-7-10 IOS Microsoft

Sources: Meta offered Ruoming Pang a $200M+ pay package over a several-year period in line with Meta's other major AI hires; Apple didn't try to match the offer (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-7-10 AI Apple

UK Full-Fiber Broadband Coverage Jumps From 12% to 78% in Five Years (news.slashdot.org)
2025-7-10

A German court ruled Meta's tracking pixels embedded in third-party websites and apps violate the EU's GDPR, ordering it to pay €5,000 to a German Facebook user (therecord.media)
2025-7-10 Germany Facebook GDPR

Samsung Launches Three New Foldable Smartphones As It Fends Off Chinese Rivals (mobile.slashdot.org)
2025-7-10 China Samsung

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