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Simulated markets study: without explicit instruction, AI trading bots collude to fix prices, hoard profits, and sideline human traders, a regulatory challenge (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Disney is grappling with using AI in its filmmaking process while protecting its characters against it, plus legal uncertainty, fan backlash, and union concerns (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to memorialize the dead, as critics worry about AI coarsening how people remember one another (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Xiaomi releases MiDashengLM-7B, an AI voice model based on its foundation voice model deployed in cars and smart home devices, under an Apache 2.0 license (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 AI Xiaomi

How 20-something CEOs like Cognition AI's Scott Wu, Cursor's Michael Truell, Cluely's Roy Lee, and Scale AI's Alexandr Wang are swarming San Francisco's AI boom (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 AI San Francisco

Microsoft's Q4 earnings show its non-AI “core infrastructure business” is booming, with consumer productivity software revenue up 20%, its best uptick in years (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 Microsoft AI 4Q

Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new “hard tech”, AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base (www.nytimes.com)
2025-8-7 Startup AI San Francisco

Connecticut-based Amphenol plans to acquire North Carolina-based CommScope's broadband connectivity and cable unit for ~$10.5B, including debt, amid the AI boom (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Elon Musk says that xAI will bring back Vine's video archive, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine feature, available to X Premium+ subscribers, is “AI Vine” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 AI Elon Musk

Search-engine optimization feels dated as marketers look to generative-engine optimization, or GEO, which focuses on tricking AI chatbots rather than Google (nymag.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI chatbot

Google signs a deal with two power utilities to lower its power use by pausing non-essential AI workloads during demand surges or weather-based grid disruptions (www.theregister.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

A Parkland shooting victim's parents created an AI version of their late son to speak about gun safety, starting with an interview with journalist Jim Acosta (www.rollingstone.com)
2025-8-7 Interview AI

Source: Reflection AI, founded by ex-Google researchers and which makes the AI agent Asimov, has raised most of the $1B+ it is seeking to build open-source LLMs (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says the US is exploring software or physical ways to track the location of AI chips, as part of its AI Action Plan (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 AI

As Delta experiments with AI-driven ticket pricing, regulators and travelers alike worry about dynamic fare schemes that “go beyond the human cognitive limits” (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Shareholder letter: Reddit cites Profound's analysis showing it is the most cited domain across AI models, as often as Wikipedia and ahead of YouTube and others (pressgazette.co.uk)
2025-8-7 AI YouTube Reddit

Users say AI notetaking tools for meetings can misinterpret context when generating summaries or share content meant for a select audience with all participants (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

India's IT giants face revenue declines due to challenges like corporations establishing their own global capability centers in the country and the rise of AI (indiadispatch.com)
2025-8-7 India AI

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed a bill into law on August 1 banning the use of AI for mental health services, but allowing its use in administrative roles (statescoop.com)
2025-8-7 AI Health Reform

ElevenLabs launches Eleven Music, letting individuals and businesses use its AI model to generate music cleared for commercial use via English-language prompts (www.wsj.com)
2025-8-7 AI

The US General Services Administration approves OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for AI contracts with civilian federal agencies via its Multiple Award Schedule (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-8-7 Google AI

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1 to paid Claude users, in Claude Code, its API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI, with the same pricing as Opus 4 (www.anthropic.com)
2025-8-7 Google Amazon AI

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image, an open-source AI image generation model focused on accurately rendering text, with support for alphabetic and logographic scripts (venturebeat.com)
2025-8-7 Alibaba AI

The US DOJ says two Chinese nationals were arrested in California and charged with illegally shipping AI chips, like Nvidia H100s, to China from 2022 to 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2025-8-7 China AI Nvidia California

Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving administrators the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like wrong citations (www.404media.co)
2025-8-7 AI

Sources: AI video startup Runway is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $5B+ pre-money valuation; rival Luma AI aims to raise $1.1B+ at a $3.2B+ pre-money valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2025-8-7 Startup AI

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

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

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

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