Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter AI model that it says rivals Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, and plans to release model weights by July 27  —  Today, we are introducing Kimi K3 — our most capable model.  Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter model built on our Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals …

The EU issues two decisions under the DMA that order Google to provide rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and some Search data  —  The EU says Google must let rival search engines and AI assistants have comparable access to Android and some Search data to comply with the DMA.

Google says users in the US can now link to and interact with some apps in AI Mode, including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music  —  Google announced on Thursday that it now allows users to link and interact with some of their go-to apps right in AI Mode, the tech giant's conversational search experience.

1Password launches a new Claude integration for macOS that lets Anthropic's AI agent sign in to websites without seeing the user's password or 2FA code  —  1Password is launching a new Claude integration for Mac users today.  It's designed to let Anthropic's AI agent sign in to websites without seeing …

Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and rolls out an update giving every notebook a secure cloud computer, letting it write and execute code natively  —  We're renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook.  It's the same standalone product, now doing more across the Google ecosystem and updated with a secure cloud computer.

OnePlus confirms it will no longer operate in North America or Europe but will keep operating in China, while Realme, another Oppo sub-brand, will exit China  —  “Never settle” takes on a whole new meaning, as the once-maverick phone-maker retreats from the US and Europe.

Netflix says roughly 300 titles used generative AI this year, mostly in post-production, “to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost”  —  Some titles used AI to create ‘enhanced crowds, historical battle sequences, and worldbuilding establishing shots.’

Roblox unveils Build, which lets users create basic games through text prompts directly within its mobile app, powered by Roblox's models and open-source models  —  It's the latest push into AI from Roblox, which has embraced the technology. … Roblox is about to let people make games …

xAI sues a South Carolina man for allegedly using Grok to generate CSAM, in one of the first cases of its kind brought by an AI company against one of its users  —  Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested earlier this year on charges …

Trump Media plans to launch the Truth API on August 1, providing real-time data from trending Truth Social accounts to news organizations and trading firms  —  Trump Media & Technology Group is launching a backend interface that will allow financial services companies to access real …

Sources: Apple is preparing new iPads, including an iPad mini with an OLED screen by October and refreshed entry-level iPads and iPad Airs for 2027  —  Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce its biggest overhaul to the iPad mini in half a decade, giving new life to a product that's popular with travelers and technology enthusiasts.

The UK sentences two Scattered Spider members, who pled guilty to an August 2024 Transport for London cyberattack, to five and a half years in prison  —  Two men who carried out a cyber-attack which crippled Transport For London (TfL) when they were teenagers have both been sentenced to five years and six months in prison.

Meta will now notify parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and will contact emergency services if a user might be at risk of suicide  —  Meta announced on Thursday that it will now notify parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with the company's Meta AI chatbot.

After reports of GPT-5.6 deleting files, OpenAI says the issue most often occurs in full-access mode without sandboxing and it is working to mitigate the risk  —  On file deletions. We've investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files. What we have found is that this most commonly occurs when: - Full access mode is enabled and codex is run without sandboxing protections, including without auto review being

Sources: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro because the company has been trying to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model …

Uber agrees to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal that values the German food delivery company at ~$14.8B, offering €41.50 per share and buying Prosus' 16.8% stake  —  Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to buy Delivery Hero SE in a deal that values the German food-delivery company …

SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license, after the tool uploaded user repositories to SpaceXAI's Google Cloud bucket, causing a backlash  —  xai-org/grok-build, now open source (via) xAI's grok CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent …

A hacker claims to have accessed Suno's user info and source code, showing how it scraped music; Suno says no sensitive info was compromised in a November hack  —  Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.

Sable, which is building an AI agent named Aiden that lives on a company's website to run live product demos and more, raised $45M from Sequoia and 8VC  —  Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire still remembers the demo that changed his mind on Sable.  —  An AI sales rep was walking a buyer through …

Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and a feature that lets users create custom digital avatars using a selfie and voice recording  —  OpenAI's Sora may have shut down, but Google apparently thinks there's still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos.

DoorDash launches a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, which lets users place orders via an AI agent, available by waitlist to macOS developers in the US and Canada  —  Sudo make me a sandwich.  The future has arrived!  DoorDash just introduced a limited beta of DoorDash CLI …

Ofcom opens an investigation into TikTok over Online Safety Act compliance, citing doubts about the effectiveness of age inference in determining users' ages  —  The online safety watchdog is worried about TikTok's use of “age inference” to guess users' ages.

Crypto.com raised $400M from Citadel Securities in its first institutional funding round, valuing the Singapore-based crypto exchange at $20B  —  Crypto.com secured a $400 million strategic investment from market maker Citadel Securities in a deal that values the crypto exchange at $20 billion …

TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$39.45B, net income up 77.4% YoY to ~$21.9B, both above est., and says chips 7nm or smaller were 77% of its wafer revenue  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co on Thursday reported a 77.4% jump in second-quarter profit year on year …

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 Edge, a world model for robots and AI agents to perceive and navigate physical environments in real time, after Cosmos 3's debut in May  —  Nvidia unveiled a new AI model for robots and vision AI agents on Wednesday, deepening its push into the physical AI market in Japan.

Visa debuts the Visa Stablecoin Platform, an internal system to help its network of ~15K financial institutions and 200M+ merchants more easily use stablecoins  —  Stablecoins have changed how people think about moving money, and their exponential rise over the past year …

An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive “authors” proliferate  —  Recently, I received a strange text from a new acquaintance.  “You have your own biography???” it read.

San Diego-based Self Inspection, which uses AI to assess body damage on a car with as little tech as a smartphone camera, raised $10M led by Sheryl Sandberg  —  Sheryl Sandberg has led a $10 million investment into Self Inspection, a San Diego-based startup that is also backed by former Tesla president Jon McNeill's DVx Ventures.

Meta's Oversight Board says top AI models may be restricting free expression in its first evaluation of LLMs, as it seeks to expand its influence beyond Meta  —  The group is trying to extend its influence beyond Meta.  —  The Oversight Board, the independent content moderation organization created …