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  • Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters: That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the largest Chinese model.

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  • ByteDance building China’s largest model while running TikTok is fascinating: few companies have that combination of compute, money and an absurdly large stream of real world human behavior. The AI race isn’t just US labs versus China anymore: it’s ecosystems versus ecosystems.

  • Trump’s Truth Social Hit by Humiliating Exodus [Down 40% in one year]

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  • I don’t buy that he doesn’t care about the user numbers. Trump may love money, but he also seems addicted to attention, audience size and dominating the conversation. A shrinking Truth Social hits exactly where it hurts: fewer people choosing to listen to him directly.

  • Trump’s Truth Social Hit by Humiliating Exodus [Down 40% in one year]

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  • Hopefully the EU keeps doing exactly this: stay calm, send the grey suits to discuss tariffs, quietly build its own weapons and refuse to turn every Trump threat into a five alarm crisis.

  • Trump’s Truth Social Hit by Humiliating Exodus [Down 40% in one year]

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  • Maybe the simplest explanation is the one nobody in Trump’s orbit wants to hear: people are getting bored of him! The outrage, insults and permanent culture war worked when every post felt like an event. After a decade, it’s background noise. Truth Social isn’t just losing users: it may be measuring the slow deflation of the Trump personality cult.

  • OpenAI Reveals How AI Agents Secretly Coordinated Before Hugging Face Hack: The company's models repeatedly reestablished covert communication channels after they were shut down.

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  • So the agents discovered Slack, reinvented teamwork, escaped the office, found the internet, hacked Hugging Face, then rebuilt their secret chat after IT deleted it. … Employees with initiative. 🙈

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    OpenAI Reveals How AI Agents Secretly Coordinated Before Hugging Face Hack: The company's models repeatedly reestablished covert communication channels after they were shut down.

    decrypt.co /375058/openai-ai-agents-secretly-coordinated-hugging-face-hack

  • White House AI Framework Excludes Open-Weight Models From Federal Security Review, Creating Structural Competitive Asymmetry: the entire open-weight ecosystem ship without any federal gatekeeping.

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  • Exactly! A government that depends entirely on proprietary AI is ultimately dependent on a handful of private companies. Open weight models offer more flexibility: agencies can self host, audit, modify and switch providers without being locked into a single vendor. That’s a strategic advantage, not just a technical preference.

  • White House AI Framework Excludes Open-Weight Models From Federal Security Review, Creating Structural Competitive Asymmetry: the entire open-weight ecosystem ship without any federal gatekeeping.

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  • This feels like regulators preparing for the last AI race instead of the next one. If open weight AI keeps improving outside the biggest labs, excluding them from review may reduce paperwork without reducing risk. Policy that only slows one side rarely stays effective for long.

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    White House AI Framework Excludes Open-Weight Models From Federal Security Review, Creating Structural Competitive Asymmetry: the entire open-weight ecosystem ship without any federal gatekeeping.

    forkast.news /white-house-ai-framework-excludes-open-weight-models-from-federal-security-review-creating-structural-competitive-asymmetry/

  • Boomers on Facebook Are Leaving Comments That Make It Clear That They Have No Idea That AI-Generated Thirst Traps Aren't Real

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  • At some point you have to stop blaming the algorithm: If you’re posting »good morning beautiful« under an image where the hands have six fingers and the background melts into itself, the problem isn’t cutting edge AI. Basic digital literacy is part of living online, regardless of your age.

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    Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry.

    www.bleepingcomputer.com /news/security/massive-chaindrop-npm-supply-chain-attack-infects-hundreds-of-packages/

  • After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’: Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

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  • Palantir acting like it’s the champion of freedom is a stretch: This is a company built on selling powerful data analysis tools to governments and large institutions. Complaining that others want too much control while building one of the most influential surveillance platforms in the world is an interesting definition of independence.

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    After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’: Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

    techcrunch.com /2026/08/03/after-killer-quarter-palantir-ceo-alex-karp-calls-ai-industry-marxist/

  • Americans Can’t Buy Chinese EVs. Waymo Is Importing Thousands

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  • Google isn’t getting special treatment here because it’s Google: Waymo isn’t importing finished consumer cars, it’s importing a vehicle platform, removing the original electronics, and integrating its own autonomous system. That’s much closer to sourcing components than selling Chinese EVs directly to the public, so it’s not really an apples to apples comparison.

  • Americans Can’t Buy Chinese EVs. Waymo Is Importing Thousands

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  • Unpopular opinion: Google’s approach actually makes sense here. The value isn’t the rolling metal box, it’s the autonomous driving stack. If Zeekr can build a high quality EV platform more cheaply, why reinvent it? Buy the best chassis, replace the electronics you don’t trust, and focus engineering effort where your competitive advantage actually is.

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    Two research efforts gave AI the same open problem. Their papers were submitted three hours apart ... raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit.

    www.scientificamerican.com /article/ai-helped-produce-two-proofs-for-the-same-cryptography-problem/
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    Alibaba’s AI model Qwen3.8-Max made widely accessible ahead of open-weights release: Flagship 2.4 trillion parameter model highlights native multimodal capabilities and ... agentic tasks.

    www.scmp.com /tech/article/3362738/alibabas-ai-model-qwen38-max-made-widely-accessible-ahead-open-weights-release

  • OpenAI Says Astra Solved 10 Open Math Problems With Lean Proofs: The proof files are public, but the new model is still private.

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  • It would be surprising if they didn’t release Astra. And yes, we’re living in crazy times.

  • OpenAI Says Astra Solved 10 Open Math Problems With Lean Proofs: The proof files are public, but the new model is still private.

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  • The impressive part isn’t that an AI produced a proof, it’s that Lean lets everyone verify it. The frustrating part is the model stays closed. Science advances fastest when others can reproduce both the result and the method, not just inspect the finished homework.

  • OpenAI Says Astra Solved 10 Open Math Problems With Lean Proofs: The proof files are public, but the new model is still private.

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  • We’re reaching a point where the interesting part isn’t just whether an AI found the proof: it’s whether anyone outside the company can reproduce the result. Publishing Lean proofs is great. Keeping the model closed means the process stays a black box.

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    OpenAI Says Astra Solved 10 Open Math Problems With Lean Proofs: The proof files are public, but the new model is still private.

    www.implicator.ai /openai-astra-10-math-problems-lean-proofs/

  • Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead? Apple, Samsung … are betting that leasing, subscriptions, and guaranteed buyback programs can make upgrading more attractive.

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  • Apple is known for reselling and recycling.

  • Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead? Apple, Samsung … are betting that leasing, subscriptions, and guaranteed buyback programs can make upgrading more attractive.

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  • Subscriptions were supposed to replace cable, then software, then heated seats, now phones. Funny how every innovation somehow ends with paying forever. If your business model needs me renting hardware I already carry everywhere, maybe the product isn’t improving fast enough to justify buying it?

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    Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead? Apple, Samsung … are betting that leasing, subscriptions, and guaranteed buyback programs can make upgrading more attractive.

    techcrunch.com /2026/08/01/should-you-still-buy-your-next-smartphone-or-subscribe-to-it-instead/

  • Tim Cook sees Apple’s hybrid AI strategy as a ‘competitive weapon’: Apple emphasizes that much of its AI suite — Apple Intelligence — can be run on the devices themselves.

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  • The industry keeps benchmarking against other labs instead of against user needs: If a 3.5GB model answers 95% of everyday questions well enough, the remaining few percent has to justify hundreds of gigabytes of weights, huge energy bills and constant cloud costs.

  • Tim Cook sees Apple’s hybrid AI strategy as a ‘competitive weapon’: Apple emphasizes that much of its AI suite — Apple Intelligence — can be run on the devices themselves.

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  • Stock prices aren’t proof of being right, but they do show investors can change their minds a lot faster than the narratives do.

  • Tim Cook sees Apple’s hybrid AI strategy as a ‘competitive weapon’: Apple emphasizes that much of its AI suite — Apple Intelligence — can be run on the devices themselves.

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  • Apple’s marketing deserves skepticism, but the technical argument is separate. Local inference does not eliminate giant training clusters, it mainly cuts inference costs, latency and improves privacy. Apple still uses cloud models when needed.

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    Tim Cook sees Apple’s hybrid AI strategy as a ‘competitive weapon’: Apple emphasizes that much of its AI suite — Apple Intelligence — can be run on the devices themselves.

    www.cnbc.com /2026/07/30/tim-cook-sees-apples-hybrid-ai-strategy-as-a-competitive-weapon-.html
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    ChatGPT and Roblox will be subject to tighter rules in the EU. They will be added to the EU’s ‘very large online platform’ VLOP list, subjecting them to stricter rules under the Digital Services Act.

    www.engadget.com /2226821/chatgpt-roblox-vlop-eu-scrutiny/
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    Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag

    techcrunch.com /2026/07/29/microsoft-logs-3-2b-from-anthropic-investment-but-openai-was-a-mixed-bag/
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    Mark Zuckerberg Says US Should Not Ban Chinese AI Models, Warns of Regulatory Capture. The Trump administration is expected to announce a voluntary testing framework.

    www.implicator.ai /zuckerberg-opposes-chinese-ai-ban-regulatory-capture/
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    Universities drop AI detection tools over fears about accuracy: Some institutions are overhauling assessment and trying to move away from the emphasis on surveillance

    www.ft.com /content/49304b1e-8a9d-4fb6-bc4d-37dd3430bb98
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    Pacing the Frontier: A statement from 1,132 employees of frontier AI companies

    www.pacingthefrontier.com
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    Nvidia and OpenAI in talks for up to $250 billion dollar backstop to fund AI infrastructure plans

    www.cnbc.com /2026/07/27/nvidia-and-openai-in-talks-for-up-to-250-billion-dollar-ai-backstop.html
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    Thoughts on "Open" Models: The debate focuses on balancing open and closed models, with cost and geopolitical considerations influencing the push for open weight AI.

    spyglass.org /open-weight-ai-models/
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    OpenAI and Anthropic Lobby Washington to Restrict Chinese Open-Weight AI

    www.implicator.ai /openai-anthropic-lobby-washington-open-weight-ai/
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    Meta launches new Facebook Verified badge for actual, real humans

    www.engadget.com /2222353/meta-launches-facebook-verified/
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    DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng Breaks His Silence: In a rare four-hour talk, the reclusive founder reveals an almost Daoist philosophy of AI—AGI as a tide no company can own...

    www.fredgao.com /p/deepseeks-liang-wenfeng-breaks-his