Armenia just opened the region’s biggest AI factory. It exists because Washington signed a licence.
American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.
Meta’s CTO told employees to stop asking for more time off and use AI gains to build “cooler stuff” instead
NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI
Hackers hit Wall Street’s biggest names with a phone-call scam
Hong Kong educators want a social media ban for under-16s. The government says it has no plans to legislate.
Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.
China just closed a gap in chipmaking that nobody talks about. The wafer size tells you how far it has to go.
X shuts down revenue sharing on September 7. The replacement only pays for original content.
China’s new AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s running out of Chinese-language training data.
South Africa wants to ban companies from moving stablecoins abroad. Individuals keep their allowance.
Hidden code in ChatGPT’s Android app suggests OpenAI is building a direct WhatsApp sticker export
Cloudflare built a browser for AI agents. It uses 7x less memory than Chromium and runs entirely on Workers.
Bill Ackman agrees with Jeff Bezos: the best way to help the world is to build something that works
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