اخبار تقنية
- Signatories to the EU's voluntary AI Code of Practice include Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, while Chinese AI companies remain absent (Maximilian Henning/Euractiv)
- Manus unveils Wide Research, an experimental feature that lets users on its Pro plan enlist dozens of parallelized AI agents for large-scale, high-volume tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
- Roblox's average DAUs grew 41% YoY to 111.8M in Q2 and hours engaged rose 58% YoY to 27.4B, driven by the success of tycoon-style farming game Grow a Garden (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
- Anthropic details "persona vectors", patterns of activity within an AI model's neural network that control its character traits, such as evil and sycophancy (Anthropic)
- Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July (Todd Spangler/Variety)
- Cerebras announces the $50/month Code Pro and the $200/month Code Max plans, offering users access to Qwen3-Coder at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second (Daniel Kim/Cerebras)
- Subzero Labs, which is building Rialo, a blockchain designed for non-crypto developers to build "real-world" apps, raised a $20M seed led by Pantera Capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
- A US jury finds Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act when it intentionally recorded the health data of women via the period tracking app Flo (Margaret Attridge/Courthouse News Service)
- Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to Claude, citing ToS violations; sources: OpenAI's use of the API let it compare its models' behavior against Claude's (Kylie Robison/Wired)
- Sources: Mistral is in discussions, including with Abu Dhabi's MGX, to raise $1B at a valuation of about $10B, up from its previous valuation of €5.8B (Financial Times)
- Sources: in a rare companywide meeting, Tim Cook said the AI revolution is "ours to grab", Apple's AI efforts will mirror its iPhone successes, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon have collectively spent ~$90B on capex in their most recent quarters and are expected to spend over $344B for the year (Bloomberg)
- Filings: crypto industry donated $26M+ to Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., in H1, including $5M from Blockchain.com; Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz gave $3M each (Axios)
- Google says it will preserve "actively used" goo.gl URLs, after announcing earlier that all existing goo.gl links would stop working in August 2025 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- Source: GPT-5 improvements won't be comparable to the leaps in performance of earlier models, such as between GPT-3 in 2020 and GPT-4 in 2023 (The Information)
