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Meta and Nvidia each released open-weight AI models this week, joining a broader U.S. industry push to compete with Chinese laboratories as the debate over open-source AI regulation intensifies in Washington.

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Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's former chief operating officer and an eight-year veteran of the company, announced Tuesday he is departing to start a new venture, adding to a string of senior leadership exits at the AI lab.

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Vietnam's VinSpace has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch its first satellites on a Transporter rideshare mission in 2027, as the Vingroup subsidiary seeks to build a full-service aerospace business and Vietnam pursues its goal of becoming a mid-level space power by 2030.

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Healthcare has made meaningful progress in connecting patient data. Finding the record is no longer the bottleneck. The next challenge is making that information usable at the moment a clinician needs it, and a new category called clinical clarity is emerging to close the gap.

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London's King's Cross neighborhood, once one of the city's most troubled districts, has emerged as a global AI hub rivaling San Francisco and Beijing, drawing OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and hundreds of startups as office vacancy rates fall to 0.9%.

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ByteDance is training an AI model with as many as 10 trillion parameters — three times the size of the largest Chinese model released to date — in a push to rival Anthropic's most advanced systems without relying on model distillation.

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Doximity shares surged more than 100% in premarket trading after CEO Jeffrey Tangney revealed the company's AI search tool earns more than 10 times its cost per search, while first-quarter revenues of $156.6 million topped consensus estimates.

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Chinese AI models are closing the performance gap with U.S. frontier systems and gaining global adoption, but American compute dominance and export controls continue to constrain Beijing's ability to scale, analysts say.

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SK Hynix said Friday it will spend $38.1 billion to build two new memory chip plants in South Korea, with construction on both facilities set to begin in early 2027 and production targeted for 2028 and 2029, as AI-driven demand strains global memory supply.

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A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million into an abatement fund on Thursday, ruling that the company's platforms are a significant contributing factor to a youth mental health crisis — the latest in a series of child safety cases the company faces nationwide.

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Grindr reported second-quarter revenue of $138 million, up 33% year over year, and raised its 2026 guidance as CEO George Arison said the company's AI investment is delivering measurable gains in engineering output and subscription growth.

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Ford Motor has announced its new midsize electric pickup truck will start at $28,350 and carry the name "Fathom," with preorders opening in early 2027 and deliveries expected later that year.

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Huntress discovered attackers exploiting a SQL injection flaw in an Apache Tomcat application to embed a post-exploitation toolkit called khunt directly inside an Oracle database, achieving SYSTEM-level command execution on the underlying Windows server.

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The Kids Online Safety Act cleared the Senate Commerce Committee unanimously on Wednesday, but significant differences between the Senate and House versions — particularly over a "duty of care" provision — could complicate its path to becoming law.

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The Trump administration's AI model-testing framework excludes open-source models entirely, sets a 30-day government review window for closed models, and leaves key terms like "national security risk" undefined, raising questions about the initiative's practical reach.

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Circle revealed the initial operators for its Arc blockchain network, including BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, and Intercontinental Exchange, ahead of a public launch scheduled for September 16. The network is designed to serve as infrastructure for stablecoin-based digital payments and financial applications.

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Anthropic has named Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, a former California Supreme Court justice and Carnegie Endowment president, as its first chief global affairs officer, as the Claude developer faces ongoing U.S. government tensions including a Pentagon blacklisting and export controls on its top AI models.

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A cyberattack on Apple supplier Tata Electronics has given Beijing a propaganda opening to cast doubt on India's manufacturing reliability, even as technicians in China's Huaqiangbei market admit they cannot replicate the iPhone 18 Pro from the leaked data.

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