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BIG TECH & STARTUPS
NVIDIA IN TALKS TO BUY AI STARTUP HUGGING FACE (2 MINUTE READ) [4]
Nvidia is close to finalizing a deal to acquire Hugging Face at a
value of roughly $13 billion. Hugging Face makes AI software and hosts
it for other companies. Nvidia was already a backer of Hugging Face,
which was valued at $4.5 billion in a funding round three years ago.
INSIDE OPENAI'S REBOOT (26 MINUTE READ) [5]
OpenAI has suffered a series of setbacks, including a spate of
leadership departures and several lawsuits. It has also suffered an
erosion of public trust. However, executives within OpenAI are
painting a more upbeat picture. The company remains in an enviable
position, and ChatGPT is still one of the most popular AI products in
the world.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
FDA APPROVES DRUG FOR PANCREATIC CANCER IN MILESTONE FOR TREATMENT OF
DEADLY DISEASE (6 MINUTE READ) [6]
Researchers have discovered a drug that disables a stubborn mutation
that made pancreatic cancer a death sentence. Rasonque helped subjects
in a late-stage study live more than 13 months, nearly twice as long
as those on chemotherapy alone. It has side effects, including a harsh
rash across the body and gastrointestinal issues, and costs more than
$477,000 a year. The drug could generate more than $20 billion in
annual sales.
SURPRISE: Z.AI IS THE AI LAB BEHIND THE MYSTERIOUS OX ALPHA MODEL (1
MINUTE READ) [7]
Ox Alpha was created by Z.ai, which also made GLM. The company has
confirmed that Ox Alpha is the newest iteration of its GLM series. It
will open-source the weights so developers can build on top of it.
Z.ai says Ox Alpha is a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained
agentic work, and production workloads.
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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE
WHAT BREAKS WHEN YOUR AGENT HAS 100,000 TOOLS (SPONSOR) [8]
Most AI agents demo well and fall apart in production. Viktor's team
wrote up what breaks at scale. Viktor is an AI employee in Slack and
Microsoft Teams, working across 3,200+ tools. 60,000+ teams use it.
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I HAD SOME FREE TIME, SO I TRIED TO PWN V8 (19 MINUTE READ) [10]
This developer chained three public V8 bugs against the exact Chrome
build used in Google's v8CTF. The first bug leaked a compressed object
address, the second turned a garbage collection mistake into a fake
JavaScript array and read/write access inside the V8 cage, and the
third used a JSPI and JS Dispatch Table mismatch to pivot the native
stack outside that cage. The developer then reused code already inside
Chrome to open, read, and print the flag.
HOW TO MAKE LLMS 3X FASTER (18 MINUTE READ) [11]
Speculative decoding is a technique that converts a GPU's unused math
units into output. It involves using a second, much smaller model that
produces several candidate tokens in advance. The large model
evaluates all of them in a single forward pass. This results in up to
three times faster generation.
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MISCELLANEOUS
AI AGENTS MEANT TO REPLACE META WORKERS MADE "LARGE-SCALE,
DISRUPTIVE ACTIONS" (3 MINUTE READ) [12]
Meta's Project OT explored scenarios where the company reduced team
headcounts by 60%. It called for two rounds of layoffs, but it is
unclear what teams the plan affected. Immediately after issuing the
first round of layoffs, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly canceled the second
wave. It is unclear what prompted the change of course. Zuckerberg has reportedly acknowledged during a company meeting that the trajectory
of agentic development has not accelerated in the way the company
expected.
SALESFORCE JUST PUT ITS ENTIRE CRM INSIDE CLAUDE -- AND SAYS YOU'LL
NEVER NEED ITS APP AGAIN (14 MINUTE READ) [13]
Claudeforce puts the world's largest customer relationship management
platform directly inside Claude. It ships with 37 pre-built sales
skills and lets sellers query, update, and act on live CRM data
without ever opening Salesforce itself. Claudeforce is now available
to select pilot customers. An open beta is planned for September.
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QUICK LINKS
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE AI-ASSISTED TECHNICAL CONTENT WRITER (5
MINUTE READ) [14]
AI enables solo writers to work with support.
LOVABLE CTO: THE FUTURE OF SAAS IS APPS THAT AGENTS CAN USE (8 MINUTE
READ) [15]
Lovable is branching out from AI-powered web app creation and into
MCP-powered capabilities.
META TO PAY UP TO $17.1 BILLION IN LANDMARK SETTLEMENT OVER SOCIAL
MEDIA ADDICTION CLAIMS (10 MINUTE READ) [16]
Meta has agreed to make major changes to its products.
MOST QUESTIONS ABOUT AI AREN'T ABOUT AI (30 MINUTE READ) [17]
Our beliefs about what we humans can accomplish through pure
reasoning feed into our expectations about how powerful pure reasoning
will be in machines.
MEDIUM'S WRITERLY FAVICONS (1 MINUTE READ) [18]
Medium uses favicons in a particularly useful and delightful fashion.
FUTURISM IS ALWAYS EXTREME (2 MINUTE READ) [19]
Any rigorous thinking about the long-term future leads to extreme
outcomes.
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