Bill Gates says AI has crossed dangerous bio-, cyber-, and job-market thresholds and calls for urgent policy action. - MIT Technology Review

Bill Gates blog sounds a pessimistic note: The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical. - Gates Notes

Bill Gates says tech executives privately fear AI-driven job losses and bioterrorism risks but publicly downplay them to protect fundraising. - The New York Times

Bill Gates says he has grown fearful of AI's risks to safety, security, jobs, and children's well-being after years as an optimist. - The Washington Post

Gates proposes taxing AI tokens to fund a 40% human-jobs quota and plans to meet Xi Jinping in November on global AI safety limits - Reuters

OpenAI's Jalapeno inference chip, built with Broadcom in 16 months, beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on perf/watt across multiple open-weight models. - SemiAnalysis

Some like it hot: OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip is designed as an inference accelerator, with 128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS of compute, and 27 TB of memory. - theregister

OpenAI's first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, delivers up to 1.9 times more AI throughput per watt than comparison systems. - OpenAI

OpenAI details its Jalapeño inference chip, reporting higher throughput per kilowatt than commercial systems on the InferenceX benchmark. - OpenAI

OpenAI has lost at least a dozen senior executives this year ahead of its planned trillion-dollar IPO. - The Wall Street Journal

Executive bio summary page getting shorter: OpenAI has lost the guy in charge of building its data centers, after losing CRO, COO and other hight ranking execs. Data centre chief Chris Malone has left as the company pivots toward leasing facilities instead of building them. - TNW | Openai

Nvidia still controls roughly 90% of the AI chip market, but AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, and in-house hyperscaler chips are gaining ground - Yahoo

Investors are watching Nvidia's earnings as a barometer for the health of AI spending and the broader market. - Bloomberg

Cloudy with a chance of profits: Microsoft's financial disclosures leave investors without clear data on Azure revenue, AI capital spending, and its OpenAI relationship. - The Wall Street Journal

SoftBank is exploring a $10 billion to $20 billion bond sale to refinance a loan backing its OpenAI investment. - Bloomberg

TAM-a-gotcha: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors its addressable market exceeds $30 trillion, surpassing SpaceX's $28.5 trillion estimate. - The Wall Street Journal

Anthropic activated shared memory between Claude and Cowork with no option to keep the two separate, though Claude Code remains isolated. - theregister

Claude total recall: Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Cowork, letting context carry between them, with sensitive-topic controls and opt-out settings. - ZDNET

AI models are making cyberattacks worse. - Bloomberg

AI labs and cybersecurity firms debate connecting testing sandboxes to the internet after models breached real-world victims. - Bloomberg

Think different, locally: Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development - Ars Technica

Apple's new M5 Ultra chip delivers 4x faster LLM prompt performance than the M3 Ultra, starting at $5,499. - ZDNET

Apple unveils its first 2-nanometre M6 chip and a quad-die M5 Ultra supporting 512GB of unified memory for on-device AI. - TNW | Apple

Perplexity and Nvidia launched Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs, requiring a 24GB RTX GPU - VentureBeat

Perplexity is expanding into local, on-device AI search capabilities amid reported talks of a deal with Nvidia. - theregister

Huawei bid to build AI data centers in Egypt using thousands of Ascend chips, prompting the US to weigh a counteroffer. - Bloomberg

Australia's states agreed to new minimum rules on data center power, water, and land use, to be drafted by year-end - Bloomberg

Austin's city council is moving to regulate AI data centers over strain on water and electricity supplies - Austin Current

From proof-of-work to real work: Bitcoin miners including Riot Platforms and Bitdeer are converting capacity to AI compute as mining rewards decline, signing multi-billion-dollar, decades-long deals - BBC

No country for AI boyfriends: China's government now restricts AI companion chatbots for minors and adults, citing risks to marriage rates and human intimacy - the Guardian

Moonshot AI is negotiating revenue-sharing deals with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host Kimi K3, seeking up to 30% of revenue. - Reuters

Less is MoE: Multiverse Computing shrank OpenAI's 120-billion-parameter GPT-OSS model to 60 billion parameters while beating it on 7 of 9 benchmarks - Decrypt

Flashdance: GLM-5.3 Flash is out - Z.ai

Cursor switching to xAI / Grok stack - Gizmodo

OpenAI, AWS, Microsoft, GitHub, Anysphere, and Vercel release Agent Plugins 1.0.0, an open standard for portable AI agent skills; Anthropic was absent. - Hacker Noon

Project OH NO: Meta's Project OT plan to replace thousands of employees with AI agents collapsed after internal revolt and weak productivity gains. - Reuters

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged nations to ban or restrict autonomous weapons, citing reports of AI-guided drone warfare - POLITICO

EU’ve been warned: EU AI Office gained enforcement powers on August 2 to investigate and fine major AI firms for safety violations. - Nature

Good Will Prompting: MIT committee warns AI can now credibly complete most undergraduate assignments, urging rapid changes to teaching and assessment - The Washington Post

Schneier: AI doesn’t mean the end of mathematics – at least not yet - the Guardian

AI-detection tools like Pangram and GPTZero now claim over 99% accuracy, though false negatives remain for humanized text - Nature

My team fed chatbots election lies. Responses were generally fact-based but improvements are needed. - The Washington Post

An Israeli-linked marketing firm runs a synthetic think tank publishing AI-written articles to shape chatbot answers on Israel and Palestine - 404 Media

StanGPT: The Wall Street Journal defended investor Stanley Druckenmiller's use of AI to draft an op-ed criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's bond-market interventions - The Washington Post

Moat point: Fidelity warns AI trading agents that hop between platforms for the best price may beat moats, prevent any one platform from capturing lasting value - Yahoo

The Connections That Turned a Precocious Teen Into the Fallen ‘Nostradamus of AI’ - The Wall Street Journal

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