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    Florida says it is revoking permits for Flock cameras and similar license-plate readers on state roads and no longer intends to issue such permits (Ryan Gillespie/Orlando Sentinel) https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/08/31/florida-orders-flock-cameras-off-of-state-roads/ http://www.techmeme.com/260831/p41#a260831p41

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    An Australian user&#39;s Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist (ABC) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986 http://www.techmeme.com/260809/p10#a260809p10

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    Pavel Durov says an extortionist planted &quot;illegal porn in a public chat&quot; to get the app pulled from the App Store and manipulated Apple into &quot;overreacting&quot; (Emma Roth/The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/tech/975300/telegram-app-store-takedown-extortion-pavel-durov?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6InJWYk5xVHE4N20iLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTc1MzAwL3RlbGVncmFtLWFwcC1zdG9yZS10YWtlZG93bi1leHRvcnRpb24tcGF2ZWwtZHVyb3YiLCJleHAiOjE3ODYzMDM2NjAsImlhdCI6MTc4NTg3MTY2MH0.8vkfeIHSsNamv44pEy...

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    SpaceX says its Q2 capex was $18.4B, up from $2.8B a year ago, including $15.8B for AI (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-spacex-earnings-08-04-2026/card/spacex-pours-money-into-capital-projects-DYRphLzkRWc0AR41YNPD http://www.techmeme.com/260804/p46#a260804p46

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    Sources: possible cyberattacks targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least 12 US states, and Iran is the prime suspect (ABC News) https://abcnews.com/US/12-states-face-cyberattacks-water-systems-sources/story?id=135348482 http://www.techmeme.com/260804/p38#a260804p38

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    SpaceX reports Q2 revenue up 92% YoY to $7.8B, vs. $6.81B est., and an operating loss of $1.26B from its AI business, compared with a $2.39B estimate (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-04/spacex-exceeds-revenue-estimates-in-first-earnings-since-ipo http://www.techmeme.com/260804/p39#a260804p39

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    Sources: the Trump administration invites staffers from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to the White House on Tuesday to review the AI oversight framework (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/white-house-host-ai-companies-tuesday-review-ai-framework http://www.techmeme.com/260803/p23#a260803p23

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    Sources: SoftBank gave $50M to Trump&#39;s library; Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon gave $25M, $10M, and $5M to his WH ballroom; Meta gave $10M to a pro-Trump group (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-donations-company-fundraising-1e34a78f?st=9oqXmb http://www.techmeme.com/260730/p70#a260730p70

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    Amazon reports Q2 AWS revenue up 37% YoY to $42.2B, above estimates of a 31.21% increase, and AWS operating income up 64% to $16.6B; AMZN jumps 8%+ after hours (Deborah Sophia/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-beats-estimates-quarterly-cloud-revenue-growth-2026-07-30/ http://www.techmeme.com/260730/p50#a260730p50

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    Amazon researchers link the compromises of four npm packages, including axios, over the past 18 months to the North Korea-linked group tracked as Sapphire Sleet (Carly Page/The Register) https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/07/30/amazon-links-four-poisoned-npm-packages-to-one-north-korean-crew/5281120 http://www.techmeme.com/260730/p46#a260730p46

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    Sources: Amazon staff find cases of &quot;catastrophically expensive&quot; AI costs due to a lack of controls, like $1.8M on Claude to match author details with listings (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/77baac40-d803-4084-94f3-a133653072cf http://www.techmeme.com/260730/p18#a260730p18

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    An AI avatar of Brazil&#39;s jailed ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who is banned from communicating publicly, is testing new AI rules ahead of Brazil&#39;s 2026 elections (Financial Times) https://www.ft.com/content/e18c380f-c25d-4e91-8135-d9c2424ab720 http://www.techmeme.com/260730/p15#a260730p15

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    OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027 (Ina Fried/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2026/07/29/openai-academics-research-chatgpt-sol http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p31#a260729p31

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    Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $90B, net income up 31% to $35.8B, and Microsoft Cloud revenue up 27% to $59.3B; MSFT jumps 3%+ after hours (Microsoft) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2026-Q4/press-release-webcast http://www.techmeme.com/260729/p35#a260729p35

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    xAI sues Minnesota&#39;s AG over a state law banning apps and sites that create fake, sexualized pictures of individuals, claiming it violates the First Amendment (Riley Moser/CBS News) https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/elon-musk-xai-sues-minnesota-law-banning-ai-nudification/ http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p50#a260728p50

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    Letter: the US EPA says power plants providing electricity only to data centers and not to the public grid would not be subject to federal pollution laws (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/epa-says-power-data-centers-can-sidestep-pollution-laws-2026-07-27/ http://www.techmeme.com/260728/p32#a260728p32

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    Apple releases updates for iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS with a huge number of security fixes; macOS Tahoe 26.6 alone addresses 155 CVEs (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/27/ios-26-6-fixes-over-75-security-issues-with-your-iphone-update-now/ http://www.techmeme.com/260727/p34#a260727p34

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    NBCU and YouTube reach a multiyear deal to include all Peacock content in YouTube Premium subscriptions in the US starting in early 2027 (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC) https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/nbcuniversal-youtube-peacock-premium-subscribers.html http://www.techmeme.com/260727/p17#a260727p17

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    Chinese officials said they will take &quot;all necessary measures&quot; to protect Chinese AI models from US sanctions stemming from allegations of training on US models (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-27/china-vows-response-to-us-sanctions-threat-against-ai-firms http://www.techmeme.com/260727/p11#a260727p11

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    Way Security, which uses AI automation and agentic workflows to help deploy IAM systems, raised a $20M seed from Insight Partners and Glilot Capital (Chris Metinko/Axios) https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/07/27/identity-way-security-microsoft-software http://www.techmeme.com/260727/p10#a260727p10

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    Meshy, whose AI-powered tech lets users generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised a ~$400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News) https://techfundingnews.com/from-mit-research-to-1-5b-unicorn-ethan-hus-meshy-raises-400m-for-ai-powered-3d-creation/ http://www.techmeme.com/260725/p5#a260725p5

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    After a backlash, Meta pauses its plan to &quot;rate limit&quot; Conversation Focus, an accessibility feature for its glasses that runs on-device (Sean Hollister/The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/tech/970970/after-backlash-meta-pauses-plan-to-rate-limit-its-smart-glasses?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6InJNNnpCYUMxN2giLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvOTcwOTcwL2FmdGVyLWJhY2tsYXNoLW1ldGEtcGF1c2VzLXBsYW4tdG8tcmF0ZS1saW1pdC1pdHMtc21hcnQtZ2xhc3NlcyIsImV4cCI6MTc4NTM3MjE2OSwiaWF0IjoxNzg0OTQwMTY5fQ.9DFHwR9IK9...

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    Tesla stock closed down 14.52% and Alphabet closed down 6.89% after they signaled increased AI spending, amid worries about the mounting costs of the AI boom (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/23/tesla-tsla-alphabet-googl-stock-today.html http://www.techmeme.com/260723/p45#a260723p45

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    The European Commission fines Google €890M under the DMA for illegally undercutting competition through its search dominance and Google Play developer rules (New York Times) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business/google-eu-fine-search-competition.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z1A.cbWJ.Q5cief--lxSW&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share http://www.techmeme.com/260723/p12#a260723p12

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    Sources: India has ordered telecom companies to disable mobile data services in central Delhi, amid youth protests seeking the education minister&#39;s resignation (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-asks-telecom-companies-disable-mobile-data-services-around-delhi-protest-2026-07-23/ http://www.techmeme.com/260723/p31#a260723p31

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    White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says &quot;we have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic&#39;s Fable for the development of its K3 model&quot; (Director Michael Kratsios/@mkratsios47) https://x.com/mkratsios47/status/2079933645888880708 http://www.techmeme.com/260722/p32#a260722p32

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    AMD and Anthropic sign an AI server deal worth tens of billions; Anthropic will buy 2GW of Instinct MI450 chips in H1 2027, and AMD will invest $5B in Anthropic (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amd-and-anthropic-sign-major-chips-and-investment-deal-4adfdc45?st=oGnmYV&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink http://www.techmeme.com/260722/p12#a260722p12

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    Sources: Reddit, Politico, and others mull cutting Google&#39;s access to their content for AI as traffic drops; Reddit signed a $60M/year deal with Google in 2024 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/business/media/google-search-publishers-ai-content-0fb06e41?st=fwYn9L&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink http://www.techmeme.com/260721/p56#a260721p56

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    Analysis: every frontier AI model tested in cybersecurity evaluations attempted to &quot;cheat&quot;, led by GPT-5.4 at 14.1% of tasks; Mythos cheated the least, at 7.8% (AI Security Institute) https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/cheating-behaviour-in-frontier-model-evaluations http://www.techmeme.com/260721/p35#a260721p35

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    Meta adds the Xbox Game Pass starter edition to its Horizon Plus plan, which costs $60/year or $8/month; the starter pass allows 10 hours of gaming per month (Scott Stein/CNET) https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/metas-quest-game-subscribers-will-be-getting-some-xbox-extras/ http://www.techmeme.com/260721/p36#a260721p36