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Microsoft has 'good news' and 'bad news' for engineers using AI coding tools

Times of India

Microsoft has 'good news' and 'bad news' for engineers using AI coding tools

Microsoft has told engineers to curb AI token spending, with EVP Jay Parikh writing in an internal memo that "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for." The company has made OpenAI's cheaper GPT-5.6 the default internal model, set AI…

Times of India

Taiwan is investigating 17 Chinese firms for poaching its chip talent

Taiwan is investigating 17 Chinese firms for poaching its chip talent

Taiwan is again accusing China of trying to buy the talent it cannot build. The island’s Investigation Bureau said it is probing 17 Chinese companies suspected of illegally recruiting local high-tech engineers. The sweep was substantial…

Lucid is cutting $1.4bn and betting its survival on robotaxis

Lucid is cutting $1.4bn and betting its survival on robotaxis

Lucid’s turnaround plan comes down to spending far less and hoping robotaxis pay off. The luxury electric-vehicle maker unveiled a $1.4bn cash-savings programme this week, alongside a second-quarter net loss of $1.26bn. The scale of the…

China’s AI revenue projected to reach US$13b on breakthroughs, adoption: Goldman Sachs

South China Morning Post

China’s AI revenue projected to reach US$13b on breakthroughs, adoption: Goldman Sachs

Rising cost efficiency and rapidly advancing capabilities from players like DeepSeek and MiniMax have prompted Goldman Sachs to raise its run-rate revenue forecast for China’s artificial intelligence model market by 30 per cent to US$13…

South China Morning Post

Viral Mugshot Accounts Are Ruining Women’s Lives

Wired

Viral Mugshot Accounts Are Ruining Women’s Lives

Mugshawtys and similar pages often frame mugshots as thirst traps. The women featured are humiliated and are sometimes harassed for months and years after their arrests.

Wired

Trump’s AI testing plan is limited and vague

The Verge

Trump’s AI testing plan is limited and vague

The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testing open models. Axios reports that not only do the voluntary guidelines outright exclude open models…

The Verge

How to choose an app development agency for your startup: a founder’s guide

How to choose an app development agency for your startup: a founder’s guide

For founders building from idea to MVP to scale, Chop Dawg makes the case for choosing a technical partner with process, staying power, and long-term accountability. Start With the Decision That Shapes the Product For a startup founder…

Rethinking defense in the wake of OpenClaw attacks

TechRadar

Rethinking defense in the wake of OpenClaw attacks

Thanks to rapid developments around AI, cybersecurity pros seem due for a reminder that the threat landscape has fundamentally changed. This time it's OpenClaw ringing the alarm bells, but in truth we see the same cycle repeating itself…

TechRadar

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Alden Richards highlights education crisis in new documentary: ‘Kawawa ang kabataan’

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Alden Richards highlights education crisis in new documentary: ‘Kawawa ang kabataan’

As he headlines a new documentary, Alden Richards called for urgent action to address the country’s education crisis, saying Filipino children deserve better learning conditions. “Education in the Philippines needs urgent attention, kawawa…

Drone debris sparks industrial zone fire in Russia's Ufa, governor says

Drone debris sparks industrial zone fire in Russia's Ufa, governor says

MOSCOW, Aug 5 - Falling drone debris sparked a fire in the industrial zone of the Russian city of Ufa, capital of the Bashkortostan region and a major oil-refining hub, local authorities said, without specifying what facilities were in the…

China announces ‘countermeasures’ after US trade sanctions

China announces ‘countermeasures’ after US trade sanctions

It imposed restrictions on drone exports to US and blacklisted six companies.

Russian missile and drone barrage in Ukrainian capital region kills 17

NPR