Weekly#700

  • Citadel Buys Situational Awareness’s Stock Portfolio After Big Losses in AI (WSJ)
  • OpenAI said Thursday it is cutting prices for two GPT-5.6 models after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them
  • AWS net sales increased 37%—its fastest growth in 18 quarters—to a $169 billion annualized revenue run rate
  • Introducing Inkling-Small
  • DeepSeek Is Developing Massive AI Data Center in Inner Mongolia
  • Meta Reports Almost $700 Billion in Future Spending Commitments
  • Gemini Robotics 2
  • Disney Overhauls Streaming Services to Jumpstart Subscriber Growth
  • Qantas plane flies for more than 24 hours in record-breaking flight
  • A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
  • Amazon’s trying to launch a global satellite cellphone network in 2028
  • “Google announced on Thursday that it has fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in the last two versions of Chrome, both released in June. That is more than the number of bugs patched in the previous 23 versions released over the last two years, which totaled 1,036 fixes.”
  • LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop
  • Spotify launches ‘User Notes’ to let users add memories to songs
  • Tesla made its 10 millionth EV
  • AI in SRE: A Practical Autonomy Model for Self-Healing Infrastructure
  • AI-Assisted Software Development: Team Profiles and Capabilities for Putting Research into Action