Mark Zuckerberg criticizes "closed" AI model makers, says AI labs are espousing a "discourse ... so filled with doom", and defends distillation as a principle (Jamie John/Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4c46-a3de-cdce8e526878
http://www.techmeme.com/260810/p12#a260810p12

Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a new open-weight model, and will release an open-weight version of its most advanced model, Muse Spark 1.2, in the coming weeks (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mark-zuckerberg-lays-out-new-ai-vision-in-6-500-word-essay-966e9a56?st=cAnRi8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260810/p11#a260810p11

Mark Zuckerberg proposes a positive AI philosophy centered on individual empowerment, predicts personal superintelligence could increase employment, and more (Mark Zuckerberg/Meta)

https://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone/
http://www.techmeme.com/260810/p10#a260810p10

Smart Analytics: Chinese humanoid robot makers were 97%+ of global shipments in H1 2026, reaching ~19,100 unit shipments globally, up from 5,100 in H1 2025 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/china-humanoid-makers-hold-97-of-global-shipments-report-says?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NjM0MzQ5MiwiZXhwIjoxNzg2OTQ4MjkyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSkpCVUhLR0NURk0wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNTc5RDIwMDZBQjQ0RjRDODkwMTU0M0U0ODMxNkJCNiJ9.5Gy19_jWtJKF5sap7B1NEnDmsyRifOWebvP7pJ6HU3A
http://www.techmeme.com/260810/p9#a260810p9

Sources: the UK FCA is consulting industry participants, including major banks, on a regulatory framework for tokenized gold; London dominates the global market (Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/9973f186-5834-4b66-8faa-e8b2e8711466?accessToken=zwAAAZ_qjqQckdOZc_GGWDRLZtOPquiy6HEUZg.MEYCIQDwmg9V4UZwu6yDpFP8fxfhL3h4ESJwf2xz9uaKw6GANAIhAKCnRoLPvYihvBir4KWtgksB-c3kt2c9NSnIxXyc8onw&sharetype=gift&token=b1881756-1e32-4488-8419-793f9e071777&syn-25a6b1a6=1
http://www.techmeme.com/260810/p8#a260810p8

Sources: Nvidia chips remain the norm for Chinese AI labs training LLMs, as switching from its CUDA platform to Huawei's CANN requires major code rewriting (South China Morning Post)

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3363491/chinas-top-ai-still-trained-nvidia-chips-what-delaying-switch-local-tech
http://www.techmeme.com/260810/p7#a260810p7

Q&A with historian Jill Lepore on her new book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, tech leaders misreading science fiction warnings as manuals, and more (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-are-undermining-democracy/
http://www.techmeme.com/260810/p6#a260810p6

A profile of Founders Pledge, which has recorded $4B in pledges from founders so far in 2026, as the AI industry now accounts for a third of its lifetime total (Joel Khalili/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-billionaires-are-pledging-their-wealth-good-or-bad/
http://www.techmeme.com/260810/p5#a260810p5

Revelio Labs: short-term AI training programs made up ~33% of the professional certificate market in 2026, up from just 2% in 2022 before ChatGPT launched (Liam Knox/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-08/ai-training-boom-sends-colleges-racing-to-offer-credentials
http://www.techmeme.com/260810/p4#a260810p4

How Amex-owned Resy and Chase-partnered OpenTable reservation apps became assets in the card wars, wiring the best restaurant tables into premium card perks (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/business/restaurant-reservation-apps-30a29e6b?st=WCgfvE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/260810/p3#a260810p3

A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind moved in in 2016, now home to OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/this-former-notorious-red-light-district-is-now-one-of-the-worlds-top-ai-hubs/
http://www.techmeme.com/260810/p2#a260810p2

Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-08-09/chinese-ai-video-is-coming-for-more-than-hollywood
http://www.techmeme.com/260810/p1#a260810p1

Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent "heartbeat communications" to an IP address in China (Richard Holmes/Telegraph)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/09/spy-cameras-on-navy-drones-secretly-sent-data-to-china/
http://www.techmeme.com/260809/p16#a260809p16

Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 (Nikkei Asia)

https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors/sony-tsmc-to-invest-6.3bn-in-advanced-image-sensor-plant-in-kumamoto
http://www.techmeme.com/260809/p15#a260809p15

Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns (Max Tani/Semafor)

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/09/2026/spotifys-new-skip-button-could-end-the-podcast-business-as-we-know-it
http://www.techmeme.com/260809/p14#a260809p14

Sources: Chinese regulators have told banks to back tech companies, but lenders still prefer stable cash flows and profitability over loss-making tech startups (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-09/china-bets-on-ai-stocks-as-it-races-against-us-for-chip-tech-dominance
http://www.techmeme.com/260809/p13#a260809p13

Moore Threads reports H1 revenue up 147% YoY to ~$258M, a net loss of $1.72M, says it plans a Hong Kong listing, after its stock surged 420%+ since Shanghai IPO (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-09/china-ai-chip-designer-moore-threads-plans-hong-kong-listing
http://www.techmeme.com/260809/p12#a260809p12

Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/quanthealth-raises-45m-series-b-accelerate-ai-driven-clinical-trial-simulations
http://www.techmeme.com/260809/p11#a260809p11

An Australian user'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

US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development (Shane Burke/The Information)

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/data-center-bans-top-500-new-york-texas-join-pushback
http://www.techmeme.com/260809/p9#a260809p9