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Mark Zuckerberg says the future of AI is for everyone. But who owns it? | Raffi Krikorian
The Guardian AI 2026-08-13 12:00 UTC Score 69.0 AI-021-20260813-global-ai-ne-d381270a Full article

Mark Zuckerberg says the future of AI is for everyone. But who owns it? | Raffi Krikorian

It’s a nice sentiment, but all AI users should ask three questions about their preferred choice of AI platform On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay, The Future Is for Everyone. The essay came with something even rarer: a new Meta open-weight model. An open-weight AI model is the kind of AI with which you download the entire thing, and it works on your own computer (with or without the internet) and nobody can switch it off except for you. Almost every mainstream AI tool you use, whether it be Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude, is one you rent access to. Meta’s is one that you can download and actually own. I downloaded it before I finished the essay. So can you. This major move by the world’s largest tech heavyweight comes amid a summer heavy with AI news, full of nations at war. Washington against Beijing; tech founder against tech founder. But beneath those conflicts is a deeper contest between two kinds of power: a government that can order technology offline in an instant, and a company that can simply close your account. Neither is necessarily villainous. But the rest of us are not merely the audience in this fight; we are the prize. And the terms are already being written: intelligence on lease, a future we pay for but never quite own. Continue reading...

Medianama AI 2026-08-13 11:37 UTC Score 37.0 USR-0211-20260813-regional-new-513c81ba Full article

Data protection authority suspends Discord livestreams in Brazil after teen’s suicide

Suspending Discord's 'Go Live' feature, the National Data Protecting Authority has asked the company to prove compliance to Brazil's Digital ECA after a 13-year-old girl's suicide during a livestream. The post Data protection authority suspends Discord livestreams in Brazil after teen’s suicide appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

There's a new status quo in Hormuz
Semafor Technology 2026-08-13 11:32 UTC Score 50.0 USR-0094-20260813-global-ai-ne-9e1e7897 Full article

There's a new status quo in Hormuz

While both the US and Iran make claims to operating Hormuz, the reality may be that it’s a small fleet of oil tankers actually running the waterway.

Hormuz closure dents DP World earnings
Semafor Technology 2026-08-13 11:29 UTC Score 52.0 USR-0094-20260813-global-ai-ne-1d93c6c1 Full article

Hormuz closure dents DP World earnings

Container volumes at Jebel Ali plunged nearly 90% in the second quarter, but overall revenue still rose as the group’s global network of ports helped to offset the slowdown in its home market.

Ray Dalio is having a Euro summer vacation to remember
Business Insider AI 2026-08-13 11:09 UTC Score 37.0 USR-0098-20260813-global-ai-ne-d6a647f7 Full article

Ray Dalio is having a Euro summer vacation to remember

Ray Dalio shared reflections on spirituality after witnessing a solar eclipse, following a lavish birthday celebration in Ibiza's UNVRS nightclub.

AI demand drives triple-digit profit growth for Chinese chip foundries SMIC, Hua Hong
South China Morning Post AI 2026-08-13 11:00 UTC Score 44.0 AI-156-20260813-regional-ai--afa67527 Full article

AI demand drives triple-digit profit growth for Chinese chip foundries SMIC, Hua Hong

China’s top two contract chipmakers, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor, saw their profits surge by triple digits in the second quarter, amid a spike in demand for domestic artificial intelligence chips free of US export controls. Net profits for SMIC and Hua Hong jumped 261.7 per cent and 385.9 per cent year on year to US$479.2 million and US$38.6 million, respectively, in the June quarter. SMIC, the country’s largest foundry, said...

CIO AI 2026-08-13 11:00 UTC Score 49.0 USR-0125-20260813-global-ai-ne-58e90f50 Full article

Salesforce and SAP are putting AI agents inside your workflows. Who tells them no?

A few months ago, I was sitting in a glass-walled conference room with the executive team of a fast-growing enterprise. The vice president of customer operations was enthusiastically demonstrating the new automated agent features their software vendor had just pushed into their CRM platform. On the screen, the software looked brilliant. The agent could read customer complaints, analyze transaction histories and automatically resolve issues. The VP showed us how the system could independently offer retention incentives to unhappy accounts without a human ever touching a keyboard. Then I asked a simple question: “What is your approval process when the AI decides to grant a $20,000 contract discount to keep a customer from leaving?” The room went completely silent. The VP looked at the director of IT, the director of IT looked at the chief risk officer, and everyone realized the same thing at the exact same moment. They had spent three months evaluating software licenses and security protocols, but nobody had asked who gave the software permission to sign off on corporate spending. Major software providers like Salesforce, SAP and Oracle are rapidly moving beyond simple report writers and conversational chatbots. They are embedding active, autonomous agents directly into the transactional core of systems that manage your revenue, customer agreements and financial ledgers. According to Gartner’s latest adoption forecasts , eighty percent of enterprise applications will deploy th…

Mamaearth parent posts Rs 756 Cr revenue in Q1 FY27; doubles profit
Entrackr AI 2026-08-13 10:54 UTC Score 33.0 USR-0212-20260813-regional-new-cce47a4f

Mamaearth parent posts Rs 756 Cr revenue in Q1 FY27; doubles profit

Honasa Consumer, the parent company of Mamaearth, announced its financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027 (Q1 FY27). The company reported a 27% year-on-year growth in its scale during the quarter, while its profit more than doubled to Rs 90 crore, its highest quarterly profit to date. The company’s revenue from operations increased to Rs 756 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 595 crore in Q1 FY26, according to its financial statements accessed from the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE). The company did not provide a detailed revenue breakdown, it also recorded Rs 22.5 crore from non-operating activities, taking its overall revenue to Rs 778 crore in Q1 FY27 during the quarter. According to its shareholders’ letter, Honasa’s recent acquisition, men’s grooming brand Reginald Men, has grown more than 2X since the acquisition and now has an annual revenue run rate of over Rs 150 crore, the company said. For the D2C brand, cost of materials remained the largest cost centre and rose 34% year-on-year to Rs 229 crore from Rs 171 crore. Employee benefit expenses increased 10% to Rs 66 crore from Rs 60 crore. Finance costs, depreciation and amortization expenses and other overhead drove Honasa’s overall expenses to Rs 659 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 564 crore in the year-ago quarter. At the bottom line, the company reported a more than 2X jump in profit to Rs 90.45 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 41.33 crore in Q1 FY26. EBITDA also doubled to Rs 110 crore during th…

EU budget: Sweden, part of the 'frugal' camp, is about to turn even more hawkish
Euronews AI 2026-08-13 10:50 UTC Score 37.0 AI-164-20260813-regional-ai--f64bfe5f Full article

EU budget: Sweden, part of the 'frugal' camp, is about to turn even more hawkish

Sweden is part of the EU's so-called "frugal" bloc, alongside Germany and the Netherlands - net contributors pushing to rein in the bloc's next long-term budget and limit the cost for national taxpayers. But a shift to the left in Stockholm is unlikely to soften its position.

TechCabal 2026-08-13 10:49 UTC Score 40.0 USR-0196-20260813-regional-new-e63168bf Full article

Africa’s cybercriminals are adopting AI faster than the institutions chasing them

AI was involved in 55% of cybercrime cases observed by African countries surveyed by Interpol in 2025, as criminals used the technology to produce convincing phishing messages, fabricate identities, and impersonate executives and public figures. Deepfake incidents increased sevenfold between the second and fourth quarters of 2024.

The Decoder 2026-08-13 10:46 UTC Score 39.0 AI-168-20260813-regional-ai--56228010 Full article

Fable 5's slow adoption suggests corporate willingness to pay for frontier AI has hit a ceiling

Anthropic's Fable 5 is considered the most powerful AI model on the market, but U.S. companies are barely buying it. According to Ramp data, Fable 5 accounts for only six percent of Anthropic tokens sold. The model's steep price tag suggests corporate AI spending may have hit a ceiling, at least as long as performance gains don't translate into measurable everyday value. The article Fable 5's slow adoption suggests corporate willingness to pay for frontier AI has hit a ceiling appeared first on The Decoder .

Russian drone strikes passenger train in Odesa region, killing driver
Euronews AI 2026-08-13 10:43 UTC Score 40.0 AI-164-20260813-regional-ai--b12d8812 Full article

Russian drone strikes passenger train in Odesa region, killing driver

A Russian Shahed drone struck a passenger train in Ukraine’s Odesa region on 13 August 2026, killing the driver and his assistant and forcing the evacuation of 340 passengers, including 67 children, in the Berezivka district.

The Decoder 2026-08-13 10:42 UTC Score 50.0 AI-168-20260813-regional-ai--30e4ea0b Full article

Top AI lab researchers warned about automated AI research, and several of their predicted milestones have already fallen

IAPS fellow Severin Field interviewed 25 researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Deepmind, Meta, and US universities about recursive self-improvement. In a new blog post, he takes stock. Several of the milestones those researchers named have already been hit. The article Top AI lab researchers warned about automated AI research, and several of their predicted milestones have already fallen appeared first on The Decoder .