Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its device in a second trial patient, who had a spinal cord injury, and 400 of the implant's 1,024 electrodes are working (Rachael Levy/Reuters)

Rachael Levy / Reuters:
Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its device in a second trial patient, who had a spinal cord injury, and 400 of the implant's 1,024 electrodes are working  —  Neuralink has successfully implanted in a second patient its device designed to give paralyzed patients the ability …

Analysis: the vast majority of damages from July's CrowdStrike global IT outage will go uninsured; CrowdStrike reported nearly 24K enterprise customers in Q1 (Evan Gorelick/Bloomberg)

Evan Gorelick / Bloomberg:
Analysis: the vast majority of damages from July's CrowdStrike global IT outage will go uninsured; CrowdStrike reported nearly 24K enterprise customers in Q1  —  - Insured losses estimated between $300 million and $1.5 billion  — The days-long outage took a $5.4 billion toll on Fortune 500

An investigation finds an active trade in Nvidia chips in China despite US restrictions; some Chinese orgs with state military ties have bought restricted chips (New York Times)

New York Times:
An investigation finds an active trade in Nvidia chips in China despite US restrictions; some Chinese orgs with state military ties have bought restricted chips  —  The U.S. is trying to stop China from getting Nvidia microchips to advance its military.  The private sector is fighting back.

Sources: OpenAI has a watermarking tech to detect text written by ChatGPT with 99.9% reliability, but the project launch has been mired in internal debates (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI has a watermarking tech to detect text written by ChatGPT with 99.9% reliability, but the project launch has been mired in internal debates  —  Technology that can detect text written by artificial intelligence with 99.9% certainty has been debated internally for two years

Thoughts on first Apple Intelligence beta, which may arrive after the new iPhones launch, Apple's industrial design team leadership reshuffle, and Q3 earnings (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on first Apple Intelligence beta, which may arrive after the new iPhones launch, Apple's industrial design team leadership reshuffle, and Q3 earnings  —  The first preview of Apple Intelligence for developers shows just how far the company has to go to live up to the hype.

Apple Services Q3 revenue topped Mac, iPad, and wearables combined and may soon exceed hardware profits, but its services can't ever have priority over hardware (Jason Snell/Six Colors)

Jason Snell / Six Colors:
Apple Services Q3 revenue topped Mac, iPad, and wearables combined and may soon exceed hardware profits, but its services can't ever have priority over hardware  —  Apple's latest quarterly results were about as boring as you can get while still featuring $21.4 billion in profit and setting an all-time third-quarter record.

A look at Bungie's future after it laid off 220 staffers, as current and former employees say it grew too fast and tried to develop too many projects at once (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
A look at Bungie's future after it laid off 220 staffers, as current and former employees say it grew too fast and tried to develop too many projects at once  —  The creator of Halo and Destiny laid off more than 200 people this week including several top executives  —  Hi everyone.

Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Apple by ~50% in Q2, following a 13% cut in Q1, leaving it with a position worth $84.2B (Eric Platt/Financial Times)

Eric Platt / Financial Times:
Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Apple by ~50% in Q2, following a 13% cut in Q1, leaving it with a position worth $84.2B  —  Cash holdings hit a record high as billionaire investor dumps $76bn of stocks  —  Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has slashed …

Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta boosted capex by 50% to a total of $106B in H1 2024, as they build AI infrastructure and pledge more investment hikes (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta boosted capex by 50% to a total of $106B in H1 2024, as they build AI infrastructure and pledge more investment hikes  —  Technology stocks have been volatile as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Google report huge increases in their investments in artificial intelligence

How AI-formulated bioweapons became a security obsession inside Washington, DC, forcing officials to take tech advances in weaponizing disease seriously (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
How AI-formulated bioweapons became a security obsession inside Washington, DC, forcing officials to take tech advances in weaponizing disease seriously  —  A stunt got White House officials to take technological advances in weaponizing disease seriously.  —  Rocco Casagrande entered …

An Indian tribunal orders a halt on insolvency proceedings against Byju's, days after Byju's settled a $19M payments dispute case with the Indian cricket board (Arpan Chaturvedi/Reuters)

Arpan Chaturvedi / Reuters:
An Indian tribunal orders a halt on insolvency proceedings against Byju's, days after Byju's settled a $19M payments dispute case with the Indian cricket board  —  India's appeals tribunal on Friday ordered a halt on insolvency proceedings against embattled education startup Byju's …

A profile of, and interview with, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner, who is building a reputation in Washington, DC, as a trusted expert on AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
A profile of, and interview with, former OpenAI board member Helen Toner, who is building a reputation in Washington, DC, as a trusted expert on AI  —  Helen Toner is building a reputation in the nation's capital as a trusted expert on artificial intelligence.

Stability AI announces Stable Fast 3D, a generative AI model for rapid 3D asset generation, says it can generate a 3D asset from a single image in 0.5 seconds (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI announces Stable Fast 3D, a generative AI model for rapid 3D asset generation, says it can generate a 3D asset from a single image in 0.5 seconds  —  Not all that long ago, it used to be hard, really hard to generate 3D images.  It was a process that involved complex wireframes, complicated software and beefy hardware.

Analysis: Indian startup VC funding has dwindled, depriving India of capital needed to grow its economy, as the valuation of top companies like Byju's implodes (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
Analysis: Indian startup VC funding has dwindled, depriving India of capital needed to grow its economy, as the valuation of top companies like Byju's implodes  —  Byju's, Paytm falter in stark reminder of the unique risks and challenges facing the country's tech economy.

Telegram rolls out a Mini App Store to help users find new apps, updates the in-app browser to support multiple tabs, and says its mini apps have 500M MAUs (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)

Andrew Romero / 9to5Google:
Telegram rolls out a Mini App Store to help users find new apps, updates the in-app browser to support multiple tabs, and says its mini apps have 500M MAUs  —  Telegram is refining the in-app expereince, adding a new way to interact with the browser and a Mini App Store for native applications.