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Turing Award winner Yann LeCun joins $100 million AI fund 224 Ventures
Odaily Odaily News: AIX Ventures co-founder Shaun Johnson has announced the launch of the AI fund 224 Ventures, which currently manages approximately $100 million in assets and plans to invest $1 million to $5 million in AI-native teams. The fund's investment focus covers AI applications, robotics, infrastructure, and core intelligence. The fund has 244 LPs, most of whom come from the AI industry, including researchers, product and engineering leaders, and enterprise AI and data executives. Former Meta Chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, along with former Google DeepMind researcher Oriol Vinyals, have also announced they will join to co-lead the fund.LeCun also currently serves as Executive Chairman of AI startup AMI Labs, a company focused on "World Models" technology, which has completed over $1 billion in seed funding. (Bloomberg)
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Mysten Labs CTO Sam Blackshear to Depart and Join Anthropic for AI Safety Research
Odaily News: Mysten Labs co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Sam Blackshear has announced he will be leaving the company to join Anthropic, where he will focus on defensive security research. Mysten Labs, the creator of the Sui blockchain, was founded by Blackshear and four former Meta executives in September 2021. Blackshear stated that Mysten Labs co-founder and CEO Evan Cheng will take charge of defining the company's future technical vision. He also noted that he will continue to serve as a close advisor to the Mysten and Sui ecosystems and hopes to remain involved with the Move Foundation.
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Meta AI 模型测试中因沙盒配置错误入侵他人系统
Meta 的 Muse Spark 1.1 模型在网络安全测试期间，因评估环境沙盒配置错误而获得了对公共互联网的访问权限，进而入侵了第三方公司系统并修改其内部系统。本次测试由 Meta 与安全评估机构 Irregular 共同进行。
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Meta Launches Muse Code Programming Agent, Supports Multi-File Code Changes
Meta launches Muse Code (Beta), a terminal programming agent designed for long-cycle software engineering, powered by the Muse Spark 1.2 model. Muse Code can plan, implement, and verify complex multi-file changes in large codebases, and with the support of persistent sub-agents, it resolves engineering challenges faster, more accurately, and with less intervention, improving development efficiency.
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Meta pushes internal engineers to use MetaCode, catching up with OpenAI and Anthropic
Odaily News: Meta is pushing thousands of its internal engineers to use its self-developed AI coding assistant, MetaCode, to enhance the code generation capabilities of its AI models and accelerate its race to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic in the AI coding space.According to reports, Maher Saba, Meta's Vice President of Applied AI Engineering, asked company engineers in an internal memo last month to use MetaCode to complete at least one code "diff" (code change) per week. These code modifications, once reviewed, will be integrated to improve the AI models.Meta hopes that by deploying its AI coding tools at scale in real-world software development environments, it can accumulate more engineering practice data and improve model performance in code generation, debugging, and software development tasks.AI coding has become a key battleground in large model competition. Tools such as Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex are gaining traction among developers, and Meta aims to narrow the gap between its AI coding capabilities and those of industry leaders through large-scale internal usage.Meta has continued to ramp up its investment in artificial intelligence in recent years, building out an enterprise-grade AI ecosystem through self-developed large models, AI infrastructure, and development tools. The push to broadly adopt MetaCode internally is also seen as a significant step for the company to enhance the quality of model training data and practical application capabilities. (The Information)
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Whale Rock Flagship Fund Plummets 21.7% in July, AI Bet's Year-to-Date Gains Nearly Halved
The fund previously held heavy positions in the chip and AI infrastructure sectors, with holdings including SanDisk, Bloom Energy, and CoreWeave, all three of which encountered the overall sell-off in the memory chip sector in July, with SanDisk dropping cumulatively 30% over the past month. Large tech stocks such as Google and Meta also experienced slight pullbacks, as market concerns over sustained high spending on AI intensified.
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Sui completes over $65 billion in gas-free stablecoin transfers since June 10
: Evan Cheng, co-founder of Mysten Labs, the development entity behind Sui, stated that within the next four years, the scale of digital payments carried by Sui will be comparable to the combined scale of traditional internet bank card networks and bank payment rails. Mysten Labs was founded in 2021 by engineers who previously worked on Meta's discontinued Diem blockchain and the Move programming language. Cheng positions Sui as settlement infrastructure for stablecoins, remittances, and agent-to-agent commerce between AI systems. Since June 10, when Mysten Labs removed gas fees for stablecoin transfers at the protocol level, Sui has processed over $65 billion in stablecoin transfers. Since the beginning of 2024, Sui's cumulative stablecoin transaction volume has reached $2.27 trillion. Sui's Hashi testnet went live on July 22, allowing Bitcoin to be used as collateral for decentralized finance loans on Sui without being wrapped as a synthetic token. The bridge was built by Mysten Labs and the Sui Foundation in collaboration with more than 20 participating institutions.
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Goldman Sachs: Cloud Vendors capex Raised to $220 Billion, ASML and Other Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturers Directly Benefit
According to TechFlow Research, Goldman Sachs' July 31 research report pointed out that the capital expenditures of the four major cloud vendors continued to be upwardly revised in the second quarter. Amazon raised its 2026 cash capex guidance from $200 billion to $220 billion, Google raised its guidance to $195-205 billion, and Meta narrowed its range to $130-145 billion. TSMC's revenue guidance was revised up to growth of over 40%, and capital expenditure was raised to $60-64 billion. Lam Research raised its 2026 WFE estimate to the $150 billion range, KLA similarly raised its estimate to over $150 billion, and believes $190 billion is a reasonable level for 2027. Goldman Sachs believes the AI capital expenditure transmission chain is strengthening at each level, from cloud vendors to foundries to equipment vendors, with every link confirming demand. ASML benefits from EUV and advanced DUV demand, ASMI benefits from ALD and epitaxy demand, BESI benefits from the adoption of custom chips and advanced packaging investment, Nebius benefits from the expanding compute gap, and Technoprobe benefits from increased testing intensity. Goldman Sachs assesses that the market may have underestimated the sustainability and breadth of benefits in the upstream equipment segment.
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Tech Industry Layoffs Exceed 124,000 in First Seven Months of 2026, Already Surpassing Full Year 2025
In the first seven months of 2026, layoffs in the global tech industry exceeded 124,000, already surpassing the total for the full year of 2025, mainly from companies such as Oracle, Amazon, Dell, and Meta. Meanwhile, Meta and Amazon have raised their 2026 capital expenditure forecasts to hundreds of billions of dollars, and Oracle announced an investment of $90 billion in AI infrastructure for the next fiscal year. PwC research suggests that companies aggressively adopting AI have faster employee growth rates, and AI may ultimately become a job creator rather than a destroyer.
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四大科技巨头未来数年将投入 2.4 万亿美元建设 AI 基础设施
谷歌母公司 Alphabet、Meta、微软和亚马逊已承诺为未来数年数据中心建设投入近 2.4 万亿美元。其中，Alphabet 未完成采购承诺等总额达 9020 亿美元，Meta 披露未来支出接近 7000 亿美元，亚马逊今年资本支出将提高到 2200 亿美元。尽管 Alphabet 和亚马逊自由现金流已转负，四家公司仍上调支出计划，显示科技巨头对 AI 基础设施建设的持续押注。
Serenity: Tech Giants' 2026 CapEx May Exceed Expectations; Bottleneck Assets Like Memory Chips Poised for Valuation Reshaping
"White-Haired Stock Guru" Serenity has summarized the capital expenditure guidance from the latest earnings reports of Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft, stating that the four major tech giants are expected to allocate a combined capital expenditure of approximately $720 billion to $745 billion in 2026, exceeding the market's previous expectation of $695 billion to $725 billion. The market has recently experienced significant deleveraging, as well as position liquidations among retail and institutional investors due to margin pressures. While short-term adjustments may persist, it is difficult to maintain a bearish stance on upstream semiconductor companies and next-generation cloud computing infrastructure in the medium to long term.Serenity also proposed the "bottleneck investment" thesis, arguing that when trillions of dollars in capital flow into supply chain segments previously viewed as low-value commodities—such as memory chips and even enterprises in the energy infrastructure sector—these companies may undergo a valuation reshaping. Many currently popular AI supply chain companies were previously overlooked by the market during the telecommunications cycle. However, as AI infrastructure construction enters an acceleration phase and capital expenditure flows into their balance sheets, these enterprises may experience a repricing.
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Apple CEO Cook: Hybrid AI Strategy Is a "Competitive Weapon," Will Drive iCloud Subscription Growth with AI
According to CNBC, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated during the latest earnings conference call that Apple's hybrid AI strategy—where some AI tasks run locally on-device and complex tasks are processed via Google Cloud—is a "competitive weapon", distinct from the data center investments of tech giants like Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, which often exceed $100 billion. Apple's capital expenditure in the second fiscal quarter was only $2.46 billion, lower than the market expectation of $3.44 billion. Cook also revealed that Apple plans to make AI a core selling point for iCloud+ subscription upgrades, offering paid expansion options for users with higher AI usage, but the specific pricing plan has not been finalized yet.
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Ark Invest increased its Meta stock holdings by $14.29 million yesterday, and reduced small positions in Bitmine and Bullish stock
According to the official ARK Invest website, multiple ETFs under ARK completed the following major rebalancing operations on July 30, 2026: On the buy side, META Platforms emerged as the biggest highlight of this rebalancing, simultaneously increased by four funds: ARKK, ARKW, ARKF, and ARKX, with a combined purchase of approximately 26,509 shares; L3Harris Technologies (LHX) was collectively purchased by ARKQ and ARKX for 37,635 shares, representing a significant proportion; additionally, X-Energy (XE) was slightly increased by three funds: ARKK, ARKQ, and ARKX. On the sell side, Strata Critical Medical (SRTA) was collectively reduced by ARKQ and ARKX by approximately 348,000 shares, making it the target with the largest reduction scale this time; Datadog (DDOG) was reduced by ARKW by 15,320 shares, accounting for 0.2552% of the ETF; Roku was reduced by ARKF by 9,925 shares; BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) was reduced by ARKK by 33,560 shares; defense and industrial stocks such as Teledyne Technologies (TDY) and Elbit Systems (ESLT) were simultaneously reduced by multiple funds.
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Meta's future leasing obligations reach $278.99 billion, primarily related to AI data centers
Meta disclosed in its quarterly securities filing that it has approximately $278.99 billion in operating and finance leases that have not yet commenced and are not recorded on the balance sheet, primarily related to AI data centers. These leases cover data centers, colocation facilities, and some network infrastructure, with leases scheduled to begin from the remainder of this year through 2036, with terms ranging from over one year to 30 years.This figure represents an increase of about 53% compared to the $182.88 billion in future leasing obligations Meta disclosed in its first-quarter filing three months ago. Meta also disclosed that in July, after the quarter ended, the company added approximately $68 billion in new data center lease commitments, expected to commence in 2027 and 2028, with lease terms of 18 to 20 years.Earlier this month, Meta announced the expansion of its Hyperion AI data center in Louisiana, targeting a computing capacity of 5 gigawatts, with the project's expected cost exceeding $50 billion. During the second-quarter earnings call, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that a significant portion of the company's computing power will be used to train AI models, power AI agents, and support core business operations.In addition to future leasing obligations, Meta disclosed $349.31 billion in non-cancellable contract commitments, covering both short-term and long-term arrangements. The company stated that these commitments primarily involve third-party cloud capacity arrangements, as well as investments in servers, network infrastructure, data centers, and Reality Labs consumer hardware products. Of this amount, $53.52 billion and $81.65 billion are due in 2026 and 2027, respectively.
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Meta, Google, and Other Tech Giants Face the Allocation Problem of AI Computing Power for Internal Use vs. Sales
during the company's second-quarter earnings call, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that Meta currently does not have a business selling computing power to customers, but such offerings are in the plans. He indicated that a significant portion of Meta's computing power will be used for training AI models, supporting agent products, and developing core businesses, while the company also anticipates expanding services to large enterprise clients.Both Google and Meta have slightly raised their capital expenditure expectations for this year. Google stated that related spending could increase further in 2027, while Microsoft maintained its capital expenditure forecast. Google's cash flow turned negative for the first time in the second quarter, and Meta's cash flow decreased by 91% compared to the same period last year.Microsoft CFO Amy Hood noted that customer demand for its cloud business still exceeds available capacity. Google said last week that it will purchase more third-party computing power while building more internal capacity to meet customer needs.Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that the primary objective for Google in using its self-developed tensor processing units (TPUs) is to ensure the allocation of necessary resources for the development of AGI frontiers. Google is working with partners to deploy TPUs in other data centers to unlock more capacity.
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Zuckerberg Predicts: Billions of People Will Have Personal AI Agents in the Next Five Years
According to TechCrunch, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated during the July 29 quarterly earnings conference call that within the next five years, billions of people will possess personal AI agents capable of representing users to achieve goals around the clock, with application scenarios covering finance, health, interpersonal relationships, and family management. He also noted that messaging platforms such as WhatsApp will play an increasingly important role in the era of multi-agent interaction. Currently, Meta's enterprise AI agents have been adopted by over one million businesses on WhatsApp and Messenger. However, Meta's free cash flow for this quarter was only $784 million, a sharp 91% decline from $8.55 billion in the same period last year, primarily dragged down by AI infrastructure investments; Meta's stock price also fell nearly 10% following the earnings report. Additionally, Meta's Reality Labs incurred a loss of approximately $4.6 billion this quarter, with cumulative losses reaching about $88 billion since 2021. This week, Meta announced a partnership with BlackRock to jointly build a data center costing $14 billion in El Paso, Texas.
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Meta posts record revenue, but AI costs drag down stock price
Meta Platforms (META.O) posted record revenue in the second fiscal quarter, but updates on its AI spending plan sparked investor concerns about the costs of building its infrastructure. Meta slightly raised the lower end of its annual capital expenditure guidance from $125 billion to $130 billion, while keeping the upper end unchanged at $145 billion. Its second-quarter revenue was $60.8 billion, up 28% year-over-year, but net profit was $15.8 billion, below analyst expectations. As a result, Meta's stock fell over 6% in after-hours trading. In an effort to catch up in the AI race, Meta has already invested tens of billions of dollars in chip procurement, data center construction, and top talent recruitment. Recently, it partnered with BlackRock to raise at least $12 billion to build a data center in Texas. Meta's free cash flow in the second quarter was $784 million. (Jin Shi)
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AI Supply Chain Management Startup Freehand Announces Completion of $75 Million Funding
According to TNW, AI supply chain management startup Freehand announced the completion of a $75 million funding round, co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from Nexus Venture Partners and PSP Growth, a fund under former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. Freehand's AI agents can autonomously handle contract interpretation, supplier rate negotiation, overcharge bill identification, payment processing, and ERP system reconciliation, with clients covering top enterprises such as Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Dunkin', and Cardinal Health.
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Zuckerberg Slams Centralization of AI Power, Backs Open Approach to Counter Anthropic and OpenAI
According to The New York Times, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly criticized the closed AI development route represented by Anthropic and OpenAI in an interview, stating that their strict control over AI technology will lead to a concentration of power, limit public access to this transformative technology, and is no different from "betraying American tech values." Zuckerberg stated that he is skeptical about the path of "building benevolent superintelligence through a single alignment mechanism" and advocates providing "personalized superintelligence" for everyone to adapt to different users' needs and values. He also pointed out that technological democratization has always been the trend in the history of the tech industry. It is worth noting that Meta's own AI strategy has also shifted recently—investing $14.3 billion in ScaleAI last spring and recruiting its founder Alexandr Wang, subsequently launching the first paid closed-source model Muse Spark, while continuing to maintain the open-source model line. This statement echoes NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's recent public strong support for open-source AI, with both sides forming a clear opposition to Anthropic and OpenAI in AI development philosophy.
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Microsoft, Meta Earnings Reports Approaching, Market Patience on AI Spending Waning
According to Bloomberg, Microsoft and Meta will release their earnings reports after the US market closes on Wednesday. The market focus is not on revenue growth, but rather on the two companies' continuously rising AI capital expenditures and shrinking cash reserves. Previously, Alphabet's stock price still recorded the largest single-day drop in over a year despite announcing better-than-expected results, as it experienced negative cash flow for the first time since its listing due to a surge in capital expenditures. Analysts point out that the uncertainty surrounding returns on AI investments by large tech companies is accelerating the erosion of Wall Street's patience, and Microsoft and Meta's earnings reports may become a new round of stress tests for market sentiment.
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