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Several universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Waterloo have restricted or disabled their use of AI detectors over accuracy concerns (Ima Jackson-Obot/Financial Times)
Ima Jackson-Obot / Financial Times : Several universities including Yale, Johns Hop…
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Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the "low nine figures" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant t…
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Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with production code and the AI agents that create it, raised a $34M Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Chris Metinko / Axios : Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with prod…
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The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone (Timothy Pratt/The Guardian)
Timothy Pratt / The Guardian : The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for alle…
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GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts rewards for the public and boosts payouts for invite-only researchers, amid a flood of AI-powered reports (Carly Page/The Register)
Carly Page / The Register : GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty program that cuts re…
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Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users for its "micro communities" and no algorithms, ads, or public content, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users fo…
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Cashea, Venezuela's largest fintech startup that offers a banking and payments app, raised a $40M Series A, including $20M in debt, and a $60M Series B (Maria Clara Cobo/Bloomberg)
Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg : Cashea, Venezuela's largest fintech startup that…
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OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model", breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more…
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Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)
Iain Martin / Forbes : Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model bu…
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Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, allowing users to scan text longer than 100 words for an estimate of how much was written with AI assistance (Chris Best/The Substack Post)
Chris Best / The Substack Post : Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, …
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Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI age…
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Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft platform designed for commercial and military uses, along with an autonomous attack rotorcraft called Thunder (Reuters)
Reuters : Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft platform designed for co…
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Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach (Hugging Face)
Hugging Face : Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, acc…
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Moonshot AI pauses new subscriptions, saying that over the past two days Kimi K3 demand nearly passed the limit of its capacity, and also reworks its plan tiers (@kimi_moonshot)
@kimi_moonshot : Moonshot AI pauses new subscriptions, saying that over the past two…
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As many companies cut AI costs by using cheaper models, some, like Shopify, go all-in on frontier models, barring engineers from using anything else (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal : As many companies cut AI costs by using cheaper m…
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