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Google and data: hackers used phone calls, phishing websites, and "meticulous" tactics to target dozens of US PE firms and other businesses over the past month (Reuters)
Reuters : Google and data: hackers used phone calls, phishing websites, and “meticu…
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Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent p…
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Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by Jack Ma, invested ~$30M in AI insurance tech startup Corgi, leading a round that reportedly valued Corgi at $4B (Business Insider)
Business Insider : Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by Jack Ma, invest…
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Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools that rely on LLMs to help moderators manage their communities, and plans a full launch later this year (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge : Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools tha…
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Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, vs. $1.8B est., US commercial revenue up 149%, and raises FY 2026 revenue guidance; PLTR jumps 9%+ after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
Samantha Subin / CNBC : Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, vs. $1.8B…
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Samsung says it's restricting app registrations and removing apps with SDKs that can turn smart TVs into residential proxy exit nodes, after a similar ban by LG (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch : Samsung says it's restricting app registrations a…
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US satellite internet provider Hughesnet files for Chapter 11 after losing subscribers to Starlink and plans to focus on business and government customers (Michael Kan/PCMag)
Michael Kan / PCMag : US satellite internet provider Hughesnet files for Chapter 11…
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Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six years (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg : Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent'…
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LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy : LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating …
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Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetectably tamper with data from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence produced by widely used crime-lab machines (Mariah Timms/Wall Street Journal)
Mariah Timms / Wall Street Journal : Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetecta…
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Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and …
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US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning "nudify" apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect (NBC News)
NBC News : US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning “nudi…
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Trump Media's new paid data API debuts, for "a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths"; Dem. senators asked SEC to probe (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
CJ Haddad / CNBC : Trump Media's new paid data API debuts, for “a direct, licen…
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Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them (New York Times)
New York Times : Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now inclu…
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Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth to add "stronger guardrails" after concerns arose it can be used to create deepfake satellite imagery (Geoff Brumfiel/NPR)
Geoff Brumfiel / NPR : Google rolls back an image generation tool in Google Earth t…
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