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OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a central problem in discrete geometry posed in 1946 (OpenAI)
OpenAI : OpenAI says an internal general-purpose reasoning model has disproved the …
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Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land : Google says it is testing new ad formats in sea…
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Spotify launches a "Verified by Spotify" badge for podcasts to help "authenticate creator identity", after releasing it for music in April (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
Lawrence Bonk / Engadget : Spotify launches a “Verified by Spotify” badge for podca…
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Seagate shares drop 9%+, leading a group-wide sell-off after comments from its CEO raised concerns it won't be able to meet demand fueled by the AI buildout (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
CJ Haddad / CNBC : Seagate shares drop 9%+, leading a group-wide sell-off after com…
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Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably; it's built on Kimi K2.5 (Cursor)
Cursor : Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on …
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Source: Shein is acquiring DTC clothing retailer Everlane, which focuses on sustainability and "radical transparency", in a $100M deal (Lauren Sherman/Puck)
Lauren Sherman / Puck : Source: Shein is acquiring DTC clothing retailer Everlane, …
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Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue (The Information)
The Information : Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualiz…
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Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and demanded a ransom to prevent the release of its codebase; Grafana refused to pay (The Hacker News)
The Hacker News : Grafana says hackers have accessed its GitHub environment and dem…
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Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)
John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times : Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and soc…
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Vietnam's government, which once saw video games as a social risk, named gaming as one of its key cultural industries in 2025 and now promotes them at expos (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Vietnam's government, which once saw video games as a social risk, …
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Hill County, which faced eight new data centers, passed what may be Texas' first county-wide ban on them, for one year; the state trails only VA in data centers (Mike Lee/Politico)
Mike Lee / Politico : Hill County, which faced eight new data centers, passed what …
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ASML will partner with Tata Electronics to help it bring an $11B 300mm chip factory online in Gujarat, expanding India's ability to produce chips domestically (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : ASML will partner with Tata Electronics to help it bring an $11B 300mm …
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OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation (Transformer)
Transformer : OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill…
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OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
Maxwell Zeff / Wired : OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strateg…
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Ford stock jumped as much as 25% in two days after the launch of Ford Energy, a new subsidiary providing battery storage capacity to AI data centers (Christian Davies/Financial Times)
Christian Davies / Financial Times : Ford stock jumped as much as 25% in two days a…
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