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The UK's Office for National Statistics cites AI as a major driver of the country's summer growth spurt, with GDP growing 0.4% in July, above expectations (Tom Rees/Bloomberg)
Tom Rees / Bloomberg : The UK's Office for National Statistics cites AI as a ma…
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Sources: in an internal Slack message Matt Mullenweg claims he is back in control of Automattic; on X, he says this may have been fifth coup attempt against him (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Sources: in an internal Slack message Matt Mullenweg cla…
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Anthropic publishes a threat intelligence report on how it disrupted efforts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, and more (Anthropic)
Anthropic : Anthropic publishes a threat intelligence report on how it disrupted ef…
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Apple announces the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, with a similar design to 17 Pro and a new A20 Pro chip, in deep black, silver, glacier, and burgundy (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge : Apple announces the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, w…
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OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he never asked for removal of Levent Alpöge from authorship of the work Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster did on Navier-Stokes (Sebastien Bubeck/@sebastienbubeck)
Sebastien Bubeck / @sebastienbubeck : OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck says he never as…
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AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation, up from $26B in May, and says its run-rate revenue grew from $492M in May to ~$900M (Samantha Oltman/Bloomberg)
Samantha Oltman / Bloomberg : AI coding startup Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valu…
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Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users' HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law (Julia Kollewe/The Guardian)
Julia Kollewe / The Guardian : Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that al…
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Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura's IPO, which could give it more influence over how many shares are allocated to its customers (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura…
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The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched (The Block)
The Block : The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Netw…
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Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy (Simon Foy/Financial Times)
Simon Foy / Financial Times : Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior in…
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OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace (OpenAI)
OpenAI : OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment eno…
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OpenAI says it hit its "automated research intern" goal, its researchers now use 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, and top users spend $7,000+/day on tokens (OpenAI)
OpenAI : OpenAI says it hit its “automated research intern” goal, its researchers n…
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As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)
Morgan Meaker / Bloomberg : As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal c…
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Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and a Tetris-like wall-building clone; Tetris says it takes IP infringement "very seriously" (ABC News)
ABC News : Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and …
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Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas (Jean Eaglesham/Wall Street Journal)
Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal : Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data …
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