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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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Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to r…
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Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout (Robert Hart/The Verge)
Robert Hart / The Verge : Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website inci…
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OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model (Celia Ford/Transformer)
Celia Ford / Transformer : OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoni…
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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says it is a "generational leap" and "we are now in the AGI era" (Hayden Field/The Verge)
Hayden Field / The Verge : OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in …
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Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta Model API, saying it significantly improves coding and agentic performance, at the same price as Spark 1.2 (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios : Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta Model API, …
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X says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will now be handled through X Money (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : X says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and S…
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Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platf…
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Sources: Hyperliquid is in talks to enter the US market through Kraken parent Payward, weeks after Trump said he was working to bring the platform onshore (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: Hyperliquid is in talks to enter the US market through Kraken …
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Chip design startup Agentrys has raised a $19.1M seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4M pre-seed led by MediaTek (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Chris Metinko / Axios : Chip design startup Agentrys has raised a $19.1M seed round…
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The challenges John Ternus inherits as he replaces Tim Cook on Sept. 1 amid rising component costs, staff retention issues, efforts to catch up in AI, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : The challenges John Ternus inherits as he replaces Tim Co…
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Anthropic signs out some Claude users, removes saved payment methods, and issues refunds after infostealer malware on their PCs hijacked sessions to drain usage (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer : Anthropic signs out some Claude users, removes s…
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Analysis: AI chatbots challenged or didn't respond to 90%+ of 15 false narratives spread by Russia, China, and Iran; AI overviews did it 60%+ of the time (Huo Jingnan/NPR)
Huo Jingnan / NPR : Analysis: AI chatbots challenged or didn't respond to 90%+ …
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