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Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weaken an AI weapons pact at the UN this month, removing a requirement that humans review AI-generated targets, more (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Sources: US and Russian diplomats worked to weake…
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Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk "was an error and the ads are being restored"; YouTube is also allowing the ads (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new document…
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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korean attackers exploited a backend system used to process wallet transactions to drain $387M from the platform (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune : Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says she suspects North Korea…
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Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing led by Third Point ahead of its US IPO, with $2.36B available immediately and $1B from Nvidia in November (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing led by …
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Sources: SK Hynix's US-based NAND and SSD subsidiary Solidigm is exploring an IPO as early as 2027 that could raise $15B and value the unit at up to $150B (Reuters)
Reuters : Sources: SK Hynix's US-based NAND and SSD subsidiary Solidigm is expl…
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Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in acquiring Letterboxd, which has a user base of 30M and is expected to be valued at $300M+ (New York Times)
New York Times : Sources: A24, Sony Pictures, and NYT have registered interest in a…
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Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK's AISI until US reviews them; Anthropic appears to have agreed (Politico)
Politico : Sources: the White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new mod…
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A sample of FBI data allegedly stolen by ShinyHunters includes granular detail on officials' job assignments on China, Russia, cartels, cyber, and other issues (Reuters)
Reuters : A sample of FBI data allegedly stolen by ShinyHunters includes granular d…
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Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab (Robert Hart/The Verge)
Robert Hart / The Verge : Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzym…
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Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 total users, including 250,000 daily active users, with more than 2M prompts submitted in its first week (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
Jyoti Mann / The Information : Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 tota…
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OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematicians to responsibly share math-related AI advances (OpenAI)
OpenAI : OpenAI says it is working with an independent advisory group of mathematic…
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Ahead of Sam Altman's UN address, OpenAI urges the US to lead an effort to develop global safety and security standards for building frontier systems (Maria Curi/Axios)
Maria Curi / Axios : Ahead of Sam Altman's UN address, OpenAI urges the US to l…
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China has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down (Michael Schuman/The Atlantic)
Michael Schuman / The Atlantic : China has made AI a national mission, but local wo…
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Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says outperforms most closed-source models, with native transparency and up to ten reference images (Qwen)
Qwen : Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says outperforms …
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Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation don't want new legislation, but to be "relieved of the laws we do have" because of "ulterior reasons" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider)
Truman Dickerson / Business Insider : Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regu…
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