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Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like "AI-generated", "deepfake", and "nudify" by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023 (Mark Tovey/Telegraph)
Mark Tovey / Telegraph : Twenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 cri…
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An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal : An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials…
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Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public" (Jason Ma/Fortune)
Jason Ma / Fortune : Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year sayin…
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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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