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South Korea reopens a program letting AI talent fulfill their military obligations by doing research in corporate labs instead of conventional military service (Jo He-rim/The Korea Herald)

South Korea reopens a program letting AI talent fu...

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How the Clarity Act, heavily lobbied by Coinbase's Brian Armstrong and the crypto industry, and opposed by banks over stablecoin yields, collapsed in the Senate (Wall Street Journal)

How the Clarity Act, heavily lobbied by Coinbase's...

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China collected $32.3B of stamp duty on stock sales between January and August, up 80%+ YoY, as average daily trading value rose 72%, amid an AI trading frenzy (Zhang Shidong/South China Morning Post)

China collected $32.3B of stamp duty on stock sale...

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A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of the 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog (prinz)

A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI Ge...

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A detailed recap of the White House's 19-day standoff with Anthropic, where a jailbreak dispute led officials to bluntly order Dario Amodei to take Fable down (Politico)

A detailed recap of the White House's 19-day stand...

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Nine drone startups, including Eric Schmidt-founded Perennial, will split US DoD orders for 60,000 drones in a competition that requires no China-made parts (Steve LeVine/The Information)

Nine drone startups, including Eric Schmidt-founde...

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Hong Kong-based Qupital, which offers cross-border ecommerce financing to SMEs, raised a $300M Series C led by M Capital as it weighs a possible IPO (FinTech Global)

Hong Kong-based Qupital, which offers cross-border...

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Altis Labs, whose AI model analyzes CT scans taken during oncology trials and produces predictions tied to patient survival, has raised a $25M Series A (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

Altis Labs, whose AI model analyzes CT scans taken...

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Sources: SoftBank is looking to issue $10B and €1B in debt for its OpenAI investment, in what would be one of the biggest junk bond sales ever (Bloomberg)

Sources: SoftBank is looking to issue $10B and €1B...

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Adaptive, which sells accounting software to construction contractors, raised a $30M Series B led by Tidemark, bringing its total raised to $57M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Adaptive, which sells accounting software to const...

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Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ one-person startups in 2025 to escape a bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition (Wall Street Journal)

Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ on...

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Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident notification mechanism to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident ...

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Mithrl, which integrates its proprietary biomedical world model with the R&D systems of pharmaceutical companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Obvious Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

Mithrl, which integrates its proprietary biomedica...

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UK-based Unit1, which develops "hyper-realistic" digital avatars of musicians to recreate classic concerts, raised nearly £15M from Balderton Capital and others (Alex Lawson/The Guardian)

UK-based Unit1, which develops "hyper-realistic" d...

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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)

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)

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight ...

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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)

Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulatio...

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AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are putting pressure on office rents in Singapore as they embark on expansion in response to government overtures (Owen Walker/Financial Times)

AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are ...

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