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Sources: Shanghai-based Anew Labs, a ByteDance spinoff using AI for drug discovery, raised $290M from HSG, IDG Capital, and others at a $1.5B valuation (Kane Wu/Reuters)

Sources: Shanghai-based Anew Labs, a ByteDance spi...

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SK Hynix has struck an agreement with its union to pay out half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash, replacing a previously proposed 40-60 cash-stock split (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

SK Hynix has struck an agreement with its union to...

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Sources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to manufacture memory chips in the US but potential opposition from Seoul could be a major hurdle for the deal (Reuters)

Sources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to manufa...

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A theoretical computer scientist says he has heard rumors that AI labs are sitting on major solutions after a hostile response to the Navier-Stokes proof (Scott Aaronson/Shtetl-Optimized)

A theoretical computer scientist says he has heard...

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Police in Gujarat, India, to question Google after uncovering 500K+ Gmail IDs and passwords used to send hoax bomb threats to government offices since 2022 (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)

Police in Gujarat, India, to question Google after...

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Sources: investors recently approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its value should be at least $1.5T (Sri Muppidi/New York Times)

Sources: investors recently approached OpenAI with...

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TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using "Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions" to produce typed probabilistic decisions that software can use directly (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using "Reinforceme...

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TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using "Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions" to produce typed probabilistic decisions that software can use directly (Thomas Claburn/The Register)

TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using "Reinforceme...

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Google researchers help develop the first complete digital map of an adult male fruit fly's brain, which modders programmed to play Doom, trade BTC, and more (Becky Ferreira/404 Media)

Google researchers help develop the first complete...

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Cybersecurity experts claim that AI leaders' apocalyptic hacking predictions are technically incoherent and reflect an unfamiliarity with the subject (Kevin Collier/NBC News)

Cybersecurity experts claim that AI leaders' apoca...

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Source: AI assistant Instinct seeks to raise $1B at a $10B valuation, up from $2.25B less than a month ago; Sequoia and Benchmark are in talks to lead the round (Valida Pau/The Information)

Source: AI assistant Instinct seeks to raise $1B a...

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Analysis: only ~2.3 GW of planned data center capacity is delayed by direct project-level policies like local moratoriums and New York's data center EO (SemiAnalysis)

Analysis: only ~2.3 GW of planned data center capa...

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Zuckerberg says "Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security" and didn't call on other AI labs to do the same before acting (Tom Giles/Bloomberg)

Zuckerberg says "Meta delayed shipping Muse for se...

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Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying (New York Times)

Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to a...

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Q&A with Matt Sheehan, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on US-China AI race, distillation, US chip export controls, and more (New York Times)

Q&A with Matt Sheehan, a senior fellow at the Carn...

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Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have the responsibility and incentive to train models safely and that any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind (Mark Zuckerberg/@finkd)

Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have the responsibili...

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Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new model has six mics to let users speak with Meta's AI chatbot and Muse (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair ...

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TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outp...

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