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Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII s...

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The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share...

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Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity (Eve Bender/MobiHealthNews)

Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals...

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Sources: India-based Slice, which has transitioned from a credit card-led fintech to a small finance bank, raised $100M at a ~$450M valuation, down from ~$1.4B (Moneycontrol)

Sources: India-based Slice, which has transitioned...

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Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome that could potentially allow remote code execution within Chrome's sandboxed renderer process (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw...

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Sources: US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: US negotiators used the promise of access...

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Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publis...

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Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX 40-series GPUs "once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned" (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX ...

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Sources: the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side (Laurie Chen/Reuters)

Sources: the US and China will discuss AI safety r...

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Sources: Anthropic is expected to make its IPO prospectus public late September and complete the listing days before the US midterm elections in November (Echo Wang/Reuters)

Sources: Anthropic is expected to make its IPO pro...

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California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in July, after more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)

California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI ov...

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Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google (Jonathan Randles/Bloomberg)

Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to ...

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Anthropic says Claude worked "largely autonomously" over 11 days to formalize the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean programming language (Anthropic)

Anthropic says Claude worked "largely autonomously...

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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)

Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Ns...

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OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plans (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Pro customers on t...

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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)

Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German websi...

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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)

OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning...

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A profile of John Ternus, the first product engine...

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