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A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI's and Anthropic's models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and meaningful supervision (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by...

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An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more (New York Times)

An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's exte...

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A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race, led by Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 due by year-end and Kazakhstan's 125MW facility with 100K Nvidia chips by 2027 (Yevgeniya Mikhailidi/Nikkei Asia)

A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race...

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Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and plans to release the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B next week (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops K...

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Two independent teams used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra on the same quantum cryptography problem, filing papers 3 hours apart, raising questions about scientific credit (Peter Hall/Scientific American)

Two independent teams used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra on th...

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A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, as VCs question the revenue potential of open-weight startups like Arcee, Reflection AI, and Poolside (Wall Street Journal)

A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, a...

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Robinhood's prediction markets revenue surged 10x+ YoY to $156M in Q2, topping stock and crypto for the first time as speculators shift to real-world event bets (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

Robinhood's prediction markets revenue surged 10x+...

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Robinhood's prediction markets revenue surged 10x+ YoY to $156M in Q2, topping stock and crypto for the first time as speculators shift to real-world event bets (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

Robinhood's prediction markets revenue surged 10x+...

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Four US states rolled back or paused data center tax incentives, and nine others are weighing repeal measures, potentially adding 7% or more to equipment costs (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)

Four US states rolled back or paused data center t...

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Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six years (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent...

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LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creat...

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Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetectably tamper with data from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence produced by widely used crime-lab machines (Mariah Timms/Wall Street Journal)

Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetectably ...

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Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agen...

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Thoughts on Apple Upgrade; sources: MacBook Air is now facing shortages too; Apple wants to turn its future glasses and headsets into health and fitness devices (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Thoughts on Apple Upgrade; sources: MacBook Air is...

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As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the country has become the second-largest supplier of servers to the US, behind Taiwan, with $46.9B in YTD sales (Financial Times)

As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the c...

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A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields M...

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Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds af...

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LemonEdge, which provides fund accounting and operations tech for the private markets sector, raised a $21M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments (FinTech Global)

LemonEdge, which provides fund accounting and oper...

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