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Sources and telecoms data: a coordinated campaign of SS7 pings was used to track the locations of US personnel during the US-led strikes on Iran in February (Financial Times)

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AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it positions its Chai models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceuticals (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M...

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The European Commission approves €659M in German state aid to support four first-of-a-kind chip facilities in Germany, saying they will strengthen EU autonomy (Kirsti Knolle/Reuters)

The European Commission approves €659M in German s...

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IBM reports preliminary Q2 revenue of $17.2B, below $17.9B est., as CEO Arvind Krishna says customers are holding back spending; IBM falls 17% pre-market (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

IBM reports preliminary Q2 revenue of $17.2B, belo...

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new permits for hyperscale data centers exceeding 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium ...

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Survey: 57% of US women and 47% of men ages 18 to 29 say they get health and wellness information from influencers; women say they see such content more often (Aaron Smith/Pew Research Center)

Survey: 57% of US women and 47% of men ages 18 to ...

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Nikita Bier says X made a "tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals", or those who users follow back, to avoid replies becoming a "battleground" (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

Nikita Bier says X made a "tweak to boost visibili...

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Demis Hassabis proposes a US-based Standards Body for "Frontier-class" AI, modeled after the FINRA; labs would voluntarily share models 30 days before release (Demis Hassabis/@demishassabis)

Demis Hassabis proposes a US-based Standards Body ...

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Sources: DeepSeek is in preliminary talks with investors about raising new funds at a ~$71B valuation, after raising ~$7B at a ~$52B valuation at the end of May (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Sources: DeepSeek is in preliminary talks with inv...

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A look at AI world models, including how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled, as startups led by tech leaders like Yann LeCun raise billions (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)

A look at AI world models, including how they work...

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China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments (Kiranjeet Kaur/IDC)

China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M ...

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eMarketer: chatbots like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode will generate less than $1B in ad revenue in 2026; OpenAI projected $2.5B in ChatGPT ad revenue this year (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

eMarketer: chatbots like ChatGPT and Google AI Mod...

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Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029 (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output fr...

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Researchers detail "context bombing", where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Researchers detail "context bombing", where defend...

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Sources: Nvidia intensified due diligence and cut its authorized AI chip customers in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan by 50%+ to prevent China diversions (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Sources: Nvidia intensified due diligence and cut ...

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In the wake of China's "embodied AI" push, there's an urgency among China's 100+ humanoid startups to launch IPOs; LimX Dynamics raises $200M in a pre-IPO round (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

In the wake of China's "embodied AI" push, there's...

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Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B+ (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generatio...

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Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude's expressed values and behaviors vary across models and languages (Jason Nelson/Decrypt)

Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claud...

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