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OpenAI researcher: top models are becoming so situationally aware humans "are losing the ability to evaluate them" while humans rely more on AI to lead research (Daniel Kokotajlo/@dkokotajlo)
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A look at iLands, a company that's like Fiverr for agents, which email annoying and unsolicited pitches to people, usually for services costing ~$25 (Ernie Smith/Tedium)
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Thoughts on AI labs' safety concerns: a coordinated slowdown may look like an antitrust conspiracy to limit output that would preserve frontier model margins (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
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Cybersecurity stocks were the top performers in the S&P 500 on Monday amid escalating AI fears; CrowdStrike rose 14%, Palo Alto Networks 13%, and Fortinet 9% (Britney Nguyen/MarketWatch)
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Vera Rubin NVL72 inference tests show up to 7x better token throughput per MW vs. Blackwell on a 1.6T DeepSeek model, above Huang's 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs (Bryan Shan/SemiAnalysis)
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Apple's H1 2027 plans reportedly include an iPhone 18e, A20 iPhone 18, A20 Pro iPhone Air 2, OLED iPad Air, A19 Pro MacBook Neo, and M6 MacBook Air (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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London-based Jack & Jill, which offers Jack, an AI agent for job seekers, and Jill, an agent for companies, raised a $40M Series A, after raising $20M in 2025 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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Cornelis, spun off from Intel in 2020 to build networking tech that helps AI chips communicate more effectively, raised $205M led by IAG Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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Source: defense tech startup Shield AI is in talks to raise new funds at a valuation of at least $20B; Shield raised $2B at a valuation of $12.7B in March (The Information)
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Nuance Labs, which builds low-latency AI avatars that can have face-to-face conversations, raised a $50M Series A led by Lightspeed, with Nvidia participating (Shubhangi Goel/Business Insider)
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Sources: Trump met privately with Sam Altman backstage at the GOP midterm convention, where they discussed AI and its growing power, at Altman's request (MS NOW)
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Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
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Sources: OpenAI bought Glass Imaging, which is developing AI-powered smartphone camera tech, in a deal valuing it at $300M+; it was valued at ~$100M last year (Wall Street Journal)
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House Speaker Johnson says there's "potentially" a role for Congress in creating AI guardrail legislation and that he plans to hold a meeting with AI executives (Erik Wasson/Bloomberg)
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Nvidia announces the RTX Pro 5500 Blackwell Workstation Edition, offering comparable specs to the RTX 5090 but with 84GB of GDDR7 memory, vs. RTX 5090's 32GB (Zhiye Liu/Tom's Hardware)