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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Business Standard and Premium users in ChatGPT Work and Codex and in the API (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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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)
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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)
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A profile of John Ternus, the first product engineer to lead Apple; sources: Cook considered how to execute the perfect succession since his early days as CEO (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
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An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad on the Sonos 27 platform, AI assistants, its Google relationship, speakers as a home computer mesh network, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)