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Google launches its Lyria 3.5 music generation model in Google Flow Music, highlighting improved musicality, lyrics, vocal quality, and creative control (Google)
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Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI after announcing earlier this week she was leaving TML over workload-related health concerns (The Information)
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027 (Ina Fried/Axios)
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Anthropic's cryptanalysis results on HAWK and AES show AI can now understand existing cryptanalysis results, turn them into new attacks, and even extend them (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
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Investors continue to dump chipmaker stocks on Wednesday following disappointing results from SK Hynix; Sandisk is down 7.5%+, Arm 6.5%+, and AMD 6.5%+ (Financial Times)
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Qualcomm says it has signed a 10-year deal to supply chips for BMW's future digital cockpit and advanced driver-assistance systems (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
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Groundcover, which provides observability software that can monitor AI agents, raised a $100M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $160M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
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Encore AI, which studies companies' customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
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ChipAgents, which uses AI agents to help speed up the process of chip design, raised a $60M Series A2 led by B Capital, bringing the expanded round to $134M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
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Survey: 77% of US adults support in-class cellphone bans for middle and high school students, up from 74% in 2025 and 68% in 2024; just 18% oppose such bans (Jeffrey Gottfried/Pew Research Center)
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Brookfield and NextEra partner to develop a $100B, 1.2GW+ AI data center campus at a former DOE uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky, set to open in 2032 (Robb M. Stewart/Wall Street Journal)
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A look at OpenAI's open-source agent harness that now powers Codex and ChatGPT Work, as the company works to optimize the harness to cut runaway token usage (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)
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Eliyan, which aims to license tech and make physical "chiplets" to ease AI chip data transfer bottlenecks, raised a $145M Series C at a $1B valuation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
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X settles a long-running legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a case that accused brands like Mars and Shell of illegally boycotting X (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
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DoorDash says the FAA granted it Part 135 air carrier certification to operate a drone delivery service and it plans to launch drone deliveries in the fall (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)