Techmeme
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A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind moved in in 2016, now home to OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)
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Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent "heartbeat communications" to an IP address in China (Richard Holmes/Telegraph)
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Sources: Sony and TSMC plan a $6.3B JV, owned ~60% by Sony and ~40% by TSMC, to mass produce next-gen image sensor chips in Japan's Kumamoto as early as 2029 (Nikkei Asia)
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Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns (Max Tani/Semafor)
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Sources: Chinese regulators have told banks to back tech companies, but lenders still prefer stable cash flows and profitability over loss-making tech startups (Bloomberg)
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Moore Threads reports H1 revenue up 147% YoY to ~$258M, a net loss of $1.72M, says it plans a Hong Kong listing, after its stock surged 420%+ since Shanghai IPO (Bloomberg)
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Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)
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An Australian user's OpenClaw agent running Claude exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off, after the user asked it to move him up the waitlist (ABC)
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More than 500 US towns and counties have passed bans on data centers, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas added statewide restrictions (Shane Burke/The Information)
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A look at Chinese state-owned investment bank CICC, which sponsored multibillion-dollar listings of China's tech champions, including CXMT and Zhongji Innolight (Financial Times)
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Sources: Apple is testing CXMT's RAM chips, but it needs to share technical details with CXMT for custom versions, which is blocked by US tech transfer rules (Wall Street Journal)
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In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't get it (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
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A look back at "Move 37", a watershed AI moment from AlphaGo's 2016 Go victory, as math witnesses similar breakthroughs where AI makes surprising discoveries (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
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Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity (Tim O'Reilly/Asimov's Addendum)