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Anthropic Commits to Independent AI Evaluators, Wants Slower Development. Nvidia's CEO Wants It 'As Fast as You Can'
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Firefox Touts Lower CPU Use for Large JPEGs, Faster PDF Viewer Startup (and AI Controls)
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America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Fails Spectacularly, Despite Hundreds of Millions in Industry Lobbying
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Ubuntu's 'Rust-ification' Hits New Milestone: Coreutils Migration is Complete
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While Hollywood Fears an AI Future, China's Film Industry is Embracing It
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Scientists Discover Mysterious New X-Ray Objects 'Unlike Any They Have Seen Before'
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Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg'
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Math Professor Accuses OpenAI of Copying His Work, Says AI Compute Power Makes Racing to Publish 'Pointless'
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ChatGPT-Using Lawyer Cited Its Fake Witnesses and Police Testimony in Court
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Reservations Go Live for Valve's Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress?
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A Visit to San Francisco's AI-run Store: No Customers, Nothing Useful, And Losing Money Fast
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No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage
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Union Contract with Microsoft Ratified by 1,900 Blizzard Developers and Workers
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Should US Open-Weight AI Labs 'Distill' Frontier Models Too?
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220 Million Traveler Records Exposed In Vietnam-Linked APIS Leak
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Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds (Joann Muller/Axios)
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Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
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Delos Data, which develops network chips and software to connect AI chips in a data center, raised $100M from Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, and others (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
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Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of AI companies (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
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A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
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Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
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Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere, with Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer becoming Cohere COO (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)
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Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
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In an essay, Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control (Ina Fried/Axios)
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Montreal-based LawZero, a non-profit founded by Yoshua Bengio to develop safe AI systems, says Canada and Germany are providing up to $300M in grant funding (Globe and Mail)
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Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and opens the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI (Financial Times)
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OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents with select US advertisers, letting users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
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Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1, taking it to $20 per hour, and gives them new banking tools (Reuters)