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Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer Data
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Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
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'Zuckoff' App Detects Meta Smartglasses, as Meta Plans Camera-Free Version, Loses Money, and Offers Social Media Subscriptions
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OpenAI Admits Six More Instances of AI Models Acting Deceptively
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Adafruit's New CircuitPython 'Turbo' Brings Native Code To Tiny Boards
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As Part of California's Coast Begins to Crumble, Is the Clock Ticking on Moving Radioactive Waste?
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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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Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated (Anthropic)
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Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are "much more science fiction than science" and the latest "wave of PR" is probably intended to shape regulation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)
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NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" and a Microsoft executive called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times)
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A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: populations in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than growth (Pew Research Center)
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Analysis: tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ Bay Area workers in the 12 months to June; Bay Area software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022 (Francesca Maglione/Bloomberg)
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Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
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Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announces a deal with Tata to manufacture and package chips in India, further sealing its split from Chinese parent Wingtech (Toby Sterling/Reuters)
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Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director is drafting an EO to establish a government-led incubator aimed at cybersecurity research (Bloomberg)
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The UK FCA, working with tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end to its "light-touch" crypto regulation (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
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Source: OpenAI staff expect the Hodge Conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, to be solved relatively soon, after solving the Navier-Stokes equations (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
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King Charles hosts tech leaders, such as Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, in Scotland to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for safety tests (Bloomberg)
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Lucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy a fleet of 25K+ robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's affordable EV platform, set to launch as soon as 2028 (Financial Times)
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Comp AI, which uses AI agents to draft security policies, collect audit evidence, conduct continuous compliance monitoring, and more, raised a $34M Series A (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
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The US SEC unveils a five-year Innovation Exemption where many stock exchange rules don't apply to platforms facilitating blockchain and tokenized stock trading (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
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A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage (New York Times)