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June 22, 2025, 5:05 AM

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New York Times:
Inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, whose 3.2-gigapixel camera will produce 60PB of space image data over 10 years, to be analyzed using ML and deep learning  —  The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.
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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
An interview with LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky on how AI is affecting the jobs market, AI agents, dealing with fake AI-generated accounts, and more  —  LinkedIn's CEO offers his thoughts on how AI is changing the way people work, himself included.  But first...  Standing out in an AI world
Maisie Grice / Financial Times:
Fidelity: ~50% of UK investors trust social media, finfluencers, and AI tools for financial decisions; only ~33% used a qualified adviser in the past two years  —  Growing draw of social media influencers and platforms comes at expense of regulated advice  —  Nearly half of UK investors put …
Alexander Nazaryan / New York Times:
A look at DARPA's “Exponentiating Mathematics” program, which aims to speed up progress in pure mathematics by developing an AI “co-author” to conduct research  —  Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades.  A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence.
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George Hammond / Financial Times:
An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more  —  The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times:
A look at Temu, Shein, Meituan, and other Chinese companies' expansion plans in Brazil, as they face slowing domestic demand and hurdles in the US and Europe  —  Confronted with tariffs and scrutiny in the United States and Europe, Chinese consumer brands are betting that they can become household names …
Kieran Smith / Financial Times:
London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI to design industrial parts such as engine and drone components, raised $135M, a source says at just under a $1B valuation  —  London-based group raises $135mn amid surge of interest in defence sector  —  London-based artificial intelligence start …
New York Times:
Microsoft suspending an ICC judge's email account raised alarms across EU about how dependent its governments, businesses, and citizens are on US tech companies  —  To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently suspended the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor …

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