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| Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide: |
xAI introduces Grok 4, trained on its Colossus supercomputer, with multimodal features, faster reasoning, Grok 4 Voice, Grok 4 Code, a new interface, and more — Deeper thinking and greater reasoning is promised — An hour after the live stream was supposed to start last night (July 9) …
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Forums: r/ChatGPTCoding, r/singularity, and r/singularity
| @artificialanlys: |
Artificial Analysis benchmarks: Grok 4 is now the leading AI model, a first for xAI; Grok 4's per-token pricing is more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Pro's and o3's — xAI gave us early access to Grok 4 - and the results are in. Grok 4 is now the leading AI model. We have run our full suite of benchmarks and Grok 4 achieves an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index of 73, ahead of OpenAI o3 at 70, Google Gemini 2.5 Pro at 70, Anthropic Claude [image]
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
UK police arrest four people, a 20-year-old woman and three men aged 17 to 19, in connection to the M&S and Co-op hacks that began in mid-April and caused havoc — Four people have been arrested by police investigating the cyber-attacks that have caused havoc at M&S and the Co-op.
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| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
The EU publishes a voluntary code of practice to help companies follow its AI Act, including requiring developers to provide up-to-date AI feature documentation — The European Union published a code of practice to help companies follow its landmark AI Act that includes copyright protections …
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Sources: some AI researchers rejected Meta's offers to stay at jobs that align with their values; far fewer defected from Anthropic and DeepMind than OpenAI — Month after month, message after message, the AI engineer was hearing from Meta recruiters. The recruiters were pestering … | Bloomberg: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is planning M5 MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, a new Mac external monitor, new low-end iPads and M4 iPad Airs, and an iPhone 17e for H1 2026 — Apple Inc. is planning an ambitious pipeline of new products for release during the first half of 2026, including a new low-end iPhone, multiple iPads and upgraded Macs.
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| Danielle Broadway / Reuters: |
SAG-AFTRA says Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with game studios, including AI protections like consent requirements — Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with video game studios on Wednesday with a focus …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act requires all new US border surveillance towers to be “autonomous”, effectively granting Anduril a monopoly on tower contracts — Anduril Industries is a major beneficiary of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes a section that essentially grants …
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| Brunella Tipismana Urbano / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Indeed and Glassdoor, both owned by Recruit, will cut ~1,300 US jobs amid an AI-focused consolidation; Glassdoor's operations will be merged into Indeed — The cuts will mostly affect people in the US, especially within teams including research and development and people and sustainability … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A researcher says 245 extensions with nearly 909K downloads override security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites for a paid service — Extensions installed on almost 1 million devices have been overriding key security protections to turn browsers into engines …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
iCapital, which makes tools for wealth managers to invest in alternative assets, raised $820M+ at a $7.5B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.5B+ — iCapital, a fintech platform for alternative investments and investors, has raised more than $820 million in a funding round that takes …
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| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
Harmonic, a startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev that aims to build AI better at math than humans, raised a $100M Series B at a $875M valuation — Harmonic AI, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by Robinhood Markets Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vlad Tenev …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
The Allen Institute for AI launches FlexOlmo, an LLM architecture that lets data owners remove their data from an AI model even after it was used for training — A novel approach from the Allen Institute for AI enables data to be removed from an artificial intelligence model even after it has already been used for training.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google adds image-to-video generation to Veo 3 in the Gemini app for Pro and Ultra subscribers, and says users have created 40M+ videos since Veo 3's May launch — Google said on Thursday it's adding an image-to-video generation feature to its Veo 3 AI video generator through its Gemini app.
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The US Senate confirms Jonathan Gould to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Gould was previously the chief legal officer at Bitfury — - Jonathan Gould was previously chief legal officer at Bitfury and, before that, was senior deputy comptroller and chief counsel at the OCC.
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| Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
LGND, which uses vector embeddings to analyze geospatial data and has an enterprise app to query it, raised a $9M seed led by Javelin Venture Partners — The Earth is awash in data about itself. Every day, satellites capture around 100 terabytes of imagery. — But making sense of it isn't always easy.| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Agora, which offers a white-labeling service that lets companies launch self-branded versions of its stablecoin, AUSD, raised a $50M Series A led by Paradigm — Agora cofounders Joe McGrady, Nick Van Eck, and Drake Evans — COURTESY OF AGORA — On Thursday, Agora became …
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Foundation EGI, an “engineering general intelligence” startup that builds custom LLMs for engineering tasks, raised a $23M Series A led by Translink Capital — “Engineering general intelligence” platform startup Foundation EGI revealed today that it has raised $23 million …
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| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
Condé Nast and Hearst sign multiyear agreements with Amazon to license their content for use in Amazon's AI shopping assistant Rufus; the terms are undisclosed — Condé Nast and Hearst have signed multi-year agreements with Amazon to license their content for use in its AI shopping assistant Rufus.| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
The Internet Watch Foundation identified 1,286 AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse in H1 2025 globally, up from just two in H1 2024 — Organizations that track the material are reporting a surge in A.I. images and videos, which are threatening to overwhelm law enforcement.
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| Laila Kearney / Reuters: |
Electricity bills are projected to rise 20%+ in parts of PJM Interconnection's 13-state territory as the largest US power grid is under strain from data centers — America's largest power grid is under strain as data centers and AI chatbots consume power faster than new plants can be built.
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