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[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad — 1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO). [image]
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| Jeff Wang / @jeffwsurf: |
Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded — To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports …
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation — Big Tech's growing reliance on licensing deals to scoop up top talent from AI startups risks leaving many rank-and-file workers in limbo.| Washington Examiner: |
Sources: UK plans to designate Apple and Google as holding a “strategic market advantage” over rivals, subjecting them to new regulations and potential fines — EXCLUSIVE — The United Kingdom is preparing to designate Apple and Google as holding a “strategic market advantage” …
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How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between “Islamists” and “Muslims” — Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray.
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| South China Morning Post: |
How an open-source approach helped DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies; Hugging Face: Alibaba's Qwen is now the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem — July 9, 2024, may be remembered as a day of humiliation for China's artificial intelligence community.
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| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: after Trump let Nvidia resume H20 chip sales to China, Nvidia told Chinese customers it has limited stocks and doesn't plan to restart production — President Donald Trump's recent decision allowing Nvidia to resume sales of the H20 artificial intelligence chips to China sent its Chinese customers …
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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10+ OpenAI researchers packages of $300M over four years, and asked OpenAI's Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta — The cutthroat recruitment efforts to land the smartest minds in Silicon Valley have hit a feverish new peak in recent days| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to provide technical support to the US military, after a ProPublica report raised security concerns — Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Friday said it will stop using China-based engineers to provide technical assistance to the U.S. military …
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How AI is reshaping higher education, as institutions grapple with the pace of change and technology companies move quickly to offer custom learning products — While institutions grapple with the pace of change, technology companies are moving quickly to offer custom learning products| Kasha Patel / Washington Post: |
Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200+ earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice — An early-warning system on Android phones has detected more than 1,000 earthquakes worldwide since 2021, sometimes giving people 15 … | Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Ring reinstated its mission to “make neighborhoods safer” and reintroduced video sharing with police in April, as its founder led an overhaul since his return — - Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has led a broad overhaul of the company since his return in April.
More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Verge, Benzinga, Fortune, ZDNET, Tom's Guide, and Entrepreneur
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| Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: |
Sources: Vy Capital, which has ~$15B of AUM and is a top backer of Elon Musk's companies, told external investors that it will not raise further outside money — Secretive tech investment group has racked up gains after backing companies such as SpaceX and xAI| The Economic Times: |
Reliance Retail launches Ajio Rush, a four-hour fashion delivery service live in six Indian cities, to take on Myntra and other fashion quick commerce startups — Reliance Retail has launched Ajio Rush, a four-hour fashion delivery service now live in six cities. It follows Myntra and others exploring ultra-fast delivery.
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