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| Alexander Wei / @alexwei_: |
[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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| New York Times: |
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.
Bluesky: @jm78mmm6. X: @mikeisaac, @shaunmmaguire, @shaunmmaguire, @shaunmmaguire, and @mikeisaac. LinkedIn: Dave Kellogg
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple was exempted from the EU's Corning deal to end exclusivity terms with OEMs, after finding products designed exclusively for Apple fall outside the market — The European Commission has concluded an antitrust investigation into Corning's glass supply deals. And for once, Apple just watched from the sidelines.| Eleanor Hawkins / Axios: |
Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after a video of him cuddling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral — Astronomer CEO Andy Byron has resigned from the company after a video of him canoodling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral.
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X: @mrgeorgewallace, @the_realnez, @astronomerio, @kalshi, @rakeshsfnyc, @mikeisaac, @patiencexx4, and @greg16676935420. Forums: r/offbeat
| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI model Mirage that manipulates live video in real time and can potentially shake up livestreaming — A startup called Decart has developed an AI model that can transform live footage. The results are mind-bending—and poised to take over streaming.
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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 … | Kim Zetter / Wired: |
How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatus — A new report traces the history of the early wave of Chinese hackers who became the backbone of the state's espionage apparatus.
X: @kimzetter
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Vultron, which makes AI tools for federal contractors, raised $22M from investors including David Sacks' Craft Ventures, raising ethical questions — When Vultron announced its $22 million funding round earlier this week, the AI startup made sure to highlight a key investor: Craft Ventures … | 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.| 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.
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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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