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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of next year's launch; sources: Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Pro — When the first foldable iPhone debuts next year, it will be the least Apple-like launch ever.
More: Benzinga, Forbes, MacRumors, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Neowin, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac, Patently Apple, The Mac Observer, TechRadar, 9to5Mac, Redmond Pie, MakeUseOf, and Best Products
| 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]
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, implicator.ai, Analytics India Magazine, The Indian Express, Moneycontrol, Werd I/O, Engadget, Data Studios ‧Exafin, and The Decoder
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| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Companies like Scale AI are replacing low-cost data labelers with highly paid experts in fields such as finance, driven by the rise of reasoning AI models — Industry moves away from paying gig economy workers in Africa and Asia in push to build ‘smarter’ models| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
More: Pulse 2.0, SecurityWeek, iCOUNTER, InfoRiskToday.com, FinTech Global, Dallas Innovates, and VC News Daily. LinkedIn: iCOUNTER
| Bloomberg: |
How UK Biobank, a government-backed cloud database of 1B+ medical images from 100,000+ participants, is fueling breakthroughs in AI-driven diagnostics — A massive database of medical images is offering an unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear.
More: UK Biobank, The Times, Channel 4 News, UK Biobank, UK Biobank, Sky News, and BBC
X: @uk_biobank, @uk_biobank, and @uk_biobank
LinkedIn: Bloomberg News and Ed Johnson
| Louis Columbus / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like “Watch Mode Activation” and “Terminal Restrictions” — In case you missed it, OpenAI yesterday debuted a powerful new feature for ChatGPT and with it, a host of new security risks and ramifications.
More: Ynetnews, OpenAI, Gizchina.com, and OpenAI
| Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: |
How YouTube became the most-watched video provider on TVs in the US, with creator content tailored for family and group viewing and app features enhanced for TV — A generation that grew up watching YouTubers on tablets and phones have migrated to TVs, and Hollywood is losing ground
More: New York Times, Livemint, and Tubefilter
| 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: @astronomerio, @mrgeorgewallace, @the_realnez, @kalshi, @mikeisaac, @rakeshsfnyc, @patiencexx4, and @greg16676935420. LinkedIn: Astronomer. Forums: r/offbeat
| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
A look at the Dor Brothers, a video production studio that has gained over 100M views across platforms by creating viral subversive videos using only AI tools — President Trump leans forward in a limousine, takes a long puff from a cigarette and flashes a wide grin.
Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| 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.
More: Security Affairs. Bluesky: @patrickhowelloneill.com. Mastodon: @kimzetter@infosec.exchange. X: @kimzetter
| Alex Riehl / BetaKit: |
Calgary-based GeologicAI, which uses AI and sensors to help capture data in rock and core samples faster, raised a $44M Series B led by Blue Earth Capital — Mining tech startup will use funding to scale globally as demand for critical minerals intensifies.| 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.
More: The Decoder. Bluesky: @wired.com, @brbarrett, @willknight, @megannicolett, @katie-drummond, and @couts. X: @lynnbecker
| 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 …
More: Computerworld, TechCrunch, and Proactive
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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 …
More: Gizmodo, The Portugal News, TechSpot, Ars Technica, The Indian Express, Science, Nature, Google Research, The Independent, New Scientist, Study Finds, Android Authority, New Atlas, and Moneycontrol
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