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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.
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
Bluesky: @teorth, @isaiahbishop, @ccanonne.github.io, @simonwillison.net, @taumuyi, @timkellogg.me, @cabernet, @skynetandchill.com, and @timkellogg.me.  Mastodon: @tao@mathstodon.xyz
X: @garymarcus, @sebastienbubeck, @polynoamial, @polynoamial, @ernestryu, @garymarcus, @garymarcus, @polynoamial, @khoomeik, @saranormous, @mihonarium, @elliotglazer, @omersarikaya, @kbeguir, @amolumd, @npcollapse, @littmath, @lehoho248, @feltsteam, @khoomeik, @wojtek_jk79848, @daniel_mac8, @lang__leon, @peterwildeford, @deedydas, @_vonarchimboldi, @michael_nielsen, @zoink, @hindookissinger, @natolambert, @taliaringer, @polynoamial, @hangsiin, @garymarcus, @therealadamg, @inductionheads, @ziv_ravid, @emostaque, @neelnanda5, @kevinweil, @scaling01, @dejavucoder, @simonw, @victortaelin, @garymarcus, @ilblackdragon, @michaeltrazzi, @preethilahoti, @prafdhar, @andrewmayne, @thenanyu, @mihonarium, @harshit_sikchi, @dadicool, @alexwei_, @nrehiew_, @npew, @stalkermustang, @sherylhsu02, @stevejarrett, @wickman, @markchen90, @0xsamgreen, @zhansheng, @tmychow, @mashah08, @kvallier, @mbalunovic, @clu_cheng, @openai, @nyc_rivera, @_ghorbani, @chombabupe, @burny_tech, @tbpn, @orionjohnston, @hunterlightman, @zzh8829, @dmdohan, @emollick, @albertwenger, @jcabreroholg, @g_leech_, @arynbhar, @sherwinwu, @azi_pat, @brij, @aagarwal1012, @davidblundin, @alexwei_, @christiancooper, @afinetheorem, @latticecut, @gestaltu, @nervouscomputer, @jimdmiller, @soohoonchoi, @gdb, @alexwei_, @justjoshinyou13, @deredleritt3r, @greghburnham, @alexwei_, @alexwei_, @alexwei_, and @sama.  LinkedIn: Simon Willison
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/math, r/agi, and r/slatestarcodex
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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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