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| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
Leaked memo: Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching “dictators”, and says a “no bad person” rule is impractical — “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle …
More: implicator.ai and Benzinga
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stargate has struggled to get off the ground and sharply scaled back its near-term plans, as SoftBank and OpenAI disagree on crucial terms of the deal — The Stargate venture, introduced at White House event, is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end
More: Benzinga, Fortune, The Crypto Times, Windows Central, implicator.ai, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Analytics India Magazine, PYMNTS.com, WinBuzzer, and The Information
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X: @sawyermerritt, @laurenbalik, @garymarcus, and @garymarcus
Forums: r/BetterOffline and r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI and Oracle unveil plans to develop 4.5GW of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership, hitting 5GW in total and running 2M AI chips — OpenAI and Oracle Corp. announced they will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says it “has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting” the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities — Several hacking groups with ties to the Chinese government have been linked to a recent wave of widespread attacks targeting …
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| Washington Post: |
Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerability — Researchers say Chinese and other criminal hackers have exploited a security flaw in SharePoint software widely used by governments and businesses — and may come back.
More: Metacurity, BleepingComputer, Reuters, Engadget, Axios, The Boston Globe, TechCrunch, The Irish Times, PCMag, Mashable, UPI, CBS News, Associated Press, 9to5Mac, and iTnews
| Reuters: |
OpenAI and the UK government announce a partnership to explore AI use in justice, defense, security, and edtech, and possibly expand OpenAI's London office — Britain and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership to deepen collaboration on AI security research …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Telegram expands access to its TON crypto wallet, integrated into the Telegram app, for its 87M users in the US — Telegram is expanding access to its crypto wallet for its 87 million users in the U.S. — The TON wallet, named because it is built on the TON blockchain, is integrated directly into the Telegram app.
More: CNBC, SiliconANGLE, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, and Cryptopolitan
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD and Stability AI launch the industry's first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium AI model optimized for AMD's XDNA 2 NPUs, designed to run locally on Ryzen laptops — An offline image generator for XDNA 2 NPUs. — AMD, in collaboration with Stability AI, has unveiled the industry's …
More: AMD, implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, and KitGuru
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Seoul-based chip designer FuriosaAI signs a deal with LG to use its AI chip RNGD, its first major contract, after rejecting Meta's $800M buyout offer in March — FuriosaAI Inc., the Seoul-based startup seeking to design chips to compete with Nvidia Corp., has sealed its first major contract months …
More: TechCrunch, KED Global, FuriosaAI, nextbigwhat, and Electronic Specifier
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is seeking to recruit news organizations for a new licensing project related to AI, and plans to launch a pilot initially with ~20 US outlets — The company has ramped up its overtures to news organizations in recent months — Google is seeking to recruit news organizations … | Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg: |
Miaan Group: a number of Iranians received spyware threat alerts from Apple in H1 2025 in the months prior to the Iran-Israel war, the first such cases in Iran — More than a dozen Iranians' mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior to the country's war with Israel, according to new research.
More: AppleInsider, Infosecurity, SiliconANGLE, PCMag, and The Register
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Philadelphia-based Asylon, which modifies Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot into DroneDog, raised a $26M Series B led by Insight, taking its total funding to $45M — Philadelphia-based robotics company Asylon announced Tuesday that it raised a $26 million Series B led by Insight Partners …
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| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Google, Amazon, Cohere, and Mistral are intensifying efforts to reduce AI hallucinations via technical fixes, data quality improvements, and fact-checking — Tech groups step up efforts to reduce fabricated responses but eliminating them appears impossible
Bluesky: @eicathomefinn
| Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg: |
A London judge rules that HPE lost ~£730M after acquiring Mike Lynch's Autonomy, after a 2022 fraud finding against Lynch, who died in 2024; HPE was seeking $4B — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. lost around £730 million ($985 million) after it bought Mike Lynch's firm Autonomy Corp. … | CoinDesk: |
Crypto custody company BitGo confidentially files for a US IPO; Palo Alto-based BitGo raised $100M at a $1.75B valuation in August 2023 — The crypto custodian submitted a confidential U.S. listing as interest in public crypto stocks heats up. — What to know:| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications Fidji Simo lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world — Soon-to-be former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sent a memo to OpenAI staff Monday laying out her vision for how AI will change the world.
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Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/OpenAI, and r/ChatGPT
| Anil Ananthaswamy / Quanta Magazine: |
While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data — He and his team turned to AI — in particular, a software suite first created by the physicist Mario Krenn to design tabletop experiments in quantum optics.
Bluesky: @hern, @hern, and @quantamagazine. Mastodon: @mustapipa@scicomm.xyz
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can “steer” laser light and is an alternative to lidar, extends its Series B from $45M to $59M, including from Amazon's IIF — Programmable optics startup Lumotive has added a few more strategic backers to its recent Series B round.| Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: |
US investment firm Carlyle agrees to acquire a majority stake in IT consultancy and services provider Adastra, sources say valuing it at $400M including debt — Carlyle Group Inc. has agreed to acquire a majority stake in IT consultancy and services provider Adastra Group SE.
More: Globe and Mail and Tech in Asia
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