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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
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| 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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| 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 …
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| Google DeepMind: |
Google says an advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 “exceptionally difficult” problems — The International Mathematical Olympiad ("IMO") is the world's most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959.
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| Mike Allen / Axios: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT users send more than 2.5B prompts globally each day, more than 330M of those are in US, and the platform has 500M weekly active users — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will use a swing through Washington this week to argue that AI is already making Americans more productive …
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| 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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| 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:| 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.
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| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Galaxy Watch8 review: thinner and sturdier, but its design with a square casing and a round screen is polarizing, and Gemini is useful but hit-or-miss — If users can tolerate the bold new look, they'll find the included artificial intelligence features are actually useful.
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Source: Netflix is using Runway AI's video generation tools for production; Disney is testing out the tools and talked with Runway about possible uses for them — Netflix Inc. has begun using artificial intelligence video generation software from startup Runway AI, testing the waters … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers: at least 750 US hospitals faced disruptions on the day of last year's big CrowdStrike outage, and 200+ had outages related to patient care services — Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike's disastrous crash, researchers have revealed.
More: Finextra, VentureBeat, Becker's Hospital Review, ComputerWeekly.com, TVBEurope, and IJR
LinkedIn: Dave Schroeder, Andy Greenberg, and Jeff Tully
| 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.
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Financial Times: |
Multinational firms like McDonald's and UK insurer Bupa, struggling to hire AI talent at home, are turning to back offices in India to meet their core AI needs — McDonald's, Bupa and others set up ‘global capability centres’ to perform core big-data tasks — Krishn Kaushik and Chris Kay in Bengaluru
More: The Economic Times
| SemiAnalysis: |
A roundup of the 2025 VLSI conference: using digital twins for design exploration, DRAM beyond 1x nm nodes, Intel's 18A process compared to TSMC, and more — VLSI 2025 Roundup — No comments on Intel 18A Details & Cost, Future of DRAM 4F2 vs 3D, Backside Power Adoption (or Not) … Sponsor Posts
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