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BBC:
Google says it revised its Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after it failed to send the highest-level Take Action warnings to 10M people in Turkey in 2023  —  Google has admitted its earthquake early warning system failed to accurately alert people during Turkey's deadly quake of 2023.
Bloomberg:
Samsung unveils a $16.5B chip deal with Tesla that runs through the end of 2033; Elon Musk says the deal is to make Tesla's next-gen AI6 chips in Taylor, Texas  —  Samsung Electronics Co. will produce AI semiconductors for Tesla Inc. in a new $16.5 billion pact that marks a win for its underperforming foundry division.
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Sources: the US freezes tech export curbs on China to avoid disrupting trade talks and help President Trump secure a 2025 meeting with President Xi Jinping  —  US officials have been warned to avoid tough moves against Beijing as Stockholm hosts third round of negotiations
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
At the International Mathematical Olympiad, 26 students got higher scores than DeepMind and OpenAI models, possibly the last time humans beat AI at the exam  —  Google DeepMind and OpenAI won gold medals at the math Olympics—but these American teenagers still got higher scores.
Reuters:
An analysis of ~200 Shein items between April and July: prices spiked in April, settled at 12.5% above pre-tariff levels by late May, and jumped again in July  —  Evidence for the impact of Trump's trade war has shown up at the popular China-founded online retailer.
Zachary Small / New York Times:
How the video game industry, which has used AI since the 1980s, is embracing AI-enhanced gameplay, worrying some developers as major studios cut employees  —  Game designers have used artificial intelligence since the 1980s.  But digital characters demonstrating self-awareness is a far cry from the ghosts chasing Pac-Man.
Bloomberg:
At Shanghai's World AI Conference, ByteDance, Unitree, UBTech, Agibot, and other Chinese companies demoed a wide range of robots, including boxing droids  —  From lumbering six-foot machines to nimble back-flipping dogs, robots lorded over China's most important annual AI conference in Shanghai this week.
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John Reed / Financial Times:
A look at India's plan to build a quantum computing hub in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, where IBM is in talks to develop India's most powerful quantum computer  —  Chandrababu Naidu aims to replicate success in tech hub Hyderabad to transform sleepy Andhra Pradesh

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Shane O'Neill / Washington Post:
Q&A with Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump's inner circle for VF: “My job is to ... draw on my experience as a journalist and photograph what I see”

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CBS News and The Free Press announce Things That Matter, a series of town halls and debates, starting in early 2026, with Sam Altman, J.D. Vance, and others

John Rogers / Associated Press:
Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91

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