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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.
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| Alyson Krueger / New York Times: |
People are increasingly using generative AI to create digital vision boards, such as videos depicting their ideal futures, to help them achieve their goals — For some believers in manifestation, vision boards have become a little like movie trailers, as brought to you by A.I.
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| 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
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| Danielle Abril / Washington Post: |
How the AI boom is reenergizing San Francisco, one of the slowest US cities to recover from the pandemic, with rising foot traffic and new commercial leases — The AI momentum isn't stopping and it's bringing workers, venture capital money and life back to San Francisco.| Laura Dubois / Financial Times: |
The European Commission accuses Temu of breaching the DSA by failing to do enough to stop the sale of illegal products on its platform, in preliminary findings — European Commission says ecommerce group failing to do enough to tackle sale of illegal products
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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.| 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.| New York Times: |
Records: China's Starlink rivals have only ~120 satellites in orbit, less than 1% of their goal and below SpaceX's ~8,000, underscoring how far behind they are — It's looking unlikely. Here's why. — There are over 11,000 satellites in low Earth orbit, providing internet, surveillance and navigation services.| 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.| 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.| 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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| Divsha Bhat / Rest of World: |
Q&A with SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary on the Alphabet spinoff's partnership with Aramco, how quantum AI can help turn captured CO2 into valuable products, and more — • DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — The world's biggest oil company is betting on a Google spinoff to profit from pollution.
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| Hani Richter / Reuters: |
ChatGPT and other AI tools are helping neurodivergent people navigate social encounters with real-time guidance, though some experts warn of an overreliance — AI tools like ChatGPT are helping neurodivergent users communicate more clearly and confidently — though some experts warn that overreliance could come at a cost.
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| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
AIUC, which offers enterprises insurance policies and audits for AI agents, emerges from stealth with a $15M seed led by Nat Friedman at NFDG — Today, the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) is emerging from stealth with a $15 million seed round led by Nat Friedman at NFDG …
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