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September 14, 2025, 11:50 PM

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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google's Gemini app is the #1 app in the US App Store, driven by its Nano Banana model, which has been used to edit 500M+ images since its August 26 launch  —  The Nano Banana image editing model has been a hit for Google, and presumably the reason that Gemini for iPhone is the top free app in the US App Store.
Wall Street Journal:
How Hangzhou, home to DeepSeek and Alibaba, became China's AI hub as the government builds a Silicon Valley-inspired innovation corridor in the city's west  —  Money, talent and entrepreneurial spirit have turned DeepSeek's hometown into a global AI hub  —  HANGZHOU, China …
Jerry Neumann / Colossus:
The AI revolution has more in common with shipping containerization than the boom unleashed by the microprocessor: diffuse global benefits but few new fortunes  —  The disruption is real.  It's also predictable.  — ISSUE 04  —  Fortunes are made by entrepreneurs and investors …
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A deep dive into the architecture of Nvidia's Rubin CPX chip, which is optimized for long-context AI tasks and the prefill phase of inference  —  New Prefill Specialized GPU, Rack Architecture, BOM, Disaggregated PD, Higher Perf per TCO, Lower TCO, GDDR7 & HBM Market Trends
Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal:
Penske Media sues Google, says ~20% of Google search results linking to its sites now include AI Overviews, and affiliate link revenue fell 33%+ since late 2024  —  Penske Media alleges artificial-intelligence-generated answers steal its content and have reduced traffic and revenue for its sites
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, using violence to stop AI, Rationalism, his new book, and more  —  Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger.  Now, he's making his case to the public.
Google Research:
Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says is the largest open LLM trained from scratch with differential privacy, on Hugging Face and Kaggle  —  We introduce VaultGemma, the most capable model trained from scratch with differential privacy.  As AI becomes more integrated into our lives …

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Washington Post:
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Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
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