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Google's Gemini app is the #1 free 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
China says Nvidia was found in violation of antitrust regulations in a preliminary investigation, in a brief statement without further details — China ruled that Nvidia Corp. violated anti-monopoly laws with a high-profile 2020 deal, ratcheting up the pressure on Washington during sensitive trade negotiations.| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
OpenAI releases the first detailed public study on how people use ChatGPT: 73% of chats were non-work related, practical guidance was the top use case, and more — OpenAI released the first detailed public study on who uses its chatbot and what they most often ask it to do.
More: OpenAI, The Guardian, OpenAI, The Guardian, ABC News, BBC, Mediaweek, The Hollywood Reporter, Axios, Tom's Guide, and Lifehacker. Forums: r/television
| Joshua Franklin / Financial Times: |
An interview with Goldman Sachs partner Kerry Blum on how the company's ~46,000 employees are using GenAI-powered GS AI Assistant and the risks of over-reliance — One partner explains the efficiencies and limitations of new tools — When Goldman Sachs partner Kerry Blum was wrestling … | 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 …
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| 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 … | Anthropic: |
An Anthropic report details how Claude usage varies by country and US states, finding 36% use it for coding, 77% of enterprise use is for automation, and more — Introduction — Introduction — AI differs from prior technologies in its unprecedented adoption speed.| Harry Dempsey / Financial Times: |
Japan is becoming a test bed for whether logistics companies can overcome labor shortages, as the aging country lags behind US and China in logistics automation — Amazon makes promising advances but the pool of human truck drivers is shrinking dramatically
More: Nikkei Asia
| SemiAnalysis: |
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
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| Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: |
A look at training sessions hosted by robotaxi companies, like Zoox, to teach first responders how to handle emergencies involving self-driving cars — Police and firefighters are getting trained on how to respond to emergencies involving self-driving cars — or pull them over in a traffic stop.| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
How Coinbase is navigating the easing regulatory environment, increasing acceptance of crypto in the financial system, and intensifying competition — White House enthusiasm for digital assets boosts exchange's share price but is stoking heightened competition| 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.
More: New York Times and Semafor
X: @steveokeefe, @robinhanson, @matthewkassel, @mattyglesias, @kevinroose, and @kevinroose. Forums: r/singularity
| 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 …
More: WinBuzzer, Digit, SiliconANGLE, Google on Kaggle, Google, The Decoder, Google on Hugging Face, arXiv.org, and MarkTechPost
| Ramsay Hodgson / Financial Times: |
i.AI, a UK government unit offering a median salary of £67K to develop tools to improve civil service efficiency, is struggling to attract top talent — The Incubator for Artificial Intelligence unit spent less than half of its budget last year because of recruitment delays
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