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September 14, 2025, 4:15 AM

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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, 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.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs  —  There's been great interest in what Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is building with its $2 billion in seed funding …
Nic Fildes / Financial Times:
Australia is emerging as a prominent player in quantum computing, enabled by breakthrough academic work and sustained government funding since the 1990s  —  Advances in the technology have been made possible by sustained government funding since the 1990s  —  At a technology hearing …
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Hike, which was valued at $1.4B in 2016 and has since pivoted from a messaging app to a real-money gaming app, shuts down following India's ban on such apps  —  Hike, once one of India's most valuable startups with unicorn status, has become the latest casualty of New Delhi's recent real-money gaming ban …
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  —  Amer Sinha, Software Engineer, and Ryan McKenna, Research Scientist, Google Research  —  We introduce VaultGemma …
Reuters:
Malaysia reins in data center expansion amid power and water shortages, hindering Chinese companies that use the region as a backdoor to access US-made AI chips  —  - Data centre hotbed Malaysia clamping down on capacity expansion  — Policy change likely to affect Chinese firms' access to AI chips
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
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Hajime Tsukada / Nikkei Asia:
Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&D and capital spending at its Hiroshima fab to mass produce advanced DRAM, aiming for shipments by August 2028  —  TOKYO — Japan said Friday it will provide 536 billion yen ($3.63 billion) to U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology for research …
The Information:
OpenAI projects that it will reduce the revenue share it pays to Microsoft from 20% this year to ~8% by 2030, potentially retaining over $50B more in revenue  —  As OpenAI irons out new terms of a partnership with Microsoft, it has told some shareholders that the percentage of revenue …
Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:
JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series  —  Pre-order sales of Apple's new iPhone 17 series have got off to a robust start in China, shattering previous records despite delays in the shipment of the iPhone Air.

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