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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's internal chatbot deserves a public release; sources: Apple nears production of M5 MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and two monitors for Q4 2025 or Q1 2026 — Apple should release its internal ChatGPT-like app publicly to give its revamped AI system more credibility.
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Digit, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, PhoneArena, The Mac Observer, PhoneArena, Forbes, The Verge, Benzinga, The Mac Observer, iThinkDifferent, Engadget, iClarified, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, Moneycontrol, The Hindu BusinessLine, and iPhone in Canada
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
DeepMind: video models like Veo 3 could become general purpose foundation models for vision, like LLMs for text, using zero-shot “chain-of-frames” reasoning — LLMs took the ability to predict the next token and turned it into general purpose foundation models for all manner …
More: Google DeepMind. LinkedIn: Saurin Patel and Topi Manu. Bluesky: @simonwillison.net
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/singularity
| Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
Caltech says it built the world's largest neutral-atom quantum computer, with 6,100 qubits, 13 second coherence, 10x longer than previously, and 99.98% accuracy — Caltech physicists have created the largest neutral-atom quantum computer to date, trapping 6,100 cesium atoms as qubits in a single array.
More: Nature, California Institute …, and New Scientist
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
VCs say some AI startups, under pressure to show rapid ARR growth, are using questionable accounting practices like counting one-time deals as recurring revenue — The numbers are eye-popping. — Beginning in 2024, a stream of ‘holy shit’ growth metrics from VC-backed startups began to pop up on X [formerly Twitter].| The Information: |
How Nvidia's large investments in AI startups and data centers act like a form of financial stimulus, potentially artificially inflating demand for its GPUs — Even by the standards of one of the most prodigious dealmakers in tech, the past month or so has been a head-spinning one for Nvidia's Jensen Huang.
More: Business Standard, Fortune, Cautious Optimism, Bloomberg, Motley Fool, TipRanks Financial, and Tom's Hardware
X: @bgurley, @benbajarin, @asdf_101, @waynema, @theinformation, and @theinformation. LinkedIn: Vince Kellen, Ph.D.
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @kentindell, @peoriabummer, and @jessefelder
Mastodon: @malwaretech@infosec.exchange and @j12t@j12t.social
| Financial Times: |
An investigation reveals how the Russian military spy ship Yantar is being used to map and potentially intercept undersea telecommunication cables across Europe — Covert operations in waters surrounding the British Isles pose a grave threat to critical infrastructure and a fresh challenge to Nato| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
An interview with Jeanine Wright, CEO of Inception Point AI, about her vow to continue mass-publishing episodes of AI-generated podcasts despite backlash — Jeanine Wright, the co-founder of Inception Point AI, says that within 12 to 24 months, it's human-created content that will be the anomaly| Rodney Brooks: |
iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks details why humanoid robots won't learn human-level dexterity from current methods, how to make them safe for humans, and more — rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids- wont-learn-dexterity/ — In this post I explain why today's humanoid robots will not learn …
More: TechCrunch and AI, Robotics & …
Bluesky: @thefarce.org, @carnage4life, @folletto, @techcrunch.com, and @glynmoody
Forums: r/robotics, r/technology, and Lobsters
| New York Times: |
A look at China's Ministry of State Security, which has been reshaped by Xi Jinping to be the primary driver of cyber espionage campaigns like Salt Typhoon — Fears of U.S. surveillance drove Xi Jinping, China's leader, to elevate the agency and put it at the center of his cyber ambitions.| Gary Greenberg / New Yorker: |
A therapist details treating ChatGPT as a “patient”, describing its programmed self-critique as “a brilliant means of seducing a techno-skeptical therapist” — When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us.
X: @newyorker and @newyorker
| Pedro Nakamura / Rest of World: |
Since 2019, Brazil's courts have developed or implemented over 140 AI projects that have helped make the country's overburdened judicial system more efficient — Brazil's overburdened courts and lawyers are adopting artificial intelligence. But experts wonder whether it serves justice.| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
A profile of digital microlender Tala, which has an annualized revenue of $340M but remains unprofitable 11 years in, as it plans to double its lending in 2027 — Before starting Tala, founder and CEO Shivani Siroya was a Wall Street analyst and studied microloans for the United Nations.
X: @william_r2rclub and @lanneabrooks
Bluesky: @forbes.com, @unklebiff, @timothycarroll.com, @brian49047, and @raretophat
| Washington Post: |
How JD Vance played a key role in the TikTok US deal, amid concerns about the VP acting as a corporate dealmaker in the forced spin-off of a private company — The creation of a U.S. spin-off, which has raised questions about censorship and favor for allies, will almost certainly be touted by Vance as a top achievement.| Felix Salmon / Bloomberg: |
Turning compute into a tradable commodity could fuel the next stage of the AI boom, just like oil futures and spectrum auctions unlocked waves of investment — Just as oil futures and spectrum auctions unlocked waves of investment, turning compute into a tradable commodity will be needed to fuel AI's next stage.
Forums: r/finance and r/NBIS_Stock
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