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PitchBook: VCs have invested $192.7B in AI startups so far this year, putting 2025 on track to be the first year when 50%+ of VC funding goes to the AI industry — Venture capitalists poured $192.7 billion into AI startups so far this year — setting new global records and putting 2025 …
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| Sam Altman: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning two Sora changes for rightsholders: granular controls over generation of their characters and a revenue sharing system — We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rightsholders, and other interested groups.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Huawei's Zurich Lab unveils SINQ, an open-source quantization method that it claims can reduce LLM memory use by 60-70% without significant quality loss — - Dual-Axis Scaling: Instead of using a single scale factor for quantizing a matrix, SINQ uses separate scaling vectors for rows and columns.| Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
Q&A with iRobot founder Rodney Brooks on his startup Robust.AI, which builds warehouse robots, unrealistic expectations around humanoid robots and AI, and more — Every so often, we find ourselves in the middle of a massive technological wave that starts to upend our presumptions and our ideas about the past, present, and future.| John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: |
GWI: Time spent on social media globally peaked in 2022 and is steadily declining; North America is the exception, with usage up 15% in 2024 compared to Europe — As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away — In years to come, we may well look back on September 2025 …
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| Nic Carter / Murmurations II: |
A look at challenges facing Tether and Circle's stablecoin duopoly, such as intermediaries like exchanges and DeFi protocols exploring their own stablecoins — Circle equity is worth $30.5b. Tether's topco is reportedly raising capital at $500b. Together, the two stablecoins boast $245b in supply …
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| @openai: |
OpenAI updates GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in distress; ChatGPT will route such sensitive parts of conversations to the model — We're updating GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in moments of distress. Sensitive parts of conversations will now route to GPT-5 Instant to quickly provide even more helpful responses. ChatGPT will continue to tell users what model is active when asked.
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| Bloomberg: |
Kioxia, whose stock has more than tripled since its public debut in Tokyo last December, expects NAND storage demand to grow by ~20% annually amid the AI boom — Kioxia Holdings Corp. anticipates demand for NAND storage will grow by roughly 20% each year as AI data center operators keep scaling up.
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| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
How rising unemployment in computer-related fields in the US, where foreign nationals make up ~20% of 2.3M software devs, pushed the H-1B issue to the forefront — The president's decision to charge employers $100,000 per visa for skilled workers seemed to come out of nowhere.
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at the tussle between the US and China over subsea cables; US Big Tech now accounts for 70%+ of all used subsea-cable capacity, from <10% a decade ago — A high-stakes rivalry is playing out over a vast but vulnerable web of underwater cables that carry nearly all global internet traffic| Andrew Moseman / IEEE Spectrum: |
How researchers at Microsoft, IBM, and other organizations are using AI to speed up the search for new materials and chemicals for batteries — Microsoft and IBM pinpoint candidates from millions of options — Andrew Moseman is the online communications editor at Caltech and a freelance contributor to IEEE Spectrum.| Mother Jones: |
Inside the aftermath of FTX's collapse, law firm Sullivan & Cromwell's role, and an interview with SBF, who is preparing to appeal his conviction in November — In exclusive prison interviews, the convicted crypto king is still fighting to control the narrative ahead of a high-stakes appeal.
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| Nilesh Christopher / MIT Technology Review: |
An investigation finds rampant caste bias in ChatGPT and Sora; a researcher also finds caste bias in Sarvam AI, which touts itself as a sovereign AI for India — When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in Bengaluru, India, in March, he wanted to make sure …
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| Ruth Reader / Politico: |
Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O'Neill says the Trump administration doesn't support CHAI, an effort by OpenAI, Mayo Clinic, and others to vet AI tools for healthcare — AI is transforming care. Hospitals are adopting high-tech systems to improve diagnoses and recommend treatments, but there's little formal regulation.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple's removal of ICEBlock raises questions about the limits of what the company will resist under the Trump administration's increasingly outrageous demands — Ashley Oliver, reporting for Fox Business: … Fox, in its opening paragraph, describes Bondi as having “asked” …
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