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Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch has left to join Meta; he reportedly declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B+ package in August — Andrew Tulloch is the latest big-name AI researcher to join the social-media giant — A co-founder of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab …
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Sources: Apple glasses may run full visionOS when paired with Mac and a lighter UI with iPhone; Apple may unveil M5 iPad, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro this week — After spending a week with Meta's new display-embedded smart glasses, I'm convinced that Apple made the right call pivoting from the so-called Vision Air to spectacles.
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Qantas says 5.7M customer records stolen in a July breach of a third-party platform have been released online, and it is assessing the extent of the exposure — Qantas Airways Ltd. said customer data stolen during a cyber incident in July has been released online, and that it's working … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
New evidence shows the Aisuru botnet, which outpaces all other IoT-based botnets, is drawing most of its firepower from hacked IoT devices hosted on US ISPs — The world's largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) … | Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Sources: xAI is building world models for use in gaming and robotics, and has hired two AI researchers, Zeeshan Patel and Ethan He, from Nvidia to work on them — Artificial intelligence group hired staff from Nvidia to work on advanced AI that can design and navigate physical spaces
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Taiwan says it expects no significant impact from China's new export controls on rare earth minerals, as it uses different rare earths in chip manufacturing — No significant impact is expected on Taiwan's semiconductor industry from China's new curbs on rare earths as they differ … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's AI Mode and Google Lens, on Android in the US for those with an account opted into Search Lab — Nano Banana has been a hit in the Gemini app, and Google is now bringing the model's (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) … | Juliana Bedoya / Rest of World: |
Judges in Latin America are struggling to rule on cases of AI-generated images even as courts increasingly adopt AI tools to clear case backlogs — AI-generated images and videos are stumping prosecutors in Latin America, even as courts embrace AI to tackle case backlogs.| Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: |
Foundation Health, which develops an AI assistant to automate patient communication and prior authorization workflows for pharmacies, raised a $20M Series A — Specialty pharmacy online pharmacies Artificial Intelligence voice assistants — Umar Afridi, a pharmacist by training who spent … | Jeff Stone / Bloomberg: |
1Password founders sold a $75M stake as part of a $100M secondary sale, valuing the company at $6.8B, the same valuation as its $620M Series C in January 2022 — 1Password founders have agreed to sell a $75 million stake to a fund established earlier this year by Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith and Accel partner Ryan Sweeney.| Zilan Qian / ChinaTalk: |
How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms worldwide, with US platforms primarily targeting men and Chinese platforms mainly targeting women — and what it all means — Zilan Qian is a fellow at the Oxford China Policy Lab and an MSc student at the Oxford Internet Institute.
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Sources: Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments, is in talks to go public via a SPAC started by Cantor Fitzgerald at a $1B+ valuation — Securitize, a blockchain firm that tokenizes investments, is in talks to go public via a blank-check company started by Cantor Fitzgerald LP … | Forbes: |
A profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated 11% stake is now worth $1B+ following ICE's $2B investment, as its rivalry with Kalshi intensifies — A $2 billion investment from NYSE parent ICE vaults Polymarket's 27 year-old founder Shayne Coplan into the three-comma club … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple discontinues Clips, a video editing app it launched in 2017, removing it from the App Store for new users, and says Clips will no longer be updated — Apple has essentially discontinued Clips, its video-editing app designed to allow users to combine video clips, images …
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