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X plans a Handle Marketplace for Premium+ and Business subscribers to search for and request inactive usernames; rare handles can cost from $2,500 to $1M+ — Premium subscribers will be able to search and request usernames that have been unavailable. … Handles are going to be broken up into two broad categories.
More: The Hans India, Moneycontrol, X, Social Media Today, and Tech Times
Bluesky: @blindtubemares, @stevenjcbuckley, @generalboles, @simonpegg, and @snugbucket. Mastodon: @igb@mastodon.hccp.org
| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
OpenAI researchers delete X posts claiming that GPT-5 solved Erdös math problems, after pushback from Demis Hassabis and others; Yann LeCun ridicules OpenAI — OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community …
More: TechCrunch. X: @demishassabis, @sebastienbubeck, @ylecun, @thomasfbloom, @stefanfschubert, @nathanpmyoung, @kperifanos, @dmitryrybin1, @thomasahle, @vnovak_404, @mhmazur, @garymarcus, @ns123abc, @kimmonismus, @littmath, @janarhertz, @alextensor, @teortaxestex, @yuchenj_uw, @jasondeanlee, @vijayasankarv, @scaling01, @martinmbauer, @miles_brundage, @_junaidkhalid1, @hanchunglee, @marco_piani, @jonasaadler, @deryatr_, @zephyr_z9, @kevinweil, @thomasfbloom, @jeremyphoward, @marksellke, @borismpower, @sebastienbubeck, and @borismpower
Bluesky: @dulwichquantum, @carnage4life, and @josh.uno
Threads: @gedaliap, @andrea_89757, @masiosare, @tonycoxphoto, @feathers.6799, and @sir_terrynce. Mastodon: @tao@mathstodon.xyz
Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
China says the US NSA has been hacking its National Time Service Center, which provides high precision time services for the government and others, since 2023 — China said it's uncovered “irrefutable evidence” of US government cyber attacks on the country's main agency responsible for timekeeping.
More: Security Affairs, Associated Press, Modern Diplomacy, Reuters, UPI, Engadget, The Hacker News, South China Morning Post, Forbes Middle East, Tech in Asia, and Benzinga
X: @kanthan2030, @scottcdunn, @jingjing_li, @ghddr16, @williamyang120, @davidafoshee, @warmonitor3, @firstsquawk, @nofollo92476663, @sammyliddell929, @marionawfal, @itsreallynick, @scottcdunn, @msjedits, @heidrekson, and @shawnwenzel
Bluesky: @billmarczak.org, @criminalerin, @bobblakley, and @campuscodi.risky.biz
| The Verge: |
Opera Neon hands-on: the $20-per-month agentic AI browser can take over browsing tasks, but its three built-in AI chatbots can be confusing and unreliable — Neon is three AI tools dressed up as one, with a $20-per-month subscription attached. … The trick to understanding Opera's Neon browser … | Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times: |
An interview with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia's decentralized model, right-wing attacks and political pressure, Elon Musk, protecting volunteer editors, and more — As one of the most popular websites in the world, Wikipedia helps define our common understanding of just about everything.
More: The Interview on YouTube and The A.V. Club
Threads: @lulugnavarro and @karin.wulf
Forums: r/wikipedia and r/technology
| Alicia Park / Forbes: |
A profile of Pure Storage co-founder John Colgrove, as AI-driven demand for data storage pushes the company's stock to record highs, reaching a $30B market cap — John Colgrove, who founded data storage company Pure Storage in 2009, is now a billionaire. — PURE STORAGE — I cover tech and billionaires.| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Counterpoint: the iPhone 17 series outsold the iPhone 16 by ~14% in the first 10 days of US and China sales; base iPhone 17 sales doubled over the 16 in China — Apple Inc.'s latest generation of iPhones is off to a faster start than usual, with its most basic model surging in popularity.
More: Reuters, Tech in Asia, Counterpoint Research, and Mobile World Live
| Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba Cloud details a GPU pooling system that it claims reduced the number of Nvidia H20 required by 82% when serving dozens of LLMs of up to 72B parameters — The new Aegaeon system can serve dozens of large language models using a fraction of the GPUs previously required, potentially reshaping AI workloads
More: ACM Digital Library and Benzinga
X: @qubitium and @globalsenate
Forums: r/baba and r/NvidiaStock
| Financial Times: |
London-based CoMind, which develops a non-invasive brain monitoring device with Lidar-like tech, raised $60M led by Plural, taking its total funding to $102.5M — London-based CoMind is aiming to start selling its medical device in 2027 — A British start-up developing technology …
LinkedIn: James Dacombe
| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
X is testing a new way of opening links without fully covering an X post, allowing users to see the Like, Repost, and other buttons, starting on iOS — It comes in response to creators' complaints about the reach of posts containing links. — Links have proven to be a tricky thing when it comes to social media engagement.
More: The Verge and Social Media Today
X: @nikitabier, @nikitabier, @joannastern, @pkafka, @hnshah, @tomcritchlow, @benthompson, @katienotopoulos, @firt, @mschoening, @katienotopoulos, and @tobi. Bluesky: @stonehead
| Financial Times: |
A look at the Crylock ransomware scheme, orchestrated by a Russian couple who targeted as many as 400,000 victims and earned €64M+ in bitcoin over eight years — How a mysterious tip-off led investigators to uncover the inner workings of a highly unusual hacking operation| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI's Broadcom deal shows how the AI startup is diversifying its chip suppliers, including Nvidia chips for training and Broadcom chips for inference — The maker of ChatGPT and Sora wants to control its destiny, which means controlling the hardware that runs its software| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia — ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia.| Jocelyn Gecker / Associated Press: |
Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are providing millions to the American Federation of Teachers to build AI training hubs aimed at educating 400,000 teachers — Add AP News to Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share
X: @mosebuchele and @educatoral
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