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AWS says services have “returned to normal operations” after an outage in its US-EAST-1 region, first reported at 3:11am ET, that took down major websites — Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday that took down numerous major websites.
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| Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Anthropic announces Claude Code on the web and in the Claude iOS app, available in beta as a research preview for Pro and Max users — Today, Anthropic's Claude Code agentic coding tool is moving beyond the terminal and coming to the web and the company's mobile app.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new feature for researchers that integrates Claude AI models with lab tools like Benchling to boost efficiency — Anthropic on Monday announced Claude for Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers to use the company's artificial intelligence technology …
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| Jaures Yip / CNBC: |
OpenAI says it will work with SAG-AFTRA, CAA, UTA, and others to crack down on Sora 2 deepfakes, following concerns from actor Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA — OpenAI announced on Monday in a joint statement that it will be working with Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA, and other actor unions …
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| Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder: |
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-OCR, a vision language model designed for efficient vision-text compression, enabling longer contexts with less compute — Chinese AI company Deepseek has built an OCR system that compresses image-based text documents for language models, aiming to let AI handle …
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| Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: |
Study: brain-computer interface company Science Corp.'s PRIMA device, comprised of a retinal implant and special glasses, restored vision in some blind patients — Science Corporation—a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk's brain-interface venture …
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Forums: r/news and r/worldnews
| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
A look at the social debates in Chile over AI investments, emblematic of clashes happening globally over balancing economic growth with environmental concerns — Political debates have flared across Chile over artificial intelligence. Should the nation pour billions into A.I. and risk public backlash, or risk being left behind?
LinkedIn: Daniel Sepulveda
| Michael Beltran / Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis: agencies have hired hundreds of thousands of “chatters” to impersonate 4M+ OnlyFans creators, as many Filipino chatters struggle with mental health — MANILA — When one of the almost 400 million OnlyFans subscribers logs on to chat with their favorite content creators … | Michael Beltran / Rest of World: |
Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models — Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan's convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.
Bluesky: @parismarx.com, @benschleuss, @goldstein, @marypcbuk, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @atherton, and @restofworld.org. Forums: r/Expats_PH
| Dave Brooks / Billboard: |
In a letter to two US lawmakers, Ticketmaster says it will ban users from operating multiple accounts and shut down its TradeDesk platform after an FTC lawsuit — Dan Wall, the ticketing giant's top corporate and regulatory affairs lawyer, skewers the FTC lawsuit in a feisty letter to two U.S. senators.
More: Los Angeles Times, Deadline, The Wrap, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Digital Music News, Forbes, Music Business Worldwide, Hypebot, Rolling Stone, and CMU. Forums: r/Concerts
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Reid Hoffman calls Anthropic “one of the good guys” after David Sacks accused the company of running a “regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering” — Two of the main members of the PayPal mafia are sparring again — this time over artificial intelligence.| Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information: |
Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, joins VC firm Benchmark as general partner, following a slew of personnel departures at Benchmark — Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins investing out of its growth-stage funds, has joined Benchmark as the firm's newest general partner …
X: @km, @danprimack, @benchmark, @everettrandle, @scottbelsky, @everettrandle, and @zebulgar
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal spree pits Silicon Valley giants against each other as they race to cash in, making OpenAI too big to fail — The CEO's dealmaking blitz has convinced Silicon Valley's giants to tether their fates to his company, essentially making it too big to fail| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Document: Google launched a Trusted Tester program to select 15 of its “Superfans” to test unreleased Pixels, using protective cases to disguise the hardware — Alphabet Inc.'s Google plans to let Pixel smartphone enthusiasts test out the company's next handset ahead of its public introduction.
More: Livemint, The Verge, Ars Technica, Android Police, and Droid Life
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