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The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched — - The attacker who withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC from a Liquid Federation wallet has returned 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes had been patched.| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet — worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Hunter Biden teases a $LAPTOP memecoin launch on September 9; sources: it will launch on Base, and some tokens will be sent to wallets that lost money on $TRUMP — The personal computer that launched a thousand memes will debut this week as a digital token
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows rentosertib, a drug whose structure was generated with AI's help, could slow aging — Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition.
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| The Guardian: |
Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns — Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company| Tae Kim / Key Context: |
Astra working with Blender via computer use feels like magic, showing computer use could be the fourth demand wave after chatbots, reasoning, and agentic coding — AI computer tool use is a big deal. — A reminder that I'm on vacation this week, but the flood of impressions people …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Huawei unveils the Mate XT 2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictions — TAIPEI — China's Huawei Technologies has unveiled its first triple-folding smartphone powered by chips that it says are free …
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| Jack Clark / Import AI: |
Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters — Plus, a machine hermeneutics story — Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura's IPO, which could give it more influence over how many shares are allocated to its customers — Playing an official part in the IPO process could give Robinhood more influence over the number of shares allocated to its customers| Andy Bounds / Financial Times: |
Belgian prosecutors say they arrested a Belgian-Chinese man in May on suspicion of stealing secrets from bankrupt gallium nitride semiconductor maker Belgan — Prosecutors in Belgium cite ‘indications’ suspect took role at tech company in China months after joining now-defunct semiconductor maker Belgan
More: Wall Street Journal, Chip Briefing, Euronews, Associated Press, Reuters, and Bloomberg
| Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: |
The US raises censorship concerns over the UK's proposals to force tech platforms to put “trustworthy” news providers at the top of social and video feeds — News Media Association warns forcing prominence for ‘trustworthy’ news could end up harming sector.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the development of an AI model for real-time spatial video, which could launch as soon as next month — ByteDance Ltd. is readying an AI model geared for real-time spatial video generation, taking on Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: London-based UForce, which makes unmanned vehicles for air, land, and sea, is seeking about $500M led by Valor Equity at a ~$5B valuation — UForce, a London-based drone startup, is in discussions to raise new financing at a valuation of about $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
| Bloomberg: |
Shein lost about $5B in market value since its IPO, dropping to ~$21B, as it finished one of the worst opening weeks after a major Hong Kong listing — Shein Global Holdings Ltd. has lost about $5 billion in market value since its initial public offering as it finished one of the worst opening weeks … | New York Times: |
How Inspur, a blacklisted China-owned company, is bypassing US export restrictions on advanced AI chips via a network of new subsidiaries and partners — Washington imposed sanctions on Inspur because of its work with the Chinese military. But the company's subsidiary kept shipping Nvidia's best chips …
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