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June 14, 2025, 3:35 PM

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Wall Street Journal:
How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips  —  Engineers carry data to countries where Nvidia chips are available, frustrating Washington's aims
Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI:
A look at seven rebuttals to Apple's paper on limitations of Large Reasoning Models, and why none make a compelling case  —  Also: another paper that seals the deal  —  The Apple paper on limitations in the “reasoning” of Large Reasoning Models, which raised challenges for the latest scaling hypothesis, has clearly touched a nerve.
Ira Boudway / Bloomberg:
A profile of Chess.com, which has popularized online chess among pro athletes, as CEO Erik Allebest says the site has over $100M in annual revenue and 35M MAUs  —  Social media is a minefield for pro sports players.  But online chess offers rankings, instant analysis, wholesome interactions and few trolls.
New York Times:
President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal  —  Financial disclosures for 2024 filed by the president on Friday show that digital coins had already become one of his family's most successful ventures.
Samantha Stokes / Business Insider:
A look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI  —  - Y Combinator's spring 2025 batch featured 70 startups focused on agentic AI.  — The intensive, three-month accelerator program invests $500,000 in each selected startup.
More: Forbes and TechCrunch.  Forums: Hacker News
Rachyl Jones / Semafor:
AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others  —  THE SCOOP  —  Tech startup AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously …
Matt O'Brien / Associated Press:
Harvard releases Institutional Books 1.0, a dataset for AI researchers with 242B tokens, from 394M scanned pages and 983K public domain books in 254 languages  —  Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity.

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