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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
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| 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.
More: Apple Machine Learning …, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, and arXiv.org e-Print archive
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| Aarian Marshall / Wired: |
Waymo temporarily limits service in SF, Austin, and Atlanta, and stops service in LA, as US cities prepare for protests against federal immigration policies — A week after five robot cars were burned in Los Angeles, the Google sister company isn't taking risks.
More: TechCrunch, PCMag, San Francisco Chronicle, and Texas Public Radio
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| 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.| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Taiwan imposes export controls on Huawei, SMIC, and some of their subsidiaries, restricting their access to tech and equipment necessary for AI chip production — Taiwan's International Trade Administration has included Huawei, SMIC and several of their subsidiaries in an update …
More: South China Morning Post and The Information
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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.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Horizon3.ai, whose AI-based penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $100M Series D led by NEA — Autonomous security startup Horizon3.ai locked up a $100 million Series D led by NEA, co-founder and CEO Snehal Antani tells Axios Pro.
More: Business Wire, VC News Daily, FinSMEs, FinTech Global, The Stack, and SiliconANGLE
LinkedIn: Ilya Kirnos and Horizon3.ai
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Salt Lake City, which faces a staffing shortfall, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year — Move to artificial intelligence for some nonemergency calls is expected to help human responders focus on the urgent ones.| 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.| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and dimensionality to digital interfaces — From Airbnb's new app icons to Apple's “Liquid Glass” design, skeuomorphism is back and everything in the digital world has dimensionality again.| 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 … | Sean Michael Kerner / Network World: |
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose members include AMD, Cisco, HPE, and Intel, publishes its 1.0 specification for enhancing Ethernet standards for AI and HPC — The UEC 1.0 specification includes a modern RDMA approach, new transport protocols, and congestion control mechanisms designed for AI and HPC requirements.| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ is reviewing whether Google's planned $32B acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz would illegally limit competition in the market — Justice Department antitrust enforcers are reviewing whether Google's planned $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz Inc …
More: CTech, Reuters, and Cryptopolitan
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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