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Anthropic details how it built its multi-agent Claude Research system, claiming significant improvements in internal evaluations over single-agent systems — Our Research feature uses multiple Claude agents to explore complex topics more effectively. We share the engineering challenges …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Constellation Research, implicator.ai, and Blockchain.News
Bluesky: @proptermalone, @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com, and @timkellogg.me
| Timothy B. Lee / Understanding AI: |
Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior — New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI. — In recent years, numerous plaintiffs … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at Apple's upgrades to CarPlay, iPadOS, and visionOS, why they were the underappreciated highlights of WWDC, and thoughts on Liquid Glass redesign — Apple's unveiling of iOS 26 and the Liquid Glass interface was the most discussed part of its developers conference …
More: TechRadar, Tech Times, iClarified, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, MobileSyrup, iJustine on YouTube, Benzinga, Tailosive Tech on YouTube, Brandon Butch on YouTube, Blockchain.News, zollotech on YouTube, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, PhoneArena, and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
New York state passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's signature — New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster scenarios …
More: AM New York, The Economic Times, Coinmonks, NYSenate.gov, Cryptopolitan, StrictlyVC, and Maginative
X: @zamaan_qureshi, @sengonzalezny, @sen_gounardes, @ccianet, @anjneymidha, @alexbores, @alexbores, @jackclarksf, and @jackclarksf
Forums: r/Futurology, r/newyork, r/technology, r/law, r/politics, and r/artificial
| Financial Times: |
BT Group CEO Allison Kirkby says AI could deepen job cuts at the telco, whose plan to cut over 40,000 jobs by 2030 “did not reflect the full potential of AI” — Allison Kirkby said advances in artificial intelligence could deepen significant job cuts under way at BT …
More: Reuters, The Times, Cautious Optimism, The Guardian, Business Insider, Cryptopolitan, and Bloomberg
| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M+ users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M — Knowunity is a global AI learning companion that combines personalised AI and student-created content to make studying easier, more engaging, and effective.| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
The US SEC rescinds 14 rules the agency proposed under the Biden Administration, including two relating to DeFi and digital asset custody — The SEC has withdrawn over a dozen rules the agency proposed under Joe Biden, including two crypto-related rules targeting DeFi and digital asset custody.
More: CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, Inside Bitcoins, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, and Barron's Online
X: @iampaulgrewal and @khurramdara
| Ainslie Chandler / Bloomberg: |
Amazon plans to invest ~$13B in Australia from 2025 to 2029 to develop its data center infrastructure, as demand for cloud computing and AI grows in the country — The investment, in the Sydney and Melbourne data centers, is the biggest ever in Australia by a global technology company, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
More: Forbes, SmartCompany, Cyber Daily, About Amazon, PV Tech, Cryptopolitan, and Reuters. Forums: r/aws
| 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: Benzinga, South China Morning Post, Tech Times, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, CryptoSlate, Daily Sabah, Times of India, Reuters, DigiTimes, and Cryptopolitan. Bluesky: @sensehofstede.nl
| Meridith McGraw / Wall Street Journal: |
America250, the nonprofit organizing the US Semiquincentennial celebration, says it received sponsorship commitments from Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, and Palantir — Twenty two corporations and foundations are sponsoring the 250th Army Birthday Parade and Festival on the National Mall, according to the Army.| Milana Vinn / Reuters: |
Dealogic: tech deals accounted for $421B of the $1.67T in global deals announced in the first five months of 2025, with 75% of tech M&A involving AI software — Weighed down by tariffs and geopolitical uncertainty, dealmaking has slowed to a crawl across most industries except one: the unglamorous world of data infrastructure.
LinkedIn: Dawn Kopecki
| Bloomberg: |
Statista: the global influencer marketing industry is projected to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets — Ashton Hall's morning routine involves dunking his head in iced Saratoga Spring Water. For the company that sells the bottled water …
More: Social Media Today
| Nick Mokey / VentureBeat: |
In an Oxford study, LLMs correctly identified medical conditions 94.9% of the time when given test scenarios directly, vs. 34.5% when prompted by human subjects — Headlines have been blaring it for years: Large language models (LLMs) can not only pass medical licensing exams but also outperform humans.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
New York City-based Abacum, which offers AI-powered financial planning and analysis tools to companies, raised a $60B Series B led by Scale Venture Partners — Abacum, business financial planning startup, landed a $60 million Series B round led by Scale Venture Partners, co-founder and CEO Julio Martínez tells Axios Pro.Sponsor Posts
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