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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Adobe Labs launches Project Indigo, a free computational photography app for iPhones that captures a burst of images and combines them into a high-quality photo  —  Marc Levoy, a former distinguished engineer at Google who helped put the Pixel camera on the map, helped build the app at Adobe.
George Hammond / Financial Times:
An interview with computational linguist Emily Bender, who coined the term “stochastic parrot”, on her AI skepticism, co-writing the book The AI Con, and more  —  The computational linguist on her motivations for taking on Big Tech, the dangers of chatbots — and why AI is just a ‘glorified Magic 8 Ball’
Maisie Grice / Financial Times:
Fidelity: ~50% of UK investors trust social media, finfluencers, and AI tools for financial decisions; only ~33% used a qualified adviser in the past two years  —  Growing draw of social media influencers and platforms comes at expense of regulated advice  —  Nearly half of UK investors put …
Alexander Nazaryan / New York Times:
A look at DARPA's “Exponentiating Mathematics” program, which aims to speed up progress in pure mathematics by developing an AI “co-author” to conduct research  —  Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades.  A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence.
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Meaghan Tobin / New York Times:
A look at Temu, Shein, Meituan, and other Chinese companies' expansion plans in Brazil, as they face slowing domestic demand and hurdles in the US and Europe  —  Confronted with tariffs and scrutiny in the United States and Europe, Chinese consumer brands are betting that they can become household names …
Megha Rajagopalan / New York Times:
Experts say China-linked groups have repeatedly hacked Russian companies and government agencies in search of military secrets since the war in Ukraine began  —  Since the war in Ukraine began, analysts have monitored a series of intrusions aimed at stealing information about weaponry and warfighting.
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New York Times:
Microsoft suspending an ICC judge's email account raised alarms across EU about how dependent its governments, businesses, and citizens are on US tech companies  —  To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently suspended the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor …

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Rob Maaddi / Associated Press:
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Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Insurance giant Aflac says a cybercrime group breached its systems and may have stolen data; source: the attack bears the hallmarks of Scattered Spider
Ina Fried / Axios:
Anthropic's test of 16 top AI models from OpenAI and others found that, in some cases, they resorted to malicious behavior to avoid replacement or achieve goals
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta unveils the $399+ Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, with Meta AI and the features of its Ray-Ban models, plus 3K video recording and double the battery life
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