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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Researcher: a DOGE employee inadvertently published a private API key for xAI on GitHub on July 13, exposing access to 52+ LLMs, like a Grok version from July 9 — Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access …
More: TechCrunch and Mashable
Bluesky: @emptywheel, @kateross, @jennamclaughlin, and @kimzetter
Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @tychotithonus@infosec …. X: @girlsreallyrule. Forums: Hacker News
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia plans to resume H20 sales to China after the US assured it AI chip shipments would be approved, reversing the Trump administration's stance from April — US government officials told Nvidia they would green-light export licenses for its H20 artificial intelligence accelerator …
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
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| ProPublica: |
Investigation: Microsoft uses engineers in China to help maintain US DOD systems, with minimal supervision by US personnel, leaving sensitive data vulnerable — The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China …
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| Carlos Caminada / Bloomberg: |
Apple signs a $500M deal to buy rare-earth minerals from US producer MP, which secured Pentagon backing last week, as it seeks to reduce its dependence on China — Apple Inc. has struck a $500 million deal to buy rare-earth minerals from MP Materials Corp., the US producer that just last week secured backing from the Pentagon.
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple seems to be working on adding CUDA support to its open-source machine learning framework MLX, which may mean code written using MLX could work with CUDA — Nvidia's hardware is often used to process machine learning applications — A project is trying to cut the cost … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Services, designed to help analysts conduct market research and handle due diligence, with data from FactSet and others — Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is launching a package of new software services aimed at streamlining work for financial analysts …
More: Anthropic, Constellation Research, and WinBuzzer
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ and CFTC ended a pair of investigations into crypto betting platform Polymarket that started in the waning days of the Biden administration — A pair of US investigations into crypto-betting platform Polymarket that went full-throttle in the waning days of the Biden administration …
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| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati's AI startup that launched only in February, raised $2B led by a16z; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, and AMD also invested — Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, said on Tuesday that it has raised $2 billion in funding.
More: Financial Times, TechCrunch, BusinessLIVE, Wall Street Pit, CNBC, and Analytics India Magazine
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| Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
Google signs two 20-year power purchase agreements worth $3B to access hydroelectric power from Brookfield's renewables arm, starting with up to 670MW of power — Tech groups seeking renewable energy to meet huge demand from artificial intelligence — Google has reached a $3bn deal … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers demonstrate a Rowhammer-style attack on Nvidia's RTX A6000, widely used in cloud services, and say it would likely work against other Nvidia GPUs — Nvidia is recommending a mitigation for customers of one of its GPU product lines that will degrade performance by up to 10 percent … | Amy Feldman / Forbes: |
Miami-based OpenEvidence, whose free AI search tool has signed up 40% of doctors in the US, raised $210M led by GV at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1B in February — Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research. Now, he's raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.
More: FinSMEs and OpenEvidence
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| Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: |
Mark Zuckerberg Q&A: Meta's focus on “personal super intelligence”, how large compensation packages pale in comparison to AI infra investments, AI glasses, more — When I sat down with Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg to talk artificial intelligence …
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| New York Times: |
Researchers: during and after the 12-day Iran-Israel war, both sides engaged in psychological warfare that used AI content and social media to spread propaganda — The 12-day conflict was marked by a flurry of propaganda, disinformation and covert operations aided by artificial intelligence and spread by social media.| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open-source AI audio model family, and says Voxtral Mini Transcribe outperforms OpenAI Whisper for less than half the price — As AI systems become more capable, speech is fast becoming the default way we communicate with machines.
Source: Mistral AI. More: WinBuzzer. Bluesky: @thedesk.net. X: @kimmonismus, @mistralai, @mistralai, @ai_for_success, and @sophiamyang
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
On stablecoins, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon says, “We're going to be involved in both JPMorgan deposit coin and stablecoins to understand it, to be good at it” — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says he doesn't get the appeal of stablecoins, but he also can't afford to stay on the sidelines.| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: |
Grok's iOS app now features two AI Companions, or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode — Grok has just introduced a notable addition to its iOS app: AI Companions, which are fully 3D animated characters that can interact with users via voice.
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Forums: r/politics, r/technology, and r/artificial
| Riley Goodside / @goodside: |
More: The Verge and Grok
X: @robertwiblin, @humanity_dao, @goodside, @goodside, @goodside, @goodside, @goodside, @theogbrett, @goodside, @goodside, @nickadobos, @goodside, @esyudkowsky, @esyudkowsky, @littmath, @sergeykarayev, @goodside, @goodside, @emostaque, @_shift_mind, @k_kohlbrenner, @can, and @mikeisaac
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