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Google says an advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 “exceptionally difficult” problems — The International Mathematical Olympiad ("IMO") is the world's most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stargate has struggled to get off the ground and sharply scaled back its near-term plans, as SoftBank and OpenAI disagree on crucial terms of the deal — The Stargate venture, introduced at White House event, is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end
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Bluesky: @malwarejake and @quinnypig.com
| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
Figma plans to sell nearly 37M shares to raise up to $1.03B, pricing its shares between $25 and $28 each, giving it an up to $16.4B valuation in its NYSE debut — Figma is targeting a fully-diluted valuation of up to $16.4 billion in its initial public offering, as the cloud-based design …
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X: @maximiliandrago, @tanayj, @zoink, @mikeyk, @iampaulgrewal, and @jaminball
Forums: r/FigmaDesign and Slashdot
| Financial Times: |
X says France's criminal probe over algorithmic “manipulation” and “fraudulent” data extraction is “distorting French law in order to serve a political agenda” — Lawmaker reported allegations over moderation and rightwing content on social media platform
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X: @globalaffairs, @prestonjbyrne, @yacinemtb, @dhh, @erratarob, @jasonmiller, and @defiantls
Forums: Hacker News, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/musked
| Mike Allen / Axios: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT users send more than 2.5B prompts globally each day, more than 330M of those are in US, and the platform has 500M weekly active users — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will use a swing through Washington this week to argue that AI is already making Americans more productive …
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Bluesky: @pmihc and @edzitron.com
| Bloomberg: |
Polymarket says it is buying little-known derivatives exchange QCX, in a move to legally re-enter the US market; a source says Polymarket will pay $112M — Polymarket, the crypto-betting platform that was kicked offshore by federal regulators, has struck a deal to return to the US market …
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft releases a patch for a SharePoint 0-day RCE flaw exploited globally on thousands of on-prem servers and says SharePoint 2016 updates are in the works — - National governments in Europe, the Middle East impacted — Attackers have stolen sign-in credentials, sensitive data
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Bluesky: @ericjgeller.com, @justinhendrix, @girlgerms.wtf, @yvonnewingett, @joemenn, @shadowserver, and @campuscodi.risky.biz
Mastodon: @funnymonkey@freeradical.zone and @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
X: @msftsecresponse, @msftsecresponse, @msftsecresponse, @vxunderground, @msftsecintel, @cisacyber, @irsdl, @rapid7, @cisacyber, @cisagov, @irsdl, @vxunderground, @vxunderground, @bertjancyber, @blackorbird, @gi7w0rm, @senatorshoshana, @uk_daniel_card, @cyb3rops, @tomwarren, @unit42_intel, @msftsecresponse, @shadowserver, @deitaone, and @nakashimae
LinkedIn: Stefano Demiliani, Brian Krebs, Shane Morris, Bryan Law, Job Kuijpers, Ann Johnson, and Steve Faehl
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/blueteamsec, and Ars OpenForum
| CoinDesk: |
Crypto custody company BitGo confidentially files for a US IPO; it raised $100M at a $1.75B valuation in August 2023 — The crypto custodian submitted a confidential U.S. listing as interest in public crypto stocks heats up. — What to know: — BitGo confidentially filed to go public … | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Source: Netflix is using Runway AI's video generation tools for production; Disney is testing out the tools and talked with Runway about possible uses for them — Netflix Inc. has begun using artificial intelligence video generation software from startup Runway AI, testing the waters … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers: at least 750 US hospitals faced disruptions on the day of last year's big CrowdStrike outage, and 200+ had outages related to patient care services — Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike's disastrous crash, researchers have revealed.
More: VentureBeat, ComputerWeekly.com, Becker's Hospital Review, Forbes, TVBEurope, and IJR
LinkedIn: Dave Schroeder, Andy Greenberg, and Jeff Tully
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google reveals the design of the Pixel 10 a few weeks ahead of the launch event; it strongly resembles the Pixel 9 but has a third back camera — A few weeks ahead of the Pixel 10 launch event, Google is showing off exactly what it looks like. … Google's Pixel 10 launch event is just under …
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Forums: r/GooglePixel and Ars OpenForum
| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world — Soon-to-be former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sent a memo to OpenAI staff Monday laying out her vision for how AI will change the world.
More: Bloomberg, OpenAI, The Information, MediaPost, Constellation Research, and The Verge
Bluesky: @katie-drummond and @kylierobison.com
X: @fidjissimo, @inafried, @gdb, @fidjissimo, @natlungfy, @shuweiyang1, and @rohanpaul_ai
| Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters: |
Seattle-based tax compliance software maker Avalara, acquired by Vista Equity Partners in a 2022 deal valuing it at $8.4B, confidentially files for a US IPO — Tax software company Avalara, which went private in 2022, disclosed on Monday it had confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures: xAI debuted Grok 4 late on July 9 and by July 11, Grok's daily gross revenue on iOS rose 325% to $419K, up from $99K the day before Grok 4's launch — Grok's raunchy, unfiltered AI companions may be making headlines for their unhinged and often NSFW responses, but it's Grok 4 … Sponsor Posts
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