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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.
More: New York Times, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Mashable, Simon Willison's Weblog, 9to5Google, WinBuzzer, implicator.ai, The Decoder, TechPowerUp, Maginative, Simon Willison's Weblog, iPhone in Canada, GreenBot, Ars Technica, Axios, Gamereactor UK, and Werd I/O
X: @mihonarium, @googledeepmind, @tanayj, @afinetheorem, @jeffdean, @chensun92, @_philschmid, @keerthanpg, @lateinteraction, @elonmusk, @awsaf49, @sundarpichai, @demishassabis, @polynoamial, @ns123abc, @advaitonline, @quocleix, @hardmaru, @lmthang, @archit_sharma97, @mirrokni, @fchollet, @oriolvinyalsml, @stochasticlalit, @zuza777, @razeyonx, @mirrokni, @archit_sharma97, @leiyu63, @simonw, @vqctran, @lmthang, @shehzaidi, @xundecidability, @incrementaliser, @intuitmachine, @ns123abc, @rosemary_ke, @emollick, @quocleix, @koraykv, @yitayml, @jonfildes, @ankesh_anand, @garymarcus, @xingyousong, @blackhc, @mucai7, @officiallogank, @julianslzr, and @garymarcus. LinkedIn: Ethan Mollick
Forums: Hacker News, r/mlscaling, r/slatestarcodex, r/math, r/MachineLearning, Lobsters, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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
More: CNBC, Politico, Ars Technica, Euractiv, The Register, Le Monde, Engadget, Capital Brief, Reuters, Reclaim The Net, UPI, TechSpot, Moneycontrol, Variety, Türkiye Today, Bloomberg, and Cryptopolitan
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz and @justinhendrix
X: @globalaffairs, @prestonjbyrne, @yacinemtb, @dhh, @erratarob, @jasonmiller, and @defiantls
Forums: Hacker News, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and r/musked
| 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, @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
| 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: @zoink, @mikeyk, @iampaulgrewal, and @jaminball
Forums: r/FigmaDesign and Slashdot
| 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 … | 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
Bluesky: @quinnypig.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 … | 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 …
More: Android Headlines, Ars Technica, PCMag, CNET, Engadget, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, Android Police, Android Police, TalkAndroid.com, Neowin, Droid Life, NDTV Profit, and Notebookcheck
Forums: r/GooglePixel and Ars OpenForum
| 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 … | 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: The Information, OpenAI, Constellation Research, The Verge, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @katie-drummond and @kylierobison.com
X: @fidjissimo, @inafried, @gdb, @fidjissimo, @natlungfy, @shuweiyang1, and @rohanpaul_ai
| Emilio Parodi / Reuters: |
Sources: Meta, X, and LinkedIn appeal an unprecedented ~€1.04B VAT claim by Italy, which is seeking €887.6M from Meta, €12.5M from X, and ~€140M from LinkedIn — U.S. tech giants Meta (META.O), X and LinkedIn have lodged an appeal against an unprecedented VAT claim …
More: WinBuzzer, PYMNTS.com, Cryptopolitan, and Livemint
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia says CUDA will now be compatible with RISC-V's instruction set architecture, making RISC-V a viable x86 and Arm rival — Yet another alternative. — At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia announced that its CUDA software platform …
More: VideoCardz.com, The Register, WinBuzzer, How-To Geek, TechPowerUp, The Decoder, Phoronix, and InsideHPC
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