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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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| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
Leaked memo: CEO Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching “dictators”, says a “no bad person” rule is impractical — “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle …
Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @quinnypig.com, @brbarrett, @laurengoode, and @kylierobison.com
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Galaxy Watch8 review: thinner and sturdier, but its design with a square casing and a round screen is polarizing, and Gemini is useful but hit-or-miss — If users can tolerate the bold new look, they'll find the included artificial intelligence features are actually useful.
More: Engadget, Droid Life, Livemint, and Digital Trends
| 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.
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Bluesky: @katie-drummond and @kylierobison.com
X: @fidjissimo, @inafried, @gdb, @fidjissimo, @natlungfy, @shuweiyang1, and @rohanpaul_ai
| 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
| 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.
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