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September 7, 2025, 4:35 PM

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Susanne Barton / Bloomberg:
Microsoft says clients of its Azure cloud platform may experience increased latency after multiple international cables in the Red Sea were cut  —  Microsoft Corp. said Saturday it's no longer detecting issues with its Azure cloud platform after multiple international cables in the Red Sea were cut.
New York Times:
A look at Ross Ulbricht's return to public life after receiving a pardon in January, including speaking at Bitcoin 2025 and accepting millions in donations  —  Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life sentence for drug distribution …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT is shockingly good at search and demonstrates the potential of combining tool calling with chain-of-thought reasoning  —  “Don't use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn't.  —  I wrote about how good OpenAI's o3 was at using …
Jenny Strasburg / Wall Street Journal:
How Larry Ellison is reshaping Oxford, including relocating his Ellison Institute from LA to Oxford, with plans to invest $1.3B+ into research on AI and more  —  Oracle's founder is spending big around the U.K.'s 900-year-old university campus and even bought a famous local pub
OpenAI:
OpenAI researchers argue that language models hallucinate because standard training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over admitting uncertainty  —  Read the paper(opens in a new window)  —  At OpenAI, we're working hard to make AI systems more useful and reliable.
Bloomberg:
Filing: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books  —  Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading …

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