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| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more — Transcript 00:00:00 - AGI is still a decade away Dwarkesh Patel 00:00:00 Today I'm speaking with Andrej Karpathy.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Marc Benioff apologizes for saying Trump should send the National Guard to SF, says the comments were made out of “an abundance of caution” around Dreamforce — Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized on Friday for making comments in support of President Donald Trump sending federal troops …
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| Heather Knight / New York Times: |
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| Axios: |
At TSMC Arizona, Nvidia and TSMC unveil the first Blackwell chip wafer made in the US, representing that Blackwell has reached volume production — Nvidia and TSMC announced Friday their first completed U.S.-made wafer that will eventually become Blackwell chips for AI purposes, Nvidia first tells Axios.
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| Carly Nairn / Courthouse News Service: |
A US judge bars NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users and cuts the ~$168M damages verdict awarded to Meta by a jury in May to $4M, ruling it was excessive — Meta previously won $168 million in damages over claims spyware compromised WhatsApp users, but a judge reduced the damages down to $4 million.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Google says North Korea hackers are using “EtherHiding” to embed malware on blockchains, the first time it has seen a nation-state threat actor using the method — North Korean hackers have adopted the ‘EtherHiding’ technique that leverages smart contracts to host and deliver malware …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Li Lin, founder of crypto exchange Huobi, and some of Asia's earliest Ethereum backers have raised ~$1B to launch a digital asset trust to buy Ether — Li Lin, the founder of crypto exchange Huobi and chairman of investment firm Avenir Capital, is joining forces …
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Apple and Formula One announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026; sources: Apple is paying ~$140M/year, up from ESPN's ~$85M/year — Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year media rights deal Friday that will bring every F1 race to Apple TV beginning in 2026.
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| Kendra Barnett / Adweek: |
Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies — The elimination of many remaining Privacy Sandbox APIs come six months after third-party cookies got a reprieve in Chrome.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says it paused Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate, after some users created “disrespectful depictions” — OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist …
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| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3 in December; it is expected to be more performant across the board, especially in coding and multimodal generation — Sources say that Google is targeting December for the release of Gemini 3.0, the next major version of its flagship AI model.| Fortune: |
Sources: Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain developed by Stripe and Paradigm, raised a $500M Series A led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital at a $5B valuation — As fervor around stablecoins grows from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, one of the most high-profile new crypto projects has drummed …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp is testing limits on how many messages a user or business can send monthly to unknown people without a response; nearing the limit displays a warning — WhatsApp is attempting to solve its spam problem by putting a curb on how many messages individual users and businesses can send to unknown people without getting a response.
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| Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press: |
Senate Republicans share an AI-generated video falsely depicting Chuck Schumer saying on camera comments he made in a print interview on the government shutdown — Add AP News to Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Meta plans to add new Instagram teen safety tools in 2026 that let parents block teens from chatting with AI characters and get “insights” from teens' chats — From next year Instagram will let parents stop teens from chatting with AI characters entirely.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic's Claude Skills, which are conceptually extremely simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation — Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models:
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LinkedIn: Neil Morelli, PhD, Sue Turner Obe, Geordee Naliyath, Ethan Mollick, and Brad Abrams
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Automaker Stellantis and Pony.ai sign a non-binding agreement to develop robotaxis for deployment in Europe, with plans to start testing in the coming months — Automaker Stellantis and Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony.ai have signed a nonbinding agreement to build robotaxis for deployment in Europe.
More: Transport Topics and Blockonomi
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Suno is in talks to raise $100M+ at a $2B+ valuation, quadrupling its previous valuation; it raised $125M in 2024 and is generating $100M+ in ARR — - The company is raising more than $100 million from investors — Effort comes as Suno and major labels discuss settlement
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round that values the company at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale — Revolut Ltd. and its backers are nearing the end of a $3 billion fundraising spree that values the London-based fintech behemoth at $75 billion.| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it's seeing a significant decline …
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Forums: r/artificial, r/wikipedia, r/antiai, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Hacker group Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters posts the alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of US DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials on Telegram — A group of hackers from the Com, a loose-knit community behind some of the most significant data breaches in recent years …
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| CoinDesk: |
Astra Nova, which develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences, raised $48.3M — The company develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences. — What to know:| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Dreamdata, which offers a B2B marketing analytics platform, raised a $55M Series B led by PeakSpan, bringing its total funding to $67M — Dreamdata, a B2B marketing analytics platform, has secured a $55 million Series B round of funding, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively.Sponsor Posts
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