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OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science — We want to empower scientists and mathematicians with tools that accelerate discovery. That is why we recently announced ChatGPT …
More: OpenAI, OpenAI on GitHub, BleepingComputer, Fernando Borretti, RuntimeWire, Tech Times, SiliconANGLE, Marcus on AI, The American Bazaar, Neowin, Gizmodo, The Decoder, Implicator.ai, Simon Willison's Weblog, and The Information
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on Apple Upgrade; sources: MacBook Air is now facing shortages too; Apple wants to turn its future glasses and headsets into health and fitness devices — Also: MacBook Air runs into major shortages. — Apple has finally delivered a hardware subscription program …
More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Wccftech, 9to5Mac, Trak.in, and Forbes
Forums: r/technology and r/apple
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates $70M+ stolen — More than 1,000 bitcoin, worth about $70 million, was drained from 1,196 wallets in a 41-minute window on July 30, nearly double the amount reported when the theft first surfaced.
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/Bitcoin
| Financial Times: |
Apple introduced a cap and a 30-day cool-off period on bug report submissions, citing a deluge of AI-assisted reports; researchers can request higher quotas — iPhone maker has limited the number of vulnerabilities researchers can submit to manage wave of reports| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions — Both major AI labs' models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies.
More: Digital Trends and The Economic Times
| Wall Street Journal: |
Malaysia shuts down Network School, Balaji Srinivasan's techno-utopian project, over licensing issues; Srinivasan says he is opening a new campus in Kazakhstan — Balaji Srinivasan left Silicon Valley and created an incubator for new countries in an Asian ghost city, before the government shut it down
More: TechCrunch and RuntimeWire
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Bluesky: @cascoinfoundation.org, @gilduran.com, @yakopov.me, and @dmnd.me. Threads: @kanshi.how. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social. Forums: r/politics
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail the troubled development of Tencent's ambitious, GTA-like game Last Sentinel, which has burned hundreds of millions of dollars over six years — Lightspeed's Last Sentinel burnt through six years of development and hundreds of millions of dollars — Hi everyone.
More: Polygon.com, GamingBolt, GamesRadar, Wccftech, and Kotaku
| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety — Jacob Tsimerman won the biggest prize in math. Now he's working on the most important problem of his career.
More: The Decoder and BetaKit
| Mariah Timms / Wall Street Journal: |
Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetectably tamper with data from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence produced by widely used crime-lab machines — Researchers found that widely used lab machines produced digital DNA files that are vulnerable to tampering| Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: |
LLMs are moving from generating artifacts to creating hyper-custom worlds on demand, but still lack the ability to natively perceive and audit what they create — We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. “create an svg of pelican on a bicycle”.
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| NBC News: |
US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning “nudify” apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect — The ruling clears the way for the first-in-the-nation law to go into effect on Saturday. — A federal judge on Friday denied …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, Mashable, Joe.My.God., UPI, and MPR News
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| CJ Haddad / CNBC: |
Trump Media's new paid data API launches, for “a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths”; Dem. senators asked SEC to probe — Trump Media and Technology Group's new paid data service launched on Aug. 1, providing faster access to Truth Social posts …
More: NPR, crypto.news, Business Insider, The Indian Express, Threads, NewsMax.com, Washington Examiner, Joe.My.God., and The Intercept
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Bluesky: @mcbridetd, @deanbaker13, @kevinrothrock.me, and @gerrishlisa
| New York Times: |
Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them — Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.
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Bluesky: @simonwdc, @nothoodlum, @darthfos, @greggjlevine, and @justinhendrix
| Financial Times: |
As Taiwanese server makers expand in Mexico, the country has become the second-largest supplier of servers to the US, behind Taiwan, with $46.9B in YTD sales — Factories churning out servers for data centres are pushing exports to record levels
More: Marginal Revolution. X: @chadbown, @producercities, and @brad_setser. Bluesky: @theboysmithy.ft.com
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