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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: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Wccftech, 9to5Mac, Trak.in, and Forbes
Forums: r/technology and r/apple
| OpenAI: |
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, Fernando Borretti, Marcus on AI, BleepingComputer, RuntimeWire, SiliconANGLE, The American Bazaar, Neowin, Tech Times, Gizmodo, Implicator.ai, The Decoder, Simon Willison's Weblog, and The Information
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| 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
| 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”.
X: @fakepsyho, @zeroxkyle, @xrarchitect, @pimdewitte, @kimmonismus, @bengeskin, @dannylimanseta, @tekbog, @davidpattersonx, and @elonmusk. Forums: Hacker News
| 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| 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
| 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, The Economic Times, and DigiTimes
| Yueqi Yang / The Information: |
Robinhood's prediction markets revenue surged 10x+ YoY to $156M in Q2, topping stock and crypto for the first time as speculators shift to real-world event bets — Brokerage app Robinhood has quickly become a force in prediction markets, challenging the hold of Kalshi and Polymarket on the popular betting market.
More: Memeburn, CryptoPotato, and Motley Fool
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, as VCs question the revenue potential of open-weight startups like Arcee, Reflection AI, and Poolside — Silicon Valley startups are setting up open models, with some operating on shoestring budgets because of limited interest from VCs
More: PYMNTS
| Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information: |
Four US states rolled back or paused data center tax incentives, and nine others are weighing repeal measures, potentially adding 7% or more to equipment costs — Governors and legislatures in U.S. states that previously welcomed data centers are suddenly moving to rip away sales tax breaks …
More: Canadian Press
| 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
| 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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| 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: @brad_setser, @chadbown, and @producercities. Bluesky: @theboysmithy.ft.com
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