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Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May — Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter Inc., a startup that helps companies switch between artificial intelligence models …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/hermesagent, r/SillyTavernAI, and r/openrouter
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Anthropic's text watermark alters word probabilities to embed a fingerprint, which could degrade Claude's writing, despite its claim of no impact on quality — When I wrote this week about Anthropic's announcement that all Claude models, worldwide, would soon begin “watermarking” …
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| Dario Amodei / @darioamodei: |
Dario Amodei defends his policy proposals, warns open weights won't decentralize power, endorses pre-launch vetting, says real accomplishments will earn trust — 1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that “either concentrate it in the hands of a
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| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it — The world's smartest AI models are now superhuman at math. They still respond to moral support and encouragement from mere humans.| Timothy Gowers / Gowers's Weblog: |
Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers says most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs — For the sake of anyone who might read this blog post in the distant future (a month from now, say), let me mention that I am writing …
More: American Mathematical Society and The Decoder
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| Reggie Ugwu / New York Times: |
A look at companies like Inception Point creating AI personas for media, fashion, film, and music industries that could host podcasts, model clothes, and more — The A.I. personas created by Inception Point AI include, clockwise from top left, Claire Delish, VV Steele, Nigel Thistledown and Lila Walker.Inception Point AI| Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: |
Chainalysis sues the US government over ICE's $94.6M contract to buy forensic software and services from its competitor TRM Labs, calling the deal “arbitrary” — The sealed complaint leaves Chainalysis' specific objections and requested remedy undisclosed as briefing continues.
More: crypto.news
| Phil Serafino / Bloomberg: |
French PM Lecornu will hold a crisis meeting Monday over a June-July cyberattack on France's tax agency that compromised 678K individual and business accounts — French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu will hold a crisis meeting Monday to respond to the cyberattack disclosed last week targeting the country's tax collection agency.
More: Security Affairs and Blockonomi
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Singapore hopes access to advanced AI models will stem the flow of finance talent to Hong Kong, where financial firms struggle to access the latest US AI models — Close relations with both US and China mean the latest AI models are easily accessible in the city-state| Washington Post: |
How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US — Across the United States, political candidates are grappling with an issue that has never before featured widely in American political life: artificial intelligence.| Alex Janin / Wall Street Journal: |
Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases — Patients, doctors and nurses are turning to the technology for help identifying rare and undiagnosed diseases| Hugging Face: |
Hugging Face says developers made 151K+ derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem — In the AI world, time feels compressed. A few months after our spring report in our biannual analysis worked through the ecosystem …
More: Digital Trends, PYMNTS, The Standard, Fortune, Blockonomi, Memeburn, and Tech in Asia
X: @justjorshin, @alibaba_qwen, @risingsayak, and @huggingface
Bluesky: @karlbode.com and @aidevnews
| Jason Douglas / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them — The company built its empire on electronics. CEO Hiroki Totoki says its future is entertainment| Grace Shao / Bloomberg: |
Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population — Different experiences with technology have shaped radically different expectations of what artificial intelligence will bring.
More: DigiTimes. X: @witness360hq, @marian_l_tupy, @business, @gracemzshao, and @kyleichan
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