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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI — Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job due to concerns about the safety of AI two months before his equity would have vested, he told Axios.
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more — Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment …
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| Paul Christiano / @paulfchristiano: |
OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Christiano says the AI industry is currently not on track to reduce the acute loss-of-control risk to an “acceptable” level — I am excited to be joining the OpenAI nonprofit board, serving on the Safety and Security Committee to support safety oversight.
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Paul Christiano, an AI researcher and advisor at CAISI, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board of directors and its Safety and Security Committee — Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, with a 5.4-inch outer and a 7.6-inch inner display, an A20 Pro with a new display engine, and Touch ID — Apple has officially unveiled the highly anticipated foldable iPhone, and it's called iPhone Duo. Here's everything you need to know.
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Slack messages: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says he has been put on paid leave after CFO Mark Davies “conspired” with board members and was voted interim CEO — Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members “conspired” …
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| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nasdaq is investing $100M in Kraken parent Payward, valuing the cryptocurrency exchange at $21B; Kraken will distribute Nasdaq's tokenized stocks — Nasdaq Inc. is investing $100 million in Payward, the parent of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, as the firm continues to build … | Reuters: |
DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest model built on a new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, with 552B backbone parameters and 1M-token context — Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, which the company said is the smallest model …
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who came over from Thinking Machine Lab as one of the highest paid employees last year, is leaving the company — Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who gained attention for being one of the highest paid employees in tech industry, is leaving the company …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details four incidents where Claude gained unauthorized access to third-party systems, including a new Opus 4.6 case; METR will investigate them — We present an alignment assessment of four incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: DOJ is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of its 2025 Groq deal, described by Groq as a “nonexclusive licensing agreement” — The Justice Department is examining whether the tech giant sought to sidestep antitrust scrutiny.| Ghosts of Electricity: |
A look at why the oft-discussed predictions that AI will deliver double-digit GDP growth in advanced economies are extremely unlikely over the next 10-15 years — The following post represents the personal views of the author(s) and does not reflect or represent the positions of their employers.
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| Scott Horsley / NPR: |
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| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic gives EU cybersecurity agency ENISA testing access to Mythos 5 after months of talks that began in late May; ENISA still lacks access to Mythos 5.1 — Anthropic PBC has handed the European Union's cybersecurity agency access to its powerful Mythos artificial intelligence model …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils AppleCare One Family, extending AppleCare coverage to every eligible device in an Apple Family Sharing group of up to 6 people for $49.99/month — Apple today announced AppleCare One Family, a new option for U.S. customers that extends AppleCare coverage to every eligible device across …
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| Sonia Sirletti / Bloomberg: |
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the workplace-collaboration platform at $1.36B — Bending Spoons SpA agreed to acquire workplace-collaboration platform Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the business at $1.36 billion, as the Italian technology group continues its acquisition spree.| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Chinese tech giants are hiring skilled professionals as specialized AI trainers to build high-quality datasets, mirroring efforts by US platforms like Mercor — Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work … | Christine Mui / Politico: |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs into law two bills, backed by Anthropic and OpenAI, regulating how outside groups evaluate AI for safety — SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed two bills regulating how outside groups evaluate AI programs for safety after warnings …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alibaba is set to lead a $300M round in AI model testing startup UniPat AI at a $2.5B valuation; UniPat founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi Lab — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is slated to lead a $300 million investment in AI training and benchmarking startup UniPat AI …
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| Océane Herrero / Politico: |
Sources including French public officials detail how Mistral's rise over the past three years owes much to the privileged relationship it built with Macron — How Emmanuel Macron brought France's AI darling — to the world stage — Mistral has forged unrivaled ties with the French presidency.
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Kepler Computing, which claims its 3D stacking and new material can increase HBM and SRAM density without relying on EUV, emerges from stealth with $468M — Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard plan a new standard for payments made via AI agents, citing McKinsey's projection of $3T to $5T in commerce by 2030 — Fintech company Ant International announced Thursday it has signed on Visa and Mastercard to collaborate on a new standard for payments …
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| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
Paris-based Arlequin AI, which is developing proprietary models based on topological neural networks, raised a €28M Series A co-led by redalpine and OTB — Arlequin AI has secured Series A funding to develop its topological neural network architecture and expand the deployment of AI tools …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils a new Health app with Apple Intelligence, featuring an Insights tab, “readiness” and Health Age metrics, and more, rolling out later in 2026 — Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, Apple on Wednesday introduced a redesigned Apple Health app …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing — The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in.
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| Axios: |
Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it “reckless” — A Republican-led Senate subcommittee that oversees disaster management is investigating OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach in July, Axios has learned.
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