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The US SEC unveils a five-year Innovation Exemption for platforms that offer tokenized stock trading, relieving them of many rules that apply to stock exchanges — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday unveiled its long-awaited exemption that will allow companies …
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| Financial Times: |
NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training “an astonishing theft” — Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was ‘motivated by the gazillions’ he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated — AI systems are becoming exponentially more powerful and have begun to automate more of the process of building themselves.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms — Our most powerful model, configured into a new AI foundation for law. — Explore solutions for law Contact Legal sales
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| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers — Crusoe raised $3.9 billion at a valuation of nearly $31 billion, as it bets on factory-built data centers
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| Claude: |
Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code — A new experience for Claude projects, now available in beta in Claude Code — https://claude.com/blog/projects- redesigned
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| Financial Times: |
Lucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy 25K+ robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's EV platform for affordable models, set to launch as soon as 2028 — Rollout would be most ambitious plan yet for autonomous ride-hailing on the continent — Lucid is partnering with ride-hailing platform Bolt … | Reuters: |
Huawei plans to debut the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, and unveils an architecture to let up to 1M processors operate as one system — Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) will launch two new artificial-intelligence semiconductors in 2027, rotating chairman David Wang said on Thursday …
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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI staff expect the Hodge Conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, to be solved relatively soon, after solving the Navier-Stokes equations — Remember when OpenAI landed in hot water earlier this month after mathematicians accused the company of trying to steal their thunder for solving an ultra-difficult math problem?| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
An interview with OpenAI researcher Noam Brown about multi-agent systems, AI solving the Navier-Stokes problem, the internal/external model gap, and more — “We never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI.” — New episode with Noam Brown.| Axios: |
OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment — OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials …
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| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training — Elon Musk's SpaceX has held internal discussions about buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups … | Bloomberg: |
King Charles hosts tech leaders, such as Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, in Scotland to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for safety tests — Huang Says AI Firms Should Be 'More Rigorous in Testing'Titans of the artificial intelligence industry gathered in Scotland …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
The UN says it is working with Google on the UN System Data Commons, which lets users search for statistics from across UN agencies via natural-language queries — The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global statistics easier for AI systems to access and use.
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| Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: in the Bay Area, tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ workers in the 12 months to June and software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022 — The enormous wealth generated by Anthropic and OpenAI is overshadowing layoffs and an uncertain job market in the city.| Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: |
Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are “much more science fiction than science” and the latest “wave of PR” is probably intended to shape regulation — Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said warnings about existential AI risks from researchers … | Bloomberg: |
DoorDash says Costco members can now order same-day delivery from every US Costco store, a day after Uber expanded its Costco deliveries from 17 to 47 US states — DoorDash Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. are expanding their delivery partnership with Costco Wholesale Corp. …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Dario Amodei's essays chronicle the AI industry's shifting ways of selling its product, from wariness of regulation to calls for third-party evaluators — Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, on Tuesday.Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times — “If you're explaining, you're losing,” Ronald Reagan is credited with saying.
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| New York Times: |
A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage — The United States is preparing for its artificial intelligence dialogue with China, and our officials are under tremendous pressure … | Pew Research Center: |
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