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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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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
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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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| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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.| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
PrismML releases Bonsai 2 27B, which compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB, small enough for smartphones, while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's benchmark scores — If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be — not because it's raised gobs of money (it hasn't yet …
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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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| 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?| 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 … | 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.| 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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| 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 … | Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Huawei Chair Eric Xu says Chinese AI researchers need to “increase the speed of development” to “see the dangers” of AI, contrasting with the US' slowdown calls — Chinese tech executive's comments contrast with Silicon Valley calls for slowdown amid rising concerns about technology's existential risks
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| Reuters: |
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| 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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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend — Apple Inc. Executive Chairman Tim Cook, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and Qualcomm Inc. head Cristiano Amon are poised … | New York Times: |
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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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