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| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Scott Bessent says the US proposed an AI incident notification mechanism to China, and both sides agreed to set up an AI dialogue ahead of the Trump-Xi summit — Treasury secretary says sides working towards ‘shared vision’ after talks with Chinese counterpart
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Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M+ one-person startups in 2025 to escape a bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition — Fed up with the rat race, people are trying their luck by starting solo AI companies—but they face a brutal market| Michael Schuman / The Atlantic: |
China has made AI a national mission, but local workers' fear of displacement mirrors worries abroad, and potential for social unrest may force CCP to slow down — A top-down tech revolution is harder to manage than a bottom-up one. — anxiety about ai in the United States appears to be getting worse.| Politico: |
A detailed recap of the White House's 19-day standoff with Anthropic, where a jailbreak dispute led officials to bluntly order Dario Amodei to take Fable down — On the evening of April 6, an unusual request began making its way from Washington to some of Wall Street's most powerful executives.| prinz: |
A researcher used GPT-6 Astra to decipher a WWI German radio transmission from 1918, one of the 50 famous unsolved ciphers listed on a German science blog — Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range …
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| Steve LeVine / The Information: |
Nine drone startups, including Eric Schmidt-founded Perennial, will split US DoD orders for 60,000 drones in a competition that requires no China-made parts — Last month, the Pentagon threw up its arms in frustration (metaphorically speaking) when most of the drone startups in competition … | Truman Dickerson / Business Insider: |
Jensen Huang says AI leaders calling for regulation don't want new legislation, but to be “relieved of the laws we do have” because of “ulterior reasons” — Don't let the black leather jacket fool you, Jensen Huang isn't a doomer. — Nvidia's CEO said as much in an interview with CBS News aired on Sunday.
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| Qwen: |
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, a 7B open-weight model it says outperforms most closed-source models, with native transparency and up to ten reference images — We are excited to open-source Qwen-Image-2.1, an image model in the Qwen family that balances generation quality, inference efficiency, and cost.
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| Josipa Majic Predin / Forbes: |
Vercel, Cloudflare, and others quickly add Jev, as it makes AI tool selection much faster and cheaper; TypeSafe: Jev matches GPT-5.6 and Sonnet 5 workflow evals — Most of what an AI agent asks a frontier model to do is not writing. It is choosing. Which tool to call next, whether to retry, whether a command is safe to run.
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| Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: |
Altis Labs, whose AI model analyzes CT scans taken during oncology trials and produces predictions tied to patient survival, has raised a $25M Series A — Altis Labs, an AI software company for drug development, raised a $25 million Series A, CEO Felix Baldauf-Lenschen tells Axios Pro.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank is looking to issue $10B and €1B in debt for its OpenAI investment, in what would be one of the biggest junk bond sales ever — SoftBank Group Corp. is seeking the equivalent of more than $11 billion in what would be one of the biggest junk bond deals ever …
More: Business Today, Reuters, and Blockchain.News
| Alex Lawson / The Guardian: |
UK-based Unit1, which develops “hyper-realistic” digital avatars of musicians to recreate classic concerts, raised nearly £15M from Balderton Capital and others — Unit1 hopes to offer lower cost version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venue| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ staff — Also: What happened with the iPhone Duo Pencil and layoffs at Fitness+. — Apple's new “intelligent personal hub” strategy is about much more than the iPhone.
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| Zhang Shidong / South China Morning Post: |
China collected $32.3B of stamp duty on stock sales between January and August, up 80%+ YoY, as average daily trading value rose 72%, amid an AI trading frenzy — China's revenue from stamp duty on stock sales jumped more than 80 per cent in the first eight months this year as improved sentiment bolstered trading activities.Sponsor Posts
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