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Models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro feel like “Jagged AGI”: unreliable, even at some mundane tasks, but still offering superhuman capabilities in many areas — Amid today's AI boom, it's disconcerting that we still don't know how to measure how smart, creative, or empathetic these systems are.
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In a clever attack, hackers were able to send phishing emails that appeared to come from “no-reply@google.com”, after a similar attack on PayPal users in March — In a rather clever attack, hackers leveraged a weakness that allowed them to send a fake email that seemed delivered … | Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
Brand aggregator Upexi says it is raising $100M to accumulate Solana, causing its shares to surge over 400%, part of a trend of companies investing in crypto — Upexi Inc. is raising $100 million as part of a pivot that will see the company start to accumulate the cryptocurrency Solana, according to a Monday statement.| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC says its role in the semiconductor supply chain limits its ability to comply with export rules, after reports its tech was used in Huawei's Ascend 910B — “TSMC's role in the semiconductor supply chain inherently limits its visibility and information available to it regarding …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven — One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend …
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Sources: Ola's AI venture Krutrim is looking to raise up to $300M, down from a planned raise of about $500M, after seeing poor investor appetite — New Delhi: Bhavish Aggarwal is looking to raise up to $300 million for his artificial intelligence venture Ola Krutrim, curtailing his ambitions …
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| Knight First Amendment Institute: |
A deep dive into AI as a normal technology vs. a humanlike intelligence and how major public policy based on controlling superintelligence may make things worse — An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence — We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Circle, BitGo, and other firms plan to apply for bank charters or licenses, as the Trump administration pushes to bring crypto into mainstream finance — Circle, BitGo and other crypto firms plan to apply for bank charters or licenses — Crypto is pushing deeper into the banking system.
More: Finextra, Watcher Guru, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, Benzinga, crypto.news, and The Crypto Times
| Tom Wiggins / Wired: |
A look at the tactile devices from OneCourt, Field of Vision, and Touch2See that help visually impaired spectators follow live sports with their fingers — These three companies have developed tactile devices that help visually impaired spectators follow the live action playing out on the field.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Dan Kim and Hassan Khan, former officials at the CHIPS Program Office, on subsidizing supply versus coercing demand, the program's future, and more — An interview with Dan Kim and Hassan Khan about their work distributing CHIPS program money, and why they are optimistic about U.S. industrial policy going forward.
| Financial Times: |
A look at the race to turn brainwaves into fluent speech, as researchers at universities in California and companies use brain implants and AI to make advances — Californian researchers and groups such as Precision Neuroscience use implants and AI to make advances in ‘voice prosthesis’| Ruth Reader / Politico: |
After lobbying US Congress to shelve the Senate-passed KOSA bill in 2024, Meta has now made headway in lobbying for an app store age-verification bill — The Facebook founder is lobbying Congress to leave his firm alone — and making headway. — To protect kids online …
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UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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