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Sources: China has quietly exempted from tariffs at least eight classifications of US-made microchips, as it seeks to exempt “irreplaceable” goods — Levies on certain U.S.-made microchips have been dropped, importers say. Meanwhile, China denied President Trump's claims that talks to reduce tariffs are happening.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google says it will end support for 1st- and 2nd-gen Nest thermostats on October 25, and won't launch new models in Europe due to its “unique” heating systems — The company is also pulling Nest thermostats out of Europe entirely, citing “unique” heating challenges.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft makes Recall available to all Copilot+ PCs, along with a new AI-powered Windows search and Click to Do, which works like Google's Circle to Search — Microsoft's Click to Do image and text tool is also rolling out today. … We knew Microsoft was about to launch Recall for real this time …
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| Financial Times: |
Deliveroo, which listed in London with a £7.6B valuation in 2021, says it received a buyout proposal from DoorDash that would value the company at £2.7B — UK food delivery group valued at £7.6bn in London listing four years ago — Deliveroo, the food delivery company …
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| Gabe Kaminsky / The Free Press: |
Leaked letter: interim US Attorney for DC Ed Martin accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status — In a letter obtained by The Free Press, Trump appointee Ed Martin accuses the Wikimedia Foundation of violating the law.
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| Dario Amodei: |
Interpretability, or understanding how AI models work, can help mitigate many AI risks, such as misalignment and misuse, that stem from AI systems' opacity — In the decade that I have been working on AI, I've watched it grow from a tiny academic field to arguably the most important economic and geopolitical issue in the world.
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Internal presentation by Microsoft's CFO Amy Hood: number of users for Copilot has been flat over the past year with ~20M weekly users, as ChatGPT grew to 400M — Mustafa Suleyman hasn't delivered the turnaround he was hired to bring — At Microsoft's annual executive huddle last month …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese AI startup Manus raised $75M led by Benchmark at a $500M valuation, and plans to expand to markets including the US, Japan, and the Middle East — The Chinese startup behind Manus AI secured a round of financing led by US venture firm Benchmark, scoring capital to explore …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: XAI Holdings, the newly combined entity housing xAI and X, is in talks to raise roughly $20B, or possibly more, valuing the company at more than $120B — Elon Musk's XAI Holdings is in talks with investors to raise roughly $20 billion in funding for his newly combined artificial intelligence startup … | Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Meta and Booz Allen partner to deploy Space Llama, a fine-tuned version of Llama 3.2, for research aboard the International Space Station National Laboratory — On Friday, Meta and Booz Allen Hamilton launched “Space Llama.” — Llama, Meta's open-source artificial intelligence model …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Deel sues Rippling for alleged defamation, libel, and deceptive trade practices, says Rippling placed an insider within Deel, is not tax compliant, and more — The legal battle between HR software unicorns Deel and Rippling escalated on Friday, with Deel suing Rippling for alleged defamation, libel, and deceptive trade practices.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to increase the use of third-party firms for selling software to SMBs; in-house sellers will get more training and focus on AI products — Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff revealed the initiative to employees on Thursday, according to people familiar with the situation.| The Information: |
Docs: Scale AI had revenue of $870M in 2024, missing its $1B target, and plans a $150M share sale that values the startup at around $25B, up 80% from a year ago — Scale AI, the fast-growing data-labeling startup, missed its revenue and profit targets last year, but its investors are undeterred.
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| John Revill / Reuters: |
Swiss National Bank says cryptocurrencies failed to meet its currency reserve standards, as a referendum campaign seeks to require SNB to hold bitcoin reserves — The head of the Swiss National Bank said on Friday that cryptocurrencies failed to meet the institution's currency reserve standards …
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| Pete Koomen: |
Many AI features, like Gmail's AI assistant, feel useless because they don't allow users to edit system prompts, constraining the AI models they're built with — I noticed something interesting the other day: I enjoy using AI to build software more than I enjoy using most AI applications—software built with AI.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI expands deep research usage for Plus, Pro, and Team users with an o4-mini-powered lightweight version, which also rolls out to Free users today — OpenAI is bringing a new “lightweight” version of its ChatGPT deep research tool, which scours the web to compile research reports on a topic …
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Reducto, which helps companies convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $24.5M Series A led by Benchmark, following a $8.4M seed in October 2024 — Reducto cofounders Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri. — Reducto — I've long been fond of Arthur C. Clarke's famous third law …
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Nous, which plans to launch an AI training system on Solana using people's idle computing power, raised a $50M Series A, a source says at a $1B token valuation — Training AI models requires a massive amount of computing power. — The crypto industry has been fighting to get a piece …
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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Baidu CEO Robin Li says demand for text-based models like DeepSeek's is “shrinking” and claims the R1 model had a higher propensity for “hallucinations” — Search group's chief makes rare criticism of China's generative artificial intelligence darling
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| Bloomberg: |
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