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OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science — Read the paper(opens in a new window)Read the reasoning walkthroughs(opens in a new window) — We want to empower scientists …
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| The Information: |
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Forums: r/OpenAI and r/singularity
| NBC News: |
US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning “nudify” apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect — The ruling clears the way for the first-in-the-nation law to go into effect on Saturday. — A federal judge on Friday denied …
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| New York Times: |
Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them — Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates $70M+ stolen — More than 1,000 bitcoin, worth about $70 million, was drained from 1,196 wallets in a 41-minute window on July 30, nearly double the amount reported when the theft first surfaced.
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/Bitcoin
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
This year's Defcon badges include Baochip-1x, an open source chip whose security is verifiable and that can also be used as a hardware security token — Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year's famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency.
More: Baochip on GitHub and Baochip
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Defcon
| New York Times: |
Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI — the first full day of the second Trump administration — Larry Ellison woke up in his 33-bedroom, 34-bathroom oceanfront mansion in Florida …
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Forums: r/Longreads, r/FluentInFinance, r/BetterOffline, and r/business
| CJ Haddad / CNBC: |
Trump Media's new paid data API debuts, for “a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths”; Dem. senators asked SEC to probe — Trump Media and Technology Group's new paid data service launched on Aug. 1, providing faster access to Truth Social posts …
More: Threads, NewsMax.com, Associated Press, The Intercept, and Raw Story
Threads: @jreakle and @karaswisher
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools — Bets on consumer chatbots and flashy side projects overshadowed AI coding opportunity, which rival Anthropic used to capture the lead| New York Times: |
A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months — The milestones for artificial intelligence keep getting grander. — In 2023, an A.I. system passed the bar exam.
Bluesky: @mehlerpaperny
| J.D. Capelouto / Semafor: |
At the UN AI for Good summit, a big Chinese delegation argued Chinese open-source AI models are the future for most of the world, while US presence was muted — Reporter and Lead Writer, Semafor Flagship — THE SCENE — In the days before the American AI industry erupted in a bitter dispute … | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed — Jonathan Winer thinks the U.S. is fighting the wrong manufacturing war. — His startup, Foundational Industries … | Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: |
Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed — - Harmony raised a $34 million seed round led by Lightspeed to automate workplace requests. — Its cofounders sold their last startup to Cisco for $500 million.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed — Endpoint security startup Bloom Security emerged from stealth with a $20 million seed led by Glilot Capital Partners and Ten Eleven Ventures …
More: Business Insider, Bloom Security, CTech, The SaaS News, and The Next Web. LinkedIn: Bloom Security
| Alex Riehl / BetaKit: |
Toronto-based Terminal, whose API connects insurance products and commercial fleet software with telematics data, raised a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures — Toronto startup landed Fortune 500 customers with almost no sales team. Now, it's shifting gears.Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Do you need a Zoho Partner? Here's why working with one can benefit you. — Zoho offers over 60 applications, each one built for a unique use case. From sales and marketing to finance, HR, and customer support …
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