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| Dario Amodei / @darioamodei: |
Dario Amodei defends his policy proposals, warns open weights won't decentralize power, endorses pre-launch vetting, says real accomplishments will earn trust — 1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that “either concentrate it in the hands of a
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May — Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter Inc., a startup that helps companies switch between artificial intelligence models …
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| Hugging Face: |
Hugging Face says developers made 151K+ derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem — In the AI world, time feels compressed. A few months after our spring report in our biannual analysis worked through the ecosystem …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
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Bluesky: @aidevnews and @jessefelder.com
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| Timothy Gowers / Gowers's Weblog: |
Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers says most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs — For the sake of anyone who might read this blog post in the distant future (a month from now, say), let me mention that I am writing …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details Claude's text watermark: it only shows Claude was likely involved, is sparse in code and factual text, and disappears after a full rewrite — Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude …
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| Alex Janin / Wall Street Journal: |
Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases — Patients, doctors and nurses are turning to the technology for help identifying rare and undiagnosed diseases| Jason Douglas / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them — The company built its empire on electronics. CEO Hiroki Totoki says its future is entertainment| Washington Post: |
How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US — Across the United States, political candidates are grappling with an issue that has never before featured widely in American political life: artificial intelligence.| Phil Serafino / Bloomberg: |
French PM Lecornu will hold a crisis meeting Monday over a June-July cyberattack on France's tax agency that compromised 678K individual and business accounts — French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu will hold a crisis meeting Monday to respond to the cyberattack disclosed last week targeting the country's tax collection agency.
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| Washington Post: |
A Wyoming woman joined a federal suit against xAI alleging her stepfather used Grok to turn one childhood photo of her into 7,000+ CSAM images he traded online — When Jane Doe 4, as she is identified in legal filings, arrived at her parents' house in Wyoming to set up a family party earlier this year …
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| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Malaysia's 6% Q2 GDP growth was powered by 7.5% manufacturing growth, driven by chipmaking, and 6.6% construction growth, supported by data center development — Southeast Asian country emerges as key AI hub in boost for its economy — The AI boom has made global superstars out of a handful …
X: @ankitkall
| Ilya Gridneff / Financial Times: |
BlackBerry posted a positive cash position in Q1, its first cash-positive first quarter in any fiscal year since 2017, driven by its QNX and Secusmart products — A decade after the disappearance of its handsets, the company's future rests on car and security software| Grace Shao / Bloomberg: |
Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population — Different experiences with technology have shaped radically different expectations of what artificial intelligence will bring.
More: DigiTimes. X: @witness360hq, @marian_l_tupy, @business, @gracemzshao, and @kyleichan
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| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500+ units in 2025 and readies its China IPO — The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?Sponsor Posts
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