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Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet — worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave — Also: The latest on Apple's big Sept. 9 event. — The early signs out of Cupertino are that Tim Cook will still loom large at Apple.
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Bluesky: @stevekovach, @stevekovach, and @hern. Mastodon: @ianbetteridge@social …. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Financial Times: |
A look at the 2019 US criminal case against Huawei, with an upcoming trial over racketeering charges, including sanctions evasion and corporate espionage — Five years after finance chief Meng Wanzhou's release from detention in Canada, the company itself is going on trial| Cal Newport / New York Times: |
How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims — As the tech elite prepares to make billions from the A.I. revolution, the public mood about this technology has taken a dark turn.
X: @chris_said, @jessesingal, @bgurley, @sapinker, @mikeisaac, and @stefanfschubert
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/neoliberal, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Simon Foy / Financial Times: |
Sources: UBS requires AI skills when hiring junior investment bankers, making it one of the first major financial institutions to explicitly require AI literacy — Graduates and interns hoping to join Swiss bank must show they can use the technology to improve outcomes and efficiency
More: The Decoder, TechRadar, and Australian Financial Review
| Stephen Council / Business Insider: |
A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products — Inside Anthropic, an unorthodox group can take a lot of credit for the AI company's meteoric rise. — The company's Labs team …
Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows rentosertib, a drug whose structure was generated with AI's help, could slow aging — Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition.
More: MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, and Unite.AI
| Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: |
The US raises censorship concerns over the UK's proposals to force tech platforms to put “trustworthy” news providers at the top of social and video feeds — News Media Association warns forcing prominence for ‘trustworthy’ news could end up harming sector.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the development of an AI model for real-time spatial video, which could launch as soon as next month — ByteDance Ltd. is readying an AI model geared for real-time spatial video generation, taking on Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc … | Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more — I did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage. — And yet, here we are.
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X: @full_kelly_, @singhns, and @openai. LinkedIn: Ian Tien. Bluesky: @profchildermass. Mastodon: @ArthurZork@mstdn.party
| Reuters: |
LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M — Indian space tech startup Pixxel said on Monday it had raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by Singapore state investor Temasek … | Nikkei Asia: |
Huawei unveils the Mate XT2, a trifold phone powered by the Kirin 9050 Pro, an in-house designed chipset that it says is entirely free from US restrictions — TAIPEI — China's Huawei Technologies has unveiled its first triple-folding smartphone powered by chips that it says are free …
More: The Verge, SamMobile, Android Authority, The Information, Huawei Central, Moneycontrol, and DigiTimes
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| Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal: |
How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex — Americans are vibe-coding trading algorithms and handing over their stock portfolios to AI agents. Welcome to the world of the robot retail investor.
Bluesky: @clebsaints
| Bloomberg: |
Shein lost about $5B in market value since its IPO, dropping to ~$21B, as it finished one of the worst opening weeks after a major Hong Kong listing — Shein Global Holdings Ltd. has lost about $5 billion in market value since its initial public offering as it finished one of the worst opening weeks …
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