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The attacker who withdrew ~4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet returns 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes were patched — - The attacker who withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC from a Liquid Federation wallet has returned 3,400 BTC after Blockstream said its bridge nodes had been patched.| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
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white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet — worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Mistral raised a €3B Series D led by Samsung at a €21B valuation, up from €11.7B a year ago, as it expands into data centers beyond developing AI models — Mistral is trying to keep pace with American and Chinese rivals while offering customers a European alternative for artificial intelligence.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic has walked away from talks to acquire Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup — Anthropic PBC has decided against acquiring artificial intelligence startup Decart AI, people familiar with the matter said. — Anthropic had been exploring a deal … | Gamers Nexus on YouTube: |
Analysis of LG smart TVs shows its ad software tracks nearby devices, security flaws can allow hackers to eavesdrop via a built-in microphone, and more — SUPPORT THE DATA DRAGNET SERIES: https://store.gamersnexus.net/data- dragnetThe LG Smart TVs we've tested have first-party ACR (automatic content recognition)...
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Huawei is investing in Chinese lithography companies and helping them secure deals with leading fabs like SMIC to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers — Tech giant plays ‘project management’ role to build components needed for DUV machines and avoid export controls| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
Arm debuts Neoverse CSS N4, its next-gen semi-custom chip design platform, and says it supports 8 to 128 Neoverse N4 cores at up to 3.8 GHz on TSMC's N3P node — Putting a little pep in Neoverse N-series' step. … Arm is bringing its next-gen Neoverse CSS N4 platforms to the cloud …
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| Tae Kim / Key Context: |
Astra working with Blender via computer use feels like magic, showing computer use could be the fourth demand wave after chatbots, reasoning, and agentic coding — AI computer tool use is a big deal. — A reminder that I'm on vacation this week, but the flood of impressions people …
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Hunter Biden teases a $LAPTOP memecoin launch on September 9; sources: it will launch on Base, and some tokens will be sent to wallets that lost money on $TRUMP — The personal computer that launched a thousand memes will debut this week as a digital token
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Robinhood secures its first IPO underwriting role, in Oura's IPO, which could give it more influence over how many shares are allocated to its customers — Playing an official part in the IPO process could give Robinhood more influence over the number of shares allocated to its customers| Julia Kollewe / The Guardian: |
Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users' HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law — US-owned dating app allegedly allowed ad firms access to private information in breach of UK law — Grindr will pay £26m to settle a lawsuit brought … | 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.
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| Jack Clark / Import AI: |
Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters — Plus, a machine hermeneutics story Researchers discover another OpenAI agent emergent communication incident: ...Less severe …
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| The Guardian: |
Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns — Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI companySponsor Posts
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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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