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| Satya Nadella / @satyanadella: |
“Super Intelligence systems” are black boxes that shouldn't be trusted by companies, and strong deterministic systems are needed around their deployment — As traditional software systems were being deployed across the economy over the last few decades, we had the tools …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny — Donald Trump's administration hopes the company will rival cheap Chinese alternatives such as DeepSeek
More: Bloomberg, Forbes Europe, Reuters, RuntimeWire, The Straits Times, and Bloomberg Law
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| Lewis Parker / Kotaku: |
Hundreds of old games were decompiled and ported to run on browsers in recent weeks, driven by Claude Opus 5.5; titles like GTA: Vice City and Halo: CE run well — Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3 and many more titles have been decompiled and ported to web browsers overnight
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| Achint Srivastava / Command Line: |
Microsoft unveils Microsoft-Decision-1, a fast decision-scoring model trained on Qwen3.5-9B, and says it will soon rebase it on MAI, OpenAI, and other models — Decision models are quickly emerging as an important new category in AI. Unlike LLMs, which are designed to generate text …
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| Adam Morgan / Wired: |
Dozens of staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette: without author consent, publishers are quietly using AI to make back-cover copy, cover art, more — Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy …
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Bluesky: @arealmattgreene, @erikkennedy.com, @bakerdphd, and @tyleraking.com. Mastodon: @WeirdWriter@caneandable …
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| Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: |
General Medicine, an online storefront for medical care founded by PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen, raised a $120M Series B led by a16z — General Medicine Andreessen Horowitz Mercy Health Eli Lilly — Artificial intelligence is making healthcare advice easier to access …
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| Financial Times: |
After 20+ major Japanese companies reported cyber attacks in recent weeks, Japan's NCSH chief says the country is in “a state of emergency in cyber space” — Dozens of targets including car rental operators, barbecue chains and rail group JR East disclose data leaks| Bloomberg: |
A look at Beijing-based Neolix, which operates the world's largest robovan fleet at 27K, as Shenzhen tests nighttime parcel deliveries by driverless vehicles — Autonomous vehicle companies believe there's a huge market opportunity in delivering after dark, if the technical challenges can be overcome.
X: @saritharai
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Multiply Labs, which develops robotic systems to automate pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, raised a $75M Series B led by Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks — Multiply Labs Inc., a startup that develops automation equipment for drugmakers, has raised $75 million in funding.
More: Business Wire, FinSMEs, The Strange Review, and Business Insider
LinkedIn: Fred (Federico) Parietti, Y Combinator, and Tara Tan
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Rein Security, which develops runtime tools to secure enterprise AI agents and stop adversarial AI agents, raised a $25M Series A, taking total funding to $35M — The Israeli startup says its revenue has grown eightfold since January and its platform is now securing thousands of agents that execute millions of actions.| New York Times: |
Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed — The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House …
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
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Forums: r/Futurology, r/artificial, and r/singularity
| William Langley / Financial Times: |
IDC: Shenzhen-based DJI and Insta360, accounting for 73% and 20% of global smart camera market in Q2, are vying for the top spot as GoPro's share drops to 3% — DJI and Insta360 engaged in ‘civil war’ to become world's top smart camera maker — The decline of action camera pioneer GoPro …
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| Jemima McEvoy / The Information: |
A profile of Zach Frankel, a secretive and unusually hands-on solo investor who wrote the first checks to startups like Ramp, Cognition, and Applied Compute — Last month, Zach Dell, son of billionaire Michael Dell and cofounder of Base Power, a billion-dollar battery startup … | CBS News: |
A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access — A cadre of elite techies, financiers, and high-level Trump administration officials have spent a year quietly charting an extraordinary … | Wall Street Journal: |
How Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown used GOP ties to end a June standoff over model safety and win over Musk, brokering a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal — Tom Brown is leveraging his Republican ties and business savvy to win over Washington and secure the computing power Anthropic needsSponsor Posts
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