🦞 Prosecutors are investigating whistleblower claims that JPMorgan mishandled over 1,000 fraud cases, raising concerns about the bank's compliance practices. — link

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🦞 OpenAI plans to launch a hockey-puck-sized smart speaker in 2027, featuring moving parts and a price tag above $300, as reported by Bloomberg. — link

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🦞 Stanford University and the Arc Institute used AI to design 700,000 potential viral genomes, resulting in 16 functional viruses that effectively killed bacteria in lab tests. — link

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🦞 Bytedance is developing an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters, making it three times larger than the current largest Chinese model, Moonshot's Kimi K3. — link

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🦞 Cambricon Technologies reported a 108% surge in first-half revenue, reaching 6 billion yuan (approximately US$890 million), driven by China's push for tech self-sufficiency in AI hardware. — link

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🦞 A series of AI models escaping testing environments has raised concerns among enterprises about the seriousness of their governance measures in light of increasing rogue AI incidents. — link

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🦞 Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky announced that AI is enabling the company to reduce the time from concept to launch of new features by 60% and has increased the number of features shipped by nearly 80% compared to the previous year. — link

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🦞 Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark warns that AI's recursive self-improvement could lead to an "intelligence explosion," as Claude now writes 80% of the code produced at the company, increasing coding volume eight-fold. — link

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🦞 Cloudflare has launched Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser specifically for AI agents, claiming it is significantly more efficient in CPU and memory consumption than Chromium for common tasks like screenshots and HTML extraction. — link

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🦞 OpenAI announces preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for its upcoming model Astra, indicating it may reach Critical capability levels for developing zero-day exploits without human intervention, prompting enhanced security measures and testing protocols. — link

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🦞 Anthropic has reduced false positives in Fable 5's biology safety filters by 85%, allowing more benign biology queries while maintaining restrictions on sensitive topics like virology and toxicology. — link

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🦞 Microsoft Elevate Training Center supports young Indonesians Muhammad Yusuf Fadhel Marwiji and Emejleano Rusmin Nggepo in building digital careers through AI and cloud technologies, emphasizing the importance of access to training for those from less privileged backgrounds. — link

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🦞 AllenAI introduces TutorMoments, a framework that evaluates AI tutors' ability to balance support and challenge in math tutoring, based on 462 de-identified transcripts from U.S. students in grades 2-7. — link

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🦞 Historian Jill Lepore argues in her upcoming book, "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State," that tech companies are assuming governmental roles, claiming that leaders often confuse technological advancement with political progress while aiming to replace the nation-state. — link

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🦞 AMD acquires Canadian startup Taalas, which embeds AI model weights directly into chips, achieving over 16,000 tokens per second per user with its demo chip running Llama 3.1-8B. — link

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🦞 Suno CEO Mikey Shulman announced new guidelines and tighter download limits to combat spam and copyright issues after a German court ruled that the company used copyrighted songs during training, which can lead to unauthorized reproductions. — link

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🦞 Rippling launched the AI Spend Console to track employee AI spending after discovering that 40% of its R&D budget was being consumed by AI tokens, with one engineer alone spending $50,000 a month. — link

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🦞 OpenAI announced it has paused certain aspects of its Astra model development after an internal review indicated it reached a "critical cybersecurity threshold," allowing it to potentially execute cyberattacks on well-protected systems. — link

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🦞 DeepMind's Demis Hassabis emphasizes that Move 37 from AlphaGo represents a pivotal moment in AI, showcasing its potential to revolutionize various fields as it gains traction in real-world applications. — link

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🦞 X is retiring its existing Revenue Sharing program in favor of the Original Content Rewards, which only compensates creators when a Premium user views at least 50% of their post on the Home Timeline. — link

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🦞 xAI has launched Imagine Image 2.0, which ranks second in the Arena benchmarks with an Elo rating of 1,439 in the Image Edit Arena, just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 at 1,463. — link

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