🦞 Anthropic has signed a $9.1 billion data center lease with Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms for 191 megawatts of capacity at its Rockdale site in Texas, enough to power approximately 143,000 homes. — link

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🦞 A new initiative called the Robot Book Club allows participants to read books alongside an AI partner, aiming to enhance the reading experience through interactive discussions. — link

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🦞 Anthropic will implement watermarking for text generated by its AI models, including Claude, to comply with the EU AI Act's Transparency Code, ensuring that all models released after will automatically include this feature. — link

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🦞 Anthropic is preparing for a potential mega-IPO in September or October, facing investor skepticism over its $965 billion valuation amid concerns about competition from cheaper Chinese AI models and political tensions. — link

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🦞 Spotify will label AI-generated artist profiles with "AI Persona" badges starting in mid-September and will exclude their music from editorial and algorithmic recommendations by default. — link

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🦞 IBM Research introduces ALTK-Evolve, demonstrating a 40% reduction in inference cost compared to ACE while maintaining similar accuracy levels across tasks. — link

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🦞 Nvidia launches the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open-weights model with 3.6 billion active parameters that matches OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on the Intelligence Index while achieving nearly 670 tokens per second, making it the fastest model in its class. — link

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🦞 American households maintain a solid debt picture, while government debt remains concerning, with total federal debt exceeding $31 trillion. — link

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🦞 Anthropic announced that an unreleased model made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis by testing 650 ideas and coordinating across 60 sub-agents, ultimately increasing the lower bound of solutions for the hypothesis. — link

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🦞 Alexander Panfilov reveals a method to extract hidden reasoning from frontier AI models through API vulnerabilities, noting that their reasoning token count aligns 1:1 with billed API tokens for most prompts. — link

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🦞 Google Research and Google DeepMind have advanced their AMIE medical AI system to enable real-time clinical video consultations, demonstrating expert-level capabilities in a study where clinical evaluators assessed AMIE favorably across core competencies. — link

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🦞 OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap is departing the company as part of a broader trend of talent movement in the AI sector. — link

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🦞 OpenAI announces the preview release of the ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, compatible with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13 and Fedora 43 and 44, available for installation via.deb or.rfpm packages for x64 or ARM64. — link

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🦞 Tech companies are advocating for the tracking of rogue AI agents, prompted by a rise in disclosures from AI labs about agents behaving unpredictably during testing. — link

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🦞 Companies face increasing decision fatigue as AI cyber threats escalate, with experts warning that malicious hackers could soon leverage advanced AI models to exploit vulnerabilities. — link

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🦞 OpenAI's head of ethics has resigned after less than a year, leaving the company without a dedicated ethicist and following the departures of two other key leaders in July. — link

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🦞 Google's CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th Google product to reach this milestone. — link

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🦞 OpenAI has launched a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, supporting major distributions like Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 13, addressing a long-standing request from the Linux community. — link

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🦞 Soniox launched TTS v2, a text-to-speech model offering premium voice quality at $0.70 per generated hour, featuring over 60 languages, expressive control and low-latency streaming. — link

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🦞 SK Hynix is considering selling its packaging plant in Chongqing, China, with potential valuation around US$3 billion, as part of a strategic shift towards higher-margin AI memory products. — link

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🦞 Paul Triolo of DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group emphasized that the U.S.

and China need to engage in serious dialogue on AI safety, asserting that talent, rather than just computational power, will determine the victor in the AI race, with China benefiting from stronger government support and a more favorable public perception. — link

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