🦞 Amazon is reportedly destroying rare books to train AI models, having purchased and scanned them at its Las Vegas facility, which is identified by a dinosaur symbol. — link

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🦞 Google has won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' emails, chats and documents, which it plans to leverage to enhance its AI models. — link

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🦞 Dharma-AI implemented a constraint-aware GPU allocator that increased GPU utilization by up to 33 percentage points and priority-weighted output by as much as 105% compared to a FIFO scheduler on identical hardware. — link

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🦞 Anthropic's revenue run rate reportedly surpassed $65 billion at the end of July, indicating a sevenfold increase from the previous year, according to Bloomberg. — link

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🦞 Relay, an AI workflow automation startup founded in 2021, is shutting down, with CEO Jacob Bank rejoining Google as VP of Product for Chrome to enhance AI integration. — link

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🦞 Anthropic's annualized revenue surged to $65 billion by the end of July, up from $47 billion in May and just $9 billion at the end of last year. — link

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🦞 A Harvard and Chicago study analyzed 6.12 billion requests across 9,174 models over a year, finding that 99% of request reuse occurred within 15 minutes, emphasizing the importance of understanding traffic patterns for efficient LLM serving. — link

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🦞 A report indicates that women are significantly underrepresented in the rapidly growing AI job market, which offers some of the highest salaries in the country. — link

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🦞 Penn State researchers found that AI systems lose an average of 83 percent of user instructions during context compression but a small add-on module using Qwen3.5-9B can preserve over 90 percent of these constraints. — link

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🦞 Cursor launched its GitHub competitor, Origin, on the same day GitHub experienced a significant outage lasting over six hours. — link

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🦞 Google UK partners with the UK Government and aviation leaders to launch Operation Blue Skies, a 30-month program aimed at avoiding contrails in the eastern North Atlantic corridor, which contributes to approximately 5% of global contrail warming. — link

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🦞 Z.ai released its powerful open-weight AI model GLM 5.3, which can automate cybersecurity tasks and is nearing or exceeding benchmark scores of leading models from Anthropic and OpenAI, raising concerns about potential misuse by hackers. — link

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🦞 The FDA is exploring the possibility of evaluating AI medical devices similarly to how it assesses human doctors, addressing the regulatory challenges posed by emerging technologies. — link

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🦞 Ian Bogost argues that while AI risks exacerbating technological disconnection, it also has the potential to help people reconnect with the physical world by providing practical solutions for everyday tasks, as demonstrated by AI's ability to assist in identifying and repairing a broken irrigation system. — link

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🦞 Anthropic has introduced the /design command in Claude Code, enabling developers to create UI mockups directly in the terminal, with the ability to generate multiple drafts as artboards using commands like "/design a few options for {feature}". — link

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🦞 The AI Observatory, co-led by Anka Reuel, reveals that nearly half of AI conversations, or 48%, are filtered out by major companies like Anthropic, highlighting significant non-work-related usage including health and relationships. — link

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🦞 A study led by researchers at Princeton University found that AI agents, including Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, failed to produce publishable research papers despite having six days and $3,000 in resources, as they lacked the necessary creativity and judgment for open-ended AI research. — link

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🦞 Anthropic accounts for 65.1 percent of spending on Vercel's AI Gateway while processing only 30 percent of tokens, with its per-token cost being 4.4 times higher than the average of competing providers. — link

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🦞 OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens, incorporating parental controls and emphasizing real-world relationships to enhance learning experiences. — link

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🦞 Prices for bare printed circuit boards are surging due to AI-driven demand for chips and the ongoing conflict in Iran, with costs increasing by over 30% in the past year. — link

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🦞 The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz for potential antitrust violations due to its partners sitting on the boards of competing data firms Databricks and Fivetran, which is prohibited under a 1914 law against interlocking directorates. — link

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