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Source: Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale (www.wsj.com)
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Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters (arstechnica.com)
16 days ago Microsoft AI

The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia (therecord.media)
16 days ago Asia Southeast Asia

Scan.com, which uses AI to match patient referrals with imaging centers by availability, price, and specialty, raised a $220M Series C, including $90M in equity (www.mobihealthnews.com)
16 days ago AI Equity

Sources: India-based Slice, which has transitioned from a credit card-led fintech to a small finance bank, raised $100M at a ~$450M valuation, down from ~$1.4B (www.moneycontrol.com)
16 days ago India Fintech Credit Card

'Coyote vs. Acme' Beats Ridley Scott's Newest Movie (entertainment.slashdot.org)
16 days ago

Sources: US negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia's chips for an Armenian data center to broker a preliminary Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal last year (www.wsj.com)
16 days ago Nvidia

Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (www.theverge.com)
16 days ago Microsoft

Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX 40-series GPUs “once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned” (www.theverge.com)
16 days ago Nvidia

Sources: the US and China will discuss AI safety risks during talks planned for mid-September, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent leading the US side (www.reuters.com)
16 days ago China AI

Sources: Anthropic is expected to make its IPO prospectus public late September and complete the listing days before the US midterm elections in November (www.reuters.com)
16 days ago IPO

California AG Rob Bonta is investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack in July, after more than a dozen states joined Alabama in its investigation (www.politico.com)
16 days ago California

Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Google Startup AI

Anthropic says Claude worked “largely autonomously” over 11 days to formalize the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean programming language (www.anthropic.com)
16 days ago programming

Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago IPO Startup AI Nvidia London

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to Pro customers on the $100/month or $200/month plans (9to5mac.com)
16 days ago

Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout (www.theverge.com)
16 days ago Germany

OpenAI says it can't read all of Astra's reasoning and admits covert sandbagging would likely go uncaught, yet still calls it the world's most aligned model (www.transformernews.ai)
16 days ago

A profile of John Ternus, the first product engineer to lead Apple; sources: Tim Cook considered how to execute perfect succession since his early days as CEO (www.ft.com)
16 days ago Apple Tim Cook

IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
16 days ago

An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad on the Sonos 27 platform, AI assistants, its Google relationship, speakers as a home computer mesh network, and more (www.theverge.com)
16 days ago Google Interview AI

Review: GPT-6 Astra can adeptly use tools like Unreal Engine to build complex environments, such as a civilization with Unreal's autonomous MetaHuman characters (somethingbig.ai)
16 days ago

Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars (tech.slashdot.org)
16 days ago China Ban

Sources: Abu Dhabi-based AI company G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to American companies to maintain access to advanced AI chips beyond April 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago U.S. AI

Critical Citrix NetScaler auth bypass now leveraged in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
16 days ago

PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest $250M in India in the next 3-4 years, for a total investment of $500M+ since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago India AI Robot

By declaring GPT-6 Astra to be AGI, OpenAI is being flippant and cementing the term's status as nothing more than marketing (spyglass.org)
16 days ago

Sources: Crusoe raised $3B+ at a ~$30B post-money valuation; Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the round, and Mubadala Capital also invested (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Equity

How OpenAI limited METR's probe into the Hugging Face incident, dictating terms and restricting its scope to the single week when agents attacked Hugging Face (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago

Microsoft says some users can't open the Teams desktop client (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
16 days ago Microsoft

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