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Nearly all funding for AI safety research comes from Silicon Valley companies racing to develop AI, as the voices of AI “doomers” fade in prominence (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-14 AI

An interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky, one of the first people to warn of AI risks, on AI benefits, using violence to stop AI, Rationalism, his new book, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2025-9-14 Interview AI

Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&D and capital spending at its Hiroshima fab to mass produce advanced DRAM, aiming for shipments by August 2028 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-9-14 Japan

Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says is the largest open LLM trained from scratch with differential privacy, on Hugging Face and Kaggle (research.google)
2025-9-14 Google

Australia is emerging as a prominent player in quantum computing, enabled by breakthrough academic work and sustained government funding since the 1990s (www.ft.com)
2025-9-14 Australia Quantum

Is Perl the World's 10th Most Popular Programming Language? (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-9-14 programming

Malaysia reins in data center expansion amid power and water shortages, hindering Chinese companies that use the region as a backdoor to access US-made AI chips (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-14 China AI Malaysia

'Dragonfly' Mission to Saturn's Moon Titan: Behind Schedule, Overbudget, Says NASA Inspector General (science.slashdot.org)
2025-9-14 NASA

Watchdogs say fraudsters are extorting small businesses for hundreds of dollars each by posting or threatening to post phony one-star reviews on Google Maps (www.nytimes.com)
2025-9-14 Google

US salaries for key stablecoin roles are rising as a skills shortage meets a potentially immense market opportunity, putting upward pressure on pay (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-14

More Return-to-Office Crackdowns, with 61.7% of Employees Now in Office Full-Time (it.slashdot.org)
2025-9-14

Hollow Knight Sequel 'Silksong' Crashed Game Stores, as $20 Price Irks Competitors (games.slashdot.org)
2025-9-14

Hike, which was valued at $1.4B in 2016 and has since pivoted from a messaging app to a real-money gaming app, shuts down following India's ban on such apps (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-14 India Ban

Could Heart Attacks Be Triggered By Infections? (science.slashdot.org)
2025-9-14

Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, raised $235M at a ~$1.23B valuation, after coming out of stealth in March with a $200M seed (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-9-14 AI

Penske Media sues Google, says ~20% of Google search results linking to its sites now include AI Overviews, and affiliate link revenue fell 33%+ since late 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2025-9-14 Google AI

Myanmar's 'Cyber-Slavery Compounds' May Hold 100,000 Trafficked People (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-9-14

JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (www.scmp.com)
2025-9-14 China iPhone

UAE Lab Releases Open-Source Model to Rival China's DeepSeek (slashdot.org)
2025-9-14 China

OpenAI projects that it will reduce the revenue share it pays to Microsoft from 20% this year to ~8% by 2030, potentially retaining over $50B more in revenue (www.theinformation.com)
2025-9-14 Microsoft

Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-14

A Single Exercise Session May Slow Cancer Cell Growth, Study Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2025-9-14

What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on September 17 at 5pm PT: “Hypernova” smart glasses with a display, Meta AI and Llama updates, and more (www.engadget.com)
2025-9-14 AI

Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican for its top policy role, instead choosing an Obama alumn as it adopts a cooler stance towards Trump (www.theinformation.com)
2025-9-14 Trump Republican

The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes (developers.slashdot.org)
2025-9-14

China launches probes into alleged US discrimination against Chinese chip companies and suspected dumping of US analog chips used in devices like Wi-Fi routers (www.reuters.com)
2025-9-14 China

Microsoft reminds of Windows 10 support ending in 30 days (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-9-14 Microsoft

California passes SB 53, which requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes; Newsom vetoed a similar though more expansive measure last year (www.politico.com)
2025-9-14 AI California

California Assembly passes a bill that requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta support the bill, while the MPA opposes it (www.politico.com)
2025-9-14 Google California

Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Loses Latest Bid to Avoid US Extradition (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-9-14

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