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OpenAI says Cursor’s change of control opened a limited cancellation window. It also says it cannot trust SpaceX to follow its terms of service, citing earlier disputes involving Musk-controlled companies.

#ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI #Cursor #SpaceX #AICoding

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Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences used deep learning to scan more than two million seismic waveforms recorded from nearly 5,000 magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquakes between 1990 and 2024.

#ArtificialIntelligence #EarthScience #Seismology #MachineLearning #AIScience

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@figma engineer says deploying AI coding agents across a mature engineering organization created problems that early productivity wins did not reveal.

#ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #Figma #AICoding #FutureOfWork

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The timing is striking. Sam Altman and more than 100 organizations issued a separate warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks will become more widespread and that defenders have little time to prepare.

#ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI #Cybersecurity #AISafety #TechPolicy

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@KDTrey5’s reported $250,000 bet on Hugging Face could become one of the biggest athlete startup wins yet.

@35Ventures @richkleiman

#ArtificialIntelligence #KevinDurant #HuggingFace #NVIDIA #VentureCapital

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@a16z’s The Machine Age Fund will invest across chips, memory, networking, storage, data centers, robotics and home AI hardware. A16z says these systems are colliding with supply-chain limits as AI workloads demand more compute, power and bandwidth.

#AI #VentureCapital #a16z

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@YouTube on the docket at the @PuckNews live UK broadcast of The Town vodcast

#TheTown #Youtube #creators

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@Meta has agreed to pay U.S. states up to $18 billion to settle litigation brought by 29 states alleging that its platforms were knowingly designed in ways that were addictive and unsafe for children.

#Meta #Instagram #YouthSafety #AgeAssurance #SocialMedia

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Artificial intelligence supported a neurosurgeon in real time during live brain surgery for the first time, helping a London medical team remove a tumour while protecting the patient’s sight.

#AI #BrainSurgery #MedicalInnovation #DigitalHealth #FutureOfMedicine

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@nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire @huggingface for $12.9 billion, potentially giving the AI chipmaker control of one of the most important platforms for open models, datasets and developer tools.

#ArtificialIntelligence #NVIDIA #HuggingFace #OpenSourceAI #AIInfrastructure

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Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner have agreed to buy a controlling interest in the Lakers at a record $12.5B valuation.

The AI-era thesis: As digital content becomes abundant, globally recognized cultural assets that technology cannot replicate become even more valuable.

#NBA #Lakers

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Cohere Health Integrates AWS AgentCore, Crypto CLARITY Act Delayed to Sept, and Labor Exits Drive 4.1% Unemployment | #123

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Pilot season is back. Not nostalgia. Discipline.

Studios are rebuilding a testing layer, pilots, microseries, staged rollouts.

So we built a tool: Pilot vs Microseries vs Straight-to-Series

Decide before you spend.

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What #DougLiman and his collaborators appear to have demonstrated with #BitcoinKillingSatoshi is that the geography line item, long one of the industry’s most punishing constraints, can now be … https://t.co/txQdF1L210

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Islamabad talks fail. Meta drops Muse Spark reasoning. Treasury warns of Claude Mythos exploits. $100 oil.

Listen now: https://t.co/dVksR21ht0

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California didn’t slow AI in Hollywood. It changed the game from creation to proof.

Who made it, who approved it, who owns it, who’s liable.

That’s the new stack.

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Agents are moving from demos to real autonomous models. Where they’re deployed, how they’re controlled, and whether their outputs can be trusted, audited, and acted on—where value is created, and where most companies are still getting it wrong. https://t.co/lbGyTTCaQI

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We built the tool below to help readers estimate what #layoffs might look like in practice. Enter your salary, tenure, and your employer's severance multiple (T) to see an estimate of both severance value and financial runway. https://t.co/5IOBLcFBJT

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Full Chart and Analysis at https://t.co/HLlokVJta3

SCOTUS DRAWS THE INVISIBLE LINE ON AI AND IP…

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@NYSE thanks for the cowbells today — really loved the noise and distraction — we appreciate it! Thanks! 😑