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- Anthropic says Claude "leads" 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and "collaborates" on 90%+, doing large chunks of work under close human direction (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) [50d]
- Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code (Claude) [50d]
- OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI) [50d]
- Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated (Anthropic) [50d]
- Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are "much more science fiction than science" and the latest "wave of PR" is probably intended to shape regulation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg) [50d]
- NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an "existential threat" and a Microsoft executive called AI training "an astonishing theft" (Financial Times) [50d]
- A survey of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and 8,607 US adults: populations in 34 of 37 surveyed countries expect AI to cause net job loss rather than growth (Pew Research Center) [50d]
- Analysis: tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ Bay Area workers in the 12 months to June; Bay Area software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022 (Francesca Maglione/Bloomberg) [50d]
- Sources: SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups as a more affordable data source for AI training (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg) [50d]
- Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announces a deal with Tata to manufacture and package chips in India, further sealing its split from Chinese parent Wingtech (Toby Sterling/Reuters) [50d]
- Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director is drafting an EO to establish a government-led incubator aimed at cybersecurity research (Bloomberg) [50d]
- The UK FCA, alongside tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end to "light-touch" crypto regulation (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk) [50d]
- Source: OpenAI staff expect the Hodge Conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, to be solved relatively soon, after solving the Navier-Stokes equations (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) [50d]
- King Charles III hosts tech leaders, including Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for AI safety tests (Bloomberg) [50d]
- Lucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy a fleet of 25K+ robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's affordable EV platform, set to launch as soon as 2028 (Financial Times) [50d]
- Comp AI, which uses AI agents to draft security policies, collect audit evidence, conduct continuous compliance monitoring, and more, raised a $34M Series A (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) [50d]
- The US SEC unveils a five-year "Innovation Exemption" to free platforms that facilitate blockchain and tokenized stock trading from many stock exchange rules (Hannah Lang/Reuters) [50d]
- A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage (New York Times) [50d]
- Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials, revamped Health Sensing System, an S11 chip, and future AI features, but few design changes (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) [50d]
- DoorDash says Costco members can order same-day delivery from every US Costco warehouse, after Uber expanded its delivery partnership from 17 to 47 US states (Bloomberg) [50d]
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