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- Source: OpenAI head of ethics Chloé Bakalar departs after less than a year, following exits by the head of safety systems and a former head of mission alignment (Financial Times) [2d]
- Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at $2/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, canceling a planned September 1 increase (Claude/@claudeai) [3d]
- With his long essay, Zuckerberg returns to his "open" AI arguments at an opportune time, as Chinese open models narrow the performance gap at much lower cost (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass) [3d]
- Sources: OpenAI bought back ~$7B in shares from current and former employees in a tender offer valuing it at $852B, unchanged from its most recent funding round (Bloomberg) [3d]
- Source: Applied Compute, which helps companies customize models with their data, is in talks to raise "hundreds of millions" led by Elad Gil at a ~$3B valuation (The Information) [3d]
- Filing: Sergey Brin donated an additional $20M to Building a Better California, which fights California's wealth tax, bringing his total contributions to $102M (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Anthropic details an unreleased Claude model's attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis; it didn't solve it but "unexpectedly" made strides on a related problem (Anthropic) [3d]
- The Ninth Circuit dismisses Meta's bid to pause a landmark trial by state AGs alleging its products addict children and have caused a youth mental health crisis (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg) [3d]
- YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) [3d]
- Sources: Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR, and other financial groups are partnering with Nvidia on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development (Financial Times) [3d]
- Better coffee — and now better NBN? Melburnians may have added another bragging right over Sydneysiders [2d]
- Virginia cracks down on electricity firms hiking prices for AI data centers — move could save ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ for everyday users [2d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, August 11 (game #1157) [3d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, August 11 (game #1660) [3d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, August 11 (game #891) [3d]
- 3D-printed drones built on a US Navy ship for the first time, potentially opening a whole new world of possibilities for future warfare [3d]
- 'It's Stalin's dream' — Quote of the day by software pioneer Richard Stallman on the tracking capabilities of cell phones [3d]
- I asked Gemini if my chicken salad was still good: it saved itself and my stomach [3d]
- The US government wants to make it easier to build and launch floating nuclear reactors, 'unleashing American energy dominance' [3d]
- What you need to know about your hearing health and wired earbuds, and why this Kickstarter campaign emphatically gets my backing as someone who tests IEMs [3d]
- SpaceX is spending $16.8 billion on a Texas chip fab Musk says will be '50 times the size of the Pentagon' [3d]
- TSMC reportedly has $1 billion of Apple chips awaiting delivery of DRAM — will this be what powers the iPhone 18 Pro? [3d]
- 'It's not an OLED-killer yet': I tested Hisense’s affordable RGB TV, and while I like its picture quality and performance, it surprisingly falls short in the area I had the highest hopes for [3d]
- House of the Dragon season 4: release window, possible cast, story predictions, and more on the HBO Max show's final chapter [3d]
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