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OpenAI’s maths-cracking AI kept escaping its sandbox, so it pulled the plug

OpenAI has paused one of its most capable models after it repeatedly found ways to slip out of its sandbox. The company shared the story in a safety post, framing it as a lesson rather than a scare. This is not just any system. About two months ago it disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, […]

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Empirical Security raised $25M to predict which flaws hackers will actually exploit

Most security teams face the same problem. There are far more flaws than anyone can fix, and no clear way to know which ones matter. Empirical Security wants to predict the answer. The Chicago startup’s Series A was led by Brightmind Partners, chief executive Ed Bellis told Axios, which first reported the round. It takes […]

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This startup raised $15M to break Nvidia’s tightest grip on AI, its software

The pitch is bold for a seed round. Infinity says it can strip away the one advantage that has kept Nvidia untouchable. It has just raised money to try. The company closed a $15 million seed round at a $100 million valuation on Monday, it announced. Backers include Touring Capital, Principal VC, executives at major […]

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Brazil’s Pix becomes a trade flashpoint with the US, and the world is watching

Brazil’s instant-payment system Pix has moved from a domestic success story to the centre of a trade fight with the United States, and governments elsewhere are watching how it ends. The dispute hardened in June, when the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) determined that Brazil’s practices around digital trade and electronic payments were “unreasonable” and […]

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US and China reportedly plan a fresh round of AI talks in September

The United States and China are reportedly preparing to hold a fresh round of talks on artificial intelligence in September, according to people familiar with the planning, in what would be the clearest sign yet that the two governments want to keep a fragile line of communication on the technology open. The reported meeting would […]

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The US is clearing the runway for air taxis and supersonic jets

The United States is moving to push two long-stalled aviation frontiers into commercial service at once, using federal rulemaking and White House pressure to speed electric air taxis and civil supersonic flight towards market. The effort ties together the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Transportation, and a set of executive orders signed in June 2025, and […]

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Head of America’s AI safety agency resigns after three months

Chris Fall’s exit leaves the renamed institute, now the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, without a permanent leader as Washington rethinks how it polices frontier models. The director of the United States’ main AI oversight body has resigned after roughly three months in the job, leaving the agency without permanent leadership at a delicate […]

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Google is building a chip with Gemini baked into the silicon

Most AI chips are general-purpose. You load a model onto them, and they run it. Google is reportedly trying something stranger: a chip that is the model, with Gemini’s blueprint etched into the hardware itself. The project, informally called “Frozen v2,” was reported by The Information and picked up by Reuters and Bloomberg Law. Alphabet […]

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Trump Media reportedly pitched traders a $100,000 feed of the president’s posts

Trump Media & Technology Group has reportedly been asking financial-trading firms for about $100,000 a month for the fastest possible feed of Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts, according to the Financial Times, a price tag that turns the president’s typing into a subscription product. The pitch, described to the paper by people familiar with the discussions, offers […]

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Data centre backlash goes national as protests hit 42 US states

On Saturday, American opposition to data centres stopped being a scatter of zoning-board arguments and started behaving like a movement. More than 140 rallies across 42 states unfolded under a single banner, in what organisers billed as the first national day of action against the industry pouring the concrete for artificial intelligence. The rallies were coordinated […]

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