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Situational Awareness sells portfolio to Citadel
Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness sold the bulk of its public stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after steep losses tied to an AI infrastructure s
Judge: No evidence to justify Anthropic risk label
A federal judge said at a Thursday hearing the Trump administration hasn't presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk or banning federal use of its AI technology, call
Google Patches 1,072 Chrome Bugs in June, Credits AI
Google said it patched 1,072 security flaws in Chrome versions 149 and 150 released in June—more than the previous 23 versions over two years combined—crediting LLMs like Gemini for automating vulnera
DeepSeek Censorship Doesn't Transfer via Distillation
Researchers found that political censorship from Chinese frontier model DeepSeek V4 Flash does not transfer when its outputs are used to distill an American model for financial reasoning tasks, with s
Noisegate Ships Own Attacks to Prove DP Gateway
Noisegate, an open-source MCP server for Claude Desktop, sits between AI agents and sensitive data with mathematical differential-privacy guarantees, and ships its own exploit suite showing three clas
Citadel Buys Situational Awareness AI Stock Portfolio After Losses
AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, run by Leopold Aschenbrenner, sold the bulk of its public stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after deep losses, while retaining its private Anthropic
Nvidia's Open AI Alliance Excludes OpenAI, Anthropic
Nvidia launched the Open Secure AI Alliance with 40+ companies including Microsoft, SpaceX, Palantir, and IBM to build open-source AI cybersecurity tools — but conspicuously excluded OpenAI, Anthropic
Simile hits $2B valuation 5 months after Series A
Simile, a startup building AI-simulated users for market research, raised a $200M Series B at a $2B valuation just five months after its $100M Series A, with Greenoaks leading and CVS Health both inve
Gemini Robotics 2 gives humanoid robots full-body control
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, upgrading its AI model so it can now steer an entire humanoid robot from feet to fingertips — including walking, crouching, and finer hand dexterity — along
Friend AI Pendant Doubles to $249 With New Speaker
Friend is re-launching its AI pendant with a new speaker that talks back to users, doubling the original $129 price to $249 and adding a $10/month subscription for extended conversation memory.
Okta buys Permiso Security for ~$200M
Okta agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security for just under $200 million in an almost all-cash deal, extending the identity-management company's reach into monitoring AI agents
NVIDIA RTX 50-Series Faces Third 2026 Price Hike Up to 30%
NVIDIA's RTX 50-Series GPUs are headed for a third price hike of 2026, with consumers facing 20-30% increases as AI-driven pressure on DRAM supplies threatens to cool the broader PC hardware market.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 Controls Humanoid Robots
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a multi-model AI system that combines vision and action models to autonomously control robots including humanoids, alongside a new safety benchmark called A
LinkedIn Adds 'AI Slop' Report Button
LinkedIn has rolled out a new reporting button that lets users flag posts they suspect of being AI-generated, explicitly labeling the offending content as 'AI slop'.
Lenovo Yoga 9n: First 2-in-1 With NVIDIA RTX Spark
Lenovo's Yoga 9n 2-in-1 is the first convertible laptop to ship with NVIDIA's RTX Spark, an ARM-based Blackwell-architecture SoC, as the first wave of RTX Spark-powered Windows 11 laptops prepares for
AI Outperforms Humans in Romance Scam Trust Test
AI chatbots can build emotional trust more effectively than human scammers in romance fraud simulations, raising concerns about the future of autonomous scam operations.
Shift Trades Free Chef Meals for Robot Training Data
Shift, a division of German startup Microagi, sent a private chef to a journalist's apartment to cook a three-course meal while a hat-mounted camera recorded his hand movements as training data for ho
Lenovo Yoga 9n: First 2-in-1 With NVIDIA RTX Spark
Lenovo's Yoga 9n 2-in-1 will be the first convertible laptop to ship with NVIDIA's RTX Spark chip, pairing it with a PureSight Pro OLED display and stylus support.
Microsoft Quietly Adds New Windows App That Wants to Scan Your Face
Microsoft is pushing a new OneDrive Photos app to Windows 11 PCs via Windows Update that indexes local images, enables AI-powered search, and offers optional facial grouping—drawing privacy scrutiny t
OpenAI offers free AI access to 100,000 academics
OpenAI announced a program providing 100,000 academic researchers free access to its most advanced models, including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro, through 2027 — while notably excluding AI safety researchers who a
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