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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

How UK Biobank, a government-backed cloud database of 1B+ medical images from 100,000+ participants, is fueling breakthroughs in AI-driven diagnostics (Bloomberg)

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Companies like Scale AI are replacing low-cost data labelers with highly paid experts in fields such as finance, driven by the rise of reasoning AI models (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

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Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of its 2026 launch; sources say Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like "Watch Mode Activation" and "Terminal Restrictions" (Louis Columbus/VentureBeat)

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Dallas-based iCounter, which uses AI to combat cyber risks, launches out of stealth from Apollo Information Systems with a $30M Series A led by SYN Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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How YouTube became the most-watched video provider on TVs in the US, with creator content tailored for family and group viewing and app features enhanced for TV (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)

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North Carolina-based Eton Solutions, which offers wealth management ERP tools for single- and multifamily offices, raised a $58M Series C led by Navis Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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Calgary-based GeologicAI, which uses AI and sensors to help capture data in rock and core samples faster, raised a $44M Series B led by Blue Earth Capital (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)

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Austin-based CertifID, which develops tech to prevent wire fraud in real estate transactions, raised a $47.5M Series C led by Centana Growth Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

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A look at the Dor Brothers, a video production studio that has gained over 100M views across platforms by creating viral subversive videos using only AI tools (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

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How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatus (Kim Zetter/Wired)

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A look at Decart, which has developed video-to-video AI model Mirage that manipulates live video in real time and can potentially shake up livestreaming (Will Knight/Wired)

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Vultron, which makes AI tools for federal contractors, raised $22M from investors including David Sacks' Craft Ventures, raising ethical questions (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

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Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after a video of him cuddling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral (Eleanor Hawkins/Axios)

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Apple was exempted from the EU's Corning deal to end exclusivity terms with OEMs, after finding products designed exclusively for Apple fall outside the market (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

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Sources: UK plans to designate Apple and Google as holding a "strategic market advantage" over rivals, subjecting them to new regulations and potential fines (Washington Examiner)

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Sources: after Trump let Nvidia resume H20 chip sales to China, Nvidia told Chinese customers it has limited stocks and doesn't plan to restart production (Qianer Liu/The Information)

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[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad (Alexander Wei/@alexwei_)

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How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between "Islamists" and "Muslims" (New York Times)

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How an open-source approach helped DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies; Hugging Face: Alibaba's Qwen is now the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem (South China Morning Post)

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