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Google, Amazon, Cohere, and Mistral are intensifying efforts to reduce AI hallucinations via technical fixes, data quality improvements, and fact-checking (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

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Seoul-based chip designer FuriosaAI signs a deal with LG to use its AI chip RNGD, its first major contract, after rejecting Meta's $800M buyout offer in March (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

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While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data (Anil Ananthaswamy/Quanta Magazine)

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Multinational firms like McDonald's and UK insurer Bupa, struggling to hire AI talent at home, are turning to back offices in India to meet their core AI needs (Financial Times)

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A roundup of the 2025 VLSI conference: using digital twins for design exploration, DRAM beyond 1x nm nodes, Intel's 18A process compared to TSMC, and more (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)

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OpenAI and the UK government announce a partnership to explore AI use in justice, defense, security, and edtech, and possibly expand OpenAI's London office (Reuters)

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Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerability (Washington Post)

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Leaked memo: Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching "dictators", and says a "no bad person" rule is impractical (Kylie Robison/Wired)

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Samsung Galaxy Watch8 review: thinner and sturdier, but its design with a square casing and a round screen is polarizing, and Gemini is useful but hit-or-miss (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

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Crypto custody company BitGo confidentially files for a US IPO; Palo Alto-based BitGo raised $100M at a $1.75B valuation in August 2023 (CoinDesk)

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SEC filing: Ambiq Micro, which makes ultra-low power chips, is seeking to raise as much as $85M from its IPO, offering 3.4M shares at $22 to $25 each (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)

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Seattle-based tax compliance software maker Avalara, acquired by Vista Equity Partners in a 2022 deal valuing it at $8.4B, confidentially files for a US IPO (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)

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Sources: Oracle is in talks with Skydance for a $100M per year deal for Paramount to use Oracle's cloud software if the Skydance-Paramount merger goes through (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Stargate has struggled to get off the ground and sharply scaled back its near-term plans, as SoftBank and OpenAI disagree on crucial terms of the deal (Wall Street Journal)

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NXP reports Q2 revenue down 6.4% YoY to $2.93B, vs $2.90B est., and revenue from its communication and infrastructure segment fell 27% YoY to $320M in Q2 (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

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Researchers: at least 750 US hospitals faced disruptions on the day of last year's big CrowdStrike outage, and 200+ had outages related to patient care services (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

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Source: Netflix is using Runway AI's video generation tools for production; Disney is testing out the tools and talked with Runway about possible uses for them (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world (Kylie Robison/Wired)

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Google reveals the design of the Pixel 10 a few weeks ahead of the launch event; it strongly resembles the Pixel 9 but has a third back camera (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Google says an advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 "exceptionally difficult" problems (Google DeepMind)

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