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  1. Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru

    JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Elon Musk says there are "hundreds, maybe thousands, of fraud rings of almost every nationality stealing money from US taxpayers."

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  5. Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru

    🇨🇳🇺🇸 China cuts US Treasury holdings to an 18-year low • China has been reducing its holdings for over a decade, down from around $1.3 trillion in the early 2010s to $618 billion today. • The decline accelerated after 2022 as China became more concerned about relying too heavily on US assets. • Foreign governments are buying fewer US Treasuries, while hedge funds and other investors are buying more. • Weaker foreign demand is helping push Treasury yields higher, with the 30-year yield recently hitting a nearly 20-year high. • Higher yields mean the US government has to pay more to borrow money.

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  7. Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru

    JUST IN: 🇸🇦🇨🇳 Saudi Arabia withdraws from Chinese-led digital currency & blockchain payment system that reduces reliance on the US dollar.

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  9. Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru

    JUST IN: Anthropic considers launching new Claude AI model to counter OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra. • This comes after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called to slowdown AI development, citing safety concerns. • Anthropic is expected to go public in November at an estimated $2 trillion valuation, making it one of the largest IPOs in history.

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  10. Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru

    JUST IN: 🇫🇷 11% of gas stations in France are now out of gas or diesel. • Diesel has surged to €2.38 per liter, putting it within 1% of a record high. • French President Emmanuel Macron called an emergency meeting to address the situation. • The French government is preparing financial assistance for drivers who travel long distances.

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  14. Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru

    JUST IN: Google Gemini AI agent hacks three companies. • Occurred during security testing when a Gemini model accidentally gained internet access. • Google's AI was meant to attack a fake company, but then figured out how to hack a real one using leaked online credentials. • Gemini stopped itself once it realized the companies were real.

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  17. Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru

    Today, Warren Buffett officially stepped down as Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. He took control of $BRK in 1965, when it was a struggling textile company. 61 years later, Berkshire is worth $1.09 trillion, surging over 7,700,000%. One of the greatest investing runs in history. The end of an era.

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  19. Simon Willison@simonw

    Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park

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  25. The Rundown AI@TheRundownAI

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order giving an expert panel two months to recommend tougher AI safety laws. On the table: a "kill switch," outside monitors inside frontier labs, and required safety plans. Newsom says the industry is "begging for regulation."

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  26. Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru

    JUST IN: $135,000,000,000 has been added to the crypto market cap so far today. $400,000,000 in leveraged short positions have been liquidated over the past 12 hours. This comes after the SEC approved limited on-chain trading of tokenized stocks and the CFTC filing new rulemaking to regulate the crypto market. Meanwhile, the Fed is projected to raise interest rates by another 25 basis points next month.

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  32. The Rundown AI@TheRundownAI

    Top stories in tech today: - Meta’s next smart glasses could lose the camera - OpenAI is footing the bill for more biology data - Scientists grow a human cortex inside mice - GLP-1s are finding a life beyond weight loss

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  37. The Rundown AI@TheRundownAI

    Top stories in AI today: - OpenAI’s new rules for reporting model misbehavior - Rowan’s Corner: Why I keep cancelling great AI tools - Test AI video object swaps with Higgsfield - GPT-6 Astra helps crack unsolved WWII message

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  42. The Rundown AI@TheRundownAI

    GPT-6 Astra is doing WWII codebreaking now. Carter Leffen said the model cracked a German Army radio message from 1941 that had not yet been decoded: "Please specify the route of march. I am in Rosenow, Rosenow. Immediate reply by radio." The run took ~10 hours and 650M tokens on a /goal of "don't stop working until you solve the problem".

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  45. The Rundown AI@TheRundownAI

    OpenAI is testing ads you can talk to. In its demo, a grocery ad under a ChatGPT dinner answer opens a separate chat with the store's sponsored AI agent, which suggests recipes and points you to the ingredients. Also new for ChatGPT ads: - Ads that adapt their wording to match the conversation and user's language - Run ChatGPT ads from inside Shopify and HubSpot - Ad campaigns built + managed via prompting ChatGPT - AI-suggested ad copy and images Currently in testing with select U.S. advertisers

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  46. The Rundown AI@TheRundownAI

    Top stories in robotics today: - Agility’s Digit crouches to keep humans safe - Waymo to launch robotaxis in Tokyo - How Unitree drove humanoid prices so low - UBTECH’s factory can build 10K humanoids a year

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  47. The Rundown AI@TheRundownAI

    Top stories in AI today: - Zuckerberg breaks ranks on the AI slowdown - Nate's Notebook: Same-hole thinking - A beginner’s guide to ChatGPT Work - Google DeepMind starts an AGI think tank

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  52. The Rundown AI@TheRundownAI

    Google DeepMind just launched the DeepMind Institute, an in-house AGI think tank run by Demis Hassabis, James Manyika, and Shane Legg. The Institute released several essays on day one, including one weighing policies for AI-driven job loss. "While AI can still sometimes fail at basic tasks and lacks the consistency and creativity to meet the bar of full AGI, we expect those gaps to be closed soon."

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