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[image]</span> <span class="cite">(Alexander Wei / @alexwei_)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0e7e2cb99d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@mihonarium:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6103ea0e8b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">🚨 According to a friend, the IMO asked AI companies not to steal the spotlight from kids and to wait a week after the closing ceremony to announce results. OpenAI announced the results BEFORE the closing ceremony. According to a Coordinator on Problem 6, the one problem OpenAI couldn't solve, “the general sense of the IMO Jury and Coordinators is that it was rude and inappropriate” for OpenAI to do this.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=51313b4e9f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@sama:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5ac95c5457&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">we achieved gold medal level performance on the 2025 IMO competition with a general-purpose reasoning system! to emphasize, this is an LLM doing math and not a specific formal math system; it is part of our main push towards general intelligence. when we first started openai, this was a dream but not one that felt very realistic to us; it is a significant marker of how far AI has come over the past decade.</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=df91c5018c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@garymarcus:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8c99dc8042&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Is IMO really more prestigious that Putnam?</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fea17bb2a7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A 0-day flaw in Microsoft SharePoint is being exploited in RCE attacks on servers globally; no patch exists and tens of thousands of servers are at risk</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Washington Post</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250720/i11.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">Unknown attackers exploited a “significant vulnerability” in Microsoft's SharePoint … </span> <span class="cite">(Washington Post)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f8fff5791b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@msftsecresponse:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ad78728618&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Microsoft is aware of active attacks targeting on-premises SharePoint Server customers, exploiting a variant of CVE-2025-49706. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2025-53770. We have outlined mitigations and detections in our blog. Our team is working urgently to release a security update and will share more details as they become available. Read the full guidance in our blog:</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cd0978d46a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@shadowserver:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e275ec04bf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Alert: SharePoint CVE-2025-53770 incidents! In collaboration with @eyesecurity & @watchtowrcyber we are notifying compromised parties. Read: ... ~9300 Sharepoint IPs seen exposed daily (just population, no vulnerability assessment): ... [image]</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5572694cc3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@cisacyber:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f0fdce57da&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">We added Microsoft SharePoint server remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2025-53770 to our Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Visit & apply mitigations to protect your org from cyberattacks. #ToolShell [image]</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;background-color:#f4f4f4;" class="story sponsor"> <table class="leading_item" style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:middle;"> <span class="label" style="display: block;color: #686860;font-size: 12px;font-weight: bold;padding: 2px 0;">SPONSOR</span> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7a43e4d43a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Answers you asked for and ignored</a></span> <span class="excerpt" style="color: black;font-size: 16px;"> — You introduced yourself.You became good friends.You both agreed to catch up for brunch.And then...you left them hanging.This is how most candidates feel during the assessment stage of the Triple-A Feedback Loop (TAFL) system.</span> </td> <td style="padding:0 20px 0 15px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:right;"> <a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4c80a1ad39&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;"> <img class="sponsor_image" src="https://techmeme.com/simg/zoho-EplOzah5.png"> </a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="big_story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding-left:10px;vertical-align:top;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2edf4c00f5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Thoughts on the foldable iPhone's prospects ahead of next year's launch; sources: Apple will add a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the M5 iPad Pro</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> <td style="padding: 0 10px;vertical-align:top;"> <div class="narrow_image" style="position:relative;"> <img src="https://www.techmeme.com/250720/i7.jpg"> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="excerpt">When the first foldable iPhone debuts next year, it will be the least Apple-like launch ever.</span> <span class="cite">(Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)</span> </td> </tr> --> </table> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:5px 10px 3px;"> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ab8146138f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@saranbyte:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=89ff9e79b6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I'm surprised this isn't just a chip refresh, but interesting change. I wonder how many are annoyed by the landscape camera right now though to warrant a secondary front-facing camera</a> </div> <div class="tweet" style="padding: 1px 0;"> <img class="tweet_image" width="12" src="https://techmeme.com/img/twitter_x.png" style="width: 12px;"> <a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2bc192060e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@markgurman:</a> <a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e6f0444f05&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Apple is adding a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the upcoming M5 iPad Pro, so FaceTimers and selfie fans can use the device equally well in either orientation. Apple moved the camera from portrait to landscape with the M4 model.</a> </div> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1335cc8872&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jeff Wang / </span><span class="pub_name">@jeffwsurf</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="clustered_items" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:0px 10px 0 32px;"> <ul style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;"> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=944a38c367&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Shirin Ghaffary / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </li> </ul> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ec58177868&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after a video of him cuddling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Eleanor Hawkins / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b626ba6aac&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the UK may backtrack on its January order for Apple to create a backdoor for iCloud encrypted data after pressure from US officials, including JD Vance</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f1042f396d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marcus Mendes / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Mac</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="clustered_items" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr><td style="padding:0px 10px 0 32px;"> <ul style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;"> <li class="sub_item" style="margin:10px 0 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c7b6f5bb29&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The European Commission accepts Corning's offer to end exclusivity terms in its supply contracts, ending an antitrust investigation opened in November 2024</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Samuel Stolton / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </li> </ul> </td></tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0e0c01326b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10+ OpenAI researchers packages of $300M over four years, and asked OpenAI's Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d737fbdaa8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between “Islamists” and “Muslims”</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b32edc9c44&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: UK plans to designate Apple and Google as holding a “strategic market advantage” over rivals, subjecting them to new regulations and potential fines</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Washington Examiner</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=47656f9412&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Vultron, which makes AI tools for federal contractors, raised $22M from investors including David Sacks' Craft Ventures, raising ethical questions</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Connie Loizos / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=12efe32bf6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ben Fritz / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=233898c1b3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Qianer Liu / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> artificial intelligence </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2e357b8164&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent System Card outlines how its red team helped implement key security features like “Watch Mode Activation” and “Terminal Restrictions”</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Louis Columbus / </span><span class="pub_name">VentureBeat</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b63bcff59c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Melissa Heikkilä / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5c990aa458&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">South China Morning Post</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fd05e42b49&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How UK Biobank, a government-backed cloud database of 1B+ medical images from 100,000+ participants, is fueling breakthroughs in AI-driven diagnostics</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=fabee19963&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Mustafa Suleyman, who is in charge of Microsoft's efforts to commercialize AI, says he is focused on “humanist superintelligence” to solve hard social problems</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tim Higgins / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c6b03a38b6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Stuart A. Thompson / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=50ddc2e8ee&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Will Knight / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2d390f4c92&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How AI is reshaping higher education, as institutions grapple with the pace of change and technology companies move quickly to offer custom learning products</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> funding deals </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4bd4aef250&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ryan Lawler / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3669481566&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ryan Lawler / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0f01b7c072&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Riehl / </span><span class="pub_name">BetaKit</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3bc45f7e66&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Metinko / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> venture capital </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7da9a227e3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: at least six of China's biggest VC firms are targeting a combined $2B in new USD-denominated funds to allow overseas investment in Chinese startups</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2072ccb78f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Vy Capital, which has ~$15B of AUM and is a top backer of Elon Musk's companies, told external investors that it will not raise further outside money</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ivan Levingston / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="section" style="margin-top: 12px;"> <div class="section_header uppercase" style="border-bottom: 3px solid #004860;letter-spacing: 1px;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;padding: 4px 10px;text-transform: uppercase;"> more news </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="first_in_section story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b5da61c050&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How the Chinese hacking community Honkers, consisting of patriotic self-taught tech enthusiasts, became an integral part of China's cyberespionage apparatus</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kim Zetter / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3ab667b237&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200+ earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kasha Patel / </span><span class="pub_name">Washington Post</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=754b7356f5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at the video podcasting surge; study: ~75% of podcast consumers play video episodes and ~30% play video episodes minimized or in background mode</a></span> <span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Joseph Bernstein / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div style="width:100%;border-top:1px solid lightgray;padding:14px 0;" class="story"> <table class="leading_item" style="border-collapse: collapse;"> <tr> <td style="padding:5px 10px 0;"> <span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c05930143e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Reliance Retail launches Ajio Rush, a 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