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Fullerton Health says breach compromised about 140,000 work pass records
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Tendrils raises $30M for CPU architecture with thousands of parallel cores
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Luminal raises $25 million Series A led by Standard Capital
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WhiteMatter raises $20 million Series A for AI agent oversight
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Airlines cancel flights as FAA outage threatens daylong disruption
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Italian privacy authority fines Meta €805 million over gallery access
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Researchers find exposed identity records and messages in Lovable apps
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Lutnick agrees to Senate testimony on Nvidia export controls
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Preprint demonstrates attacks that shift AI leaderboard rankings
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SaaStr says AI agent helped close two six-figure sponsorship deals
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Tesla's personal Cybercab terms require $299 monthly fee and bar commercial use
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Simons launches $80 million collaboration on brain energy use
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Cerebras adds cloud contracts as next processor enters system testing
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Duffy links FAA outage to wiring work, cites possible faulty router
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Jensen Huang leaves Nvidia with no named successor
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Tesla opens Cybercab orders to select customers at $30K
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FAA lifts nationwide ground stop as flights begin resuming
Infrastructure
FAA begins replacing legacy controller systems across 435 sites
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Modine shares rise after report of Samsung acquisition talks
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Audit reports arithmetic errors in VHDL standard packages
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Bessent questions Nvidia customer checks over alleged GPU diversion
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US seizes infrastructure behind North Korean FaceStealer campaign
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Malaysia plans GPU import disclosures and charges for unused power capacity
AI
Researchers link Chinese AI model weights to Nvidia Blackwell hardware
Robotics
Chinese military university develops drone to deliver medication by dart
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Trump Nvidia purchases raise conflict concerns over chip export policy
Science
AFTER-WM preprint reports lower robot prediction errors after dynamics change
AI
Preprint finds selective problem rewriting improves model accuracy
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Preprint reports lower distillation costs using a fraction of teacher scores
AI
Preprint presents method for planning with uncertain AI perception
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EvoX preprint reports higher agent task success through runtime controls
AI
Preprint finds truthful error notes improve AI agent recovery
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Preprint recombines model outputs to produce additional verified molecular designs
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RSI-PDE preprint reports higher equation-solving pass rates with fewer model calls
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Preprint reports GPU guidance improves CPU constraint-solving results
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Preprint reports workspace tools improve local AI data-engineering results
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AerialVP preprint reports drone-image gains without model retraining
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HyperSkill preprint reports reasoning gains with frozen model weights
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guardscope checks which AI agent actions security controls inspect
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Preprint runs quantum replacements for language-model blocks on IBM hardware
Science
Together AI reports inference compiler gains of up to 2.6x
AI
AutoAssumption searches algorithm assumptions to improve pruning and cache eviction
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MIGRO preprint reports smaller memory storage across language model handoffs
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Preprint uses early confidence signals to reduce AI reasoning computation
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Neuro-VL preprint reports gains in interpreting complete brain imaging examinations
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GenPFN preprint reports gains in generating feasible engineering designs
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OpenOrange offers Workers deployment on infrastructure developers choose
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ggml 1.0.0 adds FP8 support and breaks compatibility with older RPC peers
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Display prototype moves sound across the screen with video objects
Science
Simons renews quantum computing and mathematics collaboration with $6 million
Infrastructure
Amtrak booking problems disrupt reservations during FAA ground stop
Robotics
Researchers print a swimming robot with six light-powered muscles
AI
Google connects Gemini to Wallet for personal finance queries
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Claude Code Projects adds proactive updates and thread sharing
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Fly-E's retail retreat cuts revenue 33.7% and compresses margins
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Nvidia shareholders urge board to consider Huang's return
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FIRE says US agencies agree to end efforts to curb ICE reporting tools
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Network update caused FAA system crash, sources say
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GS Caltex reports cutting model deployment from about a week to hours
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