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💰 Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI
🤔 Facebook is getting an AI dating assistant
💥 Tesla's robotaxi test had three crashes on day one
🚀 US intel officials “concerned” China will soon master reusable launch
📉 AI-generated “workslop” is destroying productivity
📡 Secret Service dismantles network capable of shutting down cell service in New York
🎁 + 16 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
💰 Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI LINK
Nvidia plans a $100 billion investment in OpenAI to build massive data centers, deploying 10 gigawatts of its systems for the company's next-generation AI infrastructure.
The deal allows the ChatGPT-maker to reduce its reliance on Microsoft for cloud computing resources and team up with other partners on new AI data center projects.
It remains unclear if the payment will be in chips or cash, but OpenAI will work with Nvidia as a "preferred strategic compute and networking partner" for its AI factory growth.
🤔 Facebook is getting an AI dating assistant LINK
A new chatbot called the dating assistant will find prospective partners based on specific user interests, provide date ideas, and even offer suggestions for improving your personal profile.
Another AI feature named Meet Cute uses a "personalized matching algorithm" to present you with a surprise candidate each week, though Meta has not explained how it assesses compatibility.
These AI additions are intended to fight "swipe fatigue," with the assistant starting a gradual rollout for people in the US and Canada who want help finding a match.
💥 Tesla's robotaxi test had three crashes on day one LINK
Tesla's robotaxi test in Austin experienced three separate crashes on its first day of operation, July 1, after the automaker had logged a mere 7,000 total miles in testing.
Two of the crashes involved another car rear-ending a Model Y, while the third saw a Tesla with a safety operator on board collide with a stationary object, causing a minor injury.
By contrast, Waymo’s crash rate is more than two orders of magnitude lower, with just 60 crashes logged over 50 million miles of driving; that company has now logged 96 million miles.
🚀 US intel officials “concerned” China will soon master reusable launch LINK
A US Space Force intelligence official expressed concern that China mastering reusable lift would let them place more capability on orbit at a much quicker cadence than is currently possible.
The United States' key advantage over China is SpaceX's success in recycling rocket parts, which includes 500 successful landings of its Falcon 9 first stage booster to date.
Without a reusable rocket, China requires 14 different types of launchers to achieve a launch rate that is less than half of what the US accomplishes, mostly using the Falcon 9.
📉 AI-generated “workslop” is destroying productivity LINK
Harvard Business Review has defined "workslop" as AI-generated office content that appears polished but lacks substance, shifting the burden of correcting the task to the person who receives it.
A recent survey reveals that 40 percent of U.S. workers received workslop last month, reporting an average of nearly two hours of lost time to fix each low-quality AI output.
The phenomenon creates an invisible cost of $186 per employee each month, and half of workers say they view colleagues who send them workslop as less capable and reliable.
📡 Secret Service dismantles network capable of shutting down cell service in New York LINK
The Secret Service dismantled a New York network containing over 300 SIM card servers and 100,000 SIM cards that were used to make threats against senior US government officials.
This system had the potential to disable cellphone towers and shut down the cellular network across the city, which would have also disrupted emergency communications for the entire area.
Found near the UN General Assembly, the well-funded operation was capable of processing 30 million text messages per minute and hiding communications between foreign actors and known individuals.
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- Bain warns that AI revenue hole may be far wider than earlier assumedLINK
- Oracle promotes two presidents to co-CEO roleLINK
- After India, OpenAI launches its affordable ChatGPT Go plan in IndonesiaLINK
- Stellantis confirms data breach involving customers' contact informationLINK
- Google revamps its Play Store with AI features and moreLINK
- SpaceX's lunar lander could be 'years late' for a planned 2027 mission to the moonLINK
- Huawei Bets On Brute Force To Outpace NvidiaLINK
- Scale AI launches Seal Showdown, a new benchmarking toolLINK
- All Amazon Fresh stores in UK to closeLINK
- Perplexity launches an AI email assistant for Max subscribersLINK
- Klarna CEO Makes Employees Review His AI-Generated Vibe Coding ProjectsLINK
- EU investigates Apple, Google, and Microsoft over handling of online scamsLINK
- Notion AI agents get security update after data leakLINK
Latest research and tools
EyesGuard: an open-source application designed to protect users' eyes from screen-related strain by reminding them to take breaks.
Notion: an application that provides a workspace for note-taking, task management, and organizing personal or collaborative projects.
Siyuan: a self-hosted personal knowledge management application for privately organizing notes, documents, and ideas.LINK
Qwen3-Omni: an AI model that processes text, images, audio, and video to provide real-time responses in text or natural speech.LINK
Zoxide: a command-line tool that remembers your most frequently used directories, allowing you to jump to them with just a few keystrokes.LINK
Paper2Agent: Stanford Reimagining Research Papers as Interactive AI Agents: this project transforms research papers into interactive AI agents that can answer questions about their own content.LINK
A collection of technical things every software developer should know: a curated list of articles, papers, and other resources on essential technical topics recommended for every programmer to improve their knowledge.LINK
X server for SIXEL terminals: a project from 2010-2014 that allows graphical applications to run and be displayed inside text terminals that support the SIXEL graphics format.LINK
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