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The US and allies reveal that the hacker group known as Cadet Blizzard is part of the GRU's Unit 29155, which is responsible for assassinations in Europe (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired: The US and allies reveal that the hacker group known as Cadet Blizzard is part of the GRU’s Unit 29155, which

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A US judge issued a last-minute partial block on Texas law HB 18, that would require some large web services to identify minors and filter what they see online (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Adi Robertson / The Verge: A US judge issued a last-minute partial block on Texas law HB 18, that would require some large web services

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LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims has been "thoroughly cleaned" of CSAM (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: LAION, a research org whose dataset was used to train Stable Diffusion and other models, releases a new dataset it claims

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Seattle-based startup Supio, which uses AI to help lawyers analyze documents, raised a $25M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based startup Supio, which uses AI to help lawyers analyze documents, raised a $25M Series A led by Sapphire Ventures  — 

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An interview with Nomad List and Photo AI founder Pieter Levels, aka @levelsio on X, on launching 12 startups in 12 months, the digital nomad life, and more (Lex Fridman)

Lex Fridman: An interview with Nomad List and Photo AI founder Pieter Levels, aka @levelsio on X, on launching 12 startups in 12 months, the

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Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL review: great build quality, brighter screens, faster fingerprint sensors, but the AI features are inconsistent and all over the place (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL review: great build quality, brighter screens, faster fingerprint sensors, but the AI features

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Arize AI: 56% of Fortune 500 companies cited AI as a "risk factor" in their recent annual reports, up from 9% in 2022; 86% of software firms cited AI as a risk (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: Arize AI: 56% of Fortune 500 companies cited AI as a “risk factor” in their recent annual reports, up from

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California announces support for adding driver's licenses or state IDs to Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, rolling out "in the coming weeks" (Shawna Chen/Axios)

Shawna Chen / Axios: California announces support for adding driver’s licenses or state IDs to Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, rolling out “in the coming

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Researchers: in the 30 US states which legalized access to online betting, citizens' likelihood of filing for bankruptcy went up 25-30% after about three years (Slow Boring)

Slow Boring: Researchers: in the 30 US states which legalized access to online betting, citizens’ likelihood of filing for bankruptcy went up 25-30% after about

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[Thread] A roundup of recent announcements from researchers, businesses, and academic institutions opposing California's AI safety bill (@martin_casado)

@martin_casado: [Thread] A roundup of recent announcements from researchers, businesses, and academic institutions opposing California’s AI safety bill  —  .@Scott_Wiener continues to falsely claim narrow