Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference  —  We closely track efforts by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to get access to more server chips to run their models.  But we don't talk enough about the work …

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Source: Taiwanese authorities raided Super Micro's Taiwan office as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips to China; SMCI closed down 8.1% (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Source: Taiwanese authorities raided Super Micro's Taiwan office as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips to China; SMCI closed down 8.1%  —  Super Micro Computer Inc.'s offices in Taiwan were raided by government authorities on Monday, widening an investigation …

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As a new law bars DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms drop companies like Alibaba and Tencent (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
As a new law bars DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms drop companies like Alibaba and Tencent  —  Washington's most powerful lobbying firms are rushing to cut ties with Chinese tech giants including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd …

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Sources: component and supplier lists, and photos of iPhone 18 Pro models, are among files a ransomware group stole from Apple's Indian supplier Tata (Reuters)

Reuters:
Sources: component and supplier lists, and photos of iPhone 18 Pro models, are among files a ransomware group stole from Apple's Indian supplier Tata  —  Sensitive lists of components and suppliers, and photos of Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models are part of files posted on the dark web …

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Google's Earthquake Alerts system reached 11.4M+ people in Venezuela, giving them seconds or up to two minutes notice before two powerful earthquakes struck (New York Times)

New York Times:
Google's Earthquake Alerts system reached 11.4M+ people in Venezuela, giving them seconds or up to two minutes notice before two powerful earthquakes struck  —  Jose Flores was driving with his family to see “Toy Story 5” on Wednesday in Caracas, Venezuela, when a loud earthquake alert went off on his wife's Google Android phone.

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Letter: Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to boost bloc independence from US and Chinese tech (Marton Eder/Bloomberg)

Marton Eder / Bloomberg:
Letter: Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to boost bloc independence from US and Chinese tech  —  Austria is pushing the European Union to consider hosting Anthropic PBC within its borders to counter US efforts to block foreigners …

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GPT-5.6 system card indicates Sol is well below the level of most worrisome Mythos use cases, suggesting all GPT-5.6 versions could be released without delay (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)

Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
GPT-5.6 system card indicates Sol is well below the level of most worrisome Mythos use cases, suggesting all GPT-5.6 versions could be released without delay  —  While we wait for a general release, the system card is the best hint as to what is going on with the new candidate for America's Next Top Model, GPT-5.6.

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