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Congress May Accidentally Help China Win the AI Race
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USMNT World Cup player ratings: high marks for McKennie and Tillman, but Pulisic and Dest fall short
The Guardian has published player ratings for the United States men’s national team following their disappointing exit from the World Cup, assessing how each member of the squad performed across the tournament. While the campaign ended in frustration, the piece argues there were genuine positives, particularly from a younger core of players who enhanced their…
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Women and university graduates in Australia most at risk of losing jobs to AI, report finds
A first-of-its-kind Australian government report has found that women and university graduates are the workers most exposed to having their jobs displaced by artificial intelligence, while those in manual and vocationally trained roles are least at risk. The report, drawing on data from Jobs and Skills Australia, warns that occupations such as telemarketers, accountants, advertising…
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This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster
Verity Harding, who led global public policy at Google DeepMind between 2016 and 2020, argues that the widespread framing of artificial intelligence as an “arms race” is not merely inaccurate but actively dangerous. In a newly curated essay anthology, Reframing the AI Arms Race, she and contributors including historian Lawrence Freedman and Japanese politician Taro…
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OpenAI gets permission to roll out GPT-5.6 to the public on July 9
OpenAI has announced that it will publicly launch all three variants of its new GPT-5.6 model series — named Sol, Luna and Terra — on Thursday 9 July, after receiving government clearance for a wider release. The launch matters because it is one of the first tests of a new US framework in which AI…
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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
French AI startup ZML has released ZML/LLMD, an inference-server product that lets a range of open-source large language models run across chips from multiple vendors — including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal and Intel Arc. The launch matters because inference — the processing of prompts, as opposed to model training — has become a…
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AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
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Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
“HalluSquatting” weaponizes LLMs’ inability to say “I don’t know.”
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Australia dock workers call for 28-hour week in AI talks
A union says workers are “in the crosshairs” of automation as AI is being tested across ports.