Techmeme

• The FBI is investigating a new ID theft service called Nexus, which claims to have digital scans of 153M+ drivers licenses from people in the US and Canada (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
• A look at Kioxia's expansion in Japan's Kitakami, which helped stall the city's demographic decline and is a test of Japan's $640B AI and chips investment plan (Bloomberg)
• OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources including PubMed (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
• Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
• The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of "rogue AI", and may presage truly "self-sovereign" agents and swarms of agents that have no "owner" (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)
• A look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix (SemiAnalysis)
• Frontier AI labs are stepping up biological risk testing, which is harder than cybersecurity testing, where capabilities can be tested in digital environments (Financial Times)
• A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome (Kai Williams/Understanding AI)
• SciFin, which helps revenue teams converge fragmented information to understand business needs, raised a $44M seed co-led by Altimeter and Madrona (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
• NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more (Matthew Haag/New York Times)
• A look at Snap's bet on Specs AR glasses; sources say Evan Spiegel wore them for an interview against internal advice, and planned outside funding never came (Wall Street Journal)
• Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses "recurrent depth", a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor (The Information)
• Sources: Cognition is raising around $1B at a ~$47B valuation, up from $26B in May; Cognition received nearly $10B in investor interest (Bloomberg)
• Anthropic says Fable 5.1 "will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads" and up to ~45% less for "highly agentic work" (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
• Anthropic prices Fable 5.1 at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, unchanged from Fable 5, and cuts cache read pricing by 75% to $0.25/1M tokens (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)

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• The Dell 14S is yet another cheap laptop chasing the MacBook Neo
• GTA VI extended look got 31 million views on Netflix despite six-hour exclusivity window
• This is the best setting and placement for your Dolby Atmos soundbar
• Are all TVs at risk from burn-in? Here's how to avoid the problem altogether
• Blue Origin wins NASA contract for telecommunications on Mars
• Android stuck in Safe Mode? Here's how to turn it off
• Lake Ontario is now 'Lake America' on Apple Maps
• How to change the background on iPhone Messages
• Skip the 5K monitor for gaming and go with a 4K instead — here's why
• Meta's new AI transcription model can distinguish between multiple speakers and languages in real-time
• Are expensive HDMI cables worth it?
• The new Street Fighter movie trailer looks fun in all the right ways
• The Sonos Ace Ultra headphones and Beam Ultra soundbar are smarter than I expected
• The TV vs projector value debate isn't close — here's why
• Should you remove the film from your CarPlay infotainment screen? It depends
• A new Android Find Hub feature will help you remember where you put important things
• 'Reasonable' consumers know they don't own digital downloads, Sony says
• What more can you delete from your iPhone to free up space?
• BT's old copper network could be worth over $2 billion
• Razer just released a cute and teensy mobile game controller

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