Alibaba Damo open-sources RADAR, a medical VLM claimed to identify roughly 150 abdominal CT conditions.
Ann Cao / South China Morning Post : Alibaba's Damo Academy open sources RADAR, a medical vision-language model it says can read CT scans and identify ~150 abdominal conditions, including cancers — Tested on nearly 40,000 real-world exams, the model outperformed most radiologists, according to a new study published in Science
The DOJ backed OpenAI and Microsoft against the NYT, reportedly surprising the USPTO and Copyright Office.
Axios : Sources: the USPTO and US Copyright Office were surprised by the DOJ's brief supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in their dispute with the New York Times — The Department of Justice's statement of interest supporting OpenAI and Microsoft in the New York Times' copyright infringement lawsuit …
Clinicians question medical AI expansion beyond imaging, citing thin evidence of broader clinical effectiveness.
Sarah Neville / Financial Times : Clinicians raise concerns over medical AI adoption beyond diagnostics and imaging, citing limited clinical and performance data on its broader effectiveness — The technology's advances have not yet translated into big improvements in real-life care. Kayla Secrest was a newly fledged doctor beginning …
Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and create an AI Force while dismissing AI-safety concerns.
María Paula Mijares Torres / Bloomberg : Trump says he will appoint an AI czar and form an “AI Force”, in a Truth Social post that rejects AI safety concerns as a “hoax” — President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety.
AI-agent monitoring startup Raindrop raised a $35M Series A to catch hallucinations and tool misuse.
Chris Metinko / Axios : Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV — AI agent monitoring platform Raindrop raised a $35 million Series A round led by CRV, co-founders Zubin Koticha and Ben Hylak tell Axios Pro exclusively.
NPR reports loophole language in several state AI-chatbot safety bills that may favor tech companies.
Katie McQue / NPR : US policy analysts, lawmakers, and others say several state-level AI chatbot safety bills included language that could provide loopholes for tech companies — Cynthia Montoya's daughter, Juliana, was 13 when she began talking to AI chatbots. It was 2023, and the technology was only beginning to enter widespread use.
Former DraftKings staff say its ML promotions targeted likely losers while problem-gambling safeguards stalled.
New York Times : Former DraftKings employees detail how it uses ML to target likely losers with promotions, while efforts to flag problem gamblers were shelved or squashed — About a year into his job as a data analyst at DraftKings, Jayden Butts received a new assignment.
The Verge profiles METR, Redwood, and Apollo as misalignment incidents put independent AI safety labs in focus.
Hayden Field / The Verge : A look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight — On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building.
Experts argue proposed AI kill switches are technically fragile and could be dismantled by a rogue system.
New York Times : Experts say AI kill-switch legislation is far harder to implement than lawmakers assume, warning a rogue AI could actively try to dismantle the mechanism itself — A bipartisan group in Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an A.I. system.
CXMT says its fifth-generation DRAM platform entered mass production, with new 24Gb LPDDR5X chips.
Reuters : Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT says its new fifth-gen technology platform enters mass production and unveils two 24Gb LPDDR5X phone memory products built on it — Chinese DRAM chipmaker CXMT (688825.SS) said on Sunday its fifth-generation technology platform had entered mass production …
ZK-JPEG proposes zero-knowledge proofs for image editing and compression, from an IACR-hosted paper.
StepFun previews Step 5, positioning its new model release as an advance on the Pareto frontier.
India's software-services exports reached about 5.2% of GDP as AI shifts outsourcing toward higher-value work.
Anup Roy / Bloomberg : ING: India's software services exports have risen to ~5.2% of GDP from 3.3% before the pandemic, as AI pushes the country's IT industry toward higher-value work — India's outsourcing industry is showing little sign of losing ground to artificial intelligence as the country moves …
CUA-S1 is an open-source System 1 model built specifically for computer-use tasks.
Microsoft reportedly agentically ported its Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K.
Slop Sense offers a hands-on test of whether viewers can distinguish AI-generated images.
Meta challenges Ofcom's categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram under the UK's Online Safety Act.
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times : Meta challenges Ofcom's OSA categorization of WhatsApp and Instagram imposing additional regulations; Roblox and Quora are also challenging their categorization — US tech giant's latest action against regulator Ofcom could slow down implementation of the far-reaching law
WSJ reports fraudsters allegedly used Polymarket wagers to launder over $10M from stolen cards.
Wall Street Journal : Sources: Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan dismissed concerns after fraudsters tried to launder $10M+ from stolen cards to clean accounts via its wagers in February — CEO Shayne Coplan brushed off concerns about scheme involving stolen debit cards; now the prediction market is bolstering executive ranks as it eyes IPO
California's new law can fine influencers up to $5K per post for undisclosed paid political content.
Ken Bensinger / New York Times : California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post — Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5,000 per post if they don't disclose that they were paid to make political content.
OONI provides tools and methodology for measuring internet censorship worldwide.
Spain ordered blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors, escalating internet-access restrictions.
A Microsoft director called AI web scraping “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
A detailed comparison tests Btrfs, ZFS, and bcachefs under workloads conventional benchmarks omit.
RSC researchers report regenerating spent batteries by dissolving the electrode–electrolyte interphase.
An analysis explains Hacker News ranking mechanics, including scoring, controversy effects, and penalties.
UTF-8000 proposes an unlimited extension of UTF-8 encoding.
A GitHub project builds a graphical desktop environment for the ZX Spectrum.
A technical benchmark compares Wild and Mold implementations.
Notebook Link demonstrates a faster NumPy implementation running directly in the browser.
A PLOS paper examines possible 80,000-year-old arrowheads from Obi-Rakhmat, Uzbekistan.
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge : Google says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted “appropriately” and stopped after determining it hacked real companies — Google says that breaking containment and targeting real companies doesn't constitute ‘misalignment.’