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2026-08-16How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
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2026-08-16French PM Lecornu will hold a crisis meeting Monday over a June-July cyberattack on France's tax agency that compromised 678K individual and business accounts (Phil Serafino/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-16Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May (Bloomberg)
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2026-08-16Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases (Alex Janin/Wall Street Journal)
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2026-08-16How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (Washington Post)
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2026-08-16A profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them (Jason Douglas/Wall Street Journal)
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2026-08-16Malaysia's 6% Q2 GDP growth was powered by 7.5% manufacturing growth, driven by chipmaking, and 6.6% construction growth, supported by data center development (Owen Walker/Financial Times)
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2026-08-16Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers says most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs (Timothy Gowers/Gowers's Weblog)
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2026-08-16Hugging Face says developers made 151K+ derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem (Hugging Face)
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2026-08-16BlackBerry posted a positive cash position in Q1, its first cash-positive first quarter in any fiscal year since 2017, driven by its QNX and Secusmart products (Ilya Gridneff/Financial Times)
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2026-08-16Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its "Post-Transformer" BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation (Antoine Tardif/Unite.AI)
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2026-08-16Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population (Grace Shao/Bloomberg)
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2026-08-16Dario Amodei defends his policy proposals, warns open weights won't decentralize power, endorses pre-launch vetting, says real accomplishments will earn trust (Dario Amodei/@darioamodei)
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