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💥 Mira Murati’s startup is now worth $12B
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- Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has closed a $2 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the new company at $12 billion.
- The company plans to reveal its first product in a few months, which will include a “significant open source offering” for researchers building custom AI models.
- Murati is staffing the venture with former OpenAI coworkers and investors already consider it a legitimate threat to established labs like Google DeepMind and Anthropic.
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🤝 Meta hires two more top researchers from OpenAI
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- Jason Wei, a researcher who worked on OpenAI's o3 models and reinforcement learning, is reportedly leaving the company to join Meta’s new superintelligence lab.
- Hyung Won Chung, who focused on reasoning and agents for the o1 model, is also departing after previously working closely with Wei at Google and OpenAI.
- Their hiring follows a pattern of Meta recruiting entire groups of AI talent with established working relationships, often poaching them directly from its chief rival.
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😠 WeTransfer angers users with its new terms
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- WeTransfer angered users with a new clause in its terms allowing it to use uploaded files to "improve performance of machine learning models."
- Following the backlash, the company said the text was for AI content moderation and has since removed the specific language from its policy.
- The updated rules still grant a "royalty-free license to use your Content" for improving the service, and they go into effect on August 8th.
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💼 OpenAI prepares an AI office suite to challenge Microsoft
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- OpenAI is reportedly building an AI office productivity suite, turning its ChatGPT chatbot into a work platform with document editing and data analysis tools.
- This move creates a complex dilemma for Microsoft, which funds OpenAI and provides its Azure cloud infrastructure while now facing competition in its core market.
- The company is also exploring its own web browser and has hired key architects from Google's Chrome team to reduce dependency on its tech rivals.
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🛡️ Google says ‘Big Sleep’ AI tool found bug hackers planned to use
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- Google's AI agent, Big Sleep, discovered a critical security flaw identified as CVE-2025-6965 in the widely used open-source SQLite database engine.
- The company's threat intelligence group first saw indicators that threat actors were staging a zero day but could not initially identify the specific vulnerability.
- Researchers then used Big Sleep to isolate the exact flaw the adversaries were preparing to exploit, which the company says foiled an attack in the wild.
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🚗 Uber to roll out thousands of Baidu robotaxis
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- Uber and Baidu have agreed to a multi-year deal that will put thousands of Apollo Go autonomous vehicles onto the Uber platform outside the US.
- The rollout of these driverless Apollo Go AVs will begin later this year in certain markets across Asia and the Middle East, according to the companies.
- Riders will not be able to request a Baidu AV directly but may be given the option to have a driverless Apollo Go vehicle complete their trip.
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