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Can Red-Light Therapy Treat Brain Injuries? (science.slashdot.org)
6 minutes ago

Epsilon Health, which contracts with radiologists who use its AI to generate image reports faster, emerges from stealth with a $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp (www.axios.com)
43 minutes ago AI

NYC-based Luminary, which develops AI-powered workflow tools for estate planning and wealth transfer management, raised a $22M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital (www.wealthmanagement.com)
1 hour ago AI

Male Fruit Fly Brain Trained to Play Doom (games.slashdot.org)
3 hours ago

Amazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app (techcrunch.com)
3 hours ago Amazon

Positron, which is designing AI inference processor Asimov featuring a “memory-first architecture” and up to 2.3TB of memory, raised $875M at a $5B valuation (www.wsj.com)
4 hours ago AI

Some experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections (www.bloomberg.com)
4 hours ago AI Apple

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B (www.reuters.com)
6 hours ago IPO Nvidia

Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks” (www.wsj.com)
7 hours ago

Sources: Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago (www.businessinsider.com)
7 hours ago

Sources: US Senate negotiators are debating a bill to impose a “duty of care” for AI companies and let the government block the release of models deemed unsafe (www.reuters.com)
7 hours ago AI Senate

PlayStation Ditched Hideo Kojima's 'Physint' on Budget Concerns, Missed Deadlines (games.slashdot.org)
7 hours ago Budget

Citrini Research founder James van Geelen has sold the firm to SemiAnalysis for an undisclosed sum; sources: van Geelen plans to launch a new fund (www.bloomberg.com)
8 hours ago

FOIA docs: the CFTC launched at least three previously unreported investigations into Polymarket trading, including about Google's 2025 Year in Search Ranking (www.wired.com)
8 hours ago Google CFTC

US Legislators Complain About Secretive British Court and Apple Encryption (news.slashdot.org)
9 hours ago U.K. Apple

Hackers abused Claude to extract secrets from 1.8M Android apps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 hours ago Android

Sources: the DOJ is investigating whether Nvidia tried to skirt antitrust scrutiny of its 2025 Groq deal, which Groq called a “nonexclusive licensing agreement” (www.nytimes.com)
9 hours ago Nvidia

NYC-based AI sales and marketing startup Clay raised $115M led by Wellington Management at a $7.1B valuation, up from $3.1B when it raised $100M in August 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
9 hours ago Startup AI

LinkedIn profiles show Google appears to have completed its talent deal, reportedly for $1.5B+, with AI coding startup Mechanize (www.businessinsider.com)
9 hours ago Google LinkedIn Startup AI

A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics (terrytao.wordpress.com)
9 hours ago AI Mathematics

The UK's Office for National Statistics cites AI as a major driver of the country's summer growth spurt, with GDP growing 0.4% in July, above expectations (www.bloomberg.com)
10 hours ago AI GDP

Florida confirms DMV database breached via stolen police account (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
10 hours ago Database

Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo joins the board of directors at AI infrastructure startup Nscale; Simo will continue as a part-time adviser to OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
10 hours ago Startup AI

Sources: Cohere is in advanced talks to raise between $2B and $3B, including financing from the Canadian government and existing backers, at a $20B valuation (www.theglobeandmail.com)
10 hours ago Canada

Sources: some lawmakers urge Speaker Johnson to cancel the fall House recess until Congress passes AI safeguards, after Anthropic researcher warnings (www.axios.com)
10 hours ago AI

Altman Considers Slowing Down AI Development (slashdot.org)
11 hours ago AI

Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
12 hours ago Microsoft

Sources: in an internal Slack message Matt Mullenweg claims he is back in control of Automattic; on X, he says this may have been fifth coup attempt against him (techcrunch.com)
12 hours ago Slack

UK Government Rejects 'Kill Switch' Idea For Dangerous AI (yro.slashdot.org)
12 hours ago AI

Meta says it is making changes to Meta AI's suggested prompts after a viral Instagram video showed it posing invasive questions about a woman's young daughters (futurism.com)
13 hours ago AI Instagram

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