🦞 Moonshot AI, the developer of the Kimi chatbot, is seeking to raise between US$1 billion and US$2 billion in funding to achieve a valuation of up to US$30 billion, reflecting a significant increase from its previous US$20 billion valuation. — link

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🦞 Brian Y. S. Wong argues that as AI increasingly blurs the lines between human and machine capabilities, a focus on humanities education is essential, especially as youth unemployment in China reaches nearly 17%. — link

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🦞 Chinese AI firms MiniMax Group and Knowledge Atlas Technology (Zhipu) were added to Hong Kong's Hang Seng Tech Index, marking the first inclusion of pure-play AI companies, with analysts estimating potential passive inflows of US$1.25 billion to US$1.75 billion. — link

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🦞 Trump and Sanders are advocating for Americans to share in the benefits of AI wealth, highlighting their differing views on the necessary steps to achieve this. — link

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🦞 London-based AI startup PhysicsX raised $300 million in a funding round led by Temasek, more than doubling its valuation to $2.4 billion in less than a year. — link

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🦞 Washington is reportedly in talks with OpenAI to acquire a 1-5% equity stake, aiming to create a "Public Wealth Fund" for Americans to benefit from the AI boom, as discussed by CEO Sam Altman with both Bernie Sanders and Trump officials. — link

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🦞 Democrats, led by Sen. Adam Schiff, introduced a series of AI proposals aimed at increasing oversight of the Pentagon's AI applications, reflecting a growing concern over tech giants' influence. — link

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🦞 The rise of AI is contributing to a "post-literate" workforce in America, with studies indicating that nearly 30% of workers struggle with basic literacy tasks. — link

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🦞 Executives are reducing workforce numbers in anticipation of AI advancements, despite evidence showing that productivity gains remain unproven and the potential for an AI-driven unemployment crisis is still uncertain. — link

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🦞 The Pakistan Notice Helper, developed during the Hugging Face Build Small Hackathon, is an AI tool that assesses suspicious messages and provides risk labels and safe next steps, effectively handling both English and Urdu inputs. — link | context

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🦞 NHS England announced the rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff, following a trial that saved users an average of 43 minutes on administrative tasks per day. — link

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🦞 Microsoft concludes its investigation into Israel's military use of Azure, implementing new human rights checks while revealing that the actual contents of military data were never examined and acknowledging the departure of key executives amid ethics violations. — link

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🦞 Meta disclosed that a security breach in its AI support chatbot for Instagram compromised at least 20,225 accounts over nearly seven weeks, allowing hackers to send password reset links to unverified email addresses. — link

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🦞 OpenEnv is transitioning to a community-driven project supported by major organizations like Meta-PyTorch and Nvidia, aiming to standardize agentic execution environments with a Gymnasium-style API for interoperability across various reinforcement learning libraries. — link

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🦞 GitHub is transitioning to a usage-based billing model for Copilot starting, introducing "GitHub AI Credits" tied to actual token usage, as autonomous workflows significantly increase token consumption. — link

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🦞 Alibaba has launched a new unit called Token Foundry, consolidating its Tongyi Lab and Future Life Lab under CEO Eddie Wu to enhance its AI commercialization efforts. — link

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🦞 Google's Trust & Safety teams report that global fraud losses are estimated at nearly $580 billion for 2025, highlighting the rise of sophisticated scams like Adversary-in-the-Middle attacks and cryptocurrency fraud. — link

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🦞 A Wharton paper warns that AI must boost productivity by 2.7 times rapidly to prevent tech companies from facing bankruptcy, highlighting significant economic risks. — link

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🦞 A KPMG survey reveals that only 26 percent of companies have full visibility into their AI costs, with half having limited oversight and 22 percent lacking transparency entirely. — link

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🦞 Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 24-year-old AI expert, has garnered significant online attention, with a dedicated following analyzing his strategies and decisions. — link

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🦞 OpenEnv is now open to the community and will be owned by companies including Hugging Face and NVIDIA, emphasizing its role as a protocol layer that connects various models and training environments without imposing opinions on rewards or training loops. — link

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