WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data

Japanese manufacturer Omron says it will acquire US industrial PC firm OnLogic and its parent company, Interlogic, for $675M, to boost its "physical AI" efforts (Anton Bridge/Reuters)

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Leading Chinese mathematicians launch an alliance, including eight orgs and aiming for 1,000+ scientists, to focus on developing specialized AI models for math (Chao Kong/South China Morning Post)

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Sources: JPMorgan and Goldman, leading a $5B loan sale with a yield of ~11% for AI startup Volta, took a rare move to limit exposure by underwriting just $1.3B (Claire Ruckin/Bloomberg)

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Anthropic researchers say small AI models may be months away from being able to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes (Anthropic)

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The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office

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Sources: Epic has delayed the release of an upcoming game, instructing developers to implement an "AI first" production model with "no more hand-written code" (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

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