Reuters:
Sources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to manufacture memory chips in the US but potential opposition from Seoul could be a major hurdle for the deal  —  South Korea's SK Hynix (000660.KS) is in talks with Intel (INTC.O) about a deal that would see it manufacture memory chips on U.S. soil …

Scott Aaronson / Shtetl-Optimized:
A theoretical computer scientist says he has heard rumors that AI labs are sitting on major solutions after a hostile response to the Navier-Stokes proof  —  Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy …

Munsif Vengattil / Reuters:
Police in Gujarat, India, to question Google after uncovering 500K+ Gmail IDs and passwords used to send hoax bomb threats to government offices since 2022  —  Indian police will question Google over a lack of safeguards after smashing a criminal network that set up and managed …

Sri Muppidi / New York Times:
Sources: investors recently approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its value should be at least $1.5T  —  The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world's most valuable private company.

Thomas Claburn / The Register:
TypeSafe AI debuts Jev, a model using “Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions” to produce typed probabilistic decisions that software can use directly  —  ‘Jev’ doesn't chat.  It produces typed probabilistic decisions  —  TypeSafe AI, a startup bestowed with $40 million in funding …

Becky Ferreira / 404 Media:
Google researchers help develop the first complete digital map of an adult male fruit fly's brain, which modders programmed to play Doom, trade BTC, and more  —  How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more.

Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Cybersecurity experts claim that AI leaders' apocalyptic hacking predictions are technically incoherent and reflect an unfamiliarity with the subject  —  Cybersecurity experts told NBC News that they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren't being addressed.

Valida Pau / The Information:
Source: AI assistant Instinct seeks to raise $1B at a $10B valuation, up from $2.25B less than a month ago; Sequoia and Benchmark are in talks to lead the round  —  The startup behind personal AI assistant Instinct is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of about $10 billion, a person with knowledge of the deal said.

SemiAnalysis:
Analysis: only ~2.3 GW of planned data center capacity is delayed by direct project-level policies like local moratoriums and New York's data center EO  —  300+ moratoriums mapped, 20GW sits inside a restricted local boundary, 1,525MW actually slips, 2.3GW nationwide including New York

Tom Giles / Bloomberg:
Zuckerberg says “Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security” and didn't call on other AI labs to do the same before acting  —  Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said artificial intelligence labs should rely …

New York Times:
Democrats and Republicans proposed many bills to address major AI threats over the past two years, but they remain stymied by partisan disputes and lobbying  —  For years, Democrats and Republicans have proposed bills to address the greatest threats posed by artificial intelligence.

New York Times:
Q&A with Matt Sheehan, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on US-China AI race, distillation, US chip export controls, and more  —  Look, I don't know if you are following every article, every tweet, every blog post from the A.I. labs right now, but we are in a frightening place.

Jyoti Mann / The Information:
Sources: Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall; the new model has six mics to let users speak with Meta's AI chatbot and Muse  —  Meta Platforms plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall, according to people familiar with the matter …

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes:
TypeSafe AI, which is developing a model that outputs numerical responses with probability estimates to help businesses assess reliability, raised a $40M seed  —  Former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida says most intelligence is going to live inside software.  But to automate any real work, it has to be correct.