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In an interview at the Federal Reserve, Sam Altman warns of an impending "fraud crisis" because of how AI could enable bad actors to impersonate other people (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/tech/openai-sam-altman-fraud-crisis

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of an AI ‘fraud crisis’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a “fraud crisis” because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.

The Power of Strong Linearizability: the Difficulty of Consistent Refereeing
Hagit Attiya (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), Armando Casta\~neda (Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico), Constantin Enea (LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS and Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18401

The Power of Strong Linearizability: the Difficulty of Consistent Refereeing
This paper studies the relation between agreement and strongly linearizable implementations of various objects. This leads to new results about implementations of concurrent objects from various primitives including window registers and interfering primitives. We consider implementations that provide both strong linearizability and decisive linearizability. We identify that lock-free, respectively, wait-free, strongly linearizable implementations of several concurrent objects entail a form of…

Amazon launches its second batch of 27 Kuiper satellites to low Earth orbit via a ULA rocket, taking the total in orbit to 54 of its planned 3,236 constellation (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/amazon-kuiper-satellites-musk-starlink.h…

Amazon launches second batch of Kuiper internet satellites, taking on Elon Musk's Starlink
Amazon has sent more Kuiper craft into space as it looks to deploy a satellite constellation that rivals Starlink, a service operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Q&A with David Luan, head of Amazon's AGI research lab, on leaving Adept in a reverse acquihire deal, why he believes progress on AI models has slowed, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race
David Luan, the head of Amazon’s AGI lab, on GPT-5, agents, and the path to winning the AI race.

The FTC approves Omnicom's $13.5B acquisition of rival Interpublic on the condition that the new company does not boycott platforms over political content (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Study: only 32 countries, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, host AI data centers, with the US, China, and the EU controlling 50% of the world's top facilities (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

A.I. Computing Power Is Splitting the World Into Haves and Have-Nots
As countries race to power artificial intelligence, a yawning gap is opening around the world.

Sources: Google reduces its Google TV and Android TV budget by 10% and cuts Android TV and Google TV's ~300 employees by up to 25%, as it focuses on YouTube (Sahil Patel/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-cuts-sm…

Google Cuts Smart TV Budget as It Doubles Down on YouTube
Google has cut its smart TV budget and trimmed its team—marking the most concrete signs yet of the company’s waning interest competing with the likes of Samsung and Roku as it centers its TV business around YouTube. The company has reduced the budget for Google TV and Android TV 10%, according ...

A US federal jury gives five Nevada men varying prison sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/five-sentenced-for-running-piracy-streaming-site

5 Nevada men sentenced to prison for running Jetflicks pirated content site
The Justice Department said it ended “the largest internet privacy case… ever to go to trial as well as the first illegal streaming case ever to go to trial.”

Google releases a study saying a median Gemini text prompt uses 0.26mm of water and makes ~0.03g CO2; critics call it misleading for omitting indirect water use (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/763080/google-ai-gemini-water-energy…

Google says a typical AI text prompt only uses 5 drops of water — experts say that’s misleading
Google estimates that a Gemini text prompt uses a minimal amount of water and energy, but experts say the study paints an incomplete picture of AI’s environmental toll.

Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/trump-intel-stake.html

Intel Agrees to Sell U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business
The deal is among the largest government interventions in a U.S. company since the rescue of the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis.