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Practical Takeaways from FPF’s Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop
https://fpf.org/blog/practical-takeaways-from-fpfs-privacy-enhancing-technologies-workshop/
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Profiles of OpenAI's heads of research Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki, where they discuss the path toward more capable reasoning models and superalignment (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/3

The two people shaping the future of OpenAI’s research
An exclusive conversation with Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s twin heads of research, about the path toward more capable reasoning models—and superalignment.

Visual prostheses in the era of artificial intelligence technology https://www.dovepress.com/visual-prostheses-in-the-era-of-artificial-intelligence-technology-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-EB "stimulat…

Visual Prostheses in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Technology | EB
the lack of consensus over their efficacy for improving RCPs, highlights a significant knowledge gap that needs to be addressed.

RATE: An LLM-Powered Retrieval Augmented Generation Technology-Extraction Pipeline
Karan Mirhosseini, Arya Aftab, Alireza Sheikh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21125 https://…

RATE: An LLM-Powered Retrieval Augmented Generation Technology-Extraction Pipeline
In an era of radical technology transformations, technology maps play a crucial role in enhancing decision making. These maps heavily rely on automated methods of technology extraction. This paper introduces Retrieval Augmented Technology Extraction (RATE), a Large Language Model (LLM) based pipeline for automated technology extraction from scientific literature. RATE combines Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with multi-definition LLM-based validation. This hybrid method results in high rec…

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Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
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(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

Mit dem „Stellen Sie sich vor, es betrifft Sie persönlich“-Argument kann man alles begründen. Mit dem Abwägen von Grundrechten hat es dieser Staatsanwalt nicht so. https://flipboard.com/@nzz_ch/technologie-61hqqojtz/-/a-bLrcbVBNTjue2k…

Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit: The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence aren’t paying off - NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/technology/mic…

Microsoft Backs Up A.I. Spending With $27.2 Billion Quarterly Profit
The company’s results are likely to ease investors’ worries that big investments in artificial intelligence aren’t paying off.

RD Technologies, which is developing a stablecoin backed by Hong Kong dollar, raised $40M ahead of HK's stablecoin licensing regime set to take effect on Aug. 1 (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/364778/hong-kongs-rd-technologies-raises-4…

Oxide Computer, which provides on-premise cloud computers to businesses, raised a $100M Series B led by Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cloud-server-startup-oxid…