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TELEGRAM'S FOUNDER, IN FIRST COMMENTS SINCE ARREST, DEFENDS THE APP
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov says that innovators should not be
personally liable for the potential abuse of the tools they create. He
says that growing pains on Telegram made it easy for criminals to
abuse the platform, but that he aims to significantly improve the
platform. French authorities arrested Durov in part due to Telegram's
apparent lack of response to requests related to criminal
investigations, but Durov says Telegram has official representatives
in the EU and that he had personally helped French authorities
establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism
in France. Telegram is expected to announce changes to address the
abuse of its platform very soon.

OPENAI CONSIDERS $2,000 MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION PRICES FOR NEW LLMS (2
MINUTE READ) [8]

OpenAI executives are reportedly considering $2,000 per month
subscription prices for the company's upcoming large language models.
The company plans to release its next-level artificial intelligence
product, Strawberry, in the fall. Strawberry will be able to solve
novel math problems, develop market strategies, and perform deep
research. OpenAI is also reportedly considering changing its corporate structure to be more simple and attractive to financial backers. It is
aiming to raise several billion dollars in a funding round that would
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THE ULTRA-SELFISH GENE (35 MINUTE READ) [9]

It is now possible for humans to genetically modify entire species by inserting genes into them with brute force. The technology has so far
gone unused, even though its deployment could mean the end of diseases
like malaria. It could be used for many positive things such as giving
raccoons immunity to rabies, editing insects so that they're more
vulnerable to safer pesticides, and preventing the spread of deadly
diseases. However, its existence presents many issues, such as the
possibility of a harmful gene being released into human populations.

A NEXT-GEN PAIN DRUG SHOWS PROMISE, BUT CHRONIC SUFFERERS NEED MORE
OPTIONS (17 MINUTE READ) [10]

Vertex Pharmaceuticals is currently seeking regulatory approval for a
new drug that looks promising in clinical trials. Suzetrigine could be
the first of an entirely new class of pain therapy. It targets
specific sodium ion channels found on pain-sensing nerve cells. While
the effect of the drug is modest, it demonstrates that the strategy of targeting sodium channels specific to pain-sensing neurons works,
leading to hope that the next generation of these compounds could
perform much better. Suzetrigine could be approved by early 2025.

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OAUTH FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES (14 MINUTE READ) [12]

This article presents an informal explanation of the OAuth flow.
Skipping over a lot of the nitty-gritty details, it details the
problems that OAuth solves by looking at various potential security
flaws. Resources for a deeper dive into the topic are available.

THE AI INDUSTRY IS OBSESSED WITH CHATBOT ARENA, BUT IT MIGHT NOT BE
THE BEST BENCHMARK (13 MINUTE READ) [13]

LMSYS' Chatbot Arena has become an industry obsession over the past
few months. It lets anyone on the web ask questions of two randomly
selected, anonymous models and then vote on their preferred answers.
Critics say that LMSYS has not been completely transparent about the
model capabilities, knowledge, and skills it's assessing on Chatbot
Arena. The limited data released by the company makes it challenging
to study the limitations of models in depth. While Chatbot Arena is
framed as an empirical test, it amounts to a relative rating of
models.

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MISCELLANEOUS

BILL GATES HAS A GOOD FEELING ABOUT AI (8 MINUTE READ) [14]

Bill Gates has spent billions on funding technologies he thinks will
shape the future. He has a new Netflix series that covers these
technologies, including AI, climate change, inequality,
misinformation, and global health. 'What's Next? The Future with Bill
Gates' is set to launch on September 18. This article contains an
interview with Gates where he discusses why he is so optimistic about
these technologies.

LEAKED DISNEY DATA REVEALS FINANCIAL AND STRATEGY SECRETS (5 MINUTE
READ) [15]

Hackers recently leaked a trove of data from Disney that included
financial and strategy information on the entertainment giant's
operations. It also included personally identifiable information of
some staff and consumers and granular details about revenue generated
by Disney products, park pricing offers that the company has modeled,
and login credentials for some of Disney's cloud infrastructure.
Disney says that it doesn't expect the incident to have a material
impact on its operations or financial performance. This article
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Visa plans to launch a dedicated service for account-to-account
payments in Europe next year that will allow users to set up direct
debits on merchants' e-commerce stores with just a few clicks.

HOW DATING APPS CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS (16 MINUTE READ)
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The number of older singles will expand significantly in the coming
years, but it is difficult to monetize dating apps.

TECH TYCOON LARRY ELLISON WILL CONTROL PARAMOUNT GLOBAL AFTER
SKYDANCE DEAL CLOSES (3 MINUTE READ) [19]

Larry Ellison, the megabillionaire founder of Oracle, will be the
majority shareholder for the company that controls Paramount Global
after the deal closes next year.

10 YEARS LATER, APPLE PAY IS AMAZING Ä AND ABOUT TO CHANGE (5
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Beginning with iOS 18.1, third-party developers will be able to
enable tap-to-pay transactions in their own apps - opening up NFC
access has the potential to turn tap-to-pay into tap-to-everything.

IS LINUX COLLAPSING UNDER ITS OWN WEIGHT? ON RUST FOR LINUX (6 MINUTE
READ) [21]

One of the developers of the Rust for Linux project recently resigned
from the project, a sign of deeper issues in Linux, both technical and cultural.

THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING MYSELF BE AUTOMATED (10 MINUTE READ) [22]

In a scenario where AI is useful but humans retain some comparative
advantage, we might not like where that comparative advantage lies.

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