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AI News Digest · Aug 5

Bending Spoons, an Italian app developer, agreed to acquire Airtable, a project-management software company, for $1.28 billion in an all-stock deal. The acquisition is expected to expand Bending Spoons' portfolio of productivity tools and marks one of the largest deals in the sector this year.

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AI News Digest · Aug 5
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Here are today's 30 AI stories at a glance — tap any headline for the full story:

AI Models Are Beating Benchmarks Designed to Catch ThemHmmDoorDash Air Got FAA Certification — But Your Dinner Won't FlyThe Return of the Ceiling-Less GSpaceX Grapples with AI Compute Costs as Starlink ExpansionTitle: White House AI Guidelines Exempt U.S.Chinese Labs Release 10 Open Models in 30 Days — US StartupsAI Stock Rout Hits Hedge Funds Hard in JulyClaude Code vs. OpenAI AgentsOpenAI Just Dragged Apple Into the Dirt Over Those Trade SecretWhy the New Leapmotor Z9S Feels Overpriced Despite Its TechOpenAI Faces $1M Settlement Over Alleged Bias Against U.S.White House's Closed-Door Approach to AI Safety TestingOpenAI Settles $3.Bending Spoons to Acquire Airtable for $1.28B in All-Stock Deal**Burry's Chip Short PredictionTexas Freezes Data Center Permits Over Grid Strain ConcernsBuilding Self-Improving RL Environments That Scale With ModelMaple-Preview: 20B MoE Hits 120 tok/s on iPhoneLocal AI Voice Agent on $50 Arduino UnoCredit default swaps (CDS) are essentially insurance contractsBuilding Self-Improving AI Agents: Stanford CS329A InsightsAI data centers are sprouting up everywhereAI-Powered Cybercrime Surges Across AfricaDuckDuckGo's Privacy-First Vision: Sunglasses Over SurveillanceHow China's Space Tech Powers Olympic Podium WearOpen-Source LLMs Are Having Their Oppenheimer MomentGoogle's $200B Bet on Anthropic** Anthropic Secures $10B Compute Deal with Volta for AI Scaling**Simple self-hosted LLM assistant with user-steered compounding

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