Reuters reports the quant firm lost roughly $15 billion in July, with sources tying the damage to positions built around the Situational Awareness AI thesis as that trade unwound.
Thompson's week-in-review covers the capital constraint on AI buildouts, AI writing, and a tale of two cities.
Matthew Green argues the encryption fight has quietly moved past the old backdoor debate: with end-to-end encryption widely deployed, law enforcement increasingly buys and deploys device exploits instead, which changes the threat model for everyone.
With Chrome's Manifest V3 migration complete across the Chromium browsers, Firefox is the only remaining major browser where the original uBlock Origin still works.