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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils Gemma 3, the “world's best single-accelerator model”, running on a single GPU, in 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B sizes, and says it outperforms Llama-405B — Following version 1 in February 2024 and 2 in May, Google today announced Gemma 3 as its latest open model for developers.
More: The Verge, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Hugging Face, and The Keyword
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI debuts a Responses API to help developers build agents that search the web, scan for files, and perform tasks on PCs, and an Agents SDK for orchestration — OpenAI's new Responses API comes with web search, the ability to look through files, and computer use out of the box.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google updates Chrome's extension rules to ban affiliate link injection without user action or benefit, after Honey allegedly stole creators' affiliate revenue — Honey was accused of shadily swapping out affiliate links, and now Google has new rules for extensions targeting exactly that.
More: Chrome for Developers, 9to5Google, The Hacker News, and SC Media
| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI trained an AI model that is good at creative writing and shares a short story it wrote; he's “not sure yet how/when it will get released” — we trained a new model that is good at creative writing (not sure yet how/when it will get released). this is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right. PROMPT: Please write a metafictional literary short story
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| New York Times: |
Filings: Google owns a 14% Anthropic stake but holds no voting rights, board seats, or board observer rights; Google aims to invest $750M more in September 2025 — The internet giant owns 14% of the high-profile artificial intelligence company, according to legal filings obtained by The New York Times.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: TSMC has pitched Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, and Qualcomm about taking stakes in a JV to run Intel Foundry; TSMC would hold no more than a 50% stake — TSMC (2330.TW) has pitched U.S. chip designers Nvidia (NVDA.O), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) and Broadcom (AVGO.O) …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is in final talks to acquire AdHawk Microsystems, a Canadian maker of eye-tracking tech, for $115M, including $15M in performance-based payments — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is in final talks to acquire AdHawk Microsystems Inc., a maker of eye-tracking technology, part of a renewed push into headsets and smart glasses.
More: Android Authority, TipRanks Financial, Patently Apple, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, and Benzinga. Bluesky: @newsynick
| Dave2D on YouTube: |
Mac Studio with M3 Ultra and 512GB of unified memory review: opens up new workflows on a ~$10,000 desktop, like running a quantized version of DeepSeek R1 671B — My review of Apple Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra with Gaming benchmarks and Deepseek R1 If you'd like to support the channel, consider a Dave2D membership by ...
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
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| Reuters: |
Manus partners with Alibaba's Qwen to integrate Manus' AI agent functions with AI models and computing platforms in China and to collaborate on Qwen's AI models — China's Manus AI announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with the team behind tech giant Alibaba's Qwen AI models …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Bengaluru is becoming an AI talent hub as overseas startups compete with Big Tech; Bain & Co predicts India's AI talent gap will reach 1M workers by 2027 — The San Francisco-based startup plans to hire more than 300 people for its AI, product and engineering teams at its Bangalore development center … | Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Mike Verdu, who joined Netflix in 2021 to launch its game offering and took on a new role as VP of Generative AI for games four months ago, has left the company — Plus: Some key changes for this year's Game Developers Conference — Mike Verdu, the executive who led Netflix's foray …
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| The Information: |
Source: Anthropic's annualized revenue grew from $1B at the end of 2024 to $1.4B in early March; Manus uses tools including Claude 3.7 Sonnet to power its agent — Anthropic's year is off to a good start. — Its annualized revenue—a measure of the past month's revenue multiplied by 12 …
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
The Senate approves Gail Slater, President Trump's pick to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit, by a 78-19 vote; she has been critical of power in the tech industry — Slater, a longtime Washington lawyer, has been particularly critical of power in the tech industry.
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, CCIA, Axios, and Reuters
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| Riddhi Kanetkar / Business Insider: |
OpusClip, which offers a multimodal AI tool to simplify short-form video editing for creators, raised $20M led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 at a $215M valuation — - AI startup OpusClip has secured $20 million in funding, led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2. — The startup uses natural …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's largest telco Jio Platforms partners with SpaceX to offer Starlink in the country, just hours after rival Airtel announced a similar partnership — Jio Platforms, the subsidiary of India's conglomerate Reliance Industries and the country's largest telecom operator … | Reuters: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Deliveroo exits Hong Kong after tough competition from Foodpanda and Meituan's Keeta, which has expanded to Saudi Arabia, with 1M weekly users, per Sensor Tower — Deliveroo Plc will close its Hong Kong business after weak sales and mounting competition in the city weighed on the company's international division.| David Latona / Reuters: |
Spain's government approves a bill, pending lower house assent, imposing fines of up to €35M or 7% of annual turnover on firms not labeling AI-generated content — Spain's government approved a bill on Tuesday imposing massive fines on companies that use content generated by artificial intelligence …
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| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
A look at UK fintechs Revolut and Monzo's push to expand in the US, where they face steep challenges in a complex regulatory environment and strong competition — Revolut and Monzo face steep challenges in a complex regulatory environment and competitive retail banking sector| The Reporters' Collective: |
A look at community apps like Kutumb mobilizing millions of Indians for politics, spreading disinformation, and inciting hate, beyond civil watchdogs' scrutiny — Away From Scrutiny, New Networking Apps Are Mobilising Millions of Indians For Politics, Disinformation and Hate.| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Mesh raised an $82M Series B, settled mostly in PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and led by Paradigm, to expand its stablecoin-based payments settlement network — The fundraising was completed using PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and was led by Paradigm. — What to know:
More: Mesh, NFTgators, PYMNTS.com, crypto.news, The Block, and VC News Daily
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Cartesia, which is developing real-time generative AI models for voice AI, raised a $64M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, taking its total funding to $91M — Since 1897, Karan Goel's family has been running the same business. — “My great-great-grandfather started a manufacturing business back in the day,” said Goel.Sponsor Posts
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UiPath:
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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