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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns — It's only been a day since ChatGPT's new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes …
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Forums: r/technology, r/OpenAI, r/Bard, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, an open-source standard that connects AI models to data for more relevant answers — OpenAI is embracing rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides.
More: Microsoft on GitHub, The Information, OpenAI Agents SDK, The Decoder, Constellation Research, Analytics India Magazine, and VentureBeat
X: @sama, @openaidevs, @mikeyk, @levie, @jeff_weinstein, @maheshmurag, @tobi, @geoand86, @nilslice, @ritakozlov_, and @mattpocockuk
Forums: r/modelcontextprotocol, r/ClaudeAI, and r/modelcontextprotocol
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: after nearly five years of building a US plant, TSMC expects new factories to take two years; TSMC plans a 3nm US plant by 2028 and a 2nm one by 2030 — TAIPEI — When TSMC Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei stood next to U.S. President Donald Trump early this month and announced …
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Taipei Times, Android Headlines, TechSpot, and SamMobile
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google says it plans to develop Android fully in private to streamline its development process but will continue to publish the source code for new releases — Android OS development will now fully happen behind closed doors, but Google says it's committed to releasing source code
More: Ars Technica, 9to5Google, The Standard, Ghacks, Neowin, WinBuzzer, Business Standard, Beebom, SammyGuru, Chrome Unboxed, Phandroid, Liliputing, Android Central, ZDNET, Android Police, Droid Life, Android Headlines, and OSnews
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| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Nvidia releases G-Assist, an experimental, gaming-centric AI chatbot that runs locally and provides real-time system information for a given game — Most people use their Nvidia GPUs for games, but why not both? Nvidia has a new AI you can run at the same time, having just released its experimental G-Assist AI.
More: NVIDIA, NVIDIA GeForce on YouTube, KitGuru, The Verge, TechRadar, Tom's Hardware, Neowin, and Digital Trends. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Takeaways after using AI search exclusively for one month: AI search is more of a UX revamp than a replacement for Google's blue links-based web search paradigm — Ads and search-optimized junk made a mess of the go-to engine. Now ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude—and even Google's own AI—do it better.
More: Ars Technica, Yahoo Finance, and Search Engine Journal
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Alibaba releases open-source multimodal AI model Qwen2.5-Omni-7B on Hugging Face and GitHub, saying the model can be deployed on edge devices like smartphones — Alibaba Cloud launched Thursday its latest AI model in its “Qwen series,” as large language model competition in China continues to heat up following the “DeepSeek moment.”
More: Qwen, Hugging Face, Benzinga, South China Morning Post, Alizila, Barron's Online, KrASIA, Moneycontrol, Analytics India Magazine, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, and Tech in Asia. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Isabella Ward / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses — Researchers created the sequence using a quantum computer built by Honeywell's Quantinuum, according to a paper published in the scientific journal Nature on Wednesday.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is promoting Vanessa Trigub to VP of stores and retail operations globally, as it streamlines management of its retail arm under Deirdre O'Brien — Apple Inc. is naming a global head of stores, a move meant to streamline management of its retail arm under senior executive Deirdre O'Brien …
More: MacRumors, Benzinga, Fortune, iClarified, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Tech in Asia
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
The Trump administration cut $20M in funding for the Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees chip export controls, representing ~10% of BIS's budget — A White House move to cut 10% of the funding for the agency responsible for semiconductor export controls risks undermining US efforts … | Maggie Miller / Politico: |
DNI Tulsi Gabbard told a Congressional hearing that Signal comes “pre-installed” on government devices, hinting at a major shift following the Salt Typhoon hack — The app had been largely banned on government-issued devices in the past. — Director of National Intelligence …
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| Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: |
Sources: many new Chinese AI data centers sit unused due to weak demand and DeepSeek-driven shifts; local reports say ~80% of new computing resources are idle — A year or so ago, Xiao Li was seeing floods of Nvidia chip deals on WeChat. A real estate contractor turned data center project manager …
More: RCR Wireless News. Bluesky: @sungkim, @niallfirth, @lifewinning.com, and @technologyreview.com. Mastodon: @jukkan@mstdn.social
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| Bloomberg: |
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Forums: r/Economics, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Oracle customers confirm the authenticity of data samples shared by a threat actor who allegedly breached Oracle Cloud servers, after Oracle denied the breach — Despite Oracle denying a breach of its Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers and the theft of account data for 6 million people …
More: Computing, The Register, SecurityWeek, The Register, BleepingComputer, Security Boulevard, WebProNews, Australian Financial Review, Ace of Spades HQ, IT Brew, AIM, CSO, Cybersecurity Dive, ITPro, Information Age, Benzinga, and Cloud Computing News
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Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @jerry@infosec.exchange
LinkedIn: Tom Walker and Alon Gal
Forums: Hacker News and r/cybersecurity
| The Information: |
Source: Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Lepton AI, which rents Nvidia GPU servers, for several hundred million dollars; Lepton raised $11M in 2023 — Nvidia is in advanced talks to buy Lepton AI, a two-year-old startup that rents out servers powered by Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips …
More: DatacenterDynamics, TipRanks Financial, Benzinga, TechCrunch, and Tech in Asia
| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood plans to roll out checking and savings accounts in 2025 for its paying Gold subscribers, aiming to provide more of a private banking-like experience — Now it's taking it a step further: It also wants to be your bank. — Robinhood will roll out checking and savings accounts later … | Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
A US federal judge rejects OpenAI's request to dismiss the NYT's lawsuit, allowing the main copyright infringement claims to go forward while narrowing the suit — A federal judge on Wednesday rejected OpenAI's request to toss out a copyright lawsuit from The New York Times that alleges … | Bloomberg: |
Source: CoreWeave plans to cut the size of its IPO to ~$1.5B, offering 37.5M shares at $40 each, down from 49M shares at $47 to $55, a sign of market volatility — The cloud-computing provider plans to offer investors about 37.5 million shares at $40 apiece, according to the person … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help users plan vacations, including trip idea updates to AI Overviews and hotel price drop alerts — Google is rolling out a slew of new features — some powered by AI — across Search, Maps, and Gemini that are designed to help people plan their summer vacations.
More: The Verge, 9to5Google, and Android Central
| Colleen McClain / Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US adults: 34% support a TikTok ban, down from 50% in March 2023, and 49% say TikTok is a national security threat, down from 59% in May 2023 — Public support for a TikTok ban now stands at 34% among U.S. adults, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. That's down from 50% in March 2023.
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