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Thinking Machines Lab: 70 mins ago
Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that “extends human will and judgment”
Reuters: 2 hours ago
SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says the memory industry is heading for its worst-ever supply shortage in 2027 and demand will outstrip supply beyond 2030
Corbin Bolies / Variety: 2½ hours ago
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole “Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI”, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns
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CNBC:
Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple says OpenAI leadership “normalized” misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is “rotten to its core by its illegal reliance” on stolen trade secrets
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license
Corbin Bolies / Variety:
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which let users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
SK Hynix closed up 12.76% at $168.01 in its first day of trading on Nasdaq, after raising $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
In preliminary findings, the EU Commission said Facebook's and Instagram's “addictive design” violates the DSA, telling Meta to make changes or risk hefty fines
Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive:
CISA says weak security controls around the use of public GitHub repos allowed a contractor to accidentally leak private cloud access keys and other credentials
Reuters:
SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says the memory industry is heading for its worst-ever supply shortage in 2027 and demand will outstrip supply beyond 2030
CNBC:
Source: Greg Brockman will continue to oversee OpenAI's products as the company doesn't plan to hire anyone to replace Fidji Simo after she stepped down
Bloomberg:
Analysis: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, the top spenders on new US data centers, collectively added ~$350B in debt over the past five years
Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg:
Circle says it received US regulator approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank, allowing it to offer institutional custody services
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
OpenAI and Google sold AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, reigniting calls for tighter US regulation of AI models
Thinking Machines Lab:
Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that “extends human will and judgment”
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