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Aisha Down / The Guardian: 66 mins ago
A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race
Wall Street Journal: 3 hours ago
How success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan is driving stock gains, bigger bonuses, and a retail investing frenzy in Asian markets
Ella Creamer / The Guardian: 5 hours ago
Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner
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Angela Cullen / Bloomberg:
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France
John Jumper / @johnjumpersci:
John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize “for protein structure prediction”, says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic
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Bloomberg:
The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI
Ella Creamer / The Guardian:
Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner
Aisha Down / The Guardian:
A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more
Mishal Husain / Bloomberg:
Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online child safety efforts risk mass surveillance, leaving the markets that demand weakening of encryption, more
Nikita Ostrovsky / Time:
A look at Russia's push to develop homegrown AI talent, as the country is hampered by scarce access to AI hardware and a brain drain of top technical talent
Financial Times:
Sources: Bain Capital stands to make $15B+ in profits on its 2018 Kioxia buyout, a ~20x return, as Kioxia's stock has surged 5,000%+ since its December 2024 IPO
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Sources: the UK government is expected to consult as early as this month on rules to make public service news more prominent on social media and video platforms
Anna Heim / TechCrunch:
Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, raised $5M led by Lightspeed
Wall Street Journal:
How success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan is driving stock gains, bigger bonuses, and a retail investing frenzy in Asian markets
Maria Curi / Axios:
Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amodei was “nice” and “smart” at G7
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: PC makers, including HP, are in talks with their supply-chain partners about using CXMT's memory chips in products bound for Asia as DRAM prices soar
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis says the phonemaker won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone series due to surging memory prices
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of $8M+ in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for over eight hours in 2025
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