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Brookfield says it plans to invest ~$10B to build an AI data center in the Swedish city of Strangnas, after committing to spend €20B in France earlier in 2025
Steven Levy / Wired: 15 mins ago
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on “a 50% chance” of AGI in the next five to 10 years, bad actors and technical risks, AI regulation, jobs, and more
Bloomberg: 35 mins ago
Photos and partial footage of an FSD-enabled Tesla sideswiping a parked vehicle and hitting a woman in November 2023 shows FSD's limits; the NHTSA is probing it
Hayden Field / The Verge: 70 mins ago
Google pauses the rollout of Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and user experience, per a Google product manager on X
Christopher Cruz / Rolling Stone: 85 mins ago
An interview with Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki on balancing chaos and accessibility, redesigning core mechanics, and more, ahead of its June 5 launch
Nathan Vifflin / Reuters: 2 hours ago
Nokia, Nvidia, Safran, and 40+ organizations plan to build an EU-funded unmanned drone project to protect critical infrastructure, set to launch in three years
Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: 3½ hours ago
An interview with Gaia Marcus, director of the UK-based think tank Ada Lovelace Institute, on AI regulation in the UK and Europe, AI safety, bias, and more
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AI coding startups are at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI; a source says Microsoft's GitHub Copilot grew to $500M+ in revenue in 2024
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OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, turned off by default, and expands availability to ChatGPT Plus users
Molly White / Citation Needed:
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and the TRUMP memecoin team announce the “Official $TRUMP Wallet” and open a waitlist; Trump's sons deny any involvement or knowledge
Hayden Field / The Verge:
Google pauses the rollout of Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and user experience, per a Google product manager on X
Christopher Cruz / Rolling Stone:
An interview with Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki on balancing chaos and accessibility, redesigning core mechanics, and more, ahead of its June 5 launch
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Source: ~1,000 people have left CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750+ taking a buyout, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third
Sophia Fox-Sowell / StateScoop:
A bipartisan group of over 260 US state legislators sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years
Steven Levy / Wired:
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on “a 50% chance” of AGI in the next five to 10 years, bad actors and technical risks, AI regulation, jobs, and more
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google's NotebookLM now lets users share notebooks publicly; people can interact with a public notebook by asking questions or exploring generated content
Kate Payne / Associated Press:
A US federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for kids under 14, saying the law is “likely unconstitutional”
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.1B, in line with est., forecasts Q2 revenue below est., approves a $1B share buyback; CRWD drops 6%+
Shannon Cuthrell / IEEE Spectrum:
A look at Australian startup Cortical Labs' CL1, billed as the first code-deployable biological computer, with 115 units shipping this summer at $35K each
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
The Trump administration announces plans to reorganize the US AI Safety Institute into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation
Bloomberg:
Photos and partial footage of an FSD-enabled Tesla sideswiping a parked vehicle and hitting a woman in November 2023 shows FSD's limits; the NHTSA is probing it
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