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New York Times:
Sources: executives in Meta's AI division discussed “de-investing” in Llama and also discussed using models from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic  —  Unhappy with his company's artificial intelligence efforts, Meta's C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy …
Alex Heath / The Verge:
At an all-hands, Andrew Bosworth says Sam Altman is not happy about Meta getting OpenAI talent and is “being dishonest” about Meta offering $100M bonuses  —  A Meta exec calls Sam Altman “dishonest,” my conversation with the startup CEO who is suing OpenAI, and AI is coming for games.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Source: Meta has hired highly influential OpenAI researcher Trapit Bansal to work on its AI reasoning models under the company's new AI superintelligence unit
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google launches Doppl, an experimental AI app to let users virtually try on outfits by generating videos from photos, available on iOS and Android in the US  —  Google is launching a new experimental app called Doppl that uses AI to visualize how different outfits might look on you, the company announced on Thursday.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
PitchBook: US VC investment in AI startups rose 33% QoQ to $65B in Q1, up 550% from the quarter prior to ChatGPT's 2022 release  —  Companies like OpenAI, Amazon and Meta have supersized their spending on artificial intelligence, with no signs of slowing down.
David Uzondu / Neowin:
Google fully releases Gemma 3n, an open weights, multimodal AI model that can run on as little as 2GB of memory; the model was previously available as a preview  —  Google has announced Gemma 3n, the next generation of its open AI models, and it is a significant step up from what we saw before.
Reuters:
Germany's DPC says DeepSeek's app illegally transfers user data to China and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores in the country  —  Germany has taken steps towards blocking Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from the Apple (AAPL.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) app stores due to concerns …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple overhauls EU App Store to comply with DMA: developers can push offers and alt payments, and the Core Technology Fee will be swapped for tiered commission  —  Apple has announced several major changes to its App Store guidelines in the European Union as part of its ongoing efforts to comply with the Digital Markets Act.
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Swift, a coding language developed by Apple, is working to add Android support; Android apps are generally coded in Kotlin  —  Apple usually doesn't give Android the time of day, but that's not stopping the company's Swift coding language from expanding over to Android app development.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Q&A with Peter Thiel on economic and technological stagnation, US growth and dynamism, supporting President Trump in 2016, the future and risks of AI, and more  —  The original tech right power player on A.I., Mars and immortality.  — 1.7k … Ross Douthat: Is Silicon Valley recklessly ambitious?
Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Alibaba unveils text-to-image and image-to-image generation model Qwen VLo, with progressive generation tech, which shows the image creation process  —  The Hangzhou-based company introduced Qwen VLo, part of a series of AI services under the company's Qwen brand.
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Google has been banned from selling the Pixel 7 in Japan due to a patent dispute related to 4G connectivity; further bans against the Pixel 8 and 9 are possible  —  A patent dispute in Japan has led to Google no longer being able to sell select older Pixel devices, and the company behind it is gunning for newer generations too.
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
Dinari, which offers blockchain-based US stocks, secures a broker-dealer registration to become the first tokenized equity platform to secure approval in the US  —  Dinari, a startup that offers blockchain-based U.S. stocks, has secured a broker-dealer registration for its subsidiary …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
A look at The Browser Company's AI-first browser Dia, which merges AI models and hides that complexity for end users, pointing to the future of web browsing  —  About a week ago, I bit the bullet.  Reading the writing very clearly on the wall, I abandoned the Arc browser and jumped ship over to Dia …
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Sam Apple / Wired:
At a “couples retreat” for human-AI pairs, users of services like Replika and Nomi grapple with the virtual reality and emotional limits of their partners  —  I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb.  We barely survived.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI hires the team behind Crossing Minds, which raised $13.5M and works with e-commerce companies to improve their personalization and recommendation systems  —  Crossing Minds, a startup that provides AI recommendation systems to e-commerce businesses, said on Thursday that its team is joining OpenAI.
Callan Quinn / Decrypt:
Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week  —  Approval from Ireland's central bank gives Kraken the ability to operate across 27 EU states as it races to catch up to rival Coinbase.
Ian Allison / CoinDesk:
Kraken launches Krak, a payments app that lets users send funds P2P across 110 countries using 300+ assets, including crypto, stablecoins, and fiat currencies

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David Ellison / @ellisonskydance:
David Ellison announces that the combined Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will be called Skydance “to preserve what has made each of these studios iconic”

New York Times:
Sources: Trump personally told his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising his presidency; at least four spots have run at a cost of ~$5.5M

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney licenses a large group of titles to Netflix, including all five Ice Age movies, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Felicity, Elio, and more

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Wired:
Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE staffer known as “Big Balls” online, has joined the Social Security Administration days after resigning from the GSA
The Information:
Sources: Instagram and TikTok are working on versions of their apps customized to run on TV screens, following YouTube's success in attracting a TV audience
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Sources: Uber is in talks with Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of Pony.ai's US arm; Pony.ai has permits to operate robo taxis in the US and China

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Bloomberg:
Sources: Senate Parliamentarian raised concerns that the tax bill's ban on states from enforcing AI regulations may violate Senate rules, advising a rewrite
Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta is in advanced talks to buy PlayAI, which uses AI to replicate voices for interfaces that are as “responsive as a conversation between two people”
Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
Internal emails: ICE is using Mobile Fortify, an app that uses facial recognition and fingerprint scanning via phone cameras to identify people in the field
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft plans to replace the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11 with a simplified black screen “providing better information” in an update “later this summer”
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A federal judge rejects a joint motion by Ripple Labs and the US SEC to approve a reduced $50M fine to settle a lawsuit over XRP sales, and chastises both sides
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube launches an AI Overviews-like carousel for searches related to shopping, places, and things to do in a specific place, for Premium users in the US
Bloomberg:
Marc Benioff says “AI is doing 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce”, like software engineering and customer service, and its AI product has hit ~93% accuracy
Megan Morrone / Axios:
Anthropic releases preliminary results showing users who discuss emotional issues with Claude tend to grow more positive as conversations progress
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