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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, above $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% YoY to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates — Nvidia Corp.'s latest sales forecast drew a bearish response from investors, signaling that concerns over a potential bubble continue …
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| Citadel Securities: |
Citadel rebuts Citrini's viral article, arguing that AI deployment is constrained by the marginal cost of compute vs. human labor, and needs far more compute — Copyright © Citadel Enterprise Americas LLC or one of its affiliates. All rights reserved.
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new “retirement interview” process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter — As we develop increasingly capable AI models, it's currently necessary to deprecate and retire our past models due …
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| Tim Anderson / The Register: |
A Cloudflare engineer rebuilt Next.js from scratch in one week using AI, reimplementing 94% of its API and spending $1,100 on Claude tokens — Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in — A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Burger King launches Patty, an OpenAI-powered voice chatbot in headsets that offers coaching, meal prep help, and evaluates interactions for “friendliness” — AI chatbot ‘Patty’ is going to live inside employees' headsets. … Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
New York's AG sues Valve over its use of loot boxes, accusing the game developer of violating state gambling laws and threatening to addict children to gambling — New York's attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Cisco warns of a critical SD-WAN bug that was actively exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023; CISA and its international partners issue emergency directives — Cisco is warning that a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, tracked as CVE-2026-20127 …
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| New York Times: |
As China grapples with a shrinking population and low birthrate, some women are finding romance with AI chatbots, leading Beijing to increase AI regulations — As China grapples with a shrinking population and historically low birthrate, people are finding romance with chatbots instead.| Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: |
AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning “programming is becoming unrecognizable” — It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the …
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| Suzanne Smalley / The Record: |
The US FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions …
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT refused to assist a user associated with Chinese law enforcement in planning an online campaign to discredit Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi — OpenAI said its ChatGPT AI service refused to assist an individual associated with Chinese law enforcement in planning an online campaign …
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| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google, but will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind — Google is moving further into physical AI by bringing a familiar robotics software platform under its wing.
More: Intrinsic, Engadget, The Robot Report, Fortune, and Moneycontrol
| Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: |
eBay says it plans to cut ~800 jobs, or ~6% of its full-time employees, after laying off ~500 people in early 2023 and ~1,000 staff in early 2024 — EBay Inc. is cutting about 800 jobs, or 6% of its full-time employees, saying the layoffs are needed to align its workforce with strategic priorities.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia — Meta is planning something similar for its chatbots later this year. — Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon plans to invest up to $50B in OpenAI, $35B of which could hinge on an IPO or AGI milestone; OpenAI is discussing custom models for Amazon — Amazon's decision to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI could hang on whether OpenAI goes public or reaches a loosely defined milestone known …
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: super PACs for and against AI regulation have raised $265M ahead of the midterms, with pro-AI groups significantly outraising pro-regulation groups — Midterm election contests poised to become battlegrounds over nascent technology — Alex Bores was on the way to his wedding anniversary dinner … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is in talks with Visa, Mastercard, and Indian banks ICICI, HDFC, and Axis as part of its plans to launch Apple Pay in India around mid-2026 — Apple Inc. is in discussions with key Indian banks and global card networks in preparation to start Apple Pay in the world's most populous country.
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| Arijeta Lajka / New York Times: |
An analysis of 1,000+ YouTube Shorts videos recommended to kids: the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, AI-generated videos, and many lack disclosures — Experts caution that low-quality, A.I.-generated videos on YouTube geared toward children often feature conflicting information …
More: Digit and New York Times
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Filing: C3.ai plans to cut ~26% of its workforce; the company had ~1,200 employees as of April 2025; C3.ai shares drop 20%+ on weaker FY guidance — C3.ai Inc., a maker of data analysis software, is cutting about a quarter of its workforce after the appointment of a new chief executive officer.
More: CNBC, C3.ai, Inc., Investing.com, Benzinga, SiliconANGLE, Benzinga, Barron's Online, and SFGATE
| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Revel, founded by ex-SpaceX Starship software lead Scott Morton to replace legacy systems that test complex hardware like rockets, raised $150M led by Index — The start-up, founded by a former top SpaceX engineer, promises to help companies reduce their testing times and optimize systems.
More: FinSMEs, Index Ventures, and Pulse 2.0
| Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: |
OpenAI says it will make London its largest research hub outside of the US, without giving specific details; OpenAI's European headquarters are in Dublin — ChatGPT maker OpenAI said on Thursday that it would make London its largest research hub outside the United States … | Nick Huber / Financial Times: |
Several UK consultants have left large firms to start AI consultancy startups, as growth in the country's AI consulting sector outpaces the broader market — A number of consultants have left big firms to create their own software companies to automate common and repetitive work| Wall Street Journal: |
Mistral and Accenture sign a multi-year deal to let Accenture deploy Mistral's models for its clients; Mistral has deals with IBM, Cisco, SAP, ASML, and others — Accenture is added to its list of major clients at a critical juncture in the AI race — Mistral AI struck an agreement … | The Information: |
OpenAI hires Meta AI researcher Ruoming Pang, who joined Meta from Apple about seven months ago for a pay package reportedly worth $200M+ over several years — OpenAI has hired a high-profile AI researcher at Meta Platforms who had joined the company from Apple about seven months ago, a spokesperson from OpenAI confirmed.
| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Q&A with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak on building a general-purpose brain for robots, standing out among big tech's robotics efforts, the path to AGI, and more — Deepak Pathak has spent 15 years trying to solve one of the hardest problems in AI: getting machines to move through and manipulate the physical world.
More: SiliconANGLE
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling Gemini to autonomously perform tasks using apps like Uber and DoorDash — Gemini's in the driver's seat. … Google's Gemini AI is getting one step closer to being more like an actual assistant.
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Bluesky: @reckless and @turboshawn.com
Forums: r/technews and r/Android
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Rowspace, which builds AI tools for PE firms and hedge funds to organize unstructured data for decision-making, launches with $50M in seed and Series A funding — After meeting in graduate school at MIT, Michael Manapat and Yibo Ling embarked on different career paths.
More: Tech Funding News and FinTech Global
| Michelle Chan / Financial Times: |
Tech companies are increasingly turning to GPU-backed debt, a model pioneered by CoreWeave, using SPVs to shift debt off their balance sheets — Investors attracted by high yields as companies look to shift debt off their balance sheets — Tech companies are increasingly turning … | Reuters: |
Sources: DeepSeek did not share its upcoming V4 model with US chipmakers, including AMD and Nvidia, but granted early access to Chinese companies like Huawei — DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence lab whose low-cost model rattled global markets last year, has not shown U.S. chipmakers …
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