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Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal “safety theater” and said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving Trump “dictator-style praise” — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …
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Forums: r/singularity, r/technology, and r/politics
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models — Dario Amodei is meeting deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology
More: Benzinga, The Economic Times, Gizmodo, Business Today, CNBC, The Information, Tech Times, Digit, and Crypto Briefing
Forums: r/singularity, r/technology, r/ClaudeAI, and r/OpenAI
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Google announces an Android app store program and lower developer fees to resolve Epic's antitrust litigation and comply with new rules in Europe and elsewhere — Alphabet Inc.'s Google unveiled a new system for apps on its Android phones and tablets Wednesday, agreeing to easier access …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/Android
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google's Epic settlement term sheet prohibits Tim Sweeney from criticizing Google's app policies until at least September 2032 and mandates he praise them — Google has finally muzzled Tim Sweeney. … Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world.
More: Engadget, Digital Trends, Digit, and Silicon Canals
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
A Europol-coordinated law enforcement operation disrupts Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to tens of millions of phishing messages each month — An international law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol has disrupted Tycoon2FA, a major phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) … | Reuters: |
Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers — Google (GOOGL.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O), Meta (META.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge …
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Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation AI model development, after the resignation of Qwen AI head Lin Junyang — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (9988.HK) said on Thursday it would set up a new task force to accelerate foundation model development … | Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: |
A look at Munich's UnternehmerTUM, which tops the FT ranking of Europe's startup hubs for a third straight year and has supported 1,000+ companies since 2002 — Centre tops the FT's ranking of Europe's leading start-up hubs for the third time — A trip to Stanford University …
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Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 — A defiant Elon Musk on Wednesday took the stand in a jury trial to defend himself against accusations that he engaged in a pattern … | Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI hit $25B annualized revenue by February's end, up from $21.4B at 2025's end; OpenAI annualizes by multiplying the last four weeks' revenue by 12 — OpenAI topped $25 billion in annualized revenue as of the end of last month, according to a person familiar with the figure.| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
OpenAI releases a dedicated Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for PowerShell developer environments, after launching on macOS in February — At the start of February, OpenAI upgraded its Codex coding app to give it the ability to manage multiple AI agents.
More: TestingCatalog, Thurrott, PCWorld, The Decoder, The New Stack, and Neowin
| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and others are among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration — An eclectic group including Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, Richard Branson, Ralph Nader, Susan Rice and Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu signed the letter.
More: Human Statement, The Verge, The Deep View, and TechCrunch
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| Keely Quinlan / StateScoop: |
A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving “substantive response, information, or advice” — A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.
More: Law360 and Reason
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| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members — The marketplace was one of the world's largest hubs for cybercrime with more than 142,000 members.
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| Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated creative elements like artwork or lyrics — Apple Music is introducing a new set of metadata requirements designed to bring greater transparency around AI-generated content to the music industry.
More: MacRumors, TechCrunch, Music Ally, Tech in Asia, CNET, AppleInsider, Happy Mag, and 9to5Mac. Forums: MacRumors Forums
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Apple unveils the $599+ MacBook Neo, with a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, an A18 Pro chip, side-firing speakers, a 1080p webcam, two USB-C ports, and Touch ID — Apple debuts a new entry-level MacBook at just the right time — Apple finally took the wraps off its long-rumored budget laptop.
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Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing — OpenAI has picked two law firms, Cooley and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, to prepare for an initial public offering that could come as soon as this year …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
| CNBC: |
Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $19.31B, above $19.18B est., AI revenue up 106% YoY to $8.4B, and announces a $10B share buyback program — Broadcom reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue and issued a strong forecast for the current period as the chipmaker continues … | The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B — OpenAI has held early talks to partner with The Trade Desk, a publicly traded ad tech company, to help the ChatGPT maker sell ads …
Bluesky: @edzitron.com
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OpenAI is scaling back shopping directly inside ChatGPT via Instant Checkout by having checkouts instead take place in the specific apps that plug into ChatGPT — OpenAI is scaling back its plan to introduce shopping directly inside ChatGPT, marking a change in its high-profile effort to put checkouts inside the chatbot.| Miles Klee / Wired: |
Grammarly is offering an AI-powered tool called “Expert Review” that simulates feedback from famous writers, dead and living, without their permission — The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.
More: Futurism and Grammarly Support
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz, @manishakrishnan, and @ceaubin.com
| Bloomberg: |
JD.com reports Q4 revenue up 1.5% YoY to ~$51B and a ~$391M net loss, its first loss in nearly four years, on weak Chinese spending and a food delivery battle — JD.com Inc. reported its first quarterly loss in nearly four years following a costly foray into food delivery …
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