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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
San Francisco police arrested a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also making threats outside OpenAI's headquarters — An attacker allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO's residence before making threats outside of the startup's headquarters.
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| Sam Altman: |
Sam Altman reflects on the attack on his house, OpenAI's success, personal regrets, and advocates for de-escalating rhetoric and tactics in the AI industry — Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. — Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and other banks are testing Anthropic's Mythos model internally; JPMorgan Chase is the only bank named in Project Glasswing — Wall Street banks are starting to test Anthropic PBC's Mythos model internally as Trump administration officials encourage them to use it to detect vulnerabilities.
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Sources: a week before Mythos release, JD Vance and Scott Bessent questioned Amodei, Altman, and others about AI model security and responding to cyber attacks — Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week questioned leading tech CEOs about the security …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross is leading an effort to identify security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure that AI could exploit — Group led by National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross aims to identify security vulnerabilities before models from Anthropic, OpenAI are released| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
OpenAI says a GitHub workflow used to sign its macOS apps downloaded a malicious Axios library on March 31, but no user data or internal system was compromised — OpenAI said Friday that it found evidence that one of its internal tools downloaded a compromised update from a recently infected, legitimate open-source software library.| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
The US CFTC says a district court judge granted its request for a temporary restraining order barring Arizona from continuing its criminal case against Kalshi — A federal judge on Friday blocked Arizona from continuing its criminal case against prediction market Kalshi …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
France says it plans to move government computers running Windows to Linux, to further reduce its reliance on US technology, without providing a timeline — France is moving on from Microsoft Windows. The country said it plans to move its government computers currently running Windows …
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Amazon Luna is dropping support for game purchases and third-party game stores and subscriptions; previously purchased games will be accessible until June 10 — The Luna game-streaming service is getting an overhaul, with Amazon pulling the plug on game purchases and hosting third-party game stores and subscriptions.
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| Reuters: |
Tesla says Dutch regulators approved the use of its full self-driving software, marking the first regulatory sign-off for the feature in Europe — Tesla (TSLA.O) on Friday said Dutch regulators had approved the use of its driver assistance software which handles most driving tasks on highways …
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| Reuters: |
Report: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are in talks to merge; the German government would be willing to become a key customer of a combined company — Artificial intelligence companies Cohere of Canada and Aleph Alpha of Germany are in talks to merge and have Berlin's support …
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| Ed Bott / ZDNET: |
Microsoft unveils plans to streamline the Windows Insider program, offering a simplified channel structure, moving between channels without wiping PCs, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways — Microsoft is making the Insider Program less complicated. — Beta channel will be a more reliable preview of the next retail release.
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| Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept: |
Source: federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Reddit to appear before a grand jury, to provide personal data on an anonymous user who criticized ICE — An ICE summons to get the user's identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.
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| Matthew Martin / Semafor: |
Alat, a $100B Saudi Arabia PIF-backed electronics manufacturing fund, has removed CEO Amit Midha; sources say it has dropped plans to invest in chip production — The Scoop — Know More — Notable — THE SCOOP — Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund has dismissed Alat CEO Amit Midha … | Joe Miller / Financial Times: |
Trump hails Palantir's “great war fighting capabilities”, days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD — US president's endorsement follows criticism from famed investor Michael Burry — Shares in Palantir rose on Friday …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving the company and joining Meta — Three key players in OpenAI's massive effort to set up hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of artificial intelligence data center capacity are joining Meta Platforms Inc. …
More: The Information
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Analysis: Trump's World Liberty Financial used 5B of its WLFI tokens to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded; WLFI falls to an all-time low — Onchain data shows WLFI deposited 5 billion of its own tokens as collateral to borrow stablecoins it then sent to Coinbase Prime … | Bloomberg: |
Blackstone files for an IPO of a new data center acquisition vehicle to buy already-built and leased properties, and, sources say, plans to raise ~$2B — Blackstone Inc. filed for an initial public offering of a new data-center acquisition vehicle that plans to buy already-built …
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