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| Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku: |
Rockstar confirms “a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach”; ShinyHunters demand a ransom — Well known hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached the GTA 6 developers cloud servers — More bad news for Rockstar Games.
More: BBC, Help Net Security, The Register, Moneycontrol, The CyberSec Guru, GamesIndustry.biz, Cyber Daily, Video Games Chronicle, Mirror, The Indian Express, TechRadar, The Movie Blog, The Cyber Express, Gameranx, Digital Trends, GamingBolt, Forbes, XDA Developers, The Verge, Hackread, TechSpot, Neowin, IGN, VideoCardz.com, Tom's Hardware, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Engadget, Push Square, PC Gamer, ScreenRant, and Polygon.com
Forums: Hacker News and r/GameFeed
| Jonah Owen Lamb / The San Francisco Standard: |
Police report: Sam Altman's home appears to have been targeted in a second attack after a gun appeared to have been fired at his home from a car early Sunday — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home appears to have been the target of a second attack Sunday morning, a mere two days …
More: Business Insider, San Francisco Police …, The Verge, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, The Decoder, The Rundown AI, DigiTimes, Implicator.ai, Noahpinion, Newser, WCNC-TV, The Dossier, Straight Arrow News, and Breitbart
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a “backdoor” that could be used to blacklist investors — World Liberty Financial Inc., a Trump family crypto venture, is facing an investor revolt that includes billionaire backer Justin Sun … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is testing four AI glasses designs with rectangular and oval frames, multiple colors, and a camera system with vertically oriented oval lenses — Also: The latest on the foldable iPhone. — Apple is working on several frame styles and a unique camera design for its first smart glasses.
More: MacRumors, Times of India, The Sun, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, PCMag, 9to5Mac, Business Today, DigiTimes, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Trusted Reviews, Cult of Mac, The Indian Express, The Mac Observer, Tech Times, Phandroid, iThinkDifferent, Moneycontrol, Gizchina, Neowin, Digital Trends, Engadget, CNET, Tom's Guide, PhoneArena, iClarified, AppleInsider, and Forbes
X: @yairyup, @scobleizer, @scobleizer, @aakashgupta, @bearlyai, @tom_krikorian, @markgurman, @michaelmiraflor, @colinhughesuk, @caro_milanesi, @justinbrady, and @markgurman. LinkedIn: Gennaro Cuofano
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Wall Street Journal: |
Ornn Compute Price Index: renting one Nvidia Blackwell GPU for an hour now costs $4.08, up 48% from $2.75 two months ago, driven by agentic AI demand — AI companies are rationing offerings and products, rankling users—a warning sign for a boom that depends on rapid adoption
More: Fast Company. X: @firstadopter, @firstadopter, and @benitoz. Bluesky: @edzitron.com. Forums: r/technology
| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A deep dive into the debate about Claude Mythos Preview, the model's capabilities, attempts to refute Anthropic's claims, and what it means for the future of AI — Anthropic is not going to release its new most capable model, Claude Mythos, to the public any time soon.
More: Gizmodo, ChinaTalk, Cal Newport, NonZero Newsletter, The Register, GovTech, Tomasz Tunguz, iClarified, and Security Boulevard
X: @atelicinvest, @spendergrsec, @tmaiaroto, @emollick, @davidsacks, @ramez, @adxtyahq, @andrewcurran_, @katexbt, @littmath, @ananayarora, @robertwiblin, @maskedtorah, @johncrickett, @eliebakouch, @maxcroser, @kimzetter, and @jeffreyleefunk. LinkedIn: Todd Humphreys
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me, @timmarchman, @mims, and @shashj
| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
More: Business Today, Security Boulevard, Benzinga, TechCrunch, Reuters, France 24, and Reuters. Forums: r/technology
| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posted its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla and hitting 2M+ views; a verified Instagram account is yet to post — A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.
Bluesky: @seanokane and @rmac
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta is building photorealistic, AI-powered 3D characters; Mark Zuckerberg helped train and test an AI version of himself that offers feedback to staff — Meta is building an artificial intelligence version of Mark Zuckerberg that can engage with employees in his stead …
More: PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, Livemint, Digit, and Notebookcheck. Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Tristan Anthony / Business Insider: |
Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, adding AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users — - Anthropic launched a beta version of Claude for Word. — It follows February's release of Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint.
More: Claude, TechRadar, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Implicator.ai, The Indian Express, Moneycontrol, and Issuewire
X: @claudeai, @minchoi, @yuchenj_uw, @scobleizer, @trace_cohen, @bubbleboi, @stocksavvyshay, @aakashgupta, @psomkar1, @rohanpaul_ai, @oliverhenry, @zackbshapiro, @jumperz, @deredleritt3r, @hesamation, @boringbiz_, @thefineprintesq, @kimmonismus, @signulll, @trungtphan, @himanshustwts, @jack_raines, @cryptopunk7213, @roundtablespace, @_the_prophet__, @autismcapital, @mayhem4markets, and @stevesi. Bluesky: @businessinsider.com. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon quietly expands Amazon Autos to offer cars from Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep, after launching with Hyundai; the service is in 130+ US cities — The e-commerce giant's new-car buying program expands to Jeep, Chevrolet and other brands — Now you can buy a brand-new Corvette on Amazon.com .
More: CBT News
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive — As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive's vast collection of web pages.| Andy Kemp / Gallup: |
For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work a few times per year or more; leaders are more likely to see AI's impact as positive — Employees report productivity gains with AI but not fundamental shifts in how work gets done. — For the first time in Gallup's measurement …
More: Semafor, Associated Press, CTech, and Axios
| Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: |
A profile of the Biological Computing Company, which uses living neurons to build AI chips and algorithms, and emerged from stealth in February with a $25M seed — Tucked into an unassuming office building in San Francisco, one startup is betting on an unconventional way of alleviating the AI energy crisis: living human cells.| Elizabeth Bratton / Financial Times: |
Law firms say lawyers are spending more time responding to swaths of AI-generated client documents, potentially leading firms to raise fixed-fee contract prices — Firms may raise prices for fixed-fee contracts if clients keep sending flurries of emails and lettersSponsor Posts
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Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
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The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
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