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Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to walk into the West Wing on Friday for a meeting with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude — Anthropic announced on Friday that it's launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/ClaudeAI
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, how Altman changed in 18 months of reporting, OpenAI's board drama and enterprise shift, and more — Today on Decoder, I'm talking with Ronan Farrow, one of the biggest stars of investigative reporting working today.| Politico: |
Cyber experts say the EU's age verification app has glaring privacy and security problems; after saying it was ready, EU officials say the app is “still a demo” — BRUSSELS — The European Union's unveiling of a mobile app to check people's age online has quickly turned sour …
More: The Economic Times, Wired, Cointelegraph, Blaze Media, MediaNama, and CyberInsider
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Mastodon: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social and @andrewducker@mastodon.scot
Forums: r/eutech, r/privacy, r/neoliberal, and r/europe
| Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Kraken parent company Payward agrees to acquire Bitnomial, a digital asset derivatives platform, for up to $550M in cash and stock, which values Payward at $20B — The deal gives Payward control of a fully licensed U.S. crypto derivatives stack, accelerating its expansion in regulated markets.| The Guardian: |
Docs: US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide data centers' environmental toll; one of their demands was written almost verbatim into EU rules — Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups
More: Investigate Europe, Implicator.ai, TheJournal.ie, U.S. Catholic, AlgorithmWatch, Politico, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @p4bl0.net, @ramiismail.com, and @nhna
Forums: Hacker News, r/europe, and r/Environmentalism
| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
An interview with Dario Amodei, who says the negative narrative around AI is dominant because the industry hasn't yet fully delivered the benefits it promises — The tech entrepreneur on Claude Mythos, repercussions from the Pentagon dispute — and his message for the super-rich
More: Washington Examiner
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.25B, vs. $12.2B est., net income up 83% YoY to $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS and revenue below est.; NFLX drops 10%+ — Netflix Shares Fall as Guidance Disappoints Investors — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 32.21% Playback Rate
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| Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Financial Times: |
SynMax: almost 40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays; major projects for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others are likely to end over three months late — Delays to a swath of new US data centres threaten to slow the rollout of AI by the world's biggest tech companies …
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Charles Schwab unveils its long-awaited crypto investing product, Schwab Crypto, with a 0.75% fee on every crypto trade and plans to launch in the coming weeks — Charles Schwab on Thursday introduced its long-awaited crypto investing product, making bitcoin and ether trading available …
More: Business Wire, Unchained, Bitcoin Insider, NewsBTC, Blockonomi, The Daily Upside, Crypto Briefing, Dallas Business Journal, and Quartz
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says a sophisticated DDoS attack is to blame for continued app outages but it has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private data — Bluesky's website and app are still struggling on Friday after experiencing service interruptions that chief operating officer Rose Wang attributed to an ongoing cyberattack.
More: The Verge, Engadget, Mashable, and heise online
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some shareholders are questioning whether Sam Altman should lead OpenAI through the turbulence of an IPO and have floated Bret Taylor as a successor — Ahead of a planned IPO, Altman's personal investments remain opaque, making it hard to spot any conflicts
More: Crypto Briefing. X: @katiemiller, @berber_jin1, @anomsiiwa, and @ns123abc. LinkedIn: Kate Clark
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI agrees to pay Cerebras $20B+ to use its server chips, double the amount previously associated with the deal, and may receive equity in Cerebras — OpenAI recently struck an unusual deal to lessen its dependence on Nvidia's AI chips and potentially lower its computing expenses in the coming years.
More: Reuters and Crypto Briefing
| Financial Times: |
Sources: OnlyFans is in advanced talks to sell a below 20% stake at a $3B+ valuation; previous reports said it wants to sell a ~60% stake at a ~$5.5B valuation — Discussions with Architect Capital come less than a month after the UK-based platform's owner Leonid Radvinsky died
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| Qwen: |
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open-weight MoE model with 35B total and 3B active parameters, saying it rivals larger dense models in agentic coding tasks — · 4355 words · QwenTeam丨Translations:.体中文 — HUGGING FACE — MODELSCOPE — DISCORD
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, The Information, and MarkTechPost
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an “early sign” of generalization, surprising researchers — Physical Intelligence, the two-year-old, San Francisco-based robotics startup that has quietly become … | The Information: |
Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking at least $300M at a valuation of at least $10B — DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking to beef up its financial war chest so it can better compete in the costly battle …
More: Reuters and Blockonomi
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google updates AI Mode in Chrome, letting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; Chrome desktop and mobile users can now also search across tabs — Google announced on Thursday that it's rolling out a new way to explore the web with AI Mode, its conversational search experience.
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| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Sources: xAI plans to let Cursor train Composer 2.5 AI coding model using tens of thousands of xAI's GPUs, a new strategy for xAI in a competitive AI landscape — - Elon Musk's AI company xAI plans to allow Cursor to use some of its compute power for training.
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| Reuters: |
India drops a proposal to require Apple, Google, Samsung, and other smartphone makers to preinstall the country's biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones — India's government has decided not to go ahead with a proposal to require Apple (AAPL.O), Samsung (005930.KS) … | Ivan Lam / Counterpoint Research: |
China's smartphone shipments declined 4% YoY in Q1 amid memory shortages; Huawei's shipments grew 2% YoY for a 20% market share, iPhone grew 20% for a 19% share — Ivan is a Senior Research Analyst at Counterpoint Research, based in Hong Kong. He has more than 15 years of experience, with a major focus on mobile and network devices.
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| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research, including drug discovery, as a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen — OpenAI announced a new series of AI models built to help life sciences researchers work faster.
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla launches Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructure, available on GitHub — Mozilla is the latest legacy tech brand to make a play for the enterprise AI market. But the company behind Firefox and Thunderbird …
More: Thurrott, GIGAZINE, Implicator.ai, Help Net Security, The Register, and OMG! Ubuntu
| Jessica Hill / Associated Press: |
Roblox will pay $12.5M to Nevada and implement age verification for all users as part of a settlement with the state over claims it didn't protect young users — Roblox, a gaming platform popular with kids, will implement increased protections for young users and pay more than $12 million … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a $3.4B vehicle in 2022 — Sequoia Capital, one of the largest and most prominent venture capital firms, has raised about $7 billion for a new fund according …
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