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Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk testifies he is suing OpenAI because “it is not okay to steal a charity” and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropy — Elon Musk testified Tuesday he's suing OpenAI and two of its co-founders — Sam Altman and Greg Brockman …
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| Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: |
Musk v. Altman: the judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom” — The judge overseeing a high-profile court case between Elon Musk and OpenAI has asked the tech executives involved in the legal battle …
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Bluesky: @thisiselena and @karlbode.com
Forums: r/oakland and Ars OpenForum
| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services — The European Union's executive arm accused Meta Platforms Inc. of failing to keep young children off its services, ramping up a probe that could result in hefty fines.| Alex Heath / Sources: |
An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on why AWS will be a “better” OpenAI partner than Microsoft, chip bubble fears, Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, and more — AWS CEO Matt Garman on why Amazon will “be a better partner” than Microsoft. Also: His reaction to bubble fears …
More: The Economic Times, Bloomberg, Techstrong.ai, NBC News, The Information, Barron's Online, iPhone in Canada, and Reuters. Bluesky: @alexeheath.com
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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LinkedIn: Samantha Klingelhofer, Garrett McCarthy, Denise Holland Dresser, Ashley Kramer, and Davinder Singh
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
A US judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF tried to withdraw his request, but the judge refused — A federal judge rejected FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried's do-it-yourself motion for a new trial based on what the former crypto king claimed was new evidence.| Mitchell Hashimoto: |
Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages — I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. — Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day. Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years.
More: The Register, Armin Ronacher's Thoughts …, XDA Developers, DevOps.com, and The GitHub Blog
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Bluesky: @justingarrison.com and @marlam.in
Forums: Hacker News, r/linux, r/commandline, and Lobsters
| Axios: |
Sources: the White House is developing rules for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard new models like Mythos — - One source described the White House efforts as a way to “save face and bring em back in.” — Earlier this month … | Seema Mody / CNBC: |
Pentagon Digital and AI Chief Cameron Stanley confirms the DoD is expanding its Google Gemini use, saying “overreliance on one vendor is never a good thing” — Pentagon AI chief Cameron Stanley confirmed to CNBC that the Department of Defense is expanding its use …
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| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
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| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year — Nvidia Corp. today launched a powerful reasoning artificial intelligence model that unifies text, vision and speech …
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Forums: r/unsloth and r/LocalLLaMA
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model — The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model …
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| Jigar Thakkar / About Amazon: |
AWS launches a desktop app for its Amazon Quick AI assistant, letting users connect their tools and local files to build custom apps, live dashboards, and more — Amazon Quick brings a personal AI assistant to your desktop. Build presentations, intelligent dashboards, and more.| Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $3.18B, above $3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above est., boosted by the auto chip market; NXPI jumps 13%+ pre-market — NXP Semiconductors NV jumped in late trading after giving an upbeat revenue forecast, a sign the chipmaker is bouncing … | Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures — “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely …
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Forums: r/BetterOffline and r/OpenAI
| Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: |
Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.07B, below $1.14B est., and crypto revenue down 47% YOY to $134M, below $147.6M est.; HOOD drops 6%+ pre-market — Outside of event contracts, revenues were weak across the board. — Robinhood MarketsHOOD $74.21 (-2.29%) … | Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to $3.11B, above $2.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; STX jumps 13%+ pre-market — Seagate Technology (STX.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue and profit above Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, betting on strong demand …
More: Barron's Online, Investor's Business Daily, StockStory, and Seagate
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic partners with Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and others to launch connectors that integrate Claude directly into professional creative workflows — Creative professionals look to technology to expand what's possible in their work. Claude can't replace taste or imagination …
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LinkedIn: Travis Austin, Blender, Claude, and Greg Feingold. Bluesky: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @yurisizov@mastodon …
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, and MacRumors Forums
| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Docs: OpenAI projected at the start of this year that $8/month ChatGPT Go subs will grow ~36x to 112M in 2026, while $20/month Plus subs will fall 80% to ~9M — For three years, OpenAI has generated most of its revenue from people paying $20 a month for subscriptions to ChatGPT.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China suspends issuing Level 4 autonomous vehicle licenses, after 100+ of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis stalled and disrupted traffic in Wuhan in March — China has suspended issuing new licenses for autonomous vehicles, according to people familiar with the matter … | Mary Page James / Gallup: |
Poll: 31% of US adults expect driverless cars to be common within five years, up from 19% in 2018, and 19% say they would own or lease one, the same as in 2018 — About three in 10 Americans expect driverless cars to be common within five years, while 19% say they would own or lease one
More: Gizmodo, San Francisco Chronicle, and UPI
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and that offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a $100M Series B at a $2B valuation — Parallel Web Systems raised $100 million in Series B funding to continue building web search for AI agents| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple tells suppliers it will maintain its current production share in India rather than expand, after local sites struggled without China-based teams — PALO ALTO, California/TAIPEI — Apple's incoming CEO has a China problem: On the one hand, the iPhone giant is finally seeing sales rebound … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to extend, enhance, and reframe photos — Apple Inc. is planning a major overhaul of the built-in photo-editing features for the iPhone, iPad and Mac, leaning heavily on artificial intelligence to better compete with Android devices.
More: Business Standard, Livemint, Phandroid, iThinkDifferent, Digit, Tom's Guide, The Mac Observer, Digital Trends, The Apple Post, Macworld, Engadget, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iClarified, and MacRumors
X: @markgurman, @mweinbach, @tgod34748, @ishuagra02, @zeta_thegeek, and @markgurman. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Sofia Chierchio / Forbes: |
New York-based Actively, which offers AI sales agents for account management, raised a $45M Series B co-led by TCV and First Harmonic at a $250M valuation — Actively AI has raised $45 million to scale up its AI sales agents, which can automate a chunk of the work reps typically do manually.| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
Filing: TSMC sold its remaining 1.11M Arm shares at $207.65 per share for a total of ~$231M this week; TSMC invested ~$100M in Arm's 2023 IPO at $51 per share — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW), the world's largest contract chipmaker, has sold its remaining stake in Arm Holdings … Sponsor Posts
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