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Musk v. Altman: the US district judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom” — Elon Musk testified Tuesday he's suing OpenAI and two of its co-founders — Sam Altman and Greg Brockman …
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| 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.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023 — Custom multiview is finally here. Custom multiview is finally here. … YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced Tuesday that YouTube TV is getting “fully customizable” multiview.
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| Natasha Voase / Bloomberg: |
Knight Frank: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies have leased 1M+ square feet of London office space since the start of 2025, or ~7% of available listings — Artificial intelligence-linked companies, including Anthropic PBC and OpenAI, have been rushing into London for office space in a surge that's surprised local landlords.
Bluesky: @hern
| Bloomberg: |
Chinese regulators killed the Manus template by blocking Meta's $2B takeover in a 54-character decree, creating an uncertain era for China's growing AI industry — The AI startup Manus, once hailed as a breakthrough that would challenge Silicon Valley's dominance, is turning into a cautionary tale …
More: Semafor and Financial Times
| Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI's instructions in Codex CLI contain a line, repeated several times, that forbids the tool 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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Sources: the White House is developing guidance for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard 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 Chief Digital and AI Officer Cameron Stanley confirms the DoD is expanding its use of Gemini, as “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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| Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
A US judge rejects Sam Bankman-Fried's new trial request based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF asked to withdraw his request, which the judge also rejected — 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.
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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 …
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| Jason Gale / Bloomberg: |
Mayo Clinic researchers detail an AI system called Redmod that identified pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans an average of 475 days before clinical diagnosis — An artificial intelligence system can spot pancreatic cancer long before it shows up on scans, raising the prospect of catching … | Mitchell Hashimoto: |
HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says his terminal application Ghostty will leave GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages; Hashimoto is GitHub user 1299 — 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.
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| Alex Heath / Sources: |
An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on why AWS will be “a better partner to OpenAI” than Microsoft, high chip demand, 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 …
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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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| 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 … | Tim Harford / Financial Times: |
A working paper uses an LLM to analyze political discourse on X, finding that anger is the dominant emotion expressed by US users, especially those over 65 — There is a gap between the calm, rational decision-makers we often aspire to be and the overwrought, sentiment-tossed creatures we often are.| Todd Gillespie / Bloomberg: |
Rogo, which uses AI to help lighten junior bankers' workloads, raised a $160M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $2B valuation, up from $750M in January — Rogo, started by young bankers around a kitchen table in 2021, just won a multibillion-dollar valuation| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to “build more compute” — Chief executive Sam Altman's flexible approach to infrastructure projects is unsettling partners but boosting computing lead| 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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| 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%) … | The Economic Times: |
Bengaluru-based stock trading platform Sahi raised a $33M Series B led by Accel at a $200M valuation to expand into margin trade funding, commodities, and more — Bengaluru's Sahi, a stock trading platform, has raised $33 million, valuing it at $200 million.
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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.| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Hightouch, which uses AI to help marketers create and manage campaigns, raised $150M led by Goldman Sachs and Bain at a $2.75B valuation, up from $1.2B in 2025 — The Trade Desk also invested in Hightouch, which is now valued at $2.75 billion — Hightouch, a platform that uses generative AI … | Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
Filing: TSMC sold its remaining 1.11M Arm shares at $207.65/share for a total of ~$231M from April 28 to 29; TSMC invested ~$100M in Arm's 2023 IPO at $51/share — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW), the world's largest contract chipmaker, has sold its remaining stake in Arm Holdings … | Bloomberg: |
Samsung's Lee family dynasty reached a combined ~$45.5B net worth in March, up from ~$20.1B in 2025, amid the AI boom; they are now Asia's third-richest family — When Lee Kun-hee, the patriarch behind Samsung Electronics Co. died in 2020, his dynasty soon dealt with a crisis on two fronts … | Bloomberg: |
Indonesia sentences eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah to nine years in prison, concluding a $300M scandal that destroyed one of Southeast Asia's top startups — Indonesia handed eFishery founder Gibran Huzaifah a nine-year prison sentence on Wednesday, concluding a high-profile $300 million financial scandal …
More: TNGlobal, The Business Times, and Tech in Asia
| 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
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