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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more  —  On Friday, OpenAI launched a new set of personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S. …
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team  —  OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work  —  The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times:
Nvidia's future in China remains unclear after the Trump-Xi Summit; Trump says China “chose not to” buy Nvidia chips as “they want to try to develop their own”  —  The standoff comes as Chinese firms increasingly turn to domestic chipmakers like Huawei …
Akshay Gangwar / Android Authority:
Google confirms a new storage policy test, after some users reported that new Gmail accounts get 5GB, not 15GB, of free storage if they don't add a phone number  —  Update: Google has confirmed that it's testing a 5GB storage limit for some new Gmail users, unless they add their number.  —  •
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg:
xAI launches Grok Build, an agent and CLI for coding, building apps, and automating workflows, in early beta, available first for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers  —  Elon Musk's xAI is rolling out its first artificial intelligence coding agent, called Grok Build, in an attempt to catch …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta rolls out new features for its Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up support for third-party apps  —  You can also now capture a video combining what you see on the lens display, what you see in the world, and the audio around you.
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Bill Ackman says his fund has taken a new stake in Microsoft after the company's recent share price decline; Ackman says investors underestimate Microsoft 365  —  Bill Ackman's Pershing Square has built a $2.1 billion stake in Microsoft Corp., taking advantage of a decline in the company's share price …
Bill Gurley / Bill's Substack:
How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more  —  How the Smartest Executives Are Using Open Source Techniques to Optimize Corporate Strategy  —  Nearly 27 years ago, on July 12 …
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a “VC vs GC” video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen  —  One of the most entertaining moments in VC this week was a piece of rage-bait marketing from General Catalyst.
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Ofcom says X has committed to implementing stronger protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours, after a probe  —  Social media platform commits to providing faster review of reported material following regulator's investigation
Reuters:
Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review  —  Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker SpaceX is planning to price its blockbuster initial public offering as early as June 11 …
Transformer:
OpenAI's disavowal of a liability shield in Illinois SB 3444 bill and endorsement of a stronger SB 315 suggest it is open to meaningful AI safety legislation  —  Transformer Weekly: US-China talks, AI executive order, and Anthropic's $900b valuation … - Scott Bessent said the US and China will …

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New York Times:
Trump says Katie Zacharia, a conservative commentator who briefly worked at DHS, will be the next White House press secretary, succeeding Karoline Leavitt

Muhammad Shehada / +972 Magazine:
On Israel's list of 170 Palestinian journalists and media workers killed in the Gaza war that Israel alleges were terrorists, 59 are named without any proof

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Anthropic:
In a policy paper, Anthropic urges the US and allies to enforce export controls, curb distillation attacks, and export US AI to hold the lead over China by 2028
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Security research firm Calif says it used Mythos to help build a macOS kernel memory corruption exploit circumventing Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement tech
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Sources: Anthropic has agreed to the terms of a $30B fundraising at a $900B valuation, with Sequoia, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Altimeter co-leading the round
Associated Press:
Musk v. Altman: in closing arguments, Musk's attorney doubled down on claims of Altman's untrustworthiness, while OpenAI's lawyer said Musk has no evidence
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI adds remote access to Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app, letting users control Codex sessions running on a computer directly via iOS, iPadOS, and Android
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says two employee devices were impacted via a supply chain attack on open-source library TanStack but no user data or production systems were compromised
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