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The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI — Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence, is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC.
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John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize “for protein structure prediction”, says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic — A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing
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Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amodei was “nice” and “smart” at G7 — President Trump reached the point last week of viewing Anthropic as a national security threat …
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Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, raised $5M led by Lightspeed — You've probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it's been downloaded more than 6 billion times.| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more — When Allbirds pivoted to AI in April, it felt like a joke from “Silicon Valley” breaking free of the TV: The direct … | Nikita Ostrovsky / Time: |
A look at Russia's push to develop homegrown AI talent, as the country is hampered by scarce access to AI hardware and a brain drain of top technical talent — Nikita Ostrovsky … In early April, on a stage in the southwestern outskirts of Moscow, a moderator at Russia's annual Data … | Terje Solsvik / Reuters: |
Norway imposes a near ban on gen AI use by elementary school children and restricts its use in older kids' education, to prevent a negative impact on learning — Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use …
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Sources: the UK government is expected to consult as early as this month on rules to make public service news more prominent on social media and video platforms — Move expected in British government green paper would set stage for fresh battle with Big Tech over online misinformation| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: PC makers, including HP, are in talks with their supply-chain partners about using CXMT's memory chips in products bound for Asia as DRAM prices soar — Prices soar because capacity isn't growing quickly, while China option is limited by national-security concerns
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Docs: OpenAI burned through $3.7B in Q1, on revenue of $5.7B, and ended the quarter with $73B+ in cash and marketable securities vs. $40B at the end of December — OpenAI burned through $3.7 billion in the first quarter, more than half its $5.7 billion in revenue, according to documents the company shared with shareholders.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis says the phonemaker won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone series due to surging memory prices — Nothing's CMF Phone series has released two models thus far and, at least for now, won't be getting a third …
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| Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online child safety efforts risk mass surveillance, leaving the markets that demand weakening of encryption, more — Meredith Whittaker has spent years arguing that privacy is a prerequisite for a free society.
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Sources: Bain Capital stands to make $15B+ in profits on its 2018 Kioxia buyout, a ~20x return, as Kioxia's stock has surged 5,000%+ since its December 2024 IPO — Bain Capital stands to pocket profits of $15bn on 2018 buyout of Kioxia, the former Toshiba Memory| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of $8M+ in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for over eight hours in 2025 — Quick Take — Two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency after holding … Sponsor Posts
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