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Like the Claude app it imitates, the new ChatGPT “Super App”, which merges Codex with ChatGPT, is a tangle of toggles and strange UI decisions — Even if it's ultimately the right call, the new Mac app is a mess... I am so confused right now. I mean that literally.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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| Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for $149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed — SK Hynix Inc. raised $26.5 billion in its American depositary receipt offering, as the South Korean memory chipmaker powered through volatility …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock — Streamer is rethinking some of its core strategies to compete with rivals — Top Netflix executives who gathered …
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
In preliminary findings, the EU Commission said Facebook's and Instagram's “addictive design” violates the DSA, telling Meta to make changes or risk hefty fines — European Union authorities said the company's use of “addictive design” violated a digital safety law.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment, says she will step down and become a part-time adviser after her medical condition worsened; Simo joined in August — The head of artificial general intelligence won't return from extended medical leave, a major leadership change as the AI giant prepares to go public
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
OpenAI and Google are selling their advanced AI models to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, exposing a gap in the US' AI controls — US groups have been supplying AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent.
More: Benzinga, Watcher Guru, AI Policy Daily, and NewsMax.com
| Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: |
Circle says it received US regulator approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank, allowing it to offer institutional custody services — Circle Internet Group Inc. received approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank to support its stablecoin business … | Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post: |
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI — The billionaire investor will help shape how the Federal Reserve assesses a technology his firm has bet heavily on.
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| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
A US court sentences a former ransomware negotiator to 70 months in prison for colluding with BlackCat to extort $75.3M from five of his employer's clients — Angelo Martino exploited his insider position and fed confidential information to ransomware co-conspirators to extort a combined $75.3 million from five U.S.-based victims.| Bloomberg: |
MiniMax is looking to raise as much as $2B by selling 35.6M shares at ~$34 each and offering ~$830M in zero-coupon convertible bonds due in 2027 — MiniMax Group Inc. is joining a rush by Chinese technology companies to tap markets for funding aimed at the artificial intelligence buildout …
More: RuntimeWire, Dow Jones Newswires, MiniMax, Reuters, and Crypto Briefing
| Cristian Dina / The Next Web: |
Munich-based QuantumDiamonds, which uses quantum sensors to detect chip defects, raised €91M, including €76M under the European Chips Act — QuantumDiamonds, a spin-out of the Technical University of Munich, has raised €91M to scale a diamond-based tool that spots hidden defects inside advanced chips.
More: QuantumDiamonds and RuntimeWire
| Muvija M / Reuters: |
The UK designates Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle as critical third-party financial sector suppliers, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight — Britain has designated cloud service providers Microsoft (MSFT.O), Google (GOOGL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Oracle (ORCL.N) … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim plans to debut an agentic AI avatar of himself within days, which is meant to help the public navigate government services — Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is about to do something very few heads of government have done: send an artificial intelligence version …
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| SemiAnalysis: |
A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI — A top tier RL environment startup spawns out of thin air, the most aggressive compute ramp we've ever seen, 2000km+ scale-across, and some advice for Google DeepMind
More: ZeroHedge News and Investing.com
| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: Manus' investors and management are discussing unwinding Meta's $2B buyout at the same valuation, with Tencent in talks to become the largest investor — Chinese tech giant set to become largest shareholder in AI agent start-up after Beijing ordered reversal of US takeover
More: The Economic Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Blockonomi
| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is stepping down after six years; VP of legal Molly Abraham will take his role with the title of general counsel — Coinbase (COIN.O)'s Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal is stepping down after six years at the U.S. crypto giant where he fought off … | Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give them 25 degrees of freedom of movement; human hands usually have 27 — The soft, weirdly sexualized home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands. — Friendly home robots have been the dream of sci-fi for a long time.
More: The Hans India, Digital Trends, Digit, and Mashable
| Axios: |
OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on macOS and Windows — - Sol is the most powerful version, while Luna is designed for speed. … - A new “ultra” mode within Sol allows the system …
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| Sam Clark / Politico: |
The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp — Top-level pressure and obscure procedures breathe new life into a controversial proposal to allow scanning for online child sexual abuse material.
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LinkedIn: Borja Bosch, Bart Preneel, and Bert de Jong
Forums: r/law, r/technology, r/europe, and r/technology
| Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A — Brendan Foody started Mercor when he was 19 years old. Now he's 23, worth billions on paper, and running one of the fastest-growing companies in AI history.
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