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OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment — OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials …
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| Sayash Kapoor / AI as Normal Technology: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Hands-on with Snap's Specs: more advanced than Meta's top-end glasses, fully untethered, mostly comfortable, navigation works well, but design has compromises — The technically advanced Specs feature an integrated display and a convenient self-contained design.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Snap introduces Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant designed to work across iPhone, Mac, and Specs glasses, calling it an “anticipatory AI service” — Snap's ‘Specs Intelligence’ is an ‘anticipatory AI service’ available for iOS in preview on Wednesday.
More: CNBC, Snap Newsroom, Engadget, T3, 9to5Mac, Road to VR, Tom's Guide, Android Central, and Snap Newsroom. X: @richlightshed
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first — Anthropic is merging its front-end for Claude chat and Cowork, making it less confusing for people to decide which tab to use for different tasks.
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| Omar Abdel-Baqui / Wall Street Journal: |
AWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring — Amazon's announcement is the first indication that some data stored exclusively in Bahrain and the U.A.E could be gone forever
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: a group of 10 banks is giving a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's cloud venture Crux AI, which aims to provide compute for AI labs, to buy TPUs — A group of 10 banks is providing a $22 billion chip loan to support Blackstone Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s new cloud venture Crux AI …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis — Senior administration officials have gathered almost daily in recent months to map out potential guardrails| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time — They shipped a pretty killer AI assistant, can they keep people using it? — It happened. Meta finally has a product that I really like using again.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Apple is developing AI servers that could use M8 Ultra chips connected via Nvidia's NVLink Fusion, with plans to sell them to developers and others — Apple has been working on plans for an enterprise server using its own chips that could incorporate networking equipment from Nvidia …
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| Michelle Ma / Bloomberg: |
Generac signs a long-term deal to supply Amazon with up to $8B worth of backup generators for data centers and grants Amazon a warrant for up to a 2.6% stake — Generac Holdings Inc. agreed to supply up to $8 billion worth of generators for Amazon.com Inc.'s data centers and issued a warrant …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US — Google Home adds MCP integration, allowing third-party AI agents to analyze your home data, control devices, and build custom dashboards.
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't nationalize or take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of them — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X adds a “Trade” option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages such as Interactive Brokers, Moomoo, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase — X will now allow users to trade from their timelines. The Elon Musk-owned social network on Wednesday launched …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the US for the first time, but a deal could face opposition from Seoul; both stocks jump 4% — SK Hynix (000660.KS) is in talks with Intel (INTC.O) about a deal that would see the South Korean company manufacture memory chips …
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Forums: r/hardware, r/intelstock, and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$20B valuation, up from $7.6B in January, and Paradigm is in talks to lead the round — Zipline is in talks to raise around $1 billion in a funding round that would value the drone delivery and logistics startup at roughly $20 billion …
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| New York Times: |
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing banning social media for under-13s across the EU — A proposed law would bar children under 13 from using social media across the 27-nation bloc. — The European Union outlined plans …
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LinkedIn: Alexandra Jour-Schroeder, Jörg M. Fegert, and Sune Hein Lundbek
| Financial Times: |
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| Justin Papp / CNBC: |
The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act, aimed at preventing data center-related utility costs from being passed on to consumers, by a vote of 417-3 — The House on Wednesday advanced a bill by a vote of 417-3 that aims to curb data center-related utility bill rate hikes … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M — In 2025, Mark McQuade took a gamble wholly specific to the AI era. — Arcee AI, the startup he founded in 2023, was focusing on post-training … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, expanded its seed funding by $53M, led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed — Hang Ten Systems, an AI startup founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka just four months ago, has expanded its seed funding by another $53 million.
More: DealStreetAsia, Pulse 2.0, Times of India, SiliconANGLE, NewsBytes, The Economic Times, hangten.ai, The Tech Portal, Ventureburn, Dealroom.co, and FinSMEs. X: @vsikka
| 404 Media: |
Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor — While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
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Mastodon: @ApostateEnglishman … and @josephcox@infosec.exchange
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Essay: Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic training Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control — Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns in a new essay shared first with Axios that Anthropic's training of Claude …
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Forums: r/claudexplorers and r/LovingAI
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement — Jeff Clune, a computer scientist and co-founder of Recursive Superintelligence, one of the start-ups chasing “recursive self-improvement.”
LinkedIn: Jeff Clune
| New York Times: |
In an unsealed court ruling, a US judge orders Google to make ad tech tools interoperable with rivals, share ad auction data, and appoint an internal monitor — The measures, which fall short of a breakup demanded by the government, effectively ensure that the tech titan's business will continue largely unscathed.| Financial Times: |
Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and opens the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI — Shane Legg launches new institute to explore deployment of artificial general intelligence, amid growing calls for industry slowdown
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers — Last week, Apple announced an iPhone unlike any it has made in the past. An iPhone that has seemingly already led several …
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
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