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| Politico: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said there remains a fundamental difference in worldview between his company and rival Anthropic …
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| Ben Berkowitz / Axios: |
Sam Altman says he's “very uncomfortable” with attributing religious force to AI, calling it “a real safety issue”, as Anthropic engages with religious leaders — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Saturday took a veiled shot at Anthropic and its work on the soul of AI …
More: New York Post, Business Insider, Wccftech, The Decoder, and Superpower Daily
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| Chandni Shah / Reuters: |
In an X reply, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will rename its AI unit SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump's push to replace “artificial” intelligence with “super” — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Sunday that he would rename the company's AI unit to SpaceXSI …
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| Politico: |
Trump announces a new Super Intelligence Force, to be led by DNI Jay Clayton, along with the FTC's Andrew Ferguson, DOD's Emil Michael, and OPM's Scott Kupor — President Donald Trump said Sunday that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will assume the newly created role …
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| Wired: |
Extracted system prompts show Meta's Muse compiles “a page for every person in the user's life”, with facts, history, tips to improve relationships, and more — Millions have downloaded Meta's AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
| Scott Patterson / Bloomberg: |
OKX and ICE's joint venture OKXICE is seeking SEC approval to offer tokenized shares of 63 NYSE-listed firms, as it leverages new US rules on tokenized stocks — OKX filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Sunday to launch a tokenized-stock trading platform …
More: CoinDesk, Reuters, The Block, Bitcoin Insider, The Crypto Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cointelegraph, CoinGape, crypto.news, and Blockchain.News
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| Bradley Olson / Axios: |
Sources: several Western open-weight models are set to launch this month, including Reflection AI's first model, which will rival top Chinese open-weight models — A closely watched Nvidia-backed startup called Reflection is preparing to shake up the AI race with a powerful open-weight system …
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| Niamh Rowe / Financial Times: |
A look at Alpha, an invite-only Discord server of ~30 mostly Gen Z Polymarket traders who pool research and capital and have made an estimated $40M since 2024 — In a private group chat, an elite crew of prediction-market bettors turn elections, wars and disasters into ‘free money on the floor’.
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| The Information: |
A look at China's gray market of token resellers, who use accumulated identities and USDT-funded cards to obtain Claude accounts and route them through proxies — In Beijing's Haidian District, a bustling hub for local universities and tech companies, six out of the roughly 30 tenants … | Financial Times: |
French conglomerate Schneider Electric agrees to acquire US engineering software provider PTC for $23.7B in cash, paying $205 per share, its largest acquisition — Takeover is French conglomerate's largest and enhances its products focused on manufacturers
More: MarketWatch, Silicon Republic, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, and Reuters
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Anthropic's stock match of employee charity gifts hit $660M+ in the six months through March, likely to reach billions post-IPO, diluting shareholders — When Anthropic shared financial figures recently with prospective investors in its planned initial public offering … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: John Ternus has effectively become Apple's design chief, working in the studio several times a week; OLED touch-screen MacBook Pro will be much lighter — Also: A big update on the touch-screen MacBook Pro. — Apple's John Ternus is spending much of his time overseeing the company's hardware and software design work.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Superintelligence: |
An interview with CoreWeave Physical AI SVP Richard Ahlfeld on AI models failing real-world checks, the roles of synthetic data and physical tests, and more — Sponsored by … 🧩 Why physical AI breaks on missing data far more often than on the model
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| Abram Brown / The Information: |
A look at Sean Parker's resurrection of Stability AI following Emad Mostaque's ousting, and its new focus on AI for music professionals, backed by major labels — To the music industry, Sean Parker has been many things. As co-founder of Napster, he was first an “outlaw renegade,” as he himself puts it.Sponsor Posts
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SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Zoho:
Labels that build themselves: Simplified Label Automation in Zoho Writer — Anyone who ships every day knows this feeling. Forty orders, each with a different number of items, and every item needs its own label.
Labels that build themselves: Simplified Label Automation in Zoho Writer — Anyone who ships every day knows this feeling. Forty orders, each with a different number of items, and every item needs its own label.
IDrive:
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
WebBrain:
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