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Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because “it is not okay to steal a charity” and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts

Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: the judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom”

Sponsor Post Zoho: Introducing Sales Tax Automation for US & Canadian businesses — Sales tax management can become easily complicated for growing businesses. In countries like the United States and Canada, tax rates vary across states, provinces, counties, and cities.

25 minutes ago Alex Heath / Sources: An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on why AWS will be a better OpenAI partner than Microsoft, chip bubble fears, Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, and more

Mitchell Hashimoto: Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages — I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008.

Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on “availability first, then capacity, then new features”

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: A US judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF tried to withdraw his request, but the judge refused

Axios: Sources: the White House is developing rules for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard new models like Mythos

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year

Seema Mody / CNBC: Pentagon's Digital and AI Chief Cameron Stanley confirms the DoD is expanding its Google Gemini use, saying “overreliance on one vendor is never a good thing”

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Sources: Google dropped out of a $100M Pentagon challenge to create tech for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms, following an internal ethics review

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model

Jigar Thakkar / About Amazon: AWS launches a desktop app for its Amazon Quick AI assistant, letting users connect their tools and local files to build custom apps, live dashboards, and more

Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.07B, vs. $1.14B est., and crypto revenue down 47% to $134M, vs. $147.6M est.; HOOD drops 6%+ after hours

Will Knight / Wired: OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to $3.11B, vs. $2.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; STX jumps 13%+ after hours

Sri Muppidi / The Information: Docs: OpenAI projected at the start of this year that $8/month ChatGPT Go subs will grow ~36x to 112M in 2026, while $20/month Plus subs will fall 80% to ~9M

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and which offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a $100M Series B at a $2B valuation

Sponsor Post Anuma: The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory. Chat, text, create, build, and solve across every model.

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Apple tells suppliers it will maintain its current production share in India rather than expand, after local sites struggled without China-based teams

Sofia Chierchio / Forbes: New York-based Actively, which offers AI sales agents for account management, raised a $45M Series B co-led by TCV and First Harmonic at a $250M valuation

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to extend, enhance, and reframe photos

Financial Times: Sources: Goldman Sachs stopped its bankers in Hong Kong from using Anthropic's models; Anthropic says its models were never officially “supported” in Hong Kong

Aditya Soni / Reuters: Microsoft is rolling out Copilot 365 to all of Accenture's roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for Copilot, following a 2023 pilot

Karen Freifeld / Reuters: Sources: the US Commerce Department last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China's second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong

Bloomberg: Sources: China suspends issuing new Level 4 autonomous vehicle licenses, after over 100 of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis disrupted traffic in Wuhan last month