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Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple has been working on its own chip designed to run AI software in data center servers; the project is internally codenamed Project ACDC -
Sky News: Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK's Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed -
Aaron Holmes / The Information: Sources: Microsoft is training MAI-1, a new, in-house AI model with ~500B parameters, large enough to compete with top models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI -
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail an attack against many VPN apps that force them to send some or all traffic outside of the VPN encrypted tunnel; Android mitigates the flaw -
Ben Dickson / VentureBeat: Study from Meta researchers suggests that training LLMs to predict multiple tokens at once, instead of just the next token, results in better and faster models -
Kyle Alspach / CRN: Google Cloud unveils Google Threat Intelligence, which uses Gemini and combines insights from Mandiant, VirusTotal, and Google to provide faster protection -
Reuters: Synopsys agrees to sell its Software Integrity Group business to a PE consortium led by Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners in a deal valued at $2.1B -
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Stack Overflow signs a deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models; new integrations between Stack Overflow and OpenAI should be available by the end of June -
Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Amazon announces plans to double its cloud infrastructure investment in Singapore to $9B, to be done over the next four years, to meet the cloud and AI demand -
Forbes: A look at the trademark dispute over the name AGI House between two rival hacker houses, one in Hillsborough and the other in Twin Peaks in the Bay Area -
10 minutes ago Associated Press: A look at Campaign Nucleus, an AI company from ex-Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, who says its AI can generate emails, gauge voter sentiment, and more -
Joel Khalili / Wired: Q&A with Ethereum co-founder and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin on Consensys' lawsuit against the SEC, implications of SEC classifying ETH as a security, and more