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Investors led by Elon Musk make an unsolicited $97.4B bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating Sam Altman's plans to convert to a for-profit — Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company — A consortium of investors led …
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says DeepSeek's $5.6M training cost claim is “exaggerated and a little bit misleading” and a “fraction of the total cost” — DeepSeek Ramps Up Hiring for Arcane AI Field as Ambitions Swell — Mistral CEO Plans to Raise More Funds to Back AI Data Center| Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times: |
An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on DeepSeek, why it isn't AI's “Sputnik moment” but is “a big deal”, how DeepSeek will “get shut down” by the US, and more — Rene Haas has reshaped chip designer's business to focus on royalties rather than fees
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Steam creates an ad documentation page highlighting its ban on forcing players to watch ads, saying “developers should not utilize paid ads as a business model” — Turns out this was actually already a rule that Valve had (thanks SteamDB). It was listed on their Pricing page …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: late on Friday night DOGE staffers gained access to all of the CFPB's data systems, which hold confidential info potentially pertaining to X's rivals — Government-efficiency team's initial ‘read-only’ access expanded quickly to encompass closely guarded data, internal emails say
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Sources: OpenAI is finalizing its first in-house chip design in the next few months, to cut its Nvidia reliance, and plans to send it for fabrication at TSMC — OpenAI is pushing ahead on its plan to reduce its reliance on Nvidia (NVDA.O) for its chip supply by developing its first generation …
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| Financial Times: |
Ahead of the Paris AI summit, Macron says companies plan to invest €109B in AI projects in France in the coming years and it is France's equivalent to Stargate — French president speaks ahead of AI summit in Paris involving executives such as OpenAI's Sam Altman
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Forums: r/europe, r/artificial, r/neoliberal, r/wallstreetbets, and r/singularity
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft says it will launch a fleet of robotaxis, using self-driving tech from Intel's Mobileye, in Dallas “as soon as 2026” — Lyft is working with Mobileye and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to manage the fleet. — Lyft is working with Mobileye and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to manage the fleet.
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Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars and Slashdot
| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
Discord announces Ignore, letting users hide any new messages, DMs, server notifications, profiles, and activity from selected users without alerting them — Take a break from other accounts without alerting them. — Social platform Discord announced a new feature today called Ignore.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Inside Binance compliance boss and ex-IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan's imprisonment in Nigeria, relayed via texts from a secret phone, over money laundering charges — As a US federal agent, Tigran Gambaryan pioneered modern crypto investigations. Then at Binance, he got trapped between … | Kalley Huang / The Information: |
A memo at Meta states privacy teams will have less authority to delay products and previous privacy decisions will be reviewed, as some are overly “risk-averse” — Meta Platforms has erected guardrails around how it develops new products over the past decade to better protect …
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| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
An Alabama man pleads guilty in connection with the Jan. 2024 SIM-swap hack of the SEC's X account, then used to falsely claim the SEC had approved bitcoin ETFs — An Alabama man pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., in connection with last year's hack of the U.S. Securities … | Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal: |
Nokia names Justin Hotard, who currently leads Intel's Data Center and AI operations, as its CEO starting April 1, as it focuses on data centers to drive growth — The telecom company expects data centers to be its number one growth driver in the coming years
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