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OpenAI debuts a Responses API to help devs build agents that search the web, scan for files, and perform tasks on computers, and an Agents SDK for orchestration — OpenAI's new Responses API comes with web search, the ability to look through files, and computer use out of the box.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Apple MacBook Air M4 review: fast, thin and light, great keyboard and touchpad, and excellent battery life, but could use more ports and only a 60Hz screen — No surprises, but a lower $999 entry-level price is welcome. — At the risk of repeating myself from Engadget's MacBook Air M1 …
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| Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google updates Chrome extension policy to ban affiliate link injection without user action or benefit, after allegations Honey stole creators' affiliate revenue — Honey was accused of shadily swapping out affiliate links, and now Google has new rules for extensions targeting exactly that.| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI trained an AI model that is good at creative writing and shares a short story it wrote; he's “not sure yet how/when it will get released” — we trained a new model that is good at creative writing (not sure yet how/when it will get released). this is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right. PROMPT: Please write a metafictional literary short story
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| New York Times: |
Court filings: Google owns a 14% stake in Anthropic but holds no voting rights, board seats, or board observer rights; it aims to invest $750M more in September — The internet giant owns 14% of the high-profile artificial intelligence company, according to legal filings obtained by The New York Times.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is in final talks to acquire AdHawk Microsystems, a Canadian maker of eye-tracking tech, for $115M, including $15M in performance-based payments — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is in final talks to acquire AdHawk Microsystems Inc., a maker of eye-tracking technology, part of a renewed push into headsets and smart glasses.| Reuters: |
Manus partners with Alibaba's Qwen to integrate Manus' AI agent functions with AI models and computing platforms in China and to collaborate on Qwen's AI models — China's Manus AI announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with the team behind tech giant Alibaba's Qwen AI models … | Reuters: |
Sources: Meta is testing its first in-house AI training chip and is working with TSMC to produce it, as part of a long-term plan to lower infrastructure costs — Facebook owner Meta (META.O) is testing its first in-house chip for training artificial intelligence systems …
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| The Information: |
Source: Anthropic's annualized revenue grew from $1B at the end of 2024 to $1.4B in early March; Manus uses tools including Claude 3.7 Sonnet to power its agent — Anthropic's year is off to a good start. — Its annualized revenue—a measure of the past month's revenue multiplied by 12 …
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
The Senate approves Gail Slater, President Trump's pick to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit, by a 78-19 vote; she has been critical of power in the tech industry — Slater, a longtime Washington lawyer, has been particularly critical of power in the tech industry.
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| Stephen Totilo / Game File: |
Mike Verdu, who joined Netflix in 2021 to launch its game offering and took on a new role as VP of Generative AI for games four months ago, has left the company — Plus: Some key changes for this year's Game Developers Conference — Mike Verdu, the executive who led Netflix's foray …
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| David Latona / Reuters: |
Spain's government approves a bill, pending lower house assent, imposing fines of up to €35M or 7% of annual turnover on firms not labeling AI-generated content — Spain's government approved a bill on Tuesday imposing massive fines on companies that use content generated by artificial intelligence …
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| Riddhi Kanetkar / Business Insider: |
OpusClip, which offers a multimodal AI tool to simplify short-form video editing for creators, raised $20M led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 at a $215M valuation — - AI startup OpusClip has secured $20 million in funding, led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2. — The startup uses natural …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo expands its operating area around Silicon Valley to a 27 square-mile region, including Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale — The company is operating in a 27 square-mile service area that includes Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale.| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
President Trump nominates Sean Plankey, the director of cyber policy at the White House during the first Trump administration, to run CISA — President Trump has nominated Sean Plankey, a veteran cyber official from his first administration, to run the lead U.S. cyber agency, according to a list of nominations sent to Congress.| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Mesh raised an $82M Series B, settled mostly in PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and led by Paradigm, to expand its stablecoin-based payments settlement network — The fundraising was completed using PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and was led by Paradigm. — What to know:
More: Mesh, crypto.news, PYMNTS.com, NFTgators, VC News Daily, and The Block
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Cartesia, which is developing real-time generative AI models for voice AI, raised a $64M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, taking its total funding to $91M — Since 1897, Karan Goel's family has been running the same business. — “My great-great-grandfather started a manufacturing business back in the day,” said Goel.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
TikTok rolls out a new feature to show users under 16 a “wind down” reminder after 10PM, interrupting the feed and playing “calming music to help teens relax” — Now TikTok's Family Pairing feature will enable parents to lock the app during certain times.
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| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
Sen. Lummis unveils the Bitcoin Act in the US Senate, with five Republican cosponsors, to codify a strategic Bitcoin reserve and let the US buy up to 1M BTC — Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate Tuesday that would authorize the U.S. government to buy …
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| Reuters: |
Delivery Hero says Uber has terminated its $950M deal to acquire Foodpanda in Taiwan and will pay a ~$250M termination fee after Taiwan's FTC blocked the deal — Uber (UBER.N) has decided to terminate its agreement to acquire Delivery Hero's (DHER.DE) Foodpanda business in Taiwan and will pay … | Reuters: |
India's Airtel signs a deal with SpaceX to launch Starlink in the country, subject to Starlink obtaining government approval to begin operations — India's Bharti Airtel (BRTI.NS) said on Tuesday it had signed a deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX for the highly anticipated launch …
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
After tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft made huge bets on AI, the gadget boom that started with the launch of Alexa in 2014 has largely fizzled — Amazon and Microsoft have pulled back on hardware, roiling the product design scene in Seattle and beyond. … Amazon isn't unusual in this regard.Sponsor Posts
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