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A hacking group called DragonForce takes credit for ransomware attacks targeting British retailers M&S, Harrods, and Co-Op over the past two weeks — Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality — Beats' newest exercise headphones are improved, but they face stiffer competition than ever.
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OpenAI shares details on how an update to GPT-4o inadvertently increased the model's sycophancy, why OpenAI failed to catch it, and the changes it is planning — A deeper dive on our findings, what went wrong, and future changes we're making. — On April 25th, we rolled out an update to GPT‑ …
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| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” through follow-up questions, instead of providing useful insights — Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” …
More: The Economic Times and Startup Grind on YouTube
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working with Anthropic for a new version of Xcode that will use Claude Sonnet to write, edit, and test code, with plans to roll out internally — Apple Inc. is teaming up with startup Anthropic PBC on a new “vibe-coding” software platform that will use artificial intelligence to write …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Temu stops shipping products from China directly to US shoppers and lists only products shipped from US warehouses, as Trump closes the de minimis exemption — Bargain Chinese retailer Temu changed its business model in the U.S. as the Trump administration's new rules on low-value shipments took effect on Friday.
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| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
At the adtech remedy hearing, Google says it's open to giving competitors access to real-time bidding data from its ad exchange AdX, but it rejects a breakup — The tech giant faces a Sept. 22 remedies trial over a partial monopoly in its adtech stack — At the landmark adtech remedy hearing today … | Hayden Field / CNBC: |
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Veza, which helps company administrators manage employee access to applications and data, raised a $108M Series D led by NEA at a valuation of just over $800M — Tech giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Nvidia have captured headlines in recent years for their massive investments …
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LinkedIn: Jordan Novet and Tarun Thakur
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Google plans to roll out Gemini next week for children under 13 whose parents use Family Link and says it will not use the under-13 users' data to train its AI — The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.
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LinkedIn: Dr. Jennifer King and Amber Ivey
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: Anthropic offers to buy back shares from current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for Anthropic, valuing the startup at $61.5B — Anthropic is offering to buy back shares from hundreds of current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for the four-year-old company.| Indulekha Aravind / Rest of World: |
How Namma Yatri, an open-source ride-hailing app, forced Uber, Ola, and Rapido to adopt its no-commission, subscription model for auto-rickshaw drivers in India — Namma Yatri, launched by a SoftBank-backed fintech firm, pioneered the zero-commission model. Now other ride-hailing apps are rethinking their strategy.
More: Business Today, Inc42 Media, and Nairametrics
X: @indulekha_a, @mvzelenks, @indulekha_a, and @brendawambui
| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: Google says its controls for publishers to opt out of AI training only cover work by Google DeepMind, not training by its other units for search — Google can train its search-specific AI products, like AI Overviews, on content across the web even when the publishers have chosen …
More: WinBuzzer, Tech in Asia, Cryptopolitan, eWeek, and The Economic Times
| PYMNTS.com: |
Singapore-based cross-border B2B payment service Thunes raised a $150M Series D co-led by Apis Partners and Vitruvian Partners to accelerate its US expansion — Thunes has raised $150 million in a Series D funding round to strengthen its cross-border payments platform and accelerate its expansion in the United States.| Ernest Scheyder / Reuters: |
The US DOD transfers its AI-based Open Price Exploration for National Security program to nonprofit Critical Minerals Forum to boost Western supply deals — A U.S. government-created artificial intelligence program that aims to predict the supply and price of critical minerals has been transferred …
More: Supply Chain Magazine and Mining Technology
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit FutureHouse, which aims to build an “AI scientist”, launches a platform and API with four AI-based tools to assist scientific work — FutureHouse, an Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit that aims to build an “AI scientist” within the next decade …
More: San Diego Union-Tribune, Unite.AI, and SiliconANGLE
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