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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI backtracks, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and AGs of DE and CA — OpenAI has decided that its nonprofit division will retain control over its for-profit org, after the company initially announced …
More: OpenAI, The Verge, The Register, Axios, Entrepreneur, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Ars Technica, The Hill, PitchBook, Gizmodo, CNBC, Capital Brief, PCMag, iTnews, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Insider, New York Times, Inc, Wall Street Journal, Australian Financial Review, The Information, Yahoo Finance, UPI, Wired, Cointelegraph, Digital Music News, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, Fox Business, Daily Sabah, Politico, Maginative, WinBuzzer, and Sherwood News
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/artificial, and Slashdot
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Trump has two crypto-focused dinners this month, for political donors and for $TRUMP holders; Chainalysis: trading fees alone have made $TRUMP insiders $324M+ — President Donald Trump has two crypto-focused dinners on the calendar this month — one aimed at deep-pocketed political donors, the other at meme coin millionaires.
More: New York Times, The Block, Associated Press, The Independent, CoinGape, Bitcoin Insider, Cointelegraph, Cryptopolitan, The Coin Republic, and Benzinga
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X: @luke_metro and @senwarren
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
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Bluesky: @flingjore. Threads: @senadamschiff. X: @senwarren, @eleanorterrett, and @senrubengallego. LinkedIn: Christopher Perkins
| Lucia Moses / Business Insider: |
Sources: Google has quietly launched 100 Zeros, a film and TV production initiative aiming to promote a positive view of tech and drive adoption of its products — - Google has quietly launched a film and TV production initiative called 100 Zeros. — Google wants to promote its products …
More: TechCrunch, Android Police, Gizmodo, Engadget, Mashable, Neowin, and Reuters. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers warn that open-source Go serialization tool easyjson, owned by Russia's VK Group and used by the US DOD and others, poses a national security risk — The open source software easyjson is used by the US government and American companies. But its ties to Russia's VK …
More: Hunted Labs. Bluesky: @andyjabbour. Mastodon: @eob@social.coop. X: @780thc. LinkedIn: George Barnes. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
TeleMessage's parent company says it is “investigating a potential security incident” and has suspended all of its services “out of an abundance of caution” — The messaging app that President Donald Trump's former national security advisor was seen using during …
More: Axios, Reuters, Interesting Engineering, Raw Story, The Verge, and Rolling Stone
Forums: r/technology and r/politics
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Meta AI brings more privacy risks than ChatGPT and Gemini, building a Memory file including the user's sensitive personal info, like fertility and payday loans — Meta's chatbot remembers everything, even what you might not want it to. — Mark Zuckerberg has a new way to invade your privacy: a creepier version of ChatGPT.
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| Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Sources: Databricks is in advanced talks to acquire startup Neon, a maker of a serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1B — An Upstarts paid subscriber special edition: acquisition-hungry data and AI unicorn Databricks is in advanced talks to buy the startup behind … | Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
A look at Waymo's Mesa, AZ plant, producing several retrofitted Jaguars per day and where plans to scale up with Chinese Zeekr vans may be derailed by tariffs — An exclusive look inside the facility turning Jaguar EVs into robotaxis with the AI-driven fleet's custom computing system, cameras, lidar and radar.| Sarah Jeong / The Verge: |
Apple files an appeal with the US Ninth Circuit, challenging last week's ruling that prevents it from charging devs fees on purchases made outside the App Store — Epic Games' stunning victory blocks Apple from imposing fees on purchases made outside the App Store.
More: TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Reuters, Times of India, WinBuzzer, TechRadar, AppleInsider, and MacDailyNews
X: @hoeglaw, @hoeglaw, @matthewstoller, @hoeglaw, and @games_fray
| TechCrunch: |
Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, which has raised $70m+ to date, steps down as CEO; CTO Prabhav Jain has been named the new CEO — Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, is stepping down from his role as CEO, Sukkar announced on LinkedIn this morning.| Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt: |
Solana Foundation: enough validators were able to quietly patch a 0-day bug last month that could have allowed unlimited “Token-22” minting and account draining — The Solana Foundation disclosed that validators quietly patched a major bug, avoiding a potentially catastrophic exploit.
More: Blockworks, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, Coinspeaker, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, and The Block
| Reuters: |
Tel Aviv-based eToro Group says it's targeting a $4B valuation in a Nasdaq IPO, aiming to raise $500M, after pausing plans last month amid market volatility — Israel's eToro Group said on Monday it was targeting a valuation of up to $4 billion in its initial public offering in the United States …
More: Business Wire, PYMNTS.com, Globes Online, The Information, Bloomberg, Axios, The Paypers, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, and Tech in Asia. LinkedIn: Ateev Bhandari
| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 39% YoY to $884M, vs. $863M est., and raises 2025 sales guidance to $3.9B on demand for AI software that's a “ravenous whirlwind” — But the results still fell short of Wall Street's high expectations for the company, which was the biggest gainer S&P 500 Index … | Miles Klee / Rolling Stone: |
Some say ChatGPT fueled their loved ones' religious delusions of grandeur; experts warn that human-like chats can worsen tendencies toward psychological issues — Self-styled prophets are claiming they have ‘awakened’ chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT
More: Garbage Day, The Verge, New York Post, Don't Worry About the Vase, and Futurism
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X: @crulge, @vibe_crc, @furrygirl, @randylewiskemp, @anthro_cam, @boy__onion, @angie_rasmussen, @daniel_sugarman, @andershjemdahl, @darren_cullen, @imaisms, @gym_user1000, @viveksworld, @contentcarrier, @abustamante, @youwouldntpost, @0xkrma, @matthewjdalby, @liminallina, @textually, and @seanwoods12
| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announces Tether AI, an open-source AI runtime that supports USDT and Bitcoin payments with no API keys or a central point of failure — Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino Tether AI tech will enable an unstoppable peer-to-peer network of billions of AI agents — What to know:Sponsor Posts
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