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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI is negotiating with Microsoft to enable a future IPO; Microsoft offers to cut its equity stake for continued access to OpenAI tech beyond 2030 — High-stakes talks to revise terms of multibillion-dollar partnership are key to plans to adopt for-profit model
More: Business Today, Reuters, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, GeekWire, The Economic Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, WinBuzzer, Nairametrics, and Yahoo Finance
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| Scott Macfarlane / CBS News: |
The Trump administration fired US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about xAI using copyrighted content to train AI — The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday.
More: Committee on House …, Politico, The Verge, Business Insider, Fox News, Copyright Lately, Washington Post, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Decoder, Associated Press, Music Business Worldwide, Gizmodo, ai fray, Newser, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg Law
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| Charles Daly / Bloomberg: |
Klarna, which said in 2024 that AI was doing the work of 700 customer service agents, starts hiring remote workers after the AI approach led to “lower quality” — To that end, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, 43, is plotting a rare recruitment drive so the buy-now-pay-later company's customers …
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LinkedIn: Thomas Laird, Georg Zoeller, and Morgan Sandberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/programare, r/technology, r/singularity, and r/OpenAI
| Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: |
A look at “AI-native” startups, which integrate AI into their workflows and team structures, allowing them to operate with fewer employees and consolidate tasks — Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy is now trying to tame the bureaucracy this created, arguing the company needs …
LinkedIn: Hunter Walk and Jo Constantz
| Tyler Cowen / Conversations with Tyler: |
Q&A with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark on the parts of the economy AGI will affect last, why he's relatively bearish on AI-fueled economic growth, and more — And the inevitable future of AI-enhanced parenting — SUBSCRIBE - Apple - Google - Stitcher - Spotify - YouTube
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Singapore unveils a blueprint for global collaboration on AI safety, developed in consensus with researchers and experts from the US, China, and other countries — In a rare moment of global consensus, AI researchers from the US, Europe, and Asia came together in Singapore to form a plan for researching AI risks.
More: The Singapore Consensus …, Blockchain.News, and OpenGov Asia
| Financial Times: |
Lloyd's of London insurers have launched a product to cover companies for losses if sued over AI chatbot errors, with policies developed by YC-backed Armilla — Policies will pay out for costs such as legal fees and court damages if AI tools underperform — Simply sign up to the Artificial …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/neoliberal
| Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times: |
Q&A with Whitney Wolfe Herd about returning as Bumble CEO, Tinder lawsuit, being bullish about using AI in dating apps, funding for female founders, and more — Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times — It feels like a lifetime ago, but when Whitney Wolfe Herd co-founded her first company … | Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
How OpenDNS, Cloudflare, and Google responded to EU court orders to block DNS resolution for pirate sites; OpenDNS left France and Belgium instead of complying — Pirate site blocking orders issued against DNS resolvers including OpenDNS, Google, and Cloudflare are stacking up in Europe.| Nicole Kobie / Wired: |
As the consumer metaverse falters, the World Economic Forum projects the industrial metaverse will reach $100B by 2030, led by platforms like Nvidia Omniverse — Forget Mark Zuckerberg's vision of VR meetings; the industrial metaverse bridges digital and physical worlds in a way that's actually useful.| Lauren Kent / CNN: |
Pope Leo XIV says he chose his name to honor Pope Leo XIII's work during the first industrial revolution, as AI poses challenges in a new industrial revolution — Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis …
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Forums: r/technology and r/Fauxmoi
| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
The FTC pushes the enforcement of its “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up, from May 14 to July 14 — The Federal Trade Commission has delayed the start of a rule that aims to make the process of canceling subscriptions less of a nightmare.
More: PYMNTS.com, The Verge, TechCrunch, PCMag, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, UPI, and Reuters
| FinSMEs: |
Thoma Bravo invests $100M+ in HubSync, a Tennessee-based tax and accounting automation and client experience platform for accounting firms and tax professionals — HubSync, a Franklin, TN-based provider of a tax and accounting platform, received an over $100M Growth investment from Thoma Bravo.
More: Thoma Bravo and Nashville Business Journal
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
CMU researchers unveil LegoGPT, an AI model that designs physically stable Lego structures from text prompts and currently supports eight standard brick types — On Thursday, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University unveiled LegoGPT, an AI model that creates physically stable Lego structures from text prompts.
More: LegoGPT, Tom's Hardware, Ava Pun on GitHub, arXiv.org, PCMag, CNET, Generative Intelligence Lab (CMU) on Hugging Face, arXiv.org e-Print archive, and Hacker Podcast
Bluesky: @bensbrickdesigns and @remicadene. Mastodon: @arstechnica@mastodon.social. LinkedIn: Carsten Høilund
Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and Ars OpenForum
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