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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
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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.
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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
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| 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
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technews, and Ars OpenForum
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