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MIT says it no longer stands behind a widely circulated research paper by its student that claimed an AI tool boosted discoveries in a materials science lab — The university says it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Epic's new motion asks a US district judge to order Apple to approve Fortnite on the US App Store, calling Apple's continued refusal contempt of court — As reported by Mark Gurman, Epic's petition reads: … In the document, Epic also makes a point to mention Tim Cook's testimony at trial, in which he said:
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Big Tech companies are firing staff who organize protests and rejecting petitions, even as a poor job market discourages worker activism, once ubiquitous in SV — A tighter labor market and lower corporate tolerance have stifled once boisterous employee input on controversies over company policy, AI safety and the Israel-Gaza war.| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Critics question Meta's Louisiana datacenter plans for three new power plants; Meta's carbon footprint is up from 2020, when it pledged 2030 net-zero emissions — New gas plants could be built to power the company's largest data center yet. … Meta's building a new AI data center so massive … | Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine: |
A look at AI companies' lobbying push, as well as the GOP's pitch, for the amendment to ban state-level AI regulation, added to the budget reconciliation bill — Inside the effort to de-democratize AI — Today, we dive deep into the GOP's radical campaign to ban US states from passing any laws that govern AI.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI rolls out Codex, an AI coding agent powered by codex-1, a version of o3 optimized for software engineering, for ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users — OpenAI announced on Friday it's launching a research preview of Codex, the company's most capable AI coding agent yet.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Galaxy Digital, which has traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange since 2020, started trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker GLXY; the stock closed up 4% — WATCH NOW — Mike Novogratz' crypto firm Galaxy Digital started trading on the Nasdaq Friday under the ticker GLXY.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
London-based Granola, which provides an AI-based notetaking app, raised a $43M Series B led by NFDG at a $250M valuation, taking its total funding to $67M — AI-powered notetaking tool Granola has been on a roll. The startup's seen a steep uptick in usage since it launched a year ago … | Wired: |
Wallets of ~100 of 220 TRUMP coin dinner attendees, and ~17 of 25 VIPs, have parted with nearly all their TRUMP after being chosen based on holdings to May 12 — Many of the crypto investors preparing to attend an exclusive gala dinner with US president Donald Trump have offloaded the coins that won them their seats.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI is expected to be a primary anchor tenant for a 5-gigawatt UAE data center, which could become one of the world's largest at 10 square miles — OpenAI plans to help develop a massive new data center in the United Arab Emirates that may eventually be one of the largest in the world …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis: China imported a record $30.9B in chipmaking equipment in 2024, including $9.63B from Japan, $9.53B from the Netherlands, and $4.86B from Singapore — TAIPEI/SEOUL — China bought a record amount of foreign chipmaking equipment in 2024 as part of efforts to massively expand domestic chip production …
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Sources: White House and lawmakers are scrutinizing Apple's plan to use Alibaba's AI on iPhones in China, over concerns about data sharing, censorship, and more — The Trump administration and congressional officials have raised concerns about a deal to put a Chinese company's artificial intelligence on iPhones.
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Source: Cohere crossed an annualized revenue of $100M as of May 2025, following a strategic shift in Q3 2024 to focus on customers in sectors like finance — AI startup Cohere has doubled its annualized revenue since the beginning of the year, driven by growing demand for secure … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, including telling Grok to be “extremely skeptical” and not to “blindly defer to mainstream authority or media” — The instructions tell Grok that it is ‘extremely skeptical.’ — xAI has published the system prompts …
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| Bloomberg: |
Deep dive on the evolution of Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, from its $1B investment in 2019 through Copilot rollouts and ChatGPT's launch to present day — Nervous customers and a volatile partnership with OpenAI are complicating things for Satya Nadella and the world's most valuable company.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Carta: VC deals are stalling at seed, with the Series A deal count falling by 79% between Q1 2022 and Q1 2025; 46% of seed deals were bridge rounds in Q1 2025 — Top of the Morning — Venture capital's series progression is stalling at seed, according to new data released this morning by Carta.| Reuters: |
Utah-based property management software firm Entrata raised $200M from Blackstone at a $4.3B valuation; Entrata raised $507M from Silver Lake and others in 2021 — Entrata on Thursday announced a $200 million minority investment from alternative asset manager Blackstone (BX.N) …
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