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Sources on how Apple declined a deal from Elon Musk to use SpaceX instead of Globalstar for its iOS SOS feature and its 2015 plans to build satellite internet  —  Three years ago, Elon Musk approached Apple with an eleventh-hour offer.  —  Musk had heard that Apple was about to announce …
Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive:
Memo: nearly all of CISA's top leaders, including heads of five of its six operational divisions and six of 10 regional offices, have left or are leaving in May  —  Most of the leaders of the agency's operating divisions and regional offices have left or will leave this month amid …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Sundar Pichai on search's future, seeing “overall query growth”, AI agents, not altering search rankings or AI Mode answers to favor Trump, and more  —  Today, I'm talking with Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.  We recorded this conversation in person …
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X: @jason_kint and @jason_kint.  LinkedIn: Glenn Gabe
Forums: r/artificial and r/google
Ina Fried / Axios:
Memo: Meta reorganizes its AI teams into an AI products team and AGI Foundations; FAIR remains separate but one specific FAIR team is moving to AGI Foundations  —  Meta is restructuring its AI teams to speed up the rollout of new products and features, Axios has learned.
Bloomberg:
Salesforce agrees to acquire cloud data management company Informatica for ~$8B, set to close in its FY 2027, one year after an earlier deal fell through  —  The Elite Microsoft Unit Constantly Working to Thwart Hackers … Explainers
Keeping Tabs by The Browser Company:
The Browser Company says it is pivoting away from its Arc browser to build AI-native browser Dia, citing Arc's complexity and limited mass-market appeal  —  On Arc, its future, and the arrival of AI browsers — a moment to answer the largest questions you've asked us this past year.  —  The Browser Company
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Mistral launches an API for agents, which can run code, make images, access docs, search the web, and “hand off” to other agents, similar to OpenAI's offerings  —  What that actually means is a system prompt plus a bundle of tools running in a loop.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Meta launches a dedicated iPadOS app for WhatsApp, about 15 years after the messaging service and the first iPad launched  —  The first version of the messaging app built for iPads tablets makes it easy to chat while you browse.  —  Meta now has a dedicated iPad app for WhatsApp …
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Memo: the Trump admin pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls requiring all foreign students applying to study in the US to undergo social media vetting  —  It's the latest salvo against universities, many of whom rely heavily on foreign students for funds.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple says its App Store blocked $9B+ in fraudulent transactions over the past five years, with $2B in just 2024, and rejected ~2M risky app submissions in 2024  —  Apple on Tuesday announced new figures related to its App Store's ability to protect app developers and consumers from fraud.
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
Civitai is banning “real-person likeness content” on its site, citing new laws and the loss of its payment processor, after problems with nonconsensual porn  —  Civitai, an AI model sharing site backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that 404 Media has repeatedly shown is being used …
Monique Mulima / Bloomberg:
Trump Media & Technology Group plans to sell ~$1.5B in stock and $1B in 0% convertible notes to buy bitcoin for its treasury, following Strategy's model  —  The company's shares fell 9.2% at $23.38 in early trading after rallying premarket following a Financial Times report on its plans …
Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk:
Stablecoin operator Circle files for an NYSE IPO and plans to offer 24M shares at $24 to $26 each, raising up to nearly $250M; Cathie Wood's ARK may buy $150M  —  Circle Internet Group, the firm behind stablecoin USDC, has filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, the firm said on Tuesday.
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt:
Researcher: factoring 2048 bit RSA integers could be done with ~20x fewer noisy qubits than previously estimated, though still far beyond current quantum tech  —  Google just dropped a new research paper, and Bitcoin maxis may want to do some quick math.  The tech giant's quantum team found …
Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:
The European Commission says it is investigating Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos for potential child safety DSA violations “as a matter of priority”  —  New rules compel large online platforms to do more to protect users from harmful illegal content

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White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia was forced out of her role on Friday, after five days on the job and hosting only one press briefing

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