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Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Sources: Tim Cook declined a White House invitation to join Jensen Huang and others on Trump's Middle East trip, where Trump criticized Cook and praised Huang  —  Apple's chief executive has gone from winning President Trump's praise to drawing his ire, deepening the company's woes in a very bad year.
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Researchers detail an exploit in GitHub's official MCP server that lets hackers trick an LLM agent into leaking private information about the MCP user  —  GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (via) GitHub's official MCP server grants LLMs a whole host of new abilities …
Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal:
The EU says Shein's practices breach its rules against false discounts, deceptive product labels, and more, and warn Shein could face fines if it doesn't comply  —  European Union regulators said China-founded e-commerce platform Shein's sales tactics fall foul of EU law and that the company …
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 …
Financial Times:
Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group aims to raise $2B in fresh equity and another $1B via a convertible bond to buy crypto, including bitcoin  —  US president's administration and family have become staunch advocates for digital assets  —  Antoine Gara, Oliver Barnes and George Steer in New York, Arash Massoudi in London
Tatum Hunter / Washington Post:
People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to “glow up” their appearance  —  Friends want to protect your feelings.  AI isn't pulling any punches.  —  Ania Rucinski was feeling down on herself.
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:
Palisade Research claims that OpenAI's o3 altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown  —  A new report claims that OpenAI's o3 model altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown.
Akila Quinio / Financial Times:
The UK, which launched open banking in 2018, is seeing its fintech sector struggle to make open banking-powered payments a viable alternative to card payments  —  London was a world leader for payments technology but now risks falling behind  —  Simply sign up to the Fintech myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.
Jessica Mathews / Fortune:
Tesla is set to launch its robotaxi service in Austin in June, but city officials say they are still awaiting important information regarding safety protocols  —  As soon as one week from today, the first driverless Tesla robotaxis could begin zipping passengers through the streets of Austin …

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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: Notus plans to “dramatically expand” its coverage of national politics with a “new version of NOTUS under a new name” and will double staff from 50 to 100

Catherine Shoard / The Guardian:
Warner Bros. won a record-tying 11 awards at the 98th Oscars, followed by Netflix's six; Apple, Disney, Focus, and Neon had one each, while Paramount had none

Karissa Waddick / USA Today:
After Trump said some outlets wanted the US to “lose the War”, FCC Chair Carr threatened broadcasters, saying they can lose their licenses over war coverage

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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
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Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
OpenAI sets up a legal entity in South Korea and plans a Seoul office, its third in Asia, and says the country has the most paying ChatGPT users outside the US
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