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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100K+ times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached formal licensing deals with OpenAI and Google — The online discussion forum says Anthropic continued to access its site over 100,000 times after saying it stopped
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/singularity
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI rolls out connectors for services like Dropbox and OneDrive for ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu users; MCP support is coming to Pro, Team, Enterprise — OpenAI's ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recordings …
More: CNBC, SiliconANGLE, Moneycontrol, Digit, PYMNTS.com, Thurrott, MarTech, WinBuzzer, Neowin, The Decoder, 9to5Mac, Lifewire, Maginative, TestingCatalog, and Simon Willison's Weblog
X: @kevinweil, @openai, @openai, @kevinweil, @thezvi, @openai, @dharmesh, @openai, and @levie. Forums: Slashdot
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI says it has 3M “paying business users”, up from 2M in February; ChatGPT Team users can now use a “record mode” for taking notes during meetings — ChatGPT now has 3 million “paying business users” and is adding new features like meeting notes.| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
Circle priced its upsized IPO at $31 per share, above its marketed range of $27 to $28, raising nearly $1.1B and valuing the company at approximately $6.9B — The firm and backers including co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Allaire sold 34 million shares Wednesday for $31 each … | Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Epic v. Apple: a US appeals court rejects Apple's request to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring it to open the App Store to more competition — Apple (AAPL.O) has failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring the iPhone maker …
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 court order requiring it to preserve all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, arguing it poses a risk to users' privacy — OpenAI is now fighting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user logs—including deleted chats and sensitive chats logged through …
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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
The US DOJ seized ~145 domains and crypto linked to BidenCash, a dark web market that made $17M+ in revenue since 2022 by selling stolen credit cards and more — Earlier today, law enforcement seized multiple domains of BidenCash, the infamous dark web market for stolen credit cards, personal information, and SSH access.
More: US Department of Justice, PaymentSecurity.io, Hackread, The Record, and CyberScoop
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta reveals more information about its research glasses Aria Gen 2, including their form factor, computer vision cameras, sensors, and on-device compute — Aria Gen 2 is designed to help ‘shape the next computing platform’ with advanced eye- and hand-tracking capabilities.
More: PYMNTS.com, 9to5Mac, Meta, and Social Media Today
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple may announce new features for AirPods at WWDC, including iPhone camera control, new head gestures, and sleep detection for pausing playback — Yesterday, 9to5Mac exclusively preported a handful of iOS 26 features that Apple has been working on and may announce on WWDC for its native apps.
More: MacRumors, Digit, The Mac Observer, BGR, AppleInsider, iClarified, iPhone in Canada, and The Verge. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure — The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk …
More: Gizmodo and Above the Law
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon is creating an AI team within its Lab126 hardware R&D unit that will help develop an agentic AI framework for use in its robotics operations — Amazon has formed a new group within its consumer product-development arm that is focused on agentic artificial intelligence, the company said Wednesday.
More: PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Constellation Research, and Benzinga
| Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: CrowdStrike says the DOJ and SEC have requested information about the July 2024 outage caused by an update and about its revenue recognition practices — The agencies in part also are seeking details about the company's revenue-recognition practices, CrowdStrike said
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple Intelligence's China rollout with Alibaba is delayed by Chinese regulators amid US trade war; the country approved 300+ domestic AI models so far — Partnership between US and Chinese tech groups stalled by Beijing regulator in wake of geopolitical tensions| Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese hackers breached a US telecom company in the summer of 2023, a year before US officials and cybersecurity firms detected the Salt Typhoon hacks — - Attackers said to lurk in victim systems after summer of 2023 — ‘Demodex’ malware previously used against targets in Asia| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta has talked with Disney, A24, and other companies about exclusive content for a premium VR device it plans to launch next year for less than $1,000 — Tech company has talked with Disney and A24 about exclusive content for a premium VR device — Meta Platforms is courting Hollywood …
More: Sherwood News, UploadVR, The Verge, and TVNewsCheck
| Financial Times: |
Singapore's Temasek cuts back on startup investments after the fund wrote down hundreds of millions of dollars on a spate of collapsed startups, including FTX — State-owned $300bn fund says it is adopting a ‘more cautious approach’ on early-stage companies| Matthew Gault / Wired: |
How AI-assisted “vibe hacking”, which often relies on jailbroken versions of mainstream AI models, is leading to a cybersecurity “arms race” — In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale.| Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash, Uber, and Grubhub agree to settle a 2021 lawsuit against New York City over its pandemic-era 15% cap to commissions and fees charged to restaurants — The meal-delivery services agreed to drop their challenge to the cap once the city makes adjustments to the law and final terms …
More: Reuters
| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the “tides have turned” in Silicon Valley, making it more acceptable for the tech industry to support the US military's efforts — There's long existed a “silent majority” who wanted to pursue defense projects, Bosworth said during an interview …
X: @business
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SEC filing: Uber appoints Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora to its board of directors following a broader executive shakeup this week — Nikesh Arora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, is joining Uber's board of directors, the company announced in a regulatory filing Wednesday.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
MongoDB reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $549M, vs. $527.5M est., net loss down 54% to $37.6M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB up 14%+ after hours — Shares of the database company MongoDB Inc. were flying high in extended trading today after it posted better-than-expected financial results … | Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: |
Two FCC commissioners announce they'll depart this week, creating three vacancies on the five-member panel amid a probe into EchoStar's 5G service obligations — Two members of the Federal Communications Commission announced they'll depart this week, leaving the agency with three vacancies … | Echo Wong / Bloomberg: |
Document: Xiaohongshu, a TikTok alternative known in the US as Rednote, has surged to a $26B valuation based on recent market transactions via a GSR fund — The startup's price tag emerged through a document from GSR Ventures Management Co. vehicle that showed shares of the fund changing hands.| Rocket Drew / The Information: |
Source: Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots to deliver packages and is near completion of an indoor “humanoid park” in San Francisco to test them — Amazon is developing software for humanoid robots that could eventually take the jobs of delivery workers … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mistral releases Mistral Code, an AI coding assistant forked from open-source project Continue, in private beta on JetBrains development platforms and VS Code — French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own “vibe coding” client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere's Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.
More: Mistral AI, Tech in Asia, SiliconANGLE, MarkTechPost, WinBuzzer, TestingCatalog, and VentureBeat
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will now manage its Office group, reporting to EVP of Experiences and Devices Rajesh Jha; he will remain LinkedIn CEO — Ryan Roslansky, the professional networking site's chief executive officer since 2020, will tack on responsibility for the teams behind Outlook …
More: The Verge, Thurrott, CNBC, Computerworld, GeekWire, The Information, Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Neowin, Windows Central, Seattle Business Journal, and MarketWatch
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LinkedIn: Ryan Roslansky and Patrick Moorhead
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