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Sources: lobbyists for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta back a campaign for a 10-year US state AI regulation ban, a move dividing the AI industry and the GOP — Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party
More: AppleInsider, Cautious Optimism, The Hill, and PYMNTS.com
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
More: Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models, Governor of California, Time, Industry Insider California, and Senator Scott Wiener
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Forums: r/technology, r/artificial, and Slashdot
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
At Cannes, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube will integrate Veo 3 into Shorts later this summer and that AI tech “will push the limits of human creativity” — The Veo 3 video generator is capable of creating both videos and sound based on text prompts, with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan saying the … | Kayla Cobb / The Wrap: |
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
The DOJ announces the seizure of $225.3M in crypto linked to “pig butchering” scams, marking “the largest cryptocurrency seizure in US Secret Service history” — The Justice Department announced Wednesday the largest-ever U.S. seizure of cryptocurrency linked to so-called … | John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Hands-on with Apple's new Speech framework components in the macOS Tahoe beta: the APIs deliver transcription speeds significantly faster than OpenAI's Whisper — Late last Tuesday night, after watching F1: The Movie at the Steve Jobs Theater, I was driving back from dropping Federico off at his hotel when I got a text:
More: iDownloadBlog.com, Apple Must, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and MacDailyNews
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out the ability to have back-and-forth voice conversations with AI Mode, available in the Google app by tapping the Live button — Google is rolling out the ability for users to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with AI Mode, its experimental Search feature that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions.| Vanessa Hand Orellana / CNET: |
An interview with Samsung SVP Dr. Hon Pak on the Galaxy Watch getting a first-ever blood analysis feature, AI health tools, and a potential monthly subscription — With a first-ever blood analysis feature and four new AI-powered health tools, the Galaxy Watch is shaping up to be a smarter ally …
More: PCMag, The Sun, SammyGuru, 9to5Google, Trusted Reviews, Tech Advisor, Sam Lover, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac, Android Police, T3, Android Authority, and SamMobile
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Microsoft is prepared to walk away from high-stakes talks with OpenAI if they cannot agree on critical issues, such as the size of Microsoft's stake — ChatGPT maker's plans to convert into a for-profit leads software giant to make contingency plans
More: Reuters, Constellation Research, Ars Technica, The Information, Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, and Axios
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo applied for a NYC permit to test its cars with safety drivers and plans to start collecting mapping data with manually driven cars in Manhattan in July — The company wants to change state law so it can operate vehicles without safety drivers. That will be a challenge.| Bloomberg: |
Texas Instruments plans to spend $60B+ on US semiconductor plants, including two new factories in Texas, and says its long-term spending plan remains unchanged — The company said its long-term capital spending plan remains unchanged. The total includes amounts allotted to plants … | Kristina Partsinevelos / CNBC: |
AWS says Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 launched on its Trainium2 GPUs, and Project Rainier, AWS' supercomputer built for Anthropic, uses 500K+ Trainium2 chips — Amazon Web Services is set to announce an update to its Graviton4 chip that includes 600 gigabits per second of network bandwidth …
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| Financial Times: |
Netflix signs a landmark deal with France's TF1 to show linear TV for the first time; TF1 will broadcast all five of its channels, showing live sports and more — Deal will be closely watched by broadcasters, who are losing millions of viewers to streaming giants — Daniel Thomas and Hannah Murphy in Cannes
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| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
A cyberattack claimed by pro-Israel hacktivist group Predatory Sparrow has reportedly disrupted services at Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah, including its website — The attack introduces a clear cyber element with immediate consequences for the country's critical infrastructure amid a growing conflict between Israel and Iran.
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
The Midas Project and The Tech Oversight Project release The OpenAI Files, a 50+ page analysis of OpenAI's governance, leadership, and organizational culture — It has charts and data visualizations, including the authors' best guess at OpenAI's corporate structure.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the Catholic Church's decadelong dialogue with Silicon Valley on AI, as Pope Leo prepares to make AI's potential threat to humanity a signature issue — The new pope is making the potential threat of artificial intelligence to humanity a signature issue—but Silicon Valley is trying to win him over
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to announce thousands of job cuts, particularly in sales, early next month after the end of its fiscal year — The cuts are expected to be announced early next month, following the end of Microsoft's fiscal year, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Observability and site reliability engineering startup Traversal emerges from stealth with $48M in seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins — Left to right: Traversal's Raaz Dwivedi, Anish Agarwal, Ahmed Lone, and Raj Agrawal. — Traversal
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it's phasing out its work with Scale AI, into which Meta invested $14.3B, and that Scale AI accounted for a small fraction of its overall data needs — OpenAI is phasing out the work it does with data-labeling startup Scale AI, cutting ties with the company days …
More: TechCrunch, The Information, Scale AI, and CNBC
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
On a podcast, Sam Altman said Meta made “giant offers to a lot of people on our team ... like, $100M signing bonuses”, and “none of our best people” have accepted — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta's …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI details why “emergent misalignment”, where training on wrong answers in one area can lead to misalignment in others, happens and how it can be mitigated — OpenAI researchers say they've discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned “personas …
More: MIT Technology Review, OpenAI, and NDTV Profit
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| Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire: |
TerraPower, which develops small modular nuclear reactors, raised $650M from investors including Nvidia's NVentures and TerraPower co-founder Bill Gates — Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet.
More: Business Wire, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, Axios, Financial Times, and Venture Capital Journal. X: @terrapower
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
A look at embedded and immersion chip-cooling tech; industry sources indicate Nvidia is mulling 6,000W to 9,000W TDP for its next-gen GPUs, up from ~1,200W now — It is going to get hot. — The power consumption of AI GPUs has steadily increased in recent years and is expected … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Klarna launches a $40/month unlimited mobile plan in the US via a partnership with telecom services startup Gigs, following similar offerings by Revolut and N26 — Klarna's CEO is so bullish about artificial intelligence that he sees it changing the way the fintech's 100 million users bank every day.
More: CNET, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Light Reading, Bloomberg, The Verge, Mashable, Yahoo Finance, Finextra, PaymentsJournal, and Tech.eu
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Xreal One Pro review: the impressive $649 AR glasses resemble normal spectacles from a distance and excel as a virtual, HD external display for PCs and phones — Review: The company's latest augmented-reality glasses excel as an external display for phones, PCs and gaming devices.| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
NYC-based Tennr, which uses AI document parsing and workflow automation to cut patient waiting times, raised a $101M Series C led by IVP at a $605M valuation — Tennr founders from left: Trey Holterman (co-founder/CEO), Tyler Johnson (co-founder/CTO), Diego Baugh (co-founder/Chief Product Officer)
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