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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stargate has struggled to get off the ground and sharply scaled back its near-term plans, as SoftBank and OpenAI disagree on crucial terms of the deal — The Stargate venture, introduced at White House event, is now setting the more modest goal of building a small data center by year-end
More: Reuters, Analytics India Magazine, The Information, PYMNTS.com, WinBuzzer, and Benzinga
Bluesky: @malwarejake and @quinnypig.com
| Google DeepMind: |
Google says an advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think won gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving 5 of 6 “exceptionally difficult” problems — The International Mathematical Olympiad ("IMO") is the world's most prestigious competition for young mathematicians, and has been held annually since 1959.
More: New York Times, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Mashable, Reuters, Neowin, Analytics India Magazine, Simon Willison's Weblog, Geek News Central Podcast, implicator.ai, TechPowerUp, Gizmodo, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Simon Willison's Weblog, SiliconANGLE, iPhone in Canada, Maginative, GreenBot, Ars Technica, Axios, and Gamereactor UK
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Forums: Hacker News, r/MachineLearning, r/math, r/mlscaling, r/slatestarcodex, Lobsters, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Reuters: |
OpenAI and the UK government announce a partnership to explore AI use in justice, defense, security, and edtech, and possibly expand OpenAI's London office — Britain and ChatGPT maker OpenAI have signed a new strategic partnership to deepen collaboration on AI security research …
More: The Guardian, GOV.UK, PYMNTS.com, Maginative, Cryptopolitan, and Engadget
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @hypervisible, @rachelcoldicutt, and @tedmccormick. Mastodon: @Lazarou@mastodon.social. Forums: r/ukpolitics
| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
Leaked memo: CEO Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching “dictators”, says a “no bad person” rule is impractical — “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle …
More: Benzinga. Bluesky: @brbarrett, @quinnypig.com, @sanjanah, @markriedl, @marypcbuk, @kylierobison.com, and @laurengoode
| CoinDesk: |
Crypto custody company BitGo confidentially files for a US IPO; it raised $100M at a $1.75B valuation in August 2023 — The crypto custodian submitted a confidential U.S. listing as interest in public crypto stocks heats up. — What to know: — BitGo confidentially filed to go public … | Mike Allen / Axios: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT users send more than 2.5B prompts globally each day, more than 330M of those are in US, and the platform has 500M weekly active users — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will use a swing through Washington this week to argue that AI is already making Americans more productive …
More: The Verge, Moneycontrol, Digital Trends, Mashable, CNBC, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada, and WeRSM
Bluesky: @pmihc and @edzitron.com
| Washington Post: |
Researchers say hackers linked to the Chinese government were behind at least some of the recent widespread attacks using the SharePoint RCE vulnerability — Researchers say Chinese and other criminal hackers have exploited a security flaw in SharePoint software widely used by governments and businesses — and may come back.
More: Reuters and Associated Press
| Bloomberg: |
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LinkedIn: Brian Krebs, Stefano Demiliani, Shane Morris, Bryan Law, Job Kuijpers, Ann Johnson, and Steve Faehl
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| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
Figma plans to sell nearly 37M shares to raise up to $1.03B, pricing its shares between $25 and $28 each, giving it an up to $16.4B valuation in its NYSE debut — Figma is targeting a fully-diluted valuation of up to $16.4 billion in its initial public offering, as the cloud-based design …
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Forums: r/FigmaDesign and Slashdot
| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Galaxy Watch8 review: thinner and sturdier, but its design with a square casing and a round screen is polarizing, and Gemini is useful but hit-or-miss — If users can tolerate the bold new look, they'll find the included artificial intelligence features are actually useful.
More: Engadget, Livemint, Droid Life, and Digital Trends
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Source: Netflix is using Runway AI's video generation tools for production; Disney is testing out the tools and talked with Runway about possible uses for them — Netflix Inc. has begun using artificial intelligence video generation software from startup Runway AI, testing the waters … | Bloomberg: |
Polymarket says it is buying little-known derivatives exchange QCX, in a move to legally re-enter the US market; a source says Polymarket will pay $112M — Polymarket, the crypto-betting platform that was kicked offshore by federal regulators, has struck a deal to return to the US market …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers: at least 750 US hospitals faced disruptions on the day of last year's big CrowdStrike outage, and 200+ had outages related to patient care services — Of those, more than 200 appear to have had outages of services related to patient care following CrowdStrike's disastrous crash, researchers have revealed.
More: VentureBeat, Becker's Hospital Review, ComputerWeekly.com, Forbes, TVBEurope, and IJR
LinkedIn: Dave Schroeder, Andy Greenberg, and Jeff Tully
| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
In her first note to staff, OpenAI's incoming CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, lays out an optimistic vision for how AI will change the world — Soon-to-be former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo sent a memo to OpenAI staff Monday laying out her vision for how AI will change the world.
More: Bloomberg, OpenAI, The Information, Constellation Research, MediaPost, and The Verge
Bluesky: @katie-drummond and @kylierobison.com
X: @fidjissimo, @inafried, @gdb, @fidjissimo, @natlungfy, @shuweiyang1, and @rohanpaul_ai
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/OpenAI, and r/ChatGPT
| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
SEC filing: Ambiq Micro, which makes ultra-low power chips, is seeking to raise as much as $85M from its IPO, offering 3.4M shares at $22 to $25 each — Ambiq Micro Inc., a maker of ultra-low power semiconductors for artificial intelligence applications, is seeking to raise as much as $85 million from an initial public offering.
More: SiliconANGLE, Ambiq, Austin American-Statesman, and Austin Business Journal. Bluesky: @jauntywk
| SemiAnalysis: |
A roundup of VLSI conference 2025, including the use of digital twins for design exploration, DRAM beyond 1x nm nodes, Intel's 18A process vs. TSMC, and more — VLSI 2025 Roundup — No comments on Intel 18A Details & Cost, Future of DRAM 4F2 vs 3D, Backside Power Adoption (or Not) … | Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters: |
Seattle-based tax compliance software maker Avalara, acquired by Vista Equity Partners in a 2022 deal valuing it at $8.4B, confidentially files for a US IPO — Tax software company Avalara, which went private in 2022, disclosed on Monday it had confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering …
More: Avalara, Inc. and GeekWire
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