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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
Bloomberg:
OpenAI and Oracle unveil plans to develop 4.5GW of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership, hitting 5GW in total and running 2M AI chips  —  OpenAI and Oracle Corp. announced they will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional US data center capacity in an expanded partnership …
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 …
Kylie Robison / Wired:
Leaked memo: Dario Amodei told staff Anthropic plans to seek UAE and Qatar funding, likely enriching “dictators”, and 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 …
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.
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.
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
Anil Ananthaswamy / Quanta Magazine:
While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data  —  He and his team turned to AI — in particular, a software suite first created by the physicist Mario Krenn to design tabletop experiments in quantum optics.
Bluesky: @hern, @hern, and @quantamagazine.  Mastodon: @mustapipa@scicomm.xyz
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
CoinDesk:
Crypto custody company BitGo confidentially files for a US IPO; Palo Alto-based BitGo 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:
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.
Judy Rider / Crunchbase News:
Ashby, which offers an AI-powered talent platform combining applications, CRM, search, and more, raised a $50M Series D, following a $30M Series C in 2024  —  In today's competitive hiring environment, the ability for companies to move quickly on talent is more paramount than ever.
Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can “steer” laser light and is an alternative to lidar, extends its Series B from $45M to $59M, including from Amazon's IIF  —  Programmable optics startup Lumotive has added a few more strategic backers to its recent Series B round.
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Philadelphia-based Asylon, which modifies Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot into DroneDog, raised a $26M Series B led by Insight, taking its total funding to $45M  —  Philadelphia-based robotics company Asylon announced Tuesday that it raised a $26 million Series B led by Insight Partners …
Brunella Tipismana Urbano / Bloomberg:
Reka AI, which aims to make more efficient LLMs, raised $110M from Nvidia, Snowflake, and others at a $1B+ valuation, up from ~$300M in 2023, per PitchBook  —  Snowflake had previously been in talks to buy the three-year-old AI startup.  —  Artificial intelligence company Reka AI raised …

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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Source: the FBI investigated NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she wrote about Kash Patel's use of FBI staff for his girlfriend's security

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: the NFL met with the FCC on Friday to defend the league's media rights strategy and said 87% of games are primarily aired for free on broadcast TV

Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
The FCC launches a review of TV Parental Guidelines, citing concerns that “gender identity issues are being included or promoted in children's programs”

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Earlier Picks

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
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google reveals the design of the Pixel 10 a few weeks ahead of the launch event; the smartphone strongly resembles the Pixel 9 but has a third back camera
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
Emilio Parodi / Reuters:
Sources: Meta, X, and LinkedIn appeal an unprecedented ~€1.04B VAT claim by Italy, which is seeking €887.6M from Meta, €12.5M from X, and ~€140M from LinkedIn
Financial Times:
X says France's criminal probe over algorithmic “manipulation” and “fraudulent” data extraction is “distorting French law in order to serve a political agenda”
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