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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he is leaving to “become a startup founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization — GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday that he plans to step down, with Microsoft opting not to directly replace the position …
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| Financial Times: |
Trump says “it's possible” to make a deal to let Nvidia sell Blackwell chips “enhanced in a negative way” in China and calls H20 “an old chip” China already has — US president confirms he negotiated ‘a little deal’ with chipmaker's chief Jensen Huang
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
President Trump says that he initially asked Nvidia for a 20% cut of H20 sales to China, but the number came down to 15% after Jensen Huang negotiated with him — President Donald Trump on Monday said that he initially asked Nvidia for a 20% cut of the chipmaker's sales to China … | Bloomberg: |
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| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges — The operator of Wikipedia on Monday lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain's Online Safety Act, which sets tough new requirements …
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| Omair Pall / Mashable India: |
xAI makes Grok 4 free for all users worldwide after making Grok Imagine free for all US users; Grok 4 Heavy remains exclusive to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers — xAI releases Grok 4 free, rivals GPT-5 launch. — Elon Musk-owned xAI has officially made the latest version of its AI model … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing most of its pages after it caught AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine — The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it's going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.
More: Engadget and WeRSM
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| Luc Olinga / Gizmodo: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is “significantly increasing rate limits for reasoning” for ChatGPT Plus users, as the share of users using reasoning models increases — The move is a stunning reversal, proving that even the most powerful AI company can't ignore a mutiny from its loyal user base.| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sources: GM plans a renewed push on driverless cars, focused on personal use rather than a robotaxi service, and is trying to bring back some ex-Cruise workers — General Motors Co. is seeking to lure back some former employees of its defunct Cruise autonomous-vehicle business as part …
Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Financial Times: |
The EU Commission approves Prosus' €4.1B takeover of Just Eat Takeaway in a bid to create a “European tech champion” to rival DoorDash, which acquired Deliveroo — The European Commission has approved the €4.1bn takeover of Just Eat Takeaway by Prosus …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon's Kuiper launches 24 satellites via SpaceX's Falcon 9 after four launch attempts were delayed by weather issues, taking its total to 102 in orbit — Amazon shipped another batch of internet-beaming satellites into orbit on Monday atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, after four previous launch attempts …
More: Ars Technica, About Amazon, Investor's Business Daily, iPhone in Canada, UPI, Cord Cutters News, and SPACE.com. X: @spacex
| Robert Frank / CNBC: |
CB Insights: there are now 498 AI unicorns, with a combined value of $2.7T, including 100 founded since 2023, and over 1,300 AI startups are valued above $100M — Artificial intelligence startups have minted dozens of new billionaires this year, adding to an AI boom that's quickly becoming …
More: TechCabal. Bluesky: @carnage4life. LinkedIn: Edison Wang and Cedric Justice
Forums: r/artificial and r/technology
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Anthropic adds a memory feature for Claude to reference information from past chats, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, and soon for other plans — Anthropic has introduced a helpful new feature for Claude that solves a problem similar to one ChatGPT already addressed.
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Trump family's World Liberty Financial is using a publicly listed company, ALT5 Sigma, to raise $1.5B for the purchase of its WLFI token — World Liberty Financial cofounders Zach Witkoff (left) and Eric Trump. — The Trump family's crypto business, World Liberty Financial … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Revel plans to wind down rideshare operations in its home city of New York after four years, pivoting to an EV-charging business that counts Uber as a partner — Revel Transit Inc. plans to wind down rideshare operations after weathering stiff competition in its home city of New York …
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