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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| 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 …
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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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| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | Charles Capel / Bloomberg: |
SEC filing: crypto exchange Bullish increased the size and price of its US IPO to sell 30M shares for $32 to $33 each, up from 20.3M shares for $28 to $31 each — Bullish increased the size and price of its initial public offering, boosting the potential deal size to $990 million … | 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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| 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.
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| 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 … | 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.| Reuters: |
Rumble says it plans to acquire German AI cloud group Northern Data in an all-stock deal; estimates show the deal could be valued at ~$1.17B, a 32% discount — U.S.-listed video platform Rumble (RUM.O) is considering a potential offer of about $1.17 billion (1 billion euro) … | CNBC: |
Source: StubHub now aims to hold its IPO in September after pausing plans in April; it updated its IPO prospectus, reporting Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to $397.6M — StubHub, the ticketing marketplace that spun out of eBay in 2020, has resumed its plans to go public and is now aiming to hold its IPO next month, CNBC has learned.
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