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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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Trump says he met with Lip-Bu Tan and that the Intel CEO will continue talks with his Cabinet members in the coming days, after calling for his resignation — President Donald Trump said members of his Cabinet would continue discussions with Lip-Bu Tan in the coming days after meeting …
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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| Bloomberg: |
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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 … | 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 … | 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 … | 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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| 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: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Gamer, and Engadget
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| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Paxos applies to create a US national trust bank, which would allow it to manage and hold assets for customers, following applications by Circle and Ripple — Paxos Trust Company, the cryptocurrency firm behind PayPal's stablecoin, said it is applying to create a national trust bank in the U.S. …
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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 …
More: Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg
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Nvidia announces two low-power Blackwell workstation GPUs, the RTX PRO 4000 SFF and RTX PRO 2000, both featuring compact designs and available later this year — NVIDIA updates RTX Pro Blackwell series with entry-level SKUs — Based on GB203 and GB206 GPUs.
More: The Register, Tom's Hardware, NVIDIA, Nvidia Newsroom, ServeTheHome, and TechPowerUp
| 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.
More: The Verge and Tom's Guide
| 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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| 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 … | Ana Ionova / New York Times: |
Sources: Google, Meta, and other tech firms have met with Brazilian officials as new regulations on tech are being shaped, with Trump's tariffs as a backdrop — With President Trump on their side, U.S. technology companies now have more leverage in Brazil, where they seek to influence new rules policing their platforms.| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia debuts new Omniverse SDKs and Cosmos world foundation models for robotics devs, including Cosmos Reason, a 7B-parameter reasoning vision language model — Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers …
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