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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
A look at the Nvidia-OpenAI deal, where Nvidia will invest in $10B tranches; sources say OpenAI informed Microsoft about the deal a day before it was signed — ABILENE, Texas - Sam Altman had a deadline. OpenAI's CEO was headed to Texas to unveil his company's next big infrastructure push …
More: Benzinga, Computerworld, Implicator.ai, Spyglass, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and The Information
| Sam Altman: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI wants to create “a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week” and plans to reveal more details this year — Growth in the use of AI services has been astonishing; we expect it to be even more astonishing going forward.
More: Tech Funding News, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, The Rundown AI, Yahoo Finance, Proactive, The Decoder, israelhayom.com, and Livemint
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces Play Games Sidekick for Android, an in-game overlay that provides access to Gemini Live while playing games downloaded from the Play Store — Google is bringing Gemini Live to Android gaming with Play Games Sidekick. Billed as a coach, it's meant to be a …
More: Android Developers Blog, Engadget, and PhoneArena
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google adds a new You tab to Google Play, featuring player account information, personalized content recommendations, rewards, and more — Curated content, rewards, subscriptions, stats, and updates will live under a new ‘You’ tab. … Google Play is adding a new centralized user hub …
More: The Keyword, Moneycontrol, GamesBeat, How-To Geek, Thurrott, 9to5Google, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, Variety, and Android Headlines
| Myles Miller / Bloomberg: |
The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly — Federal agents dismantled a network of devices in the New York area that was used to threaten senior US government officials …
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| Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: |
London-based Fnality, which lets banks transact in a digital cash asset backed with funds at the Bank of England, raised $136M led by BoA, Citigroup, and others — Fnality International Ltd., a UK-based blockchain-payments company, has raised $136 million in a funding round led … | Lauren Almeida / The Guardian: |
Amazon plans to close all 19 Fresh stores in the UK and convert five of them into Whole Foods Market shops, four years after launching the first in London — Company confirms plan to shut 19 shops with stronger focus on Whole Foods outlets after concept of stores without tills fails to catch on
More: The Standard, Reuters, Metro.co.uk, Mirror, The Sun, The Independent, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, and San Francisco Chronicle. Forums: r/unitedkingdom
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
A look at MrBeast's entertainment company, which has ~$450M in annual sales but faced three years of losses due to high production costs of $3M-$4M per video — The master of viral videos now has a CEO to rein in spending on Lambos—and give his “banger content” an even wider reach.| Harvard Business Review: |
Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce “workslop”, or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others — A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates …
More: Gizmodo, Implicator.ai, and Breitbart
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Mastodon: @meercat0@mastodon.social, @Kierkegaanks@beige.party, and @jbz@indieweb.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/BetterOffline, and Lobsters
| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
Over 200 prominent figures, including senior staffers at AI companies, call for international action to create “red lines” for AI development by the end of 2026 — A roll call of weighty names — including 10 Nobel Prize winners and two former heads of state …
More: The Register, NBC News, The Verge, Mashable, diginomica, Silicon Republic, Forbes, Euronews, Tech Xplore, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, and Marcus on AI
| Carl Franzen / Venturebeat: |
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Omni, a family of open-source AI models that can process text, audio, image, and video inputs and generate both text and speech outputs — U.S. tech giants are facing a reckoning from the East. … To be clear: Qwen3-Omni can accept and analyze inputs of text …
More: GitHub, Computerworld, Implicator.ai, and The Decoder
| Reuters: |
The EU's cybersecurity agency says a ransomware attack caused the recent disruptions that affected check-in systems at Heathrow and other European airports — - Collins Aerospace works to restore systems at key airports — Berlin Marathon worsens delays; Brussels uses manual check-ins| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian AI app development platform Rocket.new raised a $15M seed led by Salesforce Ventures; it has 400K+ users, including 10K+ paid subscribers — Rocket.new, an Indian startup building an AI-powered app development platform, has raised $15 million in a seed round led by Salesforce Ventures …
More: Rocket.new, The Economic Times, Entrackr, Salesforce Ventures, Moneycontrol, and Tech in Asia
| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
Revolut says it plans to invest $13B, including $4B in the UK, and expand into 30 new geographies by the end of the decade, aiming to reach 100M users globally — Revolut Ltd. plans to enter 30 new geographies by the end of the decade, a strategy that will ultimately see the fintech invest $13 billion …
More: UKTN, Telegraph, Reuters, RTÉ, and BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
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