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| Ashley Oliver / Fox Business: |
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal — Bondi confirmed the department reached out to Apple on Thursday to demand it remove ICEBlock — FIRST ON FOX: Apple dropped ICEBlock …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Source: OpenAI authorized up to $10.3B in shares for sale, but only $6.6B was sold, which insiders see as a sign of staff confidence and strong investor demand — OpenAI has finalized a secondary share sale totaling $6.6 billion, allowing current and former employees to sell stock …
More: SiliconANGLE and WinBuzzer
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Source: OpenAI completed a secondary share sale that let staff sell ~$6.6B at a $500B valuation, making it the world's most valuable startup, ahead of SpaceX — OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, propelling …
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LinkedIn: Andrey Kostyuk, Victor Vivas, Emil Protalinski, Luca Leone, and Kalyan Boorla
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/technews, and r/BetterOffline
| New York Times: |
As Sora clips go viral, users express awe and delight as others warn about IP theft and that its Cameos could lead to new kinds of misinformation and scams — This week, we — the two authors of this article — spent hours scrolling through a feed of short-form videos that featured ourselves in different scenarios.
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
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| Google Developers Blog: |
Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, is now generally available and supports more aspect ratios, priced at $0.039/image and $30/1M output tokens — Our state-of-the-art image generation and editing model which has captured the imagination of the world, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image 🍌 …
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
New York-based DualEntry, which offers AI-powered ERP software, raised a $90M Series A led by Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures, valuing the company at $415M — - DualEntry valued at $415 million after Series A round — Targets ERP market dominated by Oracle NetSuite, Sage, Acumatica
More: DualEntry, SiliconANGLE, AI, Robotics & …, Accounting Today, Datamation, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and VC News Daily. Forums: r/offbeat
| Mercor: |
Mercor launches the AI Productivity Index (APEX), which evaluates AI models' ability to perform “economically valuable knowledge work”; GPT-5 leads the index — APEX v1.0 consists of 200 cases split evenly across investment banking, law, consulting, and medical practice.| The Information: |
Sources: in recent weeks, Meta changed FAIR's publishing rules to require extra review, angering staff; Yann LeCun considered resigning over Meta's AI changes — In recent weeks, Meta Platforms made a change to its Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research lab that rubbed members … | Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: |
Microsoft researchers say AI models can be used to design toxins that evade biosecurity systems used to screen DNA orders for potential biothreats — A team at Microsoft says it used artificial intelligence to discover a “zero day” vulnerability in the biosecurity systems used to prevent the misuse of DNA.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta unveils communities on Threads, starting with 100+ dedicated spaces for casual conversations around topics like basketball, television, and K-pop music — Instagram Threads, Meta's X rival that now has over 400 million monthly active users, is officially launching a new feature …
More: Meta Newsroom, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Social Media Today, Engadget, WebProNews, Mashable, and Neowin
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google adds a new command-line interface and public API to its AI coding agent Jules, allowing it to plug into terminals, CI/CD systems, and tools like Slack — Google is bringing its AI coding agent Jules deeper into developer workflows with a new command-line interface and public API …
More: Jules, The Keyword, Google Developers Blog, The Decoder, TestingCatalog, Chrome Unboxed, The AI Economy, and WinBuzzer
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
IBM releases Granite 4.0, an open source “enterprise-ready” LLM family with a hybrid architecture, claiming it uses significantly less RAM than traditional LLMs — Despite being one of the oldest active tech companies in the U.S. (founded in 1911, 114 years ago!), “Big Blue” …
More: IBM and MarkTechPost
| Charles Rollet / Business Insider: |
Perplexity is making its AI browser Comet, previously $200/month with Perplexity Max, free, with rate limits; Perplexity says Comet has millions on its waitlist — Saved — Add us on — Perplexity is making its $200-a-month browser free for everyone.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: delays in the deal to send Nvidia's AI chips to the UAE, announced in May, are frustrating Jensen Huang and administration officials like David Sacks — The multibillion-dollar deal was announced in May, but the commerce secretary has since pushed the U.A.E. for certain U.S. investments first| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft has committed $33B+ to neocloud providers; sources: its $19.4B Nebius deal will provide computing power for creating LLMs and a consumer AI assistant — Microsoft Corp.'s deal with neocloud company Nebius Group NV will provide computing power to internal teams creating large language models …
More: DatacenterDynamics, Motley Fool, Tom's Hardware, Benzinga, and MarketWatch. LinkedIn: Brody Ford
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic hires former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil as its new CTO, taking over from co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as chief architect — Anthropic has a new chief technical officer, former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil. Patil started at the company earlier this week …
Bluesky: @techcrunch.com
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber acquihires Belgian data labeling startup Segments.ai to expand its lidar data labeling capabilities; its founders and staff will join Uber AI Solutions — Uber Technologies Inc. has bought Belgian startup Segments.ai as the ride-hailing company seeks to expand its nascent data-labeling business.| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Amazon's Fire TV Stick 4K Select, which comes with Vega OS, will use cloud app streaming to run Android versions of apps that haven't been ported to Vega — Ingenious, or Luna-cy? … Vega OS is finally here: On Tuesday, Amazon officially unveiled its new, custom-built Vega entertainment …
More: AFTVnews, 9to5Google, and Digital Trends
| Bloomberg: |
A Google exec says Alphabet has been working for the past two years to technologically decouple its life sciences unit Verily so that it can be sold or spun off — Alphabet Inc. has been working for the past two years to technologically decouple its life sciences unit Verily so that it can be sold … | Financial Times: |
A profile of Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban, who brokered EA's takeover with Jared Kushner, after the PE firm's high-stakes Endeavor, Altera, and TikTok deals — Dealmaker's $55bn takeover of Electronic Arts follows a spree of high-stakes transactions from TikTok to Endeavor
More: financialpost
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