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At OpenAI's DevDay, Sam Altman and Jony Ive spoke in vague terms about the “family of devices” currently under development; Altman says “it will take a while”  —  “I don't think we have an easy relationship with our technology at the moment,” the former Apple designer …
OpenAI:
OpenAI announces apps that work inside ChatGPT, piloting Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow for logged-in users outside of the EU  —  A new generation of apps you can chat with and the tools for developers to build them.  —  Try in ChatGPT(opens in a new window)Start building apps(opens in a new window)
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
OpenAI unveils the Apps SDK in preview, built on MCP, to let developers build ChatGPT apps, and says that it will begin accepting app submissions later in 2025
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
A look at the OpenAI-AMD partnership, which added ~$78B to AMD's market cap and shows OpenAI is good at deals; last week, OpenAI deals boosted SHOP and ETSY  —  OpenAI/AMD, Antifraud Co., M&A scoops, World Cup tickets, Gary Gensler's cell phone and Citadel Insecurities.  —  OpenAI/AMD
Financial Times:
OpenAI's deals with Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and others for computing power have topped $1T, dwarfing its revenue and raising questions about how it can fund them
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs  —  Mastodon, the decentralized, open social network with over 8 million accounts and nearly 700,000 monthly active users …
Theo Wayt / The Information:
Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands  —  When Elon Musk takes the stage at Tesla's annual meeting next month, one of the centerpieces of his plan to impress shareholders …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Qualcomm acquires Italian open-source electronics platform Arduino for an undisclosed sum and will retain the Arduino brand; Arduino releases a Pi-like board  —  Arduino is also launching a Qualcomm-equipped Uno Q that functions as a single-board computer and microcontroller.
Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs a law banning excessively loud ads on streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, a US first, modeled on a 2010 federal law  —  “We heard Californians loud and clear, and what's clear is that they don't want commercials at a volume any louder than the level …
Wall Street Journal:
NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange says it will invest up to $2B in Polymarket in a cash deal valuing the prediction market at ~$8B; ICE's market cap is $90B+  —  Investment from Intercontinental Exchange could help the popular prediction market re-enter the U.S.
Sima Kotecha / BBC:
UK police dismantle a gang suspected of smuggling up to 40K stolen phones from the UK to China in the past year, arrest 18 suspects, and recover 2,000 phones  —  Police say they have dismantled an international gang suspected of smuggling up to 40,000 stolen mobile phones from the UK to China in the past year.
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic and IBM partner to make Anthropic's Claude models available in IBM's latest IDE for large businesses, and IBM aims to add Claude to more products soon  —  The AI startup and enterprise tech giant team up to make Anthropic's Claude models available to developers on IBM's software
Bloomberg:
Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work  —  Two physicists integral to efforts by Alphabet Inc.'s Google to build working quantum computers have been awarded the Nobel Prize …

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Reuters:
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

Bruce Gil / Gizmodo:
Fan fiction site AO3 says it will be offline for two to four weeks after a security incident; it hosts over 18M works and has 11M registered users

Selome Hailu / Variety:
Sources: Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine lays off about 30 employees, roughly 50% of its staff, as it focuses on film and TV projects and its book club brand

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The Information:
Docs: Oracle generated ~$900M from its Nvidia cloud server rental business, with a $125M gross profit, or a 14% margin, vs. its ~70% overall gross profit margin
Caleb Mutua / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan Chase: debt tied to AI-related companies hits $1.2T, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market at 14%, surpassing US banks at 11.7%

Earlier Picks

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
MrBeast, who is set to earn an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it “scary times” for the industry
Financial Times:
Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which helps health care companies compile patient and doctor feedback in surveys, for $6.75B including debt
Jonathan Greig / The Record:
Oracle urges customers to patch an E-Business Suite vulnerability that cybercriminals are exploiting; Google's Mandiant says the Clop hacking group exploited it
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
SCOTUS declines Google's request to halt key parts of a judge's order requiring Google to make major Play Store changes in the antitrust case Epic filed in 2020
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