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| Wired: |
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 …
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| 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)
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
OpenAI's recent deals with Oracle, Nvidia, Samsung, AMD, SK Hynix, and others, plus its DevDay announcements, show it is making a play to be the Windows of AI — OpenAI's flood of announcements are getting hard to keep up with. A selection — not exhaustive! — from just the last month:| 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| 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 …
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
AltStore, one of the first alternative app stores in the EU, raised a $6M Series A led by Pace Capital, aims to launch in Australia, Brazil, and Japan in 2025 — The third-party app store known as AltStore, one of the first companies to offer an alternative app marketplace in the European Union …
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| 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.
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| 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
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LinkedIn: Nikhilesh Murthy and Dr. Chan Naseeb
| Katelyn Chedraoui / CNET: |
Meta updates Reels on Facebook to prioritize showing fresher and more-relevant content, and adds AI search suggestions and friend bubbles like on Instagram — Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it.
More: Meta Newsroom, Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, WinBuzzer, WeRSM, and iPhone in Canada. X: @loudmouthjulia
| 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 … | 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 — Oracle became the best-performing megacap stock of 2025 after its executives said last month that the once-sleepy database firm …
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