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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple confirms interface design chief Alan Dye is leaving the company to join Meta; Tim Cook says Stephen Lemay, Apple's longtime designer, will replace Dye  —  Meta Platforms Inc. has poached Apple Inc.'s most prominent design executive in a major coup that underscores a push …
Mark Zuckerberg / @zuck@threads.com:
Mark Zuckerberg announces a new creative studio in Meta's Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who will be joined by Apple design lead Billy Sorrentino  —  Today we're establishing a new creative studio in Reality Labs led by Alan Dye, who has spent nearly 20 years leading design at Apple.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian “design is how it works” ethos in Apple's UI design
The Hacker News:
React discloses an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in React Server Components; Wiz says 39% of cloud environments contain vulnerable instances  —  A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in React Server Components (RSC) that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution.
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Nvidia says GB200 Blackwell AI servers, which pack 72 chips in one unit, boost performance 10x over H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Wednesday published new data showing that its latest artificial intelligence server can improve the performance …
Bloomberg:
Jensen Huang says “we don't know” if China would accept Nvidia's H200 AI chips even if the US relaxed export controls, following a meeting with President Trump  —  Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said he's unsure whether China would accept the company's H200 …
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The European Commission opens a new antitrust investigation into Meta over its rollout of AI features in WhatsApp; the probe will not fall under the DMA  —  Brussels concerned that US tech group's business terms may prevent competition from third-party AI providers
Sam Sabin / Axios:
The US DOJ indicts two Virginia brothers, Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, for allegedly deleting 96 US government databases while working as Opexus contractors  —  The Justice Department arrested Virginia-based twin brothers who formerly worked at a federal contractor on Wednesday for their alleged roles in deleting government databases.
Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters:
Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in AI data centers amid a global supply shortage  —  Memory chipmaker Micron Technology (MU.O) said on Wednesday it will exit its consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google launches Workspace Studio, a no-code tool to create, design, manage, and share AI agents, for users on Business and Enterprise Workspace plans  —  After teasing at I/O 2024 and announcing this April, Google today is launching Workspace Studio as a new automation tool that lets you …
Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce “confessions”, or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat  —  OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
DealBook Summit: Dario Amodei suggests some AI companies are taking on too much risk by “YOLO-ing” and committing to spend hundreds of billions on data centers  —  Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei suggested that some artificial intelligence companies are taking …
Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal:
Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multi-year $200M deal to make Anthropic's Claude models available on Snowflake and deploy AI agents across enterprises  —  The deal will make Anthropic's large models available on the company's platform  —  Snowflake entered into a $200 million deal …
Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo:
DealBook Summit: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says “the more constitutional you want to make” the US' Caribbean boat strikes “the more you're going to need” Palantir  —  Alex Karp vows to use his “whole influence” on immigration and defense policy.  —  Read Later Read Later
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, last summer for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active  —  The OpenAI CEO has publicly talked about the possibility of building ‘a rocket company’ and the potential for developing data centers in space
Yuan Gao / Bloomberg:
Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips  —  Cambricon Technologies Corp. plans to more than triple its production of AI chips in 2026, aiming to wrest market share …
More: Tech in Asia
Reuters:
Microsoft says “aggregate sales quotas for AI products have not been lowered”, following a report that some units lowered sales growth targets for AI products  —  Microsoft on Wednesday denied a report from The Information that multiple divisions at the company lowered sales growth targets …
Reuters:
Jimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are “not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money”  —  Wikipedia is working with Big Tech on deals similar to its arrangement with Google, the online encyclopedia's co-founder …
More: Diff
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
University of Virginia professor Ken Ono, one of the world's most prominent mathematicians, joins AI startup Axiom Math, which is building an “AI mathematician”  —  Ken Ono had an epiphany.  Now the professor is moving to Silicon Valley to chase mathematical superintelligence.

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Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie becomes the first release of 2026 to cross $1B in global grosses; Michael Jackson biopic Michael is on the verge of crossing $900M

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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AI Alignment Forum:
Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team details why it shifted from fully reverse-engineering neural nets to a focus on “pragmatic interpretability”
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Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Salesforce reports Q3 revenue up 8.6% YoY to $10.26B, vs. $10.27B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; CRM jumps 5%+
Stephen Totilo / Game File:
Netflix sells game studio Spry Fox back to its co-founders, David Edery and Daniel Cook; the streamer has shrunk its six-studio gaming operation down to three
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI's nonprofit foundation announces plans to award $40.5M in grants in 2025 to 208 nonprofits across the US; the nonprofit donated only $7.5M in 2024
Bloomberg:
OpenAI agrees to buy Poland-based Neptune, which makes tools for analyzing progress during AI model training; the transaction will be in stock
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