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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  —  In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company 1), I wrote:
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
Bloomberg:
OpenAI agrees to buy Poland-based Neptune, which makes tools for analyzing progress during AI model training; the transaction will be in stock  —  OpenAI agreed to buy Neptune, a Polish startup that makes tools for analyzing progress during AI model training, in its first investment in the eastern European country.
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 …
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  —  Exclusive: The streamer's six-studio gaming operation is down to three, as Netflix pursues an altered video game strategy
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 …
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
Thoughts on AI progress and why AI labs' actions hint at a worldview in which AI models will continue to fare poorly at generalization and on-the-job learning  —  Why I'm moderately bearish in the short term, and explosively bullish in the long term  —  What are we scaling?
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”  —  Executive Summary  — The Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team has made a strategic pivot over the past year …
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  —  OpenAI's nonprofit foundation announced it's awarding $40.5 million in grants this year to 208 nonprofits across the US supporting local communities …
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.

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David Shepardson / Reuters:
US Senator Marsha Blackburn raises concerns about Meta's plan to update its commercial terms, saying the terms grant sweeping scraping authority

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez urges the NAB, the broadcast industry's largest lobbying group, to defend the right of TV newsrooms to report on polls

Esther Addley / The Guardian:
Axel Springer's Telegraph begins layoffs, pledging to become an “AI-powered” global business; sources: up to 100 jobs will go, with culture and sports hit hard

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Reuters:
Russia's Roskomnadzor blocks access to Roblox, claiming that it is “rife with inappropriate content” and distributing extremist materials and “LGBT propaganda”
Reuters:
India says it revoked an order to smartphone makers to preload state-run cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new smartphones, after protests from lawmakers
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Amazon adds an Alexa+ feature to Fire TV that lets Prime Video users skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber partners with Avride to launch robotaxi rides in Dallas, marking Uber's fourth US city to offer autonomous ride options, after Phoenix, Austin, and Atlanta
Eva Dou / Washington Post:
Sources and docs: Palantir's Immigration OS helps ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them; a decade ago, Alex Karp said Trump's plans made “no sense”
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