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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.
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

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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
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
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