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Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal “safety theater”, said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving “dictator-style praise to Trump” — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models — Dario Amodei is meeting deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology
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| Tom's Hardware: |
Apple unveils the $599+ MacBook Neo, with a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, an A18 Pro chip, side-firing speakers, a 1080p webcam, two USB-C ports, and Touch ID — Apple debuts a new entry-level MacBook at just the right time — Apple finally took the wraps off its long-rumored budget laptop.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Google announces an Android app store program and lower developer fees to resolve Epic's antitrust litigation and comply with new rules in Europe and elsewhere — Alphabet Inc.'s Google unveiled a new system for apps on its Android phones and tablets Wednesday, agreeing to easier access …
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Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers — Google (GOOGL.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O), Meta (META.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
A Europol-coordinated law enforcement operation disrupts Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to tens of millions of phishing messages each month — An international law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol has disrupted Tycoon2FA, a major phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) …
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| Kaan Ozcan / NBC News: |
Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated the severity in nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time — Researchers tested different medical scenarios with the chatbot. In more than half of cases where doctors would send a patient to the ER … | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
OpenAI releases a dedicated Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for PowerShell developer environments, after launching on macOS a month ago — At the start of February, OpenAI upgraded its Codex coding app to give it the ability to manage multiple AI agents.| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members — The marketplace was one of the world's largest hubs for cybercrime with more than 142,000 members.
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| Associated Press: |
Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 — A defiant Elon Musk on Wednesday took the stand in a jury trial to defend himself against accusations that he engaged in a pattern … | Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI topped $25B in annualized revenue by end-February, up from $21.4B at end-2025; it annualizes by multiplying the last four weeks' revenue by 12 — OpenAI topped $25 billion in annualized revenue as of the end of last month, according to a person familiar with the figure.| Keely Quinlan / StateScoop: |
A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving “substantive response, information, or advice” — A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.
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| CNBC: |
Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $19.31B, vs. $19.18B est., AI revenue up 106% to $8.4B, and announces a $10B share buyback program — Broadcom reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue and issued a strong forecast for the current period as the chipmaker continues to benefit from the artificial intelligence boom.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's recent $30B investment in OpenAI “might be the last time” it invests in the company, because OpenAI is “going to go public” — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company's recent $30 billion investment in OpenAI “might be the last time” … | Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and Richard Branson among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration — An eclectic group including Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, Richard Branson, Ralph Nader, Susan Rice and Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu signed the letter.| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B — OpenAI has held early talks to partner with The Trade Desk, a publicly traded ad tech company, to help the ChatGPT maker sell ads …
Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
A US lawsuit says Gemini sent a man to find an android body it could inhabit, before he died by suicide; Google says it sent him to crisis hotlines “many times” — A new lawsuit alleges Google's chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit.
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OpenAI is scaling back shopping directly inside ChatGPT via Instant Checkout by having checkouts instead take place in the specific apps that plug into ChatGPT — OpenAI is scaling back its plan to introduce shopping directly inside ChatGPT, marking a change in its high-profile effort to put checkouts inside the chatbot.| Lindsey Weedston / The Daily Dot: |
Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre I, went viral after its founder said it blocks nearby listening devices with AI, but some are skeptical — “This would be extraordinary and would require equally extraordinary proof if true.” … A startup called Deveillance …
More: Deveillance and Digital Trends
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| Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated creative elements like artwork or lyrics — Apple Music is introducing a new set of metadata requirements designed to bring greater transparency around AI-generated content to the music industry.
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B-parameter open-weight model it says matches larger systems while using far less compute and training data — The release marks the latest and most technically ambitious chapter in the software giant's year-long campaign to prove … Sponsor Posts
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