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Memo: Dario Amodei said OpenAI's DOD deal is “safety theater” and the DOD dislikes Anthropic in part because it hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump”  —  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …
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
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 …
Reuters:
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 …
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) …
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated artwork, tracks, composition, and videos  —  Apple Music is introducing a new set of metadata requirements designed to bring greater transparency around AI-generated content to the music industry.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google expands its Canvas workspace to everyone in the US using Google Search's AI Mode so they can get the latest info to organize plans, draft docs, and more  —  Canvas in AI Mode now supports tasks related to creative writing and coding, too. … Google is bringing Canvas to everyone in the US using AI Mode in Search.
Reuters:
Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation model development, after the resignation of its Qwen AI head Lin Junyang  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (9988.HK) said on Thursday it would set up a new task force to accelerate foundation model development …
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 …
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
OpenAI releases a dedicated Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for PowerShell developer environments, after launching on macOS in February  —  At the start of February, OpenAI upgraded its Codex coding app to give it the ability to manage multiple AI agents.
Jared Perlo / NBC News:
Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and others are 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.
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” …
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.
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.
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 …
Chris Metinko / Axios:
Reclaim Security, which uses AI-driven automation to remediate threat exposures, raised a $20M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $6M seed  —  Reclaim Security, which uses AI-driven automation to remediate threat exposures, has raised $26 million in total funding, co-founder and CEO Barak Klinghofer tells Axios Pro.
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Lio, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise procurement, including document reading and supplier evaluation, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z  —  Lio's co-founders know firsthand that procurement — the process enterprises use to purchase services from vendors — is often a bottleneck.
More: a16z
CNBC:
Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $19.31B, above $19.18B est., AI revenue up 106% YoY 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 …
The Information:
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.

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Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
A district court judge in California issues a preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar's acquisition of Tegna while an antitrust lawsuit proceeds

Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
The FTC ends a demand for info from NewsGuard after settling a case against Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP; NewsGuard has sued the FTC over restrictions on Omnicom

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