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Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract — Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announced she has left the company.
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it is “open to strategic co-operation” with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS — Korean giant's device chief says its future Galaxy devices will host multiple models as users mix and match AI tools
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| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic — Emil Michael made his name in Silicon Valley a decade ago as an aggressive dealmaker for a startup — Uber Technologies Inc. …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on MacBook Neo, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via “Ultra” products; sources: Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone — Apple has taken the wraps off its $599 MacBook Neo, entering new territory in a way that could shake up the computer market.
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| Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times: |
Documents show two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth over $100M, to be cut for being related to DEI — Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced President Trump's agenda.| Elizabeth Gibney / Nature: |
A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can help with academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv — - Elizabeth Gibney — Search author on: — PubMed Google Scholar — All major large language models (LLMs) …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro, which wants to sell updated versions of 1990s consoles like the Nintendo 64, is in talks to raise funding at a $1B valuation — From AI weapons to Game Boys, defence tech billionaire is in talks to raise funds for new gaming venture ModRetro| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Israel-based ZyG, which is building an agentic OS to help scale DTC e-commerce brands, raised a $58M seed co-led by Bessemer, Viola Ventures, and Lightspeed — When it comes to product innovation, global brands have an enormous advantage over smaller companies thanks to their massive scale …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors — The proliferation of cheap, powerful GPS jammers has airline operators, shipping firms and militaries alike scrambling for navigation alternatives| Daniel Boffey / The Guardian: |
Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub — Iran's targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare
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| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Guild.ai, which helps companies develop, deploy, and observe AI agents, raised a $14M seed and $30M Series A, both led by GV, and is now valued at $300M — Guild.ai, a startup helping companies develop AI agents, has raised $44 million in a seed and Series A and is now valued at $300 million … | Nancy Scola / Politico: |
Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir — NEW YORK CITY — Alex Bores had known for a while that a political operation called Leading the Future, funded …
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Simile, which offers “agentic twins” modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup — AI startup Simile offers ‘agentic twins’ modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research
More: Gizmodo. LinkedIn: Joon Sung Park, Allegra Pedretti, Mike Volpi, and Sri Narasimhan
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education — Roblox creators are raking in hundreds of thousands a month from simple games like ‘Fisch,’ even as major studios cut jobs and cancel blockbusters.Sponsor Posts
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