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The SEC and CFTC issue guidance on which digital assets are securities, carving out stablecoins, digital collectives, and digital commodities as non-securities — The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a long-awaited “token taxonomy” on Tuesday, a key step forward laying out which types …
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Filing: the DOD said it designated Anthropic a supply chain risk over concerns the AI company could disable its tech if the Pentagon crossed its “red lines” — In response to Anthropic's lawsuit, the government said it lawfully penalized the company for trying to limit …
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| James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: |
Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data — The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions … | Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia is preparing to sell a version of its Groq chips to the Chinese market; a source says it's expected to be available in May and is not downgraded — Nvidia (NVDA.O) is preparing a version of its Groq artificial-intelligence chips that can be sold to the Chinese market …
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung and AMD sign a preliminary deal for Samsung to supply its next-gen HBM4 for AMD's MI455X accelerators, used in data centers, and DDR5 for AMD's Helios — Samsung Electronics Co. agreed to supply and collaborate with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on next-generation AI memory and computing technologies.
More: AMD, DigiTimes, Tech in Asia, SamMobile, and Korea Joongang Daily
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Brian Lynch, Apple's senior director in charge of home devices since 2022, leaves for Oura, a setback for a unit already contending with product delays — Apple Inc.'s top hardware engineering executive overseeing home devices is leaving for smart ring maker Oura Health Oy … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM A.M. Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol — Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they've been awarded the highest honor in computer science.
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta says Quest users will lose access to Meta Horizon Worlds on the headsets on June 15; access will continue on the Meta Horizon mobile app — Meta Platforms Inc. said that users of its Quest headsets will lose access to Horizon Worlds, a virtual destination where cartoon versions of people …
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| Bloomberg: |
China's Chengdu says Tim Cook attended Apple's 50th anniversary event in the city; state media called for Apple to fix its “monopolistic” App Store practices — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook showed up at a company event in China on Wednesday after the company lowered …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app removed from the App Store that used YouTube to source music — Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy …
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings — Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers …
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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows, and offering near GPT-5.4-level performance at a much lower cost — ZDNET's key takeaways — GPT-5.4 mini runs more than twice as fast as GPT-5 mini. — New models aim at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows.
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| Jasmine Sun / The Atlantic: |
How AI's post-training process suppresses the creativity and whimsicality seen in earlier models like GPT-2, leading to bad writing from many top AI models — Why can't language models write well? — In a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI's GPT-2 seven years ago.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
A Stanford study of 391K messages across 5,000 chats: AI chatbots affirmed user messages in nearly 66% of responses, frequently validating delusional thinking — AI chatbots are reinforcing unhealthy beliefs in their users by agreeing even when users express delusional or harmful ideas …
More: Business Standard, Spirals, Jared Moore on GitHub, and arXiv.org
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching the Microsoft-OpenAI agreement — Rift deepens as start-up tests limits of Microsoft's exclusive rights to host its models — Microsoft is weighing legal action …
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| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
Companies start to track employees' AI token use, tallying the costs to measure their return on AI investments and to prevent unauthorized uses of tokens — Companies that now regularly use artificial intelligence are starting to track their workers' use of tokens, AI's unit of measurement
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: a JPMorgan-led bank group halted a $5.3B debt deal for Qualtrics, whose existing $1.5B loan trades at 86 cents on the dollar, on weak investor interest — A group of banks led by JPMorgan Chase & Co. halted a $5.3 billion debt deal for software firm Qualtrics International Inc …
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| Reuters: |
The UK FCA says Meta has repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms, despite committing to block them — U.S. tech giant Meta (META.O) has repeatedly failed to stop illegal ads for high-risk financial products running on its platforms in Britain …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Xbow, which uses AI to probe apps for security vulnerabilities, raised $120M led by DFJ Growth and Northzone at a $1B+ valuation, and reports 100+ clients — Xbow, a startup that builds AI software to probe applications for security vulnerabilities, has raised a new round of funding that values … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Q&A with GV's Tom Hulme on the AI investment cycle, London and Europe's opportunities, Q.ai and Nothing investments, AI privacy issues, sovereign AI, and more — The head of the European office of GV talks about the AI investment cycle and predicts a comeback for Google Glass-style smart glasses| TechCrunch: |
Mistral announces Mistral Forge to help enterprises build custom models actually trained on their own data, using Mistral open-weight models as a starting point — Most enterprise AI projects fail not because companies lack the technology, but because the models they're using don't understand their business.| New York Times: |
Sources: China is penalizing people tied to Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, including by apparently restricting Manus executives from leaving China for Singapore — The country appears to be cracking down on people linked to the acquisition of Manus, a Singapore company with Chinese roots, as President Trump prepares to visit Beijing.
More: PCMag, The Information, CNBC, and DigiTimes
| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A US appeals court puts on hold an earlier ruling that had blocked Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tool to shop on Amazon's marketplace — A U.S. appeals court has put a California judge's ruling on hold that had blocked Perplexity AI from using its artificial-intelligence-powered …
More: WinBuzzer, Bloomberg, Silicon UK, PYMNTS.com, CyberScoop, and MediaPost
| Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos / Bloomberg: |
AI drone software company Swarmer closed up 520% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at $380M+; its tech has been deployed in 100K+ combat missions in Ukraine — Swarmer Inc. shares skyrocketed as much as 700% on Tuesday, making the artificial intelligence drone software company's debut …
| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba raises prices for its T-Head AI computing chips, including the Zhenwu 810E, by 5% to 34%, and its Cloud Parallel File Storage by 30%, after demand soars — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is raising prices for its AI computing and storage products by as much as 34% …
More: The Register, Benzinga, Dow Jones Newswires, and The Business Times
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model — A powerful artificial intelligence model that appeared anonymously on a developer platform last week has sparked speculation …
More: The Independent
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