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A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid — Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform …
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Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of “unnecessary” Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways — Microsoft finally acknowledged complaints about Windows 11. — The company is promising sweeping changes to a slew of features.
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| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks — It echoes earlier alerts from the Netherlands and Germany, and is the latest to warn about targeting of Signal users and others. — Learn more.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Super Micro says co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw has resigned from its board after US prosecutors indicted him on allegations of smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China — Super Micro Computer said Friday that Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, a co-founder, has resigned from the server maker's board …
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The US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center with its own power supply in Ohio — The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a public-private partnership to develop a major data center with its own power supply … | Politico: |
The White House releases an AI policy framework, explicitly calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws, create age-gating requirements for AI models, and more — The framework explicitly calls on Congress to preempt any state laws that regulate the way models are developed or that penalize companies …
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| @kimi_moonshot: |
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 is “the foundation” of Cursor's Composer 2 model; Cursor says it “should have mentioned” Composer 2 started from the base of Kimi K2.5 — Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2! We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support.
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| Bill Ready / Time: |
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16, says social platforms gave “insufficient forethought” about consequences — When Pinterest removed social features for teens and made every account under 16 private—meaning no discoverability …
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| David Jeans / Reuters: |
Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military — Palantir's (PLTR.O) Maven artificial intelligence system will become an official program of record, Deputy Secretary … | Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the military has deployed it, denying DOD accusations that Anthropic could tamper with models during war — The Department of Defense alleges the AI developer could manipulate models in the middle of war. Company executives argue that's impossible.| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
Anthropic launches Claude Code channels, which let users interact with a Claude Code session through Telegram and Discord — Anthropic released Claude Code Channels, a research-preview feature that lets developers send messages to a running Claude Code session from Telegram and Discord.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing Altman of sexual abuse from 1997 to 2006, as the claims expired in 2008, but says she can refile — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing the billionaire OpenAI chief executive of sexually abusing … | Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon's ZeroOne unit is developing “Transformer”, a phone that syncs with Alexa; it would be Amazon's second smartphone, after the Fire Phone in 2014 — In 2014, Amazon (AMZN.O) introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January — We're seeing Verge headlines rewritten by Google AI. … Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web.
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| Anniek Bao / CNBC: |
Jensen Huang proposes a compensation model where engineers receive an AI token budget on top of their base salary, to deploy agents as productivity multipliers — The perks of working in Silicon Valley have long included high salaries. Now, some engineers may be offered a new incentive: artificial intelligence tokens.
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