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Sources: OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5% and early access to new models to secure JVs, beating Anthropic's terms — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is offering private-equity firms a sweeter deal than rival Anthropic as both artificial intelligence companies …
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources describe how Meta's employees build and use internal AI tools; a source says Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO agent to help him get information faster — Meta Platforms chief uses the tool to get information faster as the company seeks to embrace artificial intelligence in all it does
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI hires Dave Dugan, a former top ad executive at Meta, to lead ad sales, reporting to COO Brad Lightcap; Dugan stepped down as a Meta VP earlier in March — The AI company seeks stronger ties with brands to boost its nascent ad business — OpenAI has hired Dave Dugan … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8-12, which will be an online event free for developers, with an in-person event at Apple Park on June 8 — Apple today said that its 37th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to begin on Monday, June 8 and end on Friday, June 12.| Mike Sorrentino / CNET: |
Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions — AirDrop support will start with the Galaxy S26 this week and is planned for more Galaxy devices later.
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| Krystal Hur / Wall Street Journal: |
Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduce bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets, such as Kalshi and Polymarket — Sens. Schiff and Curtis seek to prevent CFTC-regulated entities, including Kalshi and Polymarket, from offering wagers on sports
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| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review: unbelievable app performance, big price cut, and improvements over the 265K, but mediocre at gaming and large power demands — Unbelievable productivity performance at an even more unbelievable price - shame gaming still takes a backseat.
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Norwegian startup Lace, which is building a form of lithography that uses a helium atom beam instead of light to create chip designs, raised a $40M Series A — Lace, a Norway-headquartered chipmaking equipment startup which is backed by Microsoft, has raised $40 million in funding …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more — Under Pichai, the company that invented modern AI is finally winning the race to deploy it—and making ‘AI everywhere’ a business reality.| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
London-based luxury ride-hailing app Wheely launches in NYC, aiming to compete with Uber Elite; Wheely reports ~1,250 corporate accounts and ~100K active riders — Luxury ride-hailing app Wheely is making its debut in the US, presenting competition to Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. … | Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of OnlyFans parent company Fenix, died at 43 from cancer; he acquired a majority stake in OnlyFans in 2018 — Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of adult content platform OnlyFans, has died of cancer, the London-based company confirmed on Monday.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A profile of John Ternus, Tim Cook's likely successor who shapes Apple's hardware portfolio, as he expands his public visibility and his influence within Apple — Current and former employees and executives who've worked closely with Ternus, most of whom requested anonymity to discuss …
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first “multi-silicon inference cloud” for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A — Stanford adjunct professor and successfully exited founder Zain Asgar just raised an $80 million Series A for a startup … | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
A look at Andrej Karpathy's “autoresearch” experiment, where an AI agent runs in a recursive self-improvement loop to improve an AI model on one testable metric — Earlier this month, Andrej Karpathy, a well-known AI researcher who was one of the founding employees of OpenAI …
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| Bloomberg: |
South Korean AI startup Upstage says it is in talks to acquire 10K AMD MI355 chips, in a bid to “diversify to other chips” as “we have a lot of Nvidia chips” — Korean AI startup Upstage is in discussions with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to buy 10,000 …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Source: OpenAI is in talks to buy 5 GW of electricity by 2030 from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion; Altman has stepped down as Helion's board chair — OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy electricity from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion Energy, according to a person familiar with the situation.
More: GeekWire, TechCrunch, The Next Web, and POWER Magazine
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Canal+, ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA — Google (GOOGL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O) and Samsung's (005930.KS) smart TVs and virtual assistants should fall under …
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| Financial Times: |
Addison Lee CEO Liam Griffin says London cab drivers should be protected via “a minimum price” on Waymo's and Tesla's robotaxis to prevent “predatory pricing” — Cab drivers should be protected by imposing “a minimum price” on robotaxis offered by Waymo and Tesla to prevent …
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is preparing to introduce ads in its Maps app, allowing retailers and brands to bid for ad slots against search queries — Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce advertising in its Maps app, part of a broader push to generate more money from services.
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