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Reuters:
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Source: the US DOJ sought to force WaPo and WSJ reporters to testify before a grand jury but withdrew the subpoenas this month after the outlets challenged them

Max Tani / Semafor:
Documents: The Daily Wire, founded by conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro in 2015, seeks to raise at least $100M in a round that would value the company at $750M

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
UK ministers are advancing a bill requiring YouTube and TikTok to promote BBC and ITV content, as well as forcing streamers to show big sports events for free

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Robert Booth / The Guardian:
Palantir won a three-month, £30K+/week trial to access the UK FCA's intelligence data to tackle financial crime, a source says raising concerns inside the FCA
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Reality Labs has lost $80B+, but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's wish to run a business without Google or Apple middlemen
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