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| Vaibhav Srivastav / @reach_vb: |
OpenAI introduces a Codex plugin for Claude Code, letting users invoke Codex from inside Claude Code to review code or delegate tasks — If you already use Claude Code, this Codex plugin gives you a simple way to pull Codex into the same workflow. It is useful for three things …
More: GitHub and Implicator.ai
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Bluesky: @carnage4life and @promptslinger
| Lola Murti / CNBC: |
Micron shares closed down 10% on Monday and are now down 30% since Micron's earnings report on March 18; Sandisk fell 7% and Western Digital dropped 9% — Micron shares plummeted 10% on Monday, continuing the memory maker's significant post-earnings sell-off.
More: Barchart.com. X: @hardwarecanucks, @mr_derivatives, @themg3d, @stocksavvyshay, and @jbulltard1
| Axios: |
Inside David Sacks' new role shaping Trump's AI agenda; officials say Sriram Krishnan is taking on a position at the National Economic Council to focus on AI — - The move lands as Republicans grow increasingly wary of an all-in attitude on AI development and begin to question …
More: Bloomberg, Raw Story, Originally Reported …, The Dispatch, and InsideAIPolicy.com. X: @ashleyrgold
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a first-of-its-kind executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails from AI companies that contract with the state — Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, issued an order requiring safety and privacy guardrails for artificial intelligence companies contracting with the state.
More: Reuters, CNET, Governor of California, Implicator.ai, Courthouse News Service, The Guardian, and ABC10 on YouTube. X: @cagovernor
| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Quinnipiac poll: 55% of Americans say AI will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and 65% oppose building data centers in their community — Americans are increasingly turning against artificial intelligence, with growing majorities saying they fear the fast-moving technology … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Social gaming startup Rec Room is shutting down its service on June 1, saying it could not find a path to profitability; it was valued at $3.5B in December 2021 — Rec Room, the Seattle-based social gaming company once valued at $3.5 billion, is shutting down its platform on June 1 …
More: WUSA, Rec Room, and The Verge
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: London-based chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise over $200M from Accel and others at a $1B valuation; Fractile raised a $15M seed round in 2024 — Company is part of growing cohort of UK groups developing faster AI processors — London-based start-up Fractile is in talks … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing an Instagram Plus subscription in a few countries, offering features including anonymous Story viewing and extended 48-hour Story durations — Meta has begun testing a premium subscription on Instagram in a few countries, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday.
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Threads: @cmcalgary, @mattnavarra, @rowilson, @brooksrocco, @itsy2kei, and @reblmedia. Forums: r/technology
| Qwen: |
Alibaba releases its Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM with support for 10+ hours of audio input, saying the Plus variant surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio benchmarks — Qwen3.5-Omni is Qwen's latest generation of fully omnimodal LLM, supporting the understanding of text, images, audio, and audio-visual content.
More: Decrypt and Benzinga
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| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
Levels.fyi: median base-salary offers for US software engineers at VC-backed startups have risen 25% to $200K since 2022; total compensation has risen just 18% — Young tech companies once might have complemented lower salaries with generous equity packages. Now they're upping base pay.| Thomas H. Ptacek / sockpuppet.org: |
AI coding agents will drastically alter both the practice and the economics of exploit development, automating the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities — For the last two years, technologists have ominously predicted that AI coding agents will be responsible for a deluge of security vulnerabilities.
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Bluesky: @alilleybrinker.com, @hatr, @sifu.tweety.fish, and @retr0.id
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| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Leaked January presentation: Coatue estimated that Anthropic would lose $14B in EBITDA on $18B in revenue in 2026 and reach a $1.995T valuation in 2030 — We talk about it & more on the Cerebral Valley Show — In a presentation to prospective investors in January, Coatue offered a rare look … | Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: |
A look at Babel Audio, which pairs anonymous strangers to record their conversations, starting at $17/hour, and bundles those recordings into AI training data — They vent, confess and role-play with strangers, all to help machines learn how to sound human.
LinkedIn: Issie Lapowsky
| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Gurman: Apple pulls Apple Intelligence in China, after accidentally launching it in the country; there is no imminent launch as Apple has no regulatory approval — Apple Intelligence first launched in the US in October 2024, but now after a nearly 18-month wait, Apple's AI features appear to be rolling out in China too.
More: Benzinga, The Information, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, Pixel Envy, AppleInsider, The Verge, Pocket-lint, TechNode, MacTech.com, and Digit
X: @markgurman and @zollotech
| Jared Spataro / Microsoft 365 Blog: |
Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork to its Frontier early access program and unveils Researcher's Critique and Council tools, which use multiple models together — Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI for work. It's built on a multi-model advantage—bringing the best AI innovation from across …
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LinkedIn: Satya Nadella, Colin Budd, Kapil Chawla, Stephen Zeng, Jared Spataro, and Gaurav Anand
| Sujeet Indap / Financial Times: |
A Delaware judge reassigns Elon Musk cases over “disproportionate media attention” after allegations she “liked” a LinkedIn post celebrating a Musk legal defeat — Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick denies bias but cites media glare as risk to justice
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| Kara Scannell / CNN: |
Sources: US prosecutors are exploring whether some prediction market bets, including on the capture of Nicolás Maduro, violated insider trading and other laws — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are exploring whether certain lucrative bets placed on prediction markets …
More: Gizmodo, CoinDesk, The Information, Raw Story, and Benzinga
| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400M in a pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation, bringing its total funding to $850M, with $650M in the past six months — Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, the South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised an additional $400 million.
More: CNBC, Unite.AI, Pulse 2.0, The Next Web, FinSMEs, Silicon Canals, Rebellions, Reuters, The Register, DatacenterDynamics, SiliconANGLE, and Data Center Knowledge. LinkedIn: Sunghyun Park
| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it “disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback” — Over 11,000 pull requests have been spotted with the same “tips” injected into descriptions.
More: The Register, Neowin, Zach Manson, Windows Latest, and OSnews
X: @martinwoodward, @aaronontheweb, @simonw, @quinnypig, @geerlingguy, @martinwoodward, and @badlogicgames. LinkedIn: Brent Ozar
Forums: r/InterstellarKinetics, r/microsoft, and r/technews
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Match Group agrees to settle an FTC lawsuit claiming it illegally shared user data from the OkCupid app with facial recognition tech company Clarifai in 2014 — Match Group (MTCH.O) agreed to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit claiming it gave an outside company unauthorized access … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber agrees to acquire Berlin-based chauffeur booking app Blacklane for an undisclosed sum to bolster its Uber Elite service, set to close by the end of 2026 — Uber Technologies Inc. has acquired the chauffeur booking app Blacklane, the company's latest move to court a high-end clientele.Sponsor Posts
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