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| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to “help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates” — TBPN staff will help with marketing and communications at OpenAI but keep their editorial independence, the ChatGPT parent says
More: OpenAI, CNBC, Agence France-Presse, New York Times, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Business Insider, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, The Information, Business Insider, Dow Jones Newswires, Axios, Wired, Pulse 2.0, Implicator.ai, Deadline, The Verge, TBPN, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, ZeroHedge News, TBPN on YouTube, and Yahoo Finance
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Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for “low hundreds of millions of dollars”; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent — ChatGPT-maker moves into broadcasting with deal for TBPN after it had pledged to abandon ‘side-quests’
More: XDA Developers and Benzinga
Bluesky: @grantbrisbee, @caseynewton, @oracularhades.com, and @edzitron.com
| The Keyword: |
Google launches Gemma 4, its “most intelligent” open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license — Today, we are introducing Gemma 4 — our most intelligent open models to date. Purpose-built for advanced reasoning …
More: The Verge, Simon Willison's Weblog, VentureBeat, The Economic Times, NVIDIA, Ars Technica, Thurrott, Decrypt, PCWorld, Android Developers Blog, 9to5Google, Neowin, Run Gemma 4 locally …, Implicator.ai, The Next Web, The Decoder, Techstrong.ai, SiliconANGLE, ZDNET, 9to5Google, Engadget, Constellation Research, and The Deep View
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX is floating a $2T+ valuation to prospective investors in its IPO; SpaceX's acquisition of xAI reportedly valued the combined company at $1.25T — SpaceX boosted its target IPO valuation above $2 trillion, according to people familiar with the matter, as the world's …
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches in-house AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, as it pursues “AI self-sufficiency” — Microsoft on Wednesday launched three new foundational AI models it built entirely in-house — a state … | Financial Times: |
Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is “not able to build models in the very largest scale yet” but its “computation ramp is coming to enable us to do” it in 2026 — Tech giant's AI chief says it will have the resources to build frontier systems later this year
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
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| Cloudflare: |
Cloudflare debuts EmDash, an MIT-licensed, TypeScript-based CMS built on Astro, designed as a serverless “spiritual successor” to WordPress, available on GitHub — The cost of building software has drastically decreased. We recently rebuilt Next.js in one week using AI coding agents.
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| Alex Harring / CNBC: |
The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the “exclusive” authority to regulate such markets — A federal commission on Wednesday announced lawsuits against three states over its ability to exclusively regulate prediction markets.
More: CFTC, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Benzinga, Bloomberg Law, The Block, Decrypt, Sports Business Journal, Cointelegraph, NPR, CoinDesk, Quartz, Front Office Sports, Blockonomi, Wall Street Journal, Bitcoin News, Yahoo Finance, CoinGape, and Bloomberg. Mastodon: @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase says it has won conditional approval from US banking regulators for a national trust company charter, which could let it issue stablecoins and more — Coinbase Global Inc., the largest US cryptocurrency exchange, said it has won conditional approval from banking regulators … | Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model it launched within three days, saying it has “drastically enhanced” agentic coding — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has released its third proprietary AI model in as many days, reinforcing the company's intent … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta — It combines Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and other content into something that feels entirely new. … Surf is a slightly hard app to explain.
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Ofcom: the share of adult UK social media users that actively post, share, or comment falls from 61% in 2024 to 49%, as users say they are being more selective — Ofcom research shows people also concerned old posts could affect personal or professional life
More: Ofcom, BBC, Financial Times, Creative Bloq, Neowin, ISPreview UK, and The Hollywood Reporter
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance — Instead, a mental health startup shut down and open-sourced its tech. … For the past seven years, the California-based startup Kintsugi … | Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
How AI helped Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs with just two employees, hit $401M in 2025 sales; it's tracking for $1.8B in 2026 sales — Matthew Gallagher took just two months, $20,000 and more than a dozen artificial intelligence tools to get his start-up off the ground.
More: Bloomberg. X: @altmbr, @gavinpurcell, @turnernovak, @nic_carter, @synbio1, @galligator, @katienotopoulos, @kyleboas_, @michaelalbertmd, @bryce, @chrissyfarr, @pitdesi, @nickadobos, @therundownai, @nikillinit, @seamushughes, @villi, @anothercohen, @alexfmac, and @yrechtman. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Cursor launches Cursor 3, an “agent-first” coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage multiple AI agents — As Cursor launches the next generation of its product, the AI coding startup has to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic more directly than ever.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts and Veo 3.1 support — Google on Thursday added new features to its video editor app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts, Veo 3.1 support …
More: Ars Technica, TechEBlog, Phandroid, 9to5Google, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, The Keyword, Neowin, Digital Trends, and The Deep View
| Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire: |
Tim Cook discusses 50 years of Apple and it still being Steve Jobs' company, the “very accessible” Trump administration, his “consistent” values, and more — Apple's iconic CEO speaks exclusively with Esquire about fifty years of Apple history—and the future the company is continuing to create.| Stephen Morris / Financial Times: |
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