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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, Wired, The Wrap, CNBC, MediaPost, TechCrunch, The Hollywood Reporter, Fast Company, Implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, The Decoder, The Information, Bitcoin News, Beyond Search, Not Boring by Packy McCormick, Silicon Republic, Moneycontrol, The Next Web, Business Today, crypto.news, The Indian Express, Spyglass, BMI, Inc.com, Blue Tech Wave Media, Wall Street Journal, TBPN on YouTube, TBPN, The San Francisco Standard, Bloomberg, New York Times, Axios, Forbes, PitchBook, SiliconANGLE, Tubefilter, On my Om, Business Insider, The Hill, Business Insider, Agence France-Presse, Dow Jones Newswires, Pulse 2.0, Tech in Asia, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, Reuters, ZeroHedge News, The Hollywood Reporter, Yahoo Finance, The Verge, Talking Biz News, and Daring Fireball
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Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
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| Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: |
Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior “in ways that matter,” such as driving it to act unethically — Can we teach machines to feel? Short answer: We don't know. But we can teach them to sound like they do.
More: Anthropic and Anthropic's Interpretability Research
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: |
Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK-based startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs — Cinemersive Labs will join the company's Visual Computing Group. — Sony Interactive Entertainment, owner of the PlayStation brand …
More: Sony Interactive Entertainment, TechRaptor, Gameranx, Blockonomi, Shacknews, 80 Level, Push Square, DayOne, and The Verge
X: @pirat_nation, @shinobi602, and @realradec
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option — Meta has told members of its independent Oversight Board that the company may stop funding it after 2028, sources familiar with the situation told Platformer.
More: PCMag and NPR
Bluesky: @justinhendrix, @socialmedialab.ca, @davidcarroll.org, @chup.blakereid.org, and @jonathanpierce
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| Matt Mullenweg: |
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks WordPress' cross-platform democratization — So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security.
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter text-only reasoning model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use — The baton of open source AI models has been passed on between several companies over the years since ChatGPT debuted in late 2022 …
More: Arcee AI, Implicator.ai, TheNeuron, MarkTechPost, and Decrypt
| 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.
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| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic — Tesla and others turn to suppliers in China for components in an industry seen as strategic by Washington and Beijing
More: South China Morning Post, DigiTimes, and Nikkei Asia
| The Information: |
Source: Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as planning drug research, for ~$400M — Anthropic has acquired AI biotech startup Coefficient Bio for roughly $400 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
More: SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Axios, The Next Web, Newcomer, Digit, and Reuters. Forums: r/singularity
| Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times: |
Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others — San Francisco-headquartered startup Noon has emerged from stealth mode with $44 million in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital …
More: Inc42, Business Standard, and Noon
X: @gjain, @codymclain, @tjack, @soleio, @bandiaditya, and @osidenko_
| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
A US bill seeks to ban exports of DUV lithography tech to China, whose imports of chipmaking equipment reportedly grew from $10.7B in 2016 to ~$51.1B in 2025 — The MATCH Act would tighten existing restrictions on a critical choke point for the AI industry, banning exports of certain manufacturing tools across China.
More: Reuters, Reuters, NewsMax.com, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, and Hindustan Times. Bluesky: @whoknowsnow
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 — Israeli firm seeks critical funding through a SPAC merger amid mounting market pressures. — Israeli chip company Hailo … | Rina Chandran / Rest of World: |
Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a “frugal AI” approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems — Amid a widening global divide in AI adoption, low-cost AI models that can deliver sovereignty and efficiency … | Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: Huawei's Ascend 950PR chip, set for mass production soon, saw prices rise 20% after Chinese tech giants placed bulk orders to run DeepSeek's V4 model — When DeepSeek introduces its next-generation model, likely in the next few weeks, it will mark a milestone in China's yearslong quest for semiconductor self-sufficiency.
More: Reuters, Tom's Hardware, and Trivium China
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