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OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a special projects role as part of an executive reshuffle; Fidji Simo is taking medical leave for several weeks — OpenAI's chief operating officer is shifting into a new role and two other top executives are going on leave due to health reasons …
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| Maureen Farrell / New York Times: |
Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok — Mr. Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Internal memo: Iranian strikes have rendered two AWS zones “hard down” in Dubai and Bahrain and Amazon expects them to be “unavailable for an extended period” — Amazon tells its employees to deprioritize these regions as the Iran war deals meaningful damage to its infrastructure in the Gulf.
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| Wired: |
Sources: Meta has paused its work with Mercor while it investigates a security breach at the data vendor; OpenAI says it is investigating the security incident — Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor.| Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill: |
Filing: Anthropic has formed AnthroPAC, a new PAC that will be funded exclusively and voluntarily by its employees and is expected to be bipartisan — The artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is launching a new corporate political action committee, becoming the latest technology firm … | Alex Heath / Sources: |
Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex — Why Codex is becoming the foundation for everything. Also: Fidji Simo's internal memo about taking a leave of absence. — ∙ Paid| 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.
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| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment to sell their prior work materials for AI training, even if the IP could belong to ex-employers — AI models from the tech giants constantly need new training data. This $10 billion startup is on the hunt for fresh resources.| 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.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta's “Project Walleye” Ohio data center seeks $3B in loans in a first-of-its-kind deal where lenders will fund both the building and the power assets — ‘Project Walleye’ lenders would be first to fund both construction and power — A data centre campus backed …
X: @edzitron
| 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: Senator Andy Kim, Senator Pete Ricketts, Barron's Online, Representative Michael …, Nextgov/FCW, Select Committee on the CCP, WSTM, NewsMax.com, Congressman John Mannion, Reuters, Reuters, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, and Hindustan Times
X: @hamandcheese, @repbaumgartner, @chinaselect, @michaelsobolik, @hamandcheese, and @chinaselect. Bluesky: @whoknowsnow
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Utah launches a one-year pilot program allowing Legion Health's AI chatbot to renew prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications — Some psychiatrists are asking what problem, exactly, this is solving. … Utah is allowing an AI system to prescribe psychiatric drugs without a doctor.| 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 …
More: SiliconANGLE
| 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, PCWorld, Digit, and Anthropic's Interpretability Research
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Bluesky: @shannonvallor, @mizmulligan, @antihebbiann, @timfduffy.com, @birdrespecter, @isolyth.dev, and @timfduffy.com. Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence
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