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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, Wired, CNBC, Moneycontrol, TechCrunch, Business Today, The Next Web, MarketWatch, The Rundown AI, The Information, Inc.com, TBPN, New York Times, Axios, Variety, The San Francisco Standard, On my Om, PitchBook, Forbes, crypto.news, BMI, Tubefilter, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, TBPN on YouTube, Business Insider, The Hill, Business Insider, Agence France-Presse, Pulse 2.0, Tech in Asia, 9to5Mac, Implicator.ai, XDA Developers, Reuters, Bloomberg, ZeroHedge News, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @sama, @jordihays, @zebulgar, @kevinakwok, @supbagholder, @hshaban, @pkafka, @davidu, @alexweprin, @miles_brundage, @austinc3301, @bdanweiss, @maxwelltani, @jbsdc, @gazorp5, @rpnickson, @pitdesi, @joannastern, @thezvi, @jordihays, @mjnblack, @alexrkonrad, @ajs, @pkafka, @danshipper, @tbpn, @hadas_gold, @nicholas_shawa, @jason_kint, @scobleizer, @willmanidis, @mikebutcher, @ericnewcomer, @mukund, @mikeisaac, @andrewcurran_, @jason, @eric_seufert, @absoluttig, @jaltma, @ericnewcomer, @ricburton, @dylanabruscato, @ericnewcomer, @levie, @mikeisaac, @taylorlorenz, @maxwelltani, @austin_rief, @mikeisaac, @buccocapital, @ti_morse, @dseetharaman, @mgsiegler, @aagave, @jessicalessin, @lindsmccallum, @eriktorenberg, @edzitron, @shakeelhashim, @neilcybart, @samfbiddle, @jessicalessin, @mikeisaac, @samfbiddle, @hadas_gold, @sarafischer, @dylanabruscato, @cjc, @loudmouthjulia, and @johncoogan
LinkedIn: Justin Jackson, Simon Owens, Yossi J Levi, Jaspreet Singh, and Dylan Abruscato
Bluesky: @eidyngray.scot, @carnage4life, @fasterthanli.me, @katie-drummond, @harrymccracken.com, @neillewisjr, @brbarrett, @paris.nyc, @alexshultz, @isolyth.dev, @caseynewton, @doubleohkevin, @joshsternberg.com, and @parkerortolani.com.  Threads: @karissabe
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
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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
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 Hans India, NVIDIA, Business Standard, Ars Technica, Android Developers Blog, Latent.Space, Run Gemma 4 locally …, Unsloth, Google AI for Developers, Digit, Mashable, Hindustan Times, TheNeuron, Google Open Source Blog, VentureBeat, TestingCatalog, The Decoder, The Register, MarkTechPost, NVIDIA Technical Blog, The Verge, Neowin, Techstrong.ai, Implicator.ai, The Next Web, Simon Willison's Weblog, The Economic Times, Decrypt, SiliconANGLE, ZDNET, and 9to5Google
X: @demishassabis, @clementdelangue, @rasbt, @kimmonismus, @matvelloso, @artificialanlys, @clattner_llvm, @googledeepmind, @xenovacom, @googleai, @google, @jeffdean, @arena, @artificialanlys, @ggerganov, @arena, @clementdelangue, @mweinbach, @nvidiaaidev, @qualcomm, @erikvoorhees, @googlegemma, @demishassabis, @docker, @mweinbach, @itspaulai, @hamandcheese, @androiddev, @kaggle, @simonw, @lmsysorg, @mayhem4markets, @dorialexander, @sriramk, @mweinbach, @googlegemma, @triswarkentin, @nvidiarobotics, @dynamicwebpaige, @osanseviero, @natolambert, @googleaidevs, @minchoi, @kaggle, @clementdelangue, @gregisenberg, @arm, @atomic_chat_hq, @rseroter, @jacalulu, @osanseviero, @kimmonismus, @mweinbach, @officiallogank, @jeffdean, @cyb3rops, @googleoss, @measure_plan, @sundarpichai, @mweinbach, @chanduthota, @clmt, @googledevs, @ai, @thorwebdev, @kakatohesss, @_philschmid, @googledevs, @googlecloudtech, @teksedge, @nvidiarobotics, @conorbronsdon, @jocarrasqueira, @preethilahoti, @scaling01, @o_lacombe, @i, @dynamicwebpaige, @androidstudio, @googlegemma, and @nic_carter
LinkedIn: Kari Ann Briski, Ed Brandman, Eric Fraser, Ravin Kumar, M Mohan, and Gus Martins.  Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
Forums: r/ollama, r/artificial, r/Bard, r/Android, and Slashdot
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.
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.
Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget:
Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK 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 …
Matt Mullenweg:
Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress  —  So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security.
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 …
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.
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 …
Hayden Field / The Verge:
An interview with Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft's AI reorg, how revising its OpenAI deal “unlocked [Microsoft's] ability to pursue superintelligence”, and more
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 …

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Variety:
Sources: the legal team for Paramount President Jeff Shell has engaged in preliminary talks about a possible exit from the company, where he was hired in 2024

Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
WME is selling sports marketing agency 160over90 to Publicis Groupe for, sources say, $500M+; WME bought the agency in 2018 for about $200M

Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
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