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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, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, Moneycontrol, The Decoder, Spyglass, MarketWatch, Beyond Search, campaignlive.com, Bitcoin News, The Information, The Next Web, Inc.com, TBPN, Blue Tech Wave Media, Bloomberg, Business Today, crypto.news, BMI, The Rundown AI, The San Francisco Standard, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Forbes, PitchBook, SiliconANGLE, Tubefilter, On my Om, Business Insider, The Hill, TBPN on YouTube, Business Insider, Agence France-Presse, Pulse 2.0, Tech in Asia, 9to5Mac, Implicator.ai, XDA Developers, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @sama, @jordihays, @pkafka, @davidu, @austinc3301, @jbsdc, @ajs, @pkafka, @jason_kint, @mukund, @jason, @eric_seufert, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @buccocapital, @dseetharaman, @jessicalessin, @mikeisaac, @samfbiddle, @cjc, @thezvi, @hshaban, @supbagholder, @sarafischer, @alexweprin, @neilcybart, @gazorp5, @levie, @maxwelltani, @maxwelltani, @ericnewcomer, @ti_morse, @shakeelhashim, @absoluttig, @jordihays, @loudmouthjulia, @hadas_gold, @joannastern, @eriktorenberg, @tbpn, @alexrkonrad, @ericnewcomer, @miles_brundage, @aagave, @bdanweiss, @samfbiddle, @lindsmccallum, @taylorlorenz, @mikeisaac, @danshipper, @hadas_gold, @jaltma, @ericnewcomer, @mjnblack, @ricburton, @mgsiegler, @pitdesi, @austin_rief, @kevinakwok, @mikebutcher, @rpnickson, @edzitron, @jessicalessin, @willmanidis, @scobleizer, @nicholas_shawa, @dylanabruscato, @zebulgar, @dylanabruscato, @andrewcurran_, 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
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.
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.
The Keyword:
Google launches Gemma 4, its “most intelligent” open model family, built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows and available 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: Google DeepMind, Android Developers Blog, Simon Willison's Weblog, NVIDIA, The Indian Express, Digital Trends, Blockonomi, WinBuzzer, Ars Technica, The Hans India, Hindustan Times, crypto.news, Digit, Moneycontrol, Business Standard, Run Gemma 4 locally …, Google Open Source Blog, Mashable, Unsloth, TestingCatalog, Google AI for Developers, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Register, The Decoder, MarkTechPost, NVIDIA Technical Blog, The Verge, Neowin, Techstrong.ai, Implicator.ai, SiliconANGLE, ZDNET, and 9to5Google
X: @demishassabis, @clementdelangue, @rasbt, @kimmonismus, @matvelloso, @artificialanlys, @arena, @jeffdean, @googledeepmind, @googleai, @clattner_llvm, @google, @xenovacom, @qualcomm, @erikvoorhees, @docker, @mweinbach, @hamandcheese, @sriramk, @clementdelangue, @gregisenberg, @atomic_chat_hq, @osanseviero, @cyb3rops, @measure_plan, @ai, @googledevs, @nvidiarobotics, @jocarrasqueira, @preethilahoti, @simonw, @artificialanlys, @mweinbach, @ggerganov, @jacalulu, @arena, @kaggle, @dynamicwebpaige, @mweinbach, @mweinbach, @itspaulai, @googledevs, @clementdelangue, @arm, @minchoi, @rseroter, @conorbronsdon, @kakatohesss, @dorialexander, @natolambert, @googleaidevs, @nvidiaaidev, @googlegemma, @officiallogank, @clmt, @o_lacombe, @chanduthota, @androidstudio, @kimmonismus, @nvidiarobotics, @kaggle, @i, @lmsysorg, @mayhem4markets, @sundarpichai, @triswarkentin, @googlegemma, @jeffdean, @googlecloudtech, @dynamicwebpaige, @demishassabis, @osanseviero, @teksedge, @mweinbach, @_philschmid, @scaling01, @thorwebdev, @androiddev, @googleoss, @googlegemma, and @nic_carter
LinkedIn: Ján Švehla, Kari Ann Briski, Ed Brandman, Eric Fraser, Ravin Kumar, M Mohan, and Gus Martins.  Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
Forums: Hacker News, r/StableDiffusion, r/ollama, r/artificial, r/Bard, r/Android, and Slashdot
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
Bloomberg:
A domestic shortage of electrical equipment such as transformers and switchgear is forcing the US to rely on Chinese imports, delaying data center construction  —  The struggle to manufacture transformers, switchgear and batteries domestically has forced the US to rely on imports, delaying data center construction.
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  —  Its new transcription model is a step towards those goals, says Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleyman.

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Angela Fu / Poynter:
AI company Nota is shutting down its network of 11 local news sites for “underserved communities” because they contained dozens of instances of plagiarism

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