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| Financial Times: |
Meta releases Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, to “power a smarter and faster” Meta AI across Meta's products — Muse Spark ‘purpose-built’ for social media apps as investors question huge AI investment
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LinkedIn: Carlos Pereira, Matt Deitke, Pooja Bandekar, and Roshan Sumbaly
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Threads: @zuck, @han_fang_, @robsherman, @raphaelgrignani, @mosseri, @chriscox, @vocino, @vishwanathsarangkeller, and @vishalshahis
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta says Muse Spark powers queries in Meta AI and its “shopping mode” feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license — Meta on Wednesday debuted Muse Spark, a homegrown AI model it says significantly narrows the performance gap with models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others.
More: Meta, The Register, Simon Willison's Weblog, Australian Financial Review, Reuters, Mercury News, Constellation Research, Skift, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal
LinkedIn: Khalid El-Arini and Jesse Wu
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and Slashdot
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
More: SiliconANGLE, eWeek, Coinpaper, Android Headlines, Spyglass, 9to5Mac, The Decoder, crypto.news, and Fortune
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| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
A DC appeals court denies Anthropic's bid to pause the DOD's supply chain risk designation, after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction in March — A Washington, D.C., federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to block the Pentagon's national security blacklisting of Anthropic for now …
More: New York Times, The Hill, The Information, Axios, Bloomberg Law, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Wired, and CCIA
| Antonis Pothitos / Reuters: |
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban social media access for kids under 15 from January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action — Greece will ban access to social media for children under the age of 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday …
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Forums: r/europe and r/worldnews
| New York Times: |
An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto; Back denies the claim — One evening in the fall of 2024, my wife and I were sitting in traffic on the Long Island Expressway when …
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| CNBC: |
CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI will “for sure” reserve shares for retail investors in its IPO, after “strong demand” from individuals in its latest funding round — OpenAI plans to reserve a portion of shares for individual investors in what's expected to be a blockbuster initial public offering.| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta — Amid rapid enterprise growth, Anthropic is trying to lower the barrier to entry for businesses to build AI agents with Claude.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google introduces “notebooks” in the Gemini app for deeper NotebookLM integration and a space to organize chats and files, after adding sources in December 2025 — The Gemini app is getting deeper NotebookLM integration after the initial source support introduced last year.| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Source: Meta shutters Claudeonomics, an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking each employee's token usage, due to the data “being shared externally” — Meta Platforms has taken down an internal, employee-built leaderboard tracking how many tokens staffers were using.
More: Gizmodo and Business Insider
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| Isaac Yee / CNN: |
A hacker claims to have stolen 10PB+ of data, including classified defense docs and missile schematics, from China's National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin — A hacker has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data - including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics …
More: NetAskari. X: @jbsdc, @jack_raines, @unveiled_chinax, @intcyberdigest, @netaskari, @intcyberdigest, and @intcyberdigest
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| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read — Starting May 20th, Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't have access to the Kindle Store.
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| Jacob Trefethen / OpenAI Foundation: |
The OpenAI Foundation says it is working to finalize over $100M in grants this month, across six institutions, to support and accelerate Alzheimer's research — Alzheimer's disease is one of the hardest unsolved problems in medicine, and one of the most devastating.| CoinDesk: |
Yuga Labs settles its 2022 lawsuit against artist Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen over their alleged copycatting of its BAYC NFTs; the terms were not disclosed — The settlement avoids a trial and ends the dispute over the RR/BAYC NFTs, which claimed to parody Bored Ape Yacht Club, one of the most recognizable NFT brands.
More: The Block, The Crypto Times, Reuters, AMBCrypto, Bloomberg Law, and Blockonomi
| Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times: |
Mythos Preview's hacking ability is not a publicity stunt; sources say tech companies privately spoke to Trump officials about the implications for US security — Normally right now I would be writing about the geopolitical implications of the war with Iran, and I am sure I will again soon.
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Bluesky: @renrut-mas and @edzitron.com
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/ControlProblem, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
AWS debuts Amazon S3 Files, a new capability built on Amazon's Elastic File System that lets applications and AI agents access S3 buckets as local file systems — Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system …
More: Amazon Web Services, Last Week in AWS, Amazon Web Services, CIO.com, and HPCwire
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Internal memo: Julia Liuson, the head of Microsoft's developer division, says she will resign after 34 years and move to an “advisory role” at the end of June — Veteran Microsoft executive Julia Liuson is leaving after 34 years. … Microsoft is losing another veteran executive.| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Alibaba and China Telecom launch a data center in southern China that is powered by 10,000 of Alibaba's Zhenwu chips designed for AI training and inferencing — Alibaba and China Telecom are launching a data center in southern China powered by the e-commerce giant's own chips …
More: South China Morning Post, The Economic Times, Techstrong IT, and Barron's Online. Forums: r/technology
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X rolls out automatic post translation worldwide, powered by xAI's Grok, and updates its iOS image editor with features like drawing, text tools, and blurring — Social media platform X is now rolling out a new feature that automatically translates posts. The company is also launching …
More: Tech Times, Digital Trends, and iPhone in Canada
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic completes an employee tender offer at a $350B valuation, falling short of the $6B investors wanted, as employees held shares ahead of the IPO — Anthropic employees have sold some equity to investors, wrapping up a secondary share sale that started earlier this year, according to people familiar with the matter.
X: @yeboahwalee
| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Memo: xAI is reorganizing its engineering team, as SpaceX SVP Michael Nicolls says xAI is “clearly behind”; source: Nicolls has taken the title of xAI president — Follow Grace Kay … - A SpaceX exec announced another xAI reorganization this week.
X: @graceihle
| Melia Russell / Business Insider: |
New York-based Patlytics, which builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation, raised a $40M Series B led by SignalFire — Follow Melia Russell … - Patlytics builds software for law firms and businesses to automate patent filing and litigation.
More: AlleyWatch, Artificial Lawyer, LAW.com, Patlytics, Pulse 2.0, Business Wire, citybiz, and Bloomberg Law. LinkedIn: Melia Russell
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Patreon says it now has 7.6M paid podcast memberships across 47K podcasters and revenue generated by podcasters on its platform grew 33% YoY to $629M in 2025 — On Patreon, podcasts have become the largest content category in terms of revenue and they've continued their upward trajectory, says chief operating officer Paige Fitzgerald.| Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: |
GoPro says it will cut 23% of its workforce, or 145 employees, starting in Q2 and costing $11.5M to $15M, as the company struggles to return to profitability — The wearable camera maker will cut 145 employees as part of a restructuring plan — GoPro plans to cut 23% of its workforce … | Matt Burgess / Wired: |
AI Forensics: in 16 Italian and Spanish Telegram groups, 24K+ men are sharing nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing — In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.
More: AI Forensics, Gadget Review, The Decoder, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com, @couts, @aiforensics.org, @aiforensics.org, @aiforensics.org, and @aiforensics.org. Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange
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