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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
More: Meta Newsroom, The Verge, CNET, TechCrunch, The Information, Moneycontrol, Social Media Today, MobileSyrup, iPhone in Canada, VentureBeat, Decrypt, Mashable, Investor's Business Daily, iClarified, The Next Web, Implicator.ai, TestingCatalog, Yahoo Finance, RTÉ, Times of India, Implicator.ai, Latent.Space, Capital Brief, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, Engadget, The American Bazaar, Barron's Online, Wired, and Agence France-Presse
X: @alexandr_wang, @aiatmeta, @artificialanlys, @alexandr_wang, @flavioad, @beffjezos, @alexandr_wang, @daniel_mac8, @kimmonismus, @epochairesearch, @zixuanli_, @matthuang, @t_xu, @emollick, @rauchg, @alexandr_wang, @mgsiegler, @meghanbobrowsky, @patrickc, @yuchenj_uw, @minyangtian1, @scaling01, @shengjia_zhao, @alexandr_wang, @devteamdrew, @kimmonismus, @dzhang50, @emollick, @pitdesi, @garrytan, @testingcatalog, @negligible_cap, @oncescuradu, @_nathancalvin, @eliebakouch, @mikeisaac, @dinapowellmcc, @fleetingbits, @xlr8harder, @ai_for_success, @shuchaobi, @scaling01, @shuchaobi, @krishnanrohit, @rihardjarc, @itspaulai, @rihardjarc, @jonchu, @rpnickson, @scale_ai, @epochairesearch, @alexandr_wang, @fchollet, @pitdesi, @officiallogank, @skirano, @daniel_271828, @hosseeb, @chetaslua, @aiatmeta, @scaling01, and @chatgpt21
LinkedIn: Matt Deitke, Pooja Bandekar, Carlos Pereira, and Roshan Sumbaly
Bluesky: @davelee.me and @danabra.mov
Threads: @zuck, @raphaelgrignani, @mosseri, @chriscox, @vocino, @han_fang_, @robsherman, @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, SmartCompany, The Information, The Register, Simon Willison's Weblog, Australian Financial Review, Reuters, Mercury News, Constellation Research, Skift, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Gizmodo
LinkedIn: Khalid El-Arini and Jesse Wu
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and Slashdot
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
More: B&T, SiliconANGLE, Coinpaper, Android Headlines, Spyglass, 9to5Mac, eWeek, The Decoder, crypto.news, and Fortune
X: @amitisinvesting, @rihardjarc, and @alexandr_wang
Forums: r/technology and r/wallstreetbets
| 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: SiliconANGLE, Associated Press, New York Times, Bloomberg Law, The Information, Axios, The Hill, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Politico, and Wired
| 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
| 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.
More: The Keyword, The Verge, Thurrott, Android Authority, Neowin, and XDA Developers
| 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.| Reuters: |
John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years — U.S. agriculture equipment maker Deere (DE.N) on Monday agreed to pay $99 million into a settlement fund for farms and farmers …
More: The Drive, Pro Farmer, Capital Press, Carscoops, Gadget Review, and TheTruthAboutCars
| 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 …
More: CoinDesk, New York Times, Blockchain.News, Quartz, BetaKit, DL News, CryptoPotato, Gizmodo, The US Sun, The Guardian, Mashable, The Times, TechCrunch, The Crypto Times, Decrypt, CryptoSlate, Financial Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC, and New York Times
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Bitcoin, and Slashdot
| 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
Forums: r/TrueAnon and r/China
| 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
| 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
X: @jonchu, @provisionalidea, @metapreston, @mikeisaac, @tbpn, @paularambles, @sidharth_raja, @mikeisaac, @jyoti_mann1, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, and @hussain_joe. Forums: r/BetterOffline
| 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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Forums: r/kindle, r/LouisRossmann, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
An analysis of the 200 most-recent tweets on X by 18 big publishers indicates links seem to hurt engagement, after debate arose over X's value for sharing news — Engagement for tweets from @nytimes (53 million followers) is dwarfed by engagement for tweets from @GlobeEyeNews (866,000 followers).
More: Simon Owens's Media Newsletter. X: @natesilver538, @nikitabier, @natesilver538, @natesilver538, @phl43, @storyofthegoats, @thestalwart, @zach_barnett, @phl43, @nikitabier, @natesilver538, and @natesilver538. Bluesky: @ernie.tedium.co. Threads: @simondowens
| Samreen Ahmad / Tech in Asia: |
Nava, which develops cloud infrastructure for AI workloads by combining data centers, GPUs, and software tools, raised a $22M Series A led by Greenoaks Capital — Nava, a cloud infrastructure startup formerly known as Kluisz, has raised US$22 million in a series A round led by Greenoaks Capital.
More: The Economic Times, Livemint, and DealStreetAsia
| 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
| 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.
More: Information Age, The Economic Times, PitchBook, New York Post, The Verge, PC Gamer, Axios, NBC News, Faster, Please!, GovInfoSecurity.com, New York Magazine, Business Insider, MediaPost, BankInfoSecurity.com, Mercury News, eWeek, The Economist, MacRumors, Tomasz Tunguz, Marcus on AI, Telegraph, The Next Web, WinBuzzer, The Independent, CNET, Cryip, CNBC, TestingCatalog, Bloomberg, Anthropic, and VentureBeat
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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
X: @livingdevops, @neural_avb, and @twtayaan
LinkedIn: Chetan Dharma, Darryl R., Imran Sadiq, Saurabh Pal, Boris Alexandrov, Swastik K, Jimmy Zuber, Amazon Web Services, and Steve Tilkens
| 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
| 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
| 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: Digital Trends and iPhone in Canada
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic — Russian government-linked hackers are compromising popular internet routers to steal passwords for email accounts and other online services …
More: Microsoft Security Blog, NCSC.GOV.UK, Lumen Technologies, Straight Arrow News, THE INSIDER, UPI, The Record, and Help Net Security
X: @thehackersnews, @baddcompani, @bushidotoken, and @ncsc. LinkedIn: Danny A.. Bluesky: @metacurity.com
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