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Sources: SpaceX lost just under $5B last year while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the loss figure includes xAI — SpaceX lost just under $5 billion last year while generating more than $18.5 billion in revenue, two people familiar with the figures said.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Annual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS' AI revenue has hit a $15B annual run rate as of Q1 and that Amazon's internal chips business is generating $20B+ per year — Andy Jassy's new letter to Amazon shareholders is a data-heavy defense of the tech giant's biggest bets — from AI and custom chips …
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LinkedIn: Andrea Nohren, Rich Geraffo, Slawomir Plonka, Daniel Alves, Amazon, and Matt Garman
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
In his annual letter, Andy Jassy says Amazon's space-internet service Leo will “launch in mid-2026”, after delays; Amazon has FCC approval for 3,236 satellites — Better late than never for the Elon Musk alternative. … Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company's space-internet service Leo …
More: About Amazon, Engadget, PCMag, Gadget Review, ZeroHedge News, DatacenterDynamics, and CNET
| Kenyatta Thomas / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF says it is leaving X, as “X is no longer where the fight is happening” and an X post now gets less than 3% of the views a tweet got seven years ago — After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, and The San Francisco Standard
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| Financial Times: |
xAI has filed a lawsuit challenging Colorado's landmark AI anti-discrimination law, set to take effect in the summer, saying it violates free speech protections — Elon Musk's AI lab claims the regulations violate free speech protections — Elon Musk's xAI has filed a lawsuit challenging … | Reuters: |
Sources: Anthropic is weighing the possibility of designing its own chips, but it has yet to commit to a design or put together a dedicated team for the project — Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic is exploring the possibility of designing its own chips, three sources said … | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person startup based in Germany, became a top competitor in AI image generation; sources: it recently declined to partner with xAI — Black Forest Labs has long punched above its weight in the AI image generation space. Its next move? Powering physical AI.
X: @zeffmax
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI launches a $100/month ChatGPT Pro subscription, which offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus; the $200/month Pro plan offers 20x higher limits than Plus — OpenAI is launching a revamped $100/month ChatGPT subscription aimed at Codex users. Here's how it compares to OpenAI's existing plans and what it includes.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
An OpenAI note to investors after Anthropic announced Mythos says OpenAI's early push to increase computing resources gives it a key advantage over Anthropic — OpenAI told investors this week that its early push to dramatically increase computing resources gives it a key advantage … | Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Florida's AG launches a probe into OpenAI and ChatGPT, saying its data could fall “into the hands of America's enemies” and citing a mass shooter's ChatGPT use — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Thursday launched an investigation into OpenAI and its chatbot ChatGPT …
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| Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: |
A gap in understanding AI is growing, as casual users cite flaws in old free models while power users point to new models' staggering gains in technical domains — Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is
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| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Internal memo: Meta is pulling top engineers into its new Applied AI Engineering division, as part of a push to improve its models and “compete in the AI race” — Meta Platforms is pulling top engineers from across the company into its new Applied AI Engineering division …
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell warned bank CEOs about Anthropic's Mythos model's risks at an urgent meeting Tuesday — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street leaders to an urgent meeting on concerns …
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
An Ohio man is the first convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing real and AI-generated explicit images of 10+ victims — An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Alibaba appointed Cloud CTO Zhou Jingren to lead its AI unit after a pivot from open source to monetizable “MaaS” models led to Qwen exec departures — Move may affect a global developer community that relies on Qwen models from the Chinese company
More: South China Morning Post
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google says the Gemini app can now generate interactive 3D models and simulations; users must select the Pro model in the prompt bar — You can interact with the 3D models and adjust variables in real-time. … Google's latest upgrade for Gemini will allow the chatbot to generate interactive 3D models …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Anthropic makes Claude Cowork, previously available as a “research preview”, generally available to all paid plans, and adds six features for enterprise use — Claude Cowork, available on macOS, is losing the “research preview” label today as Anthropic introduces enterprise capabilities.
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LinkedIn: Chad Thomas, Eric S. Yuan, Ryan Donegan, and Claude
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple is closing its Towson, Maryland store, the first US location where retail employees unionized; the union says it is “outraged” and exploring legal options — Apple today announced it will be permanently closing three retail stores in the U.S. in June, including Apple Trumbull in Trumbull …
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| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, says it raised a $30M Series A at a $300M valuation, and has hit a $100M+ annual run rate — AfterQuery, which raised $30 million several months ago, competes with data labeling companies like Mercor to sell training data … | Seth Joseph / Forbes: |
Luminai, an AI-native platform for automating administrative healthcare workflows, raised a $38M Series B led by Peak XV, bringing its total funding to $60M — Cleveland, Ohio, USA - June 17, 2017: Daytime view of Cleveland Clinic main campus entrance reflecting pool near University Circle
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Meta begins removing Facebook and Instagram ads from lawyers seeking clients who claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18 — Meta on Thursday began removing advertisements from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18.
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LinkedIn: Dan Gee and James Swift
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba led a ~$293M funding round for ShengShu, just two months after the creator of the Vidu AI video generator raised ~$88M — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s cloud division led a 2 billion yuan ($293 million) funding round for ShengShu Technology, bolstering the war chest of a young contender in China's crowded AI video contest.| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
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