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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Google says Polymarket bets “briefly appeared in Google News in error”, after the bets appeared alongside news articles in the “For You” section — Links to bets on world events were appearing alongside legitimate news organizations.
More: Gizmodo, The Guardian, Cointelegraph, Wall Street Journal, DL News, Engadget, and New Republic
| Washington Post: |
Sources: Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a “child of God” — The artificial intelligence company asked religious leaders for guidance on building a moral chatbot. — Summary
More: Premier Christian News and Gizmodo
X: @yoda, @nitashatiku, and @drewharwell
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Forums: r/accelerate and r/technology
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Flipkart and Amazon's quick commerce push in India is intensifying competition in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure — India's quick commerce market is booming, with demand more than doubling for some players. But the fast-delivery push by Flipkart …
More: Fortune India and Tech in Asia
| Daniel Tudor / Financial Times: |
Analysts and researchers say Google's TurboQuant compression algorithm to make LLMs more efficient is more likely to expand memory chip demand than reduce it — More efficient artificial intelligence could mean even greater need for semiconductors, say experts
More: TechRadar, Yahoo Finance, and Motley Fool
| Derek Wallbank / Bloomberg: |
A journalist recounts how he used ChatGPT to develop a fitness plan to prepare for the Paris Marathon, resulting in a 20-pound weight loss and faster race times — Six months of pain and progress, 20 pounds lost and a trial-and-error test of what AI can — and cannot — do.| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Takeaways from HumanX, one of the AI industry's main events: Claude Code dominated the conversation, while some execs noted China's lead in open-weight models — If one thing became clear at the HumanX conference in San Francisco this week, where 6,500 executives, founders and investors gathered …
More: Towards Data Science, PCMag, and The Information
| Simon Batt / XDA Developers: |
The Linux Kernel Organization now lets developers submit AI-generated code, as long as it complies with the guidelines, licensing, and attribution requirements — - Linux allows AI-generated kernel code, but the community will treat it as your own contribution.
More: Linux kernel on GitHub and Neowin
X: @gotrootpw, @somi_ai, @antirez, and @crascit
Forums: Hacker News, r/programare, and Lobsters
| The Citizen Lab: |
An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices — Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life.
More: VSquare.org, The Hacker News, and CyberInsider
Bluesky: @jsrailton, @digitalwarrior, and @rondeibert
| Ellen O'Regan / Politico: |
Survey of 6,698 people across six EU countries: around 84% said they don't trust US tech companies with their personal data; 93% don't trust Chinese companies — Europe is rolling out measures to keep data local and reduce reliance on foreign tech. — More than 8 in 10 Europeans …
Forums: r/politics
| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
A wave of top AI researchers returned from the US to China in the past year, driven by better pay, quality of life, and a more restrictive US immigration system — Engineers and scientists return for better pay and quality of life as US grows more hostile — In the hushed corridors …
X: @neiltwitz, @niubi, @aaron_renn, and @kyleichan
| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more — AI avatars are redefining influence and trust online. — On this week's Galaxy Brain episode, Charlie Warzel is joined … | Mari Kiyohara / Bloomberg: |
Japan approves an additional $4B in subsidies to Rapidus to bankroll the chipmaker's work for Fujitsu, taking the total state investment and fees to $16.3B — Japan approved ¥631.5 billion ($4 billion) in additional subsidies to quicken Rapidus Corp.'s entry into the high-stakes AI chipmaking arena …
More: Nikkei Asia, Tech in Asia, Blockonomi, Reuters, and The Japan Times
| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's recent amendments to his OpenAI lawsuit are a “legal ambush”, calling them “legally improper and factually unsupported” — OpenAI says Elon Musk has suddenly changed direction on what he's seeking in his lawsuit against the startup in a …
More: Financial Times, Gizmodo, Inc.com, Crypto Briefing, Denver Business Journal, and Decrypt
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
OpenAI says a GitHub workflow used to sign its macOS apps downloaded a malicious Axios library on March 31, but no user data or internal system was compromised — OpenAI said Friday that it found evidence that one of its internal tools downloaded a compromised update from a recently infected, legitimate open-source software library.
More: Moneycontrol, OpenAI, Reuters, Benzinga, Cyber Security News, 9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, Digit, and Socket. X: @openai
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