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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned GPT-5.4 variant for defensive cybersecurity use cases, to some participants of its Trusted Access for Cyber program — OpenAI is letting a select group of users access a new artificial intelligence model that's meant to be more adept …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, and local files, a screen sharing feature, and more — After testing got underway in September, the “Google app for desktop” is now launching for “Windows users globally in English.”| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
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| CNBC: |
Meta and Broadcom announce an expanded partnership to co-develop multiple generations of Meta's MTIA chips; Broadcom CEO Hock Tan plans to leave Meta's board — Meta and Broadcom on Tuesday announced a sweeping deal that extends an existing partnership between the two companies for the design … | David Ingram / NBC News: |
In a letter to US senators in January, Apple said it notified X that it may remove Grok from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes — In a letter to senators sent in January, Apple detailed how it responded to Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes.
More: AppleInsider, The Verge, Business Today, 9to5Mac, Moneycontrol, The Indian Express, Business Standard, Digit, and Livemint
Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, citing a “proven track record” with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar — Amazon.com Inc.'s takeover of Globalstar Inc. is poised to benefit one of the company's biggest rivals in hardware devices: Apple Inc.
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X: @markgurman and @tmfassociates
| The Information: |
Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing: customers now pay $20 per month per user, plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription — Businesses whose employees are heavy users of Anthropic's Claude products are likely to pay significantly more for them after the company changed … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
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Forums: r/ClaudeAI and r/singularity
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
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| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as $800B in recent weeks; the company had a $380B valuation in February — Follow Ben Bergman … - Anthropic has recently received multiple offers from VCs to invest at valuations as high as $800 billion.
More: Financial Times, Global Corporate Venturing, Reuters, Blockonomi, Bloomberg, and Benzinga
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| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability — Snap Inc. is laying off roughly 1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, part of an effort …
More: Sources, Business Insider, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Snap Newsroom, and CNBC. X: @stocksavvyshay
| Claude: |
Anthropic redesigns Claude Code on desktop, adding a sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout, an integrated terminal, and a file editor — Today, we're releasing a redesign of the Claude Code desktop app, built to help you run more Claude Code tasks at once.
More: MacRumors, The Deep View, The Register, The New Stack, and Thurrott
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The US FCC grants Netgear a conditional approval to import its future consumer routers, cable modems, and cable gateways into the US through October 1, 2027 — Make it make sense. Make it make sense. … The United States' foreign router ban didn't make a whole lot of sense, and today may not change that.
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| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a $45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a $500M valuation — It's just one of 20,000 companies that use Mintlify's AI system to generate and maintain FAQs and user guides about their software products.
More: Mintlify, US Department of Justice, Salesforce Ventures, and The Verge
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
ByteDance launches its Seedance 2.0 video model to enterprise clients in 100+ countries, excluding the US amid legal disputes, after a February launch in China — ByteDance's cloud computing unit has made the company's Seedance 2. AI video generation model available globally to enterprise customers …
More: Hello China Tech and MediaPost
| Financial Times: |
Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend $7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and $2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years — Ride-hailing app races to make up lost ground with equity investments and vehicle order commitments — Uber has committed more than $10bn …
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat — EToro Group Ltd. has agreed to acquire Zengo, a crypto wallet provider, as the trading and investment platform expands its reach into decentralized finance.
More: FinSMEs, The Block, CTech, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, eToro Group Ltd., and Coinpedia Fintech News
| Rachel Scharf / Billboard: |
A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated — At least for now, the court judgment is largely a symbolic victory, as no one has identified the anonymous internet users behind Anna's Archive.
More: TorrentFreak and Music Business Worldwide
| IDC: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first decline since 2023, amid a memory chip crunch; Samsung's shipments grew 3.6% and Apple's grew 3.3% — Limited memory supply and record high memory prices increase pressure on smartphone OEMs to reduce shipments and increase prices that dampen demand.
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, above €8.5B est., a €2.8B net profit, above €2.5B est., and raises 2026 net sales forecast to €36B to €40B from €34B to €39B — ASML raised its sales forecast for 2026 after it beat first-quarter revenue and profit expectations … | Laura Bratton / The Information: |
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company's surging use of AI coding tools has maxed out its full-year AI budget just a few months into 2026 — Uber's surging use of AI coding tools, particularly Anthropic's Claude Code, has maxed out its full year AI budget just a few months into 2026 …
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Bluesky: @selectric.space and @edzitron.com
| Financial Times: |
Sources: ahead of US midterms, Democrats have been advised not to antagonize a ~$300M pro-AI lobby; internal polling shows broad support for tougher AI rules — Pro-industry campaign groups deploy millions amid growing public support for tighter regulation| Konstantin Kakaes / Quanta Magazine: |
How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding — Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI's impact.
More: Implicator.ai and Fortune
LinkedIn: Konstantin Kakaes. Bluesky: @quantamagazine. Forums: Hacker News, r/math, and r/LLMPhysics
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages — In February, Spotify made an exciting (and a bit unusual) move when it entered the world of physical book sales.| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600 students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 — An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images …
More: Indicator
| Politico: |
Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban — The Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation — tasked with evaluating U.S. and foreign AI models … | Google DeepMind: |
Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, saying it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 — For robots to be truly helpful in our daily lives and industries, they must do more than follow instructions, they must reason about the physical world.
More: MarkTechPost and The Robot Report
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