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Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to walk into the West Wing on Friday for a meeting with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude — Anthropic announced on Friday that it's launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude.
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LinkedIn: Drew Bent, Pradeep Sanyal, Amol Avasare, Tom Wentworth, and Claude. Bluesky: @isolyth.dev. Threads: @claudeai
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| Politico: |
Cyber experts say the EU's age verification app has glaring privacy and security problems; after saying it was ready, EU officials say the app is “still a demo” — BRUSSELS — The European Union's unveiling of a mobile app to check people's age online has quickly turned sour …
More: RTÉ, Biometric Update, Wired, Blaze Media, MediaNama, and Cointelegraph
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Forums: r/neoliberal, r/europe, r/privacy, and r/eutech
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Netflix plans to launch a vertical video feed, to help with content discovery, this month, and plans to use AI for content creation and recommendations — Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation …
More: Android Police, How-To Geek, Media Play News, Android Authority, Dexerto, PCMag, T3, Digital Trends, The Hans India, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada, and CNET. Bluesky: @whoa-magic.lol
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, how Altman changed in 18 months of reporting, OpenAI's board drama and enterprise shift, and more — Today on Decoder, I'm talking with Ronan Farrow, one of the biggest stars of investigative reporting working today.| Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Kraken parent company Payward agrees to acquire Bitnomial, a digital asset derivatives platform, for up to $550M in cash and stock, which values Payward at $20B — The deal gives Payward control of a fully licensed U.S. crypto derivatives stack, accelerating its expansion in regulated markets.
More: Kraken Blog, The Information, DL News, Decrypt, Bitcoin News, The Block, Benzinga, Blockonomi, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoin Magazine, crypto.news, and Coinpedia Fintech News
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| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
An interview with Dario Amodei, who says the negative narrative around AI is dominant because the industry hasn't yet fully delivered the benefits it promises — The tech entrepreneur on Claude Mythos, repercussions from the Pentagon dispute — and his message for the super-rich| The Guardian: |
Docs: US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide data centers' environmental toll; one of their demands was written almost verbatim into EU rules — Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some shareholders are questioning whether Sam Altman should lead OpenAI through the turbulence of an IPO and have floated Bret Taylor as a successor — Ahead of a planned IPO, Altman's personal investments remain opaque, making it hard to spot any conflicts
More: The Decoder and Crypto Briefing
X: @katiemiller, @berber_jin1, @anomsiiwa, and @ns123abc. LinkedIn: Kate Clark. Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| Financial Times: |
SynMax: almost 40% of US data centers due in 2026 are facing delays; major projects for Microsoft, OpenAI, and others are likely to end over three months late — Delays to a swath of new US data centres threaten to slow the rollout of AI by the world's biggest tech companies …
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Charles Schwab unveils its long-awaited crypto investing product, Schwab Crypto, with a 0.75% fee on every crypto trade and plans to launch in the coming weeks — Charles Schwab on Thursday introduced its long-awaited crypto investing product, making bitcoin and ether trading available …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky says a sophisticated DDoS attack is to blame for continued app outages but it has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private data — Bluesky's website and app are still struggling on Friday after experiencing service interruptions that chief operating officer Rose Wang attributed to an ongoing cyberattack.
More: Mashable, Engadget, The Verge, and heise online
| Grace Kay / Business Insider: |
Sources: xAI plans to let Cursor train Composer 2.5 AI coding model using tens of thousands of xAI's GPUs, a new strategy for xAI in a competitive AI landscape — - Elon Musk's AI company xAI plans to allow Cursor to use some of its compute power for training.
X: @chribjel, @edzitron, @emilheap, @cryptopunk7213, @charlesd353, @tunguz, @chrishayduk, @tekbog, @nofil_ai, @luke_metro, and @beffjezos. Forums: r/accelerate
| Krystal Scanlon / Digiday: |
Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch — Advertising in ChatGPT is already getting cheaper. The rate advertisers pay to reach every thousand users has fallen from $60 … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an “early sign” of generalization, surprising researchers — Physical Intelligence, the two-year-old, San Francisco-based robotics startup that has quietly become … | Ivan Lam / Counterpoint Research: |
China's smartphone shipments declined 4% YoY in Q1 amid memory shortages; Huawei's shipments grew 2% YoY for a 20% market share, iPhone grew 20% for a 19% share — Ivan is a Senior Research Analyst at Counterpoint Research, based in Hong Kong. He has more than 15 years of experience, with a major focus on mobile and network devices.
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI agrees to pay Cerebras $20B+ to use its server chips, double the amount previously associated with the deal, and may receive equity in Cerebras — OpenAI recently struck an unusual deal to lessen its dependence on Nvidia's AI chips and potentially lower its computing expenses in the coming years.
More: CNBC, Crypto Briefing, and Reuters
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to identity verification — Honestly, what's hotter than a real person? — Sam Altman's iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event …
More: TechCrunch, CoinDesk, BBC, Axios, The Block, Implicator.ai, and The Deep View. Bluesky: @paularmstrongtbd
| The Information: |
Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking at least $300M at a valuation of at least $10B — DeepSeek is in talks to raise outside capital for the first time, seeking to beef up its financial war chest so it can better compete in the costly battle …
More: Reuters, Crypto Briefing, Taipei Times, Yahoo Finance, and Blockonomi
| Reuters: |
India drops a proposal to require Apple, Google, Samsung, and other smartphone makers to preinstall the country's biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones — India's government has decided not to go ahead with a proposal to require Apple (AAPL.O), Samsung (005930.KS) …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OnlyFans is in advanced talks to sell a below 20% stake at a $3B+ valuation; previous reports said it wants to sell a ~60% stake at a ~$5.5B valuation — Discussions with Architect Capital come less than a month after the UK-based platform's owner Leonid Radvinsky died| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.25B, vs. $12.2B est., net income up 83% YoY to $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS and revenue below est.; NFLX drops 10%+ — Netflix Shares Fall as Guidance Disappoints Investors — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 32.21% Playback Rate
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| Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Loop, which uses AI to predict supply chain disruptions, raised a $95M Series C co-led by Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund — Supply chains are messy. San Francisco-based startup Loop isn't content helping companies merely clean up their supply chains.
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