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| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek releases its new flagship models V4 Pro and V4 Flash in preview, saying V4 Pro trails the performance of state-of-the-art models by about 3 to 6 months — DeepSeek rolled out preview versions of a new flagship artificial intelligence model a year after upending Silicon Valley …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
DeepSeek V4 Pro costs $1.74/1M input and $3.48/1M output tokens while V4 Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, both the cheapest in their class — Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says “GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving”, performs “at a much higher level of intelligence”, and is more capable for Codex — A new class of intelligence for real work — We're releasing GPT-5.5, our smartest and most intuitive …
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, a model designed to handle more complex tasks with minimal guidance; the model will be used to power the startup's upcoming “super app” — OpenAI is introducing an artificial intelligence model that's intended to be better at completing work without much direction …
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Forums: r/rickygervais, r/coding_agents, r/accelerate, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| Financial Times: |
Canada-based Cohere and Germany-based Aleph Alpha agree to a merger valuing the combination at ~$20B, to work on sovereign AI; both governments support the deal — Canadian and German start-ups to focus on ‘sovereign’ AI systems independent of US and China
More: Business Wire, BetaKit, The Decoder, Benzinga, Implicator.ai, Constellation Research, New York Times, and Reuters
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LinkedIn: Cohere and Aleph Alpha
| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
As part of the Cohere-Aleph Alpha deal, Aleph Alpha backer Schwarz Group plans to invest $600M in Cohere's Series E, which a source says is set to close in 2026 — Canadian AI lab Cohere announced on Friday that it planned to acquire German AI company Aleph Alpha, as it eyed major expansion in Europe.| ABC News: |
The US DOJ arrests a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on Maduro's removal from office — The bet was allegedly placed by a commando involved in Nicolas Maduro's capture. — Katherine Faulders, Aaron Katersky, Peter Charalambous, and Alexander Mallin
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Meta and Amazon reach a multibillion-dollar, multiyear deal for Meta to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon's Graviton chips for its AI inference needs — Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have struck a multibillion-dollar deal for the social-media giant to rent hundreds of thousands … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to cut 10% of its employees, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, trying to boost efficiency and offset its heavy AI spending — Meta Platforms Inc. plans to cut 10% of workers, or roughly 8,000 employees, in an effort to boost efficiency and offset its heavy spending on artificial intelligence.
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| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Alibaba says its Qwen AI model will be integrated into select car models from BYD, Volkswagen, and others, letting users buy food and tickets via voice commands — BEIJING — Chinese tech giant Alibaba said Friday that its Qwen artificial intelligence model will be integrated into vehicles …
More: Benzinga
| Connor Stringer / Telegraph: |
President Trump threatens to “put a big tariff on the UK” if it does not drop its digital services tax, which he views as unfairly targeting US tech companies — President tells The Telegraph he will retaliate if Britain continues to ‘target’ major American companies such as Apple, Google and Meta
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Forums: r/ukpolitics, r/unitedkingdom, r/worldnews, and r/LabourUK
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible — Microsoft will offer voluntary buyouts to some U.S. employee, a first for the 51-year-old software giant, as the tech industry grapples …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI coding startup Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $25B valuation, up from $10.2B announced in September 2025 — Cognition AI Inc. is in early talks to raise a new round of funding that would more than double its valuation to $25 billion … | Terje Solsvik / Reuters: |
Norway plans to ban children from using social media until they turn 16; the government says it will introduce a bill in parliament by the end of 2026 — Norway said on Friday it would present a bill in parliament by year-end to ban children from using social media until they turn 16 …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on building infrastructure for AI agents, balancing internal needs and the demands of customers like Anthropic, and more — An interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian about Google's cloud priorities, enterprise agent platform, and Google's integration advantage.
| Reuters: |
S-1 filing: SpaceX warns that investigations into Grok creating and disseminating sexually abusive AI imagery may cause SpaceX to lose access to certain markets — The multiple investigations into xAI's creation and dissemination of sexually abusive imagery may lead the company to lose access …
Bluesky: @breakify
| The Information: |
Sources: Cursor hit $2.7B in annualized sales in March, up ~14x from a year ago, and reported a nearly $900M loss in its past fiscal year on ~$770M in revenue — Weeks before Cursor agreed to a $60 billion potential takeover from SpaceX, the hot AI coding startup set out to raise billions of dollars.| Reuters: |
Sources: India is piloting ~10 schemes to test whether its CBDC, the e-rupee, can deliver welfare payments more efficiently, as it looks to boost e-rupee usage — In the western Indian village of Phulenagar, Samadhan Sonawane set up a drip irrigation system on his small onion farm using … | Emma Dunkley / Financial Times: |
EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: ~49% of consumers have used AI over the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions — Gen Z and millennials the most likely groups to consult chatbots on money matters — Nearly half of global consumers are turning …
More: EY
| Gopika Gopakumar / Reuters: |
India's central bank cancels Paytm Payments Bank's banking license, after imposing business curbs over non-compliance with rules in January 2024 — India's central bank said on Friday it has cancelled the banking licence issued to Paytm Payments Bank Limited, more than two years … Sponsor Posts
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