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| Makena Kelly / Ars Technica: |
Palantir's Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company's ICE and DOD contracts during Trump's second term, its manifesto, and more — It took just a few months of President Donald Trump's second term for Palantir employees to question their company's commitments to civil liberties.
More: Gizmodo. X: @micyoung75, @micyoung75, @jasonbassler1, @kevin_shipp, and @mrewanmorrison
LinkedIn: Keith Fitzgerald and John Grant
Bluesky: @nedwilcox, @carnage4life, @vortexegg.com, and @joncooper-us
Mastodon: @mhoye@cosocial.ca and @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
| Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: |
OpenAI publishes a five-principle framework for AGI development, pledging to resist concentrating AI power and to collaborate with companies and governments — OpenAI published a five-principle framework on Sunday for the development of artificial general intelligence.
More: The Hans India, OpenAI, Business Insider, and Digit
X: @cutiecatdev, @peterwildeford, @simon_bazelon, @humanharlan, @ns123abc, @stark4833, @bonegpt, @ns123abc, @alexsjacquez, @sama, @_nathancalvin, and @liz_binance
Bluesky: @davelee.me and @splendidsplinter
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Jay Chen, who led Tokyo Electron's China operations, left the company after the chip toolmaker discovered his family invested in Chinese competitors — Veteran executive Jay Chen, who helped build Japanese group's China business, left after links to start-ups surfaced
More: Reuters
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court sentences ex-Tokyo Electron engineer Chen Li-ming to 10 years in prison for stealing TSMC's proprietary data — A Taiwanese court sentenced a former Tokyo Electron Ltd. employee to 10 years in prison for stealing Taiwan Semiconductor …
More: Dow Jones Newswires, Al Jazeera, Reuters, DigiTimes, and Tech in Asia
| @mingchikuo: |
Kuo: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone chips, with Luxshare handling the system co-design; mass production is expected in 2028 — • Latest industry checks: OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm to develop smartphone processors …
More: Moneycontrol, DigiTimes, Digital Trends, Android Authority, and Digit
| Benjamin Wallace / New York Times: |
A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg — Dwarkesh Patel was a bored college sophomore looking for intellectual stimulation. Now he commands interviews with Jensen Huang … | Neil Hacker / Works in Progress: |
A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, close collaboration with TSMC and the US government, and more — By betting on extreme ultraviolet lithography long before it worked, ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips.| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources detail Microsoft's “Windows K2”, an ongoing initiative to address major Windows 11 user complaints about AI features, OS bloat, performance, and more — Microsoft has restructured its Windows team to better position Windows 11 as a strong platform that people should want to use.| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
An interview with Bill Nguyen, a tech entrepreneur who is completely outsourcing parts of his life to an AI assistant in his bid to create a virtual body double — On a recent morning at his Atlanta office, Bill Nguyen tore open a large package and lifted out a high-end desktop computer.| Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: |
An amateur solved a 60-year-old Erdős problem using a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it's a “nice achievement” with unclear long-term significance — A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses
X: @geogristle, @geogristle, @_space_punk_, @easthallboy, @briansatur24273, @bertcmiller, @doctormew, @tarunchitra, @qiaochuyuan, @functi0nzer0, @yoitsyoung, @pmddomingos, @ananyo, @qiaochuyuan, @csxai, @yoitsyoung, @mathandcobb, @crepesupreme, @indif4ent, @hasen_95dx, @williamtomosed1, @emostaque, @laurencebrem, and @theali_iqbal. Bluesky: @scottsantens.com. Mastodon: @devopscats@toot.cat
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/technology, and r/accelerate
| Bloomberg: |
How Sergey Brin's political push against a proposed wealth tax in California has helped mobilize a network of fellow tech leaders to sway state issues — In a treehouse nestled in redwoods north of San Francisco, California Governor Gavin Newsom stood cold and hungry as Sergey Brin … | Sam Goldfarb / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis of 100 actively traded software company loans since January 20 finds sector-wide price pressure as investors seek defensive moats against AI disruption — Maybe, as a trend piece. But feels pretty boring, and based on fairly limited data. Analysis of 100 publicly traded loans for various categories of software companies.| Bloomberg: |
Chinese state media: China formalizes gig worker rules for online platforms, calling for standardized contracts, fair pay, and stronger labor protections — China formalized its first comprehensive policy framework for “new employment groups,” including delivery riders and livestreamers …
More: The Business Times and Semafor
| Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Filing: Beijing-based GPU maker Moore Threads reports Q1 revenue up 155% YoY to ~$107.89M, and a $4.3M net profit, up from a ~$16.46M net loss in Q1 2025 — Beijing-based GPU maker turns a corner in the first quarter of 2026 after posting a US$16.5 million loss a year earlier
More: Tech in Asia
| Reuters: |
Sources and executives: the war in the Middle East disrupted crucial PCB raw material supplies; Goldman Sachs says PCB prices surged as much as 40% MoM in April — The conflict in the Middle East has disrupted supplies of crucial raw materials and pushed up prices of the printed circuit boards … Sponsor Posts
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