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Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI — Amended agreement provides long-term clarity. — The rapid pace of innovation requires us to continue to evolve our partnership to benefit our customers and both companies.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Microsoft and OpenAI remove a clause that would have given Microsoft IP rights until OpenAI achieved “AGI”; Microsoft retains use of OpenAI's models until 2032 — Microsoft and OpenAI amended the terms of their arrangement, allowing OpenAI to sell its models on competing cloud providers, the companies said on Monday.
More: New York Times, Reuters, The Decoder, Channel NewsAsia, Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, and Sherwood News
X: @aaronpholmes and @aaronpholmes
| Financial Times: |
China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, after reviewing whether it violated investment rules, and tells both to cancel it; Manus moved to Singapore in 2025 — Regulators had reviewed whether deal violated Beijing's investment rules — China has ordered Meta to unwind its $2bn acquisition …
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| @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 …
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| 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.
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| Bloomberg: |
Spotify partners with Peloton to offer Premium subscribers access to curated playlists and 1,400+ ad-free fitness classes, its first foray into fitness content — Spotify Technology SA is now offering workout classes from Peloton Interactive Inc. to premium subscribers … | Financial Times: |
Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance; a source says the main issue is the UK adopting EU AI rules — Officials concerned about damage to country's technology sector and alliance with US — UK technology ministers have expressed concern …
Bluesky: @justinhendrix
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical — More than three years after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk says he's nearing his long-stated goal of turning it into an …
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| Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: |
Vilnius-based Vinted says it closed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, and Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 — Second-hand marketplace sells €880mn of existing shares to investors including Teachers' Venture Growth and Schroders Capital| Financial Times: |
Sources: Jay Chen, who led Tokyo Electron's China operations, left the chip toolmaker after it discovered his family had invested in competing Chinese startups — Veteran executive Jay Chen, who helped build Japanese group's China business, left after links to start-ups surfaced
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
| The Information: |
OpenView: by 2025's end, 79 of 500 tracked software companies, like HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce, adopted usage-based AI fees, more than double that of 2024 — Dozens of enterprise software firms have shifted away from charging customers flat, per-user subscription fees as AI threatens their seat-based pricing model.
Bluesky: @marypcbuk and @jessefelder.com
| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
Amazon reaches a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey to produce twice-a-week video podcasts starting in July, repurpose The Oprah Winfrey Show, and more — The multiyear deal with Ms. Winfrey signifies the tech giant's growing ambitions in video podcasts.
More: The Verge, Variety, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, and TechCrunch
| Bloomberg: |
How Sergey Brin's $58M+ 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 …
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Forums: r/California, r/sanfrancisco, and r/politics
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, raised a $1.1B seed at a $5.1B valuation to build AI “superlearners” — David Silver has a new billion-dollar company that aims to build AI “superlearners.” — David Silver gave the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence.| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta says it signed a deal for up to 1GW of space solar energy from Overview Energy, which seeks to collect sunlight in satellites and is planning a 2028 demo — Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to power artificial intelligence data centers with solar energy collected in space …
More: Benzinga, TechCrunch, Reuters, Telegraph, The Decoder, Digital Trends, Latitude Media, Yahoo Finance, Wall Street Journal, Overview Energy, Meta Newsroom, and Washington …
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| Neil Hacker / Works in Progress: |
A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, closely collaborating 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.
More: The Decoder, DigiTimes, TechSpot, and Wall Street Journal
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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 manifestos, 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: The Nerd Reich and Financial Times
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
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