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| OpenAI: |
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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| 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.
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| 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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| 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 … | 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.
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LinkedIn: Ruth Barnett and Georgia Stevenson
| 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 …
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| Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits — Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits. — TL;DR: Today, we are announcing that all GitHub Copilot plans will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026.
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| 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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| Jer / @lifeof_jer: |
PocketOS founder Jer Crane says a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted a production database when it was working in a staging environment — An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing.
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Canva says it “moved quickly to investigate and fix” an issue with its Magic Layers feature that replaced the word “Palestine” in designs, after a viral X post — The Magic Layers feature is off to a good start. … One of Canva's new AI features …
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work — “We want to see AI benefit humanity; not to see it being used in inhumane or extremely harmful ways,” Google employees wrote. — Summary
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| 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
| 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| 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
| 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.| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are “unwarranted intervention” — Google was targeted by European Union watchdogs who unveiled a slate of proposals aimed at prising open its Android ecosystem to rivals' AI services.| 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.| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Kashable, which lets companies offer “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised a $60M Series C — Kashable, a fintech that provides access to “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees …
More: FinSMEs
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources detail Microsoft's “Windows K2”, an ongoing initiative to address Windows 11 UX complaints regarding AI features, OS bloat, performance issues, and more — Microsoft has restructured its Windows team to better position Windows 11 as a strong platform that people should want to use.| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
San Francisco public records: in 2024, Salesforce and Airbnb were among the top tech spenders in the city's 10B program, which lets them hire police officers — A recent attack on Sam Altman's home and OpenAI offices has put corporate security under renewed scrutiny.
X: @wired
| 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: Barchart.com, The Decoder, and DigiTimes
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Truecaller faces mounting pressure as growth slows in India, its largest market, while telcos, Apple, and Google roll out caller ID and spam-blocking features — Truecaller is one of the world's most widely used caller identification platforms, with more than 500 million users.Sponsor Posts
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