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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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Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com, @peark.es, and @rustybrick.com
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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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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Jury selection begins in Musk v. Altman trial at a federal courthouse in California, with Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in attendance — Jury selection is beginning in the high-stakes legal battle between longtime friends turned rivals Elon Musk and Sam Altman at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California.
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| Wired: |
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| Jer / @lifeof_jer: |
The founder of car rental platform PocketOS says a Cursor agent using Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted a production database while in a staging environment — An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing.
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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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| 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
| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta says it signed a deal for up to 1GW of space solar energy from Overview Energy, which seeks to beam solar energy to earth and is planning a 2028 demo — Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to power artificial intelligence data centers with solar energy collected in space … | 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.| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Study: only ~3% of Polymarket accounts drove most price discovery in 2023-2025, suggesting market accuracy comes from an informed minority, not crowd wisdom — Researchers show market accuracy comes from a tiny group of informed traders, not broad participation. … What to know:| 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| 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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| 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.
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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 …
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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 … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Have I Been Pwned: ShinyHunters' breach of ADT exposed the personal data of 5.5M people; ADT previously disclosed data breaches in August 2024 and October 2024 — The ShinyHunters extortion group stole the personal information of 5.5 million individuals after breaching the systems … | 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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| 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 … | 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
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| 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.| 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
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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