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Palantir 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.
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| 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
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| 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 …
| 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 …
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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.
More: OpenAI, Business Insider, and Digit
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| 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.| Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: |
ASML says it plans to make at least 60 of its standard EUV machines this year, 36% more than it sold in 2025, as it races to meet demand for making AI chips — ASML is the only supplier of the machines needed to make cutting edge AI chips at scale — VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands …
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| 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
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| 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 … | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Stuttgart-based Sereact, which develops software for industrial robots to handle tasks they haven't been trained on, raised a $110M Series B led by Headline — Sereact, a German robotics software company, has raised $110 million in fresh funding to develop its artificial intelligence model … | 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
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a $23M Series A — Collov Labs, which turns images and camera input into real-world actions through AI, raised a $23 million Series A … | Stephen Morris / Financial Times: |
Epoch AI: Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend — Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud's CEO, says its AI chips and models can help the data centre business gain ground| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025 — Genki Robotics, a humanoid robotics company co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is valued at about $1 billion following its recent Series A, Axios Pro has learned.
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