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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for “any lawful government purpose”; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract — Google and the Department of Defense signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use Google's AI models on classified work …
More: The Verge, New York Times, Engadget, Decrypt, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Axios, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Reuters, The Hill, 9to5Google, New York Post, Inc.com, Washington Examiner, Blockonomi, The Decoder, Coinpaper, WinBuzzer, Türkiye Today, The Sun Malaysia, crypto.news, and Washington Post
Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, and Slashdot
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Amazon and OpenAI announce an expanded deal that will make OpenAI's models available from AWS, a day after OpenAI revised its Microsoft partnership — Amazon and OpenAI on Tuesday announced an expanded deal that will make the AI startup's models available from Amazon's cloud.
More: About Amazon, Forbes, NBC News, TechCrunch, The Register, Barron's Online, iPhone in Canada, Neowin, About Amazon, OpenAI, DevOps.com, The Atlantic, and TechRadar
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more — As I noted yesterday, today's Stratechery Interview is early in terms of my timing — Tuesday instead of Thursday — and late in terms of delivery …
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching 1B weekly active ChatGPT users by 2025's end, and missed multiple monthly revenue targets earlier in 2026 — The company's CFO and board have questioned the wisdom of massive data-center spending in the face of slowing growth
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| Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI describes a report that it has missed internal goals as “prime clickbait” and says its consumer and enterprise businesses are “firing on all cylinders” — OpenAI pushed back against concerns over its sales growth on Tuesday, saying its consumer and enterprise businesses are … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to extend, enhance, and reframe photos — Apple Inc. is planning a major overhaul of the built-in photo-editing features for the iPhone, iPad and Mac, leaning heavily on artificial intelligence to better compete with Android devices.
More: Macworld, Engadget, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada, iClarified, and MacDailyNews
| talkie: |
AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical texts and with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific discoveries — Why vintage language models? — Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past?
More: talkie, Gizmodo, The Register, The Decoder, talkie on GitHub, talkie on Hugging Face, talkie on Hugging Face, talkie on Hugging Face, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic partners with Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and others to launch connectors that integrate Claude directly into professional creative workflows — Creative professionals look to technology to expand what's possible in their work. Claude can't replace taste or imagination …
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LinkedIn: Travis Austin, Blender, Greg Feingold, and Claude. Mastodon: @yurisizov@mastodon …. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its $2.5B Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns — The ban sends a message that China is intent on keeping its AI knowledge within the country — Meta Platforms is preparing …
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Forums: r/China_irl and r/China
| Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: |
Musk v. Altman: the judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse”, as opening statements begin — The judge overseeing a high-profile court case between Elon Musk and OpenAI has asked the tech executives involved …
More: The Information, New York Times, New York Post, Fortune, and ABC News
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| Wired: |
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| Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted — Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.
More: AI on the Internet, Gizmodo, MakeUseOf, The Decoder, and Wired
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
The FIDO Alliance launches two working groups to establish industry standards for securing AI agent transactions; Google contributes the Agent Payments Protocol — AI agents may soon be buying your stuff for you. The FIDO Alliance has teamed up with Google and Mastercard to try to ensure …
More: The Keyword, Google Cloud Blog, and Business Wire
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search “experiment” that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ — ‘Ask YouTube’ is a new way to search that generates an AI Mode-like page of information.
More: MacRumors, CNET, Thurrott, Search Engine Land, iPhone in Canada, MobileSyrup, Dexerto, PCMag, Android Authority, TechCrunch, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, and Phandroid
| Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on “availability first, then capacity, then new features” — Here's what we've done—and what we're still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
More: DevOps.com and The GitHub Blog
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Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, and Lobsters
| Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune: |
US prosecutors allege Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen known as Bouquet, is a Scattered Spider member; he was arrested in a Helsinki airport — The high-tech cyber hacker who goes by the online moniker “Bouquet” jetted around the world, from Dubai to Thailand to New York … | Nellie Peyton / Reuters: |
South Africa withdraws its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources that appeared to have been AI-generated — South Africa has withdrawn its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources in its reference list which appeared to have been AI-generated.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, letting users code via voice or text AI prompts, and allowing them to switch between a PC and mobile — Apple's recent crackdown on vibe-coding apps hasn't held up Lovable's launch of its no-code AI app builder, which is now available … | Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Q&A with Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards, who says Bloomberg is overhauling the Terminal with chatbot-style interface ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta — WIRED spoke with Bloomberg's chief technology officer about the big, chatbot-style changes coming to the iconic platform for traders.
Forums: Slashdot
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
AWS launches Amazon Connect Decisions and Amazon Connect Talent, which are AI agentic tools aimed at logistics workers and recruiters — Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud unit, best known for providing technology infrastructure to corporations, is looking to sell AI-powered productivity software for the office.| Wall Street Journal: |
Layoffs.fyi: companies announced layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employees in March, making it the worst month for reported tech job cuts in at least two years — Layoffs might lift some efficiency measures, but there are other considerations — Tech companies are rushing to trade their people for more chips.
More: San Francisco Business Times and TechRadar
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Polymarket has discussed lifting the prohibition on US-based customers with the CFTC, as it seeks to bring its main exchange back to the US — Polymarket is taking steps to try to bring its main exchange back to the US, according to people familiar with the matter …
More: The Hill, CoinDesk, The Block, PYMNTS.com, Blockonomi, The Crypto Times, and Crypto Briefing
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snap launches AI Sponsored Snaps, a conversational ad format in Snapchat's Chat tab that lets users talk to brand-specific AI agents for product recommendations — Snapchat announced on Tuesday that it's rolling out “AI Sponsored Snaps,” which will allow users to interact directly with brands' AI agents.
More: Snap Newsroom, Engadget, Forbes, and Adweek
| Financial Times: |
Many US rural communities oppose adding AI infrastructure; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are rural, while 87% of existing data centers are in urban areas — Many rural communities are viscerally opposed to AI infrastructure, putting them at odds with the White House In Tazewell County …
More: New York Times and Washington Post
| Luke James / Tom's Hardware: |
China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveils the Lingshen project, aiming for 2+ exaFLOPS performance using a domestic-made CPU-only architecture — Good luck with that. … China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen announced the Lingshen supercomputer project … | Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
True Anomaly, which makes autonomous spacecraft and software for the US Space Force, raised a $650M Series D at a $2.2B valuation, bringing total funding to $1B — True Anomaly, a Colorado-based startup building space interceptors for President Donald Trump's sweeping Golden Dome project … | The Guardian: |
Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is “simply wrong” — Google also rejects need for reform after Albanese government reveals draft news bargaining incentive scheme
More: TechCrunch, The Next Web, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Press Gazette, Türkiye Today, Neowin, MediaNama, and The Register
Forums: r/worldnews and r/australia
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