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Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because “it is not okay to steal a charity” and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts — Elon Musk testified Tuesday he's suing OpenAI and two of its co-founders — Sam Altman and Greg Brockman … | 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 outside this courtroom” — The judge overseeing a high-profile court case between Elon Musk and OpenAI has asked the tech executives involved in the legal battle …
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| 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.
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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 — An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about their new partnership, plus my thoughts on OpenAI and Microsoft's new deal.
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
| 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: Blender, Greg Feingold, Travis Austin, and Claude. Bluesky: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @yurisizov@mastodon …
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, and MacRumors Forums
| Mitchell Hashimoto: |
Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages — I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. — Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day. Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years.
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| Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: |
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Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, and Lobsters
| 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 …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
US startup Poolside debuts its first open-weight model, Laguna XS.2, a 33B-A3B-parameter MoE model, and Laguna M.1, a proprietary 225B-A23B-parameter MoE model — The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model …
More: Poolside and Ollama
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| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M+ downloads in the past year — Nvidia Corp. today launched a powerful reasoning artificial intelligence model that unifies text, vision and speech …
More: Nvidia on Hugging Face, NVIDIA, The Next Web, NVIDIA Technical Blog, Pulse 2.0, TheNeuron, and Vultr
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| 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: |
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| 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: Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, Macworld, Engadget, The Apple Post, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, iClarified, iPhone in Canada, and MacRumors
| 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, PYMNTS.com, Help Net Security, FIDO Alliance, and Google Cloud Blog
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| Jigar Thakkar / About Amazon: |
AWS launches a desktop app for its Amazon Quick AI assistant, letting users connect their tools and local files to build custom apps, live dashboards, and more — Amazon Quick brings a personal AI assistant to your desktop. Build presentations, intelligent dashboards, and more.| 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, The Register, The Decoder, Gizmodo, 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, r/OpenAI, r/Anthropic, and r/singularity
| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Docs: OpenAI projected at the start of this year that $8/month ChatGPT Go subs will grow ~36x to 112M in 2026, while $20/month Plus subs will fall 80% to ~9M — For three years, OpenAI has generated most of its revenue from people paying $20 a month for subscriptions to ChatGPT.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Goldman Sachs stopped its bankers in Hong Kong from using Anthropic's models; Anthropic says its models were never officially “supported” in Hong Kong — Employees were unable to access company's AI models as of a few weeks ago — Goldman Sachs has stopped its bankers … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and which offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a $100M Series B at a $2B valuation — Parallel Web Systems raised $100 million in Series B funding to continue building web search for AI agents| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: the US Commerce Department last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China's second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong — The U.S. Department of Commerce last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt certain tool shipments … | Will Knight / Wired: |
OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures — “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely … | 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.| 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.| 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 … | 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 … | 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 … | 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.Sponsor Posts
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World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate.
Zoho:
Introducing Sales Tax Automation for US & Canadian businesses — Sales tax management can become easily complicated for growing businesses. In countries like the United States and Canada, tax rates vary across states, provinces, counties, and cities.
Introducing Sales Tax Automation for US & Canadian businesses — Sales tax management can become easily complicated for growing businesses. In countries like the United States and Canada, tax rates vary across states, provinces, counties, and cities.
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