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Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk testifies he is suing OpenAI because “it is not okay to steal a charity” and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropy — Elon Musk testified Tuesday he's suing OpenAI and two of its co-founders — Sam Altman and Greg Brockman …
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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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Forums: r/oakland and Ars OpenForum
| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services — The European Union's executive arm accused Meta Platforms Inc. of failing to keep young children off its services, ramping up a probe that could result in hefty fines.| Alex Heath / Sources: |
An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on why AWS will be a “better” OpenAI partner than Microsoft, chip bubble fears, Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, and more — AWS CEO Matt Garman on why Amazon will “be a better partner” than Microsoft. Also: His reaction to bubble fears … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
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Sources: China suspends issuing Level 4 autonomous vehicle licenses, after 100+ of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis stalled and disrupted traffic in Wuhan in March — China has suspended issuing new licenses for autonomous vehicles, according to people familiar with the matter … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube TV is getting “fully customizable” multiview, letting users pin up to four live streams, after a limited rollout in 2023 — Custom multiview is finally here. Custom multiview is finally here. … YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced Tuesday … | Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: |
A US judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF tried to withdraw his request, but the judge refused — A federal judge rejected FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried's do-it-yourself motion for a new trial based on what the former crypto king claimed was new evidence.| Axios: |
Sources: the White House is developing rules for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard new models like Mythos — - One source described the White House efforts as a way to “save face and bring em back in.” — Earlier this month … | Seema Mody / CNBC: |
Pentagon Digital and AI Chief Cameron Stanley confirms the DoD is expanding its Google Gemini use, saying “overreliance on one vendor is never a good thing” — Pentagon AI chief Cameron Stanley confirmed to CNBC that the Department of Defense is expanding its use …
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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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| 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 …
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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 …
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Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.07B, below $1.14B est., and crypto revenue down 47% YOY to $134M, below $147.6M est.; HOOD drops 6%+ pre-market — Outside of event contracts, revenues were weak across the board. — Robinhood MarketsHOOD $74.21 (-2.29%) … | 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 …
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Forums: r/BetterOffline and r/OpenAI
| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
Filing: TSMC sold its remaining 1.11M Arm shares at $207.65 per share for a total of ~$231M this week; TSMC invested ~$100M in Arm's 2023 IPO at $51 per share — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW), the world's largest contract chipmaker, has sold its remaining stake in Arm Holdings … | Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $3.18B, above $3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above est., boosted by the auto chip market; NXPI jumps 13%+ pre-market — NXP Semiconductors NV jumped in late trading after giving an upbeat revenue forecast, a sign the chipmaker is bouncing … | 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.| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to $3.11B, above $2.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; STX jumps 13%+ pre-market — Seagate Technology (STX.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue and profit above Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, betting on strong demand …
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| Mary Page James / Gallup: |
Poll: 31% of US adults expect driverless cars to be common within five years, up from 19% in 2018, and 19% say they would own or lease one, the same as in 2018 — About three in 10 Americans expect driverless cars to be common within five years, while 19% say they would own or lease one
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Source: China's leverage against Meta in the Manus deal could include 10%+ of its global revenue from Chinese ads and Goertek in Meta AI glasses' supply chain — National Development Reform Commission is becoming Beijing's chief enforcer — China's abrupt order to Meta to unwind its $2bn deal …
More: DigiTimes
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Samsung's Lee family dynasty reached a combined ~$45.5B net worth in March, up from ~$20.1B in 2025, amid the AI boom; they are now Asia's third-richest family — When Lee Kun-hee, the patriarch behind Samsung Electronics Co. died in 2020, his dynasty soon dealt with a crisis on two fronts … | 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.| 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 …
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