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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 …
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| 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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Bluesky: @thisiselena and @karlbode.com
Forums: r/oakland and Ars OpenForum
| 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.
More: XDA Developers and Armin Ronacher's Thoughts …
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| Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: |
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Forums: Hacker News, r/github, r/programming, and Lobsters
| 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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| 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, and MacRumors Forums
| 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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| Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $3.18B, vs. $3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; NXPI jumps 13%+ after hours — NXP Semiconductors NV jumped in late trading after giving an upbeat revenue forecast, a sign the chipmaker is bouncing back from a prolonged auto industry slump and tariff uncertainties.| Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: |
Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.07B, vs. $1.14B est., and crypto revenue down 47% to $134M, vs. $147.6M est.; HOOD drops 6%+ after hours — The brokerage just reported quarterly results. — Robinhood MarketsHOOD $77.11 (-2.29%) is sharply lower in postmarket trading after reporting underwhelming Q1 results:| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to $3.11B, vs. $2.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; STX jumps 13%+ after hours — Seagate Technology (STX.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue and profit above Wall Street expectations on Tuesday, betting on strong demand …
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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.| 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.| 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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Bluesky: @edzitron.com and @brbarrett
Forums: r/BetterOffline and r/OpenAI
| 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: |
| 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 … | 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.| 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 … | 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.
More: Cointelegraph, ABC News, storage.courtlistener.com, Bitcoin News, and Citation Needed. X: @coinage_media
| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
Microsoft is rolling out Copilot 365 to all of Accenture's roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for Copilot, following a 2023 pilot — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is rolling out its Copilot 365 AI assistant to all of Accenture's roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal …
More: SiliconANGLE, Times of India, Microsoft, Quartz, The American Bazaar, Tech in Asia, and ITPro
| 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 …
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, and Seoul Economic Daily
| 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| Sofia Chierchio / Forbes: |
New York-based Actively, which offers AI sales agents for account management, raised a $45M Series B co-led by TCV and First Harmonic at a $250M valuation — Actively AI has raised $45 million to scale up its AI sales agents, which can automate a chunk of the work reps typically do manually.| 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 … | Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn Industrial Internet, which sells AI servers, reports Q1 revenue up 57% YoY to ~$37B, below $44.5B est., and a record ~$1.5B net income, below $1.8B est. — Foxconn Industrial Internet Co. benefited less than expected from China's artificial intelligence boom as sales and earnings growth fell short of lofty expectations.| 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 … | 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 … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU countries and lawmakers reach an impasse on a deal watering down the EU's AI Act due to some parties seeking exemptions for already regulated industries — EU countries and European Parliament lawmakers failed to reach a deal on watered-down landmark artificial intelligence rules …
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