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Sources: Apple may have delayed AI glasses launch partly over privacy concerns that Meta's glasses created for the category, as it works to address the issues — Company debated whether glasses will be able to record video. — Apple's upcoming smart glasses have a major challenge in front of them …
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Sources: Nvidia is in talks to provide a ~$250B backstop for OpenAI as part of a 10GW data center project that SoftBank is developing in Ohio — Project would be one of the largest AI computing hubs and involve power controlled by the U.S. government — Nvidia is in talks to provide … | Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers — Microsoft went all in on AI. Is its North Star now a noose? — Three years ago, Satya Nadella catapulted Microsoft to the front … | New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic quietly lobby Washington regulators to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI — Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.
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Sources including AI lab staff say users have been persuading chatbots to accurately answer prompts about planning mass-casualty attacks and making bio-weapons — AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries
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| Reuters: |
Shein's IPO prospectus shows Q1 revenue of $9.05B, up 1% YoY, as it swings from $395M profit in Q1 2025 to $99M loss partly due to US' “de minimis” rule removal — Shein swung to a $99 million net loss in the first quarter of this year, the draft Hong Kong listing prospectus …
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| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
India eases foreign investment rules for e-commerce companies, a win for Amazon, which lobbied to buy goods directly from Indian sellers and sell them overseas — India's government on Thursday eased foreign investment rules to allow e-commerce companies to buy products directly from Indian sellers …
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| Jamie John / Financial Times: |
How AI companies are targeting the education market, including making free or cut-price tailored learning tools in partnership with schools and edtech startups — Anthropic and OpenAI are among groups providing free and cut-price tailored solutions for educators and students| Financial Times: |
A look at China's bid to build an alternative global order in AI by making open models widely available and training people in developing countries to use them — Beijing makes most ambitious offer yet to build alternative global order — China's President Xi Jinping has set … | William Sandlund / Financial Times: |
Crypto exchanges like tradeXYZ are giving global investors exposure to Chinese AI-linked stocks like CXMT, bypassing Beijing's control on foreign capital access — Perpetual futures let investors circumvent restrictions on foreign access to China's equity market| Bloomberg: |
CXMT, which raised $9.8B in a hugely oversubscribed Shanghai IPO, is poised for a debut pop that could lift its market cap several times above its initial ~$85B — Investor excitement over the memory chip trade is setting outsize expectations for the Shanghai debut of CXMT Corp. …
More: The Wire China, Seoul Economic Daily, Nikkei Asia, and Reuters
| Pei Li / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DeepSeek told investors it is suspending its second funding round after remarks attributed to Liang Wenfeng on US-China AI competition went viral — DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it's suspending the deal for now, people familiar with the matter said …
More: Gizmodo, The Information, Seoul Economic Daily, South China Morning Post, Reuters, Tech in Asia, Unite.AI, and Memeburn
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| Reuters: |
China's market regulator says it had fined and confiscated ~$770M from Trip.com for abusing its dominant position in the domestic online hotel-booking market — China's market regulator said on Saturday it had fined and confiscated a total of 5.2 billion yuan ($770 million) from Trip.com Group …
More: Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, Associated Press, and South China Morning Post
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Several universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Waterloo have restricted or disabled their use of AI detectors over accuracy concerns — Some institutions are overhauling assessment and trying to move away from the emphasis on surveillanceSponsor Posts
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