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Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg: 5 mins ago
Samsung reaches a $1T valuation, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the mark, after its stock rose 4x+ over the past year on the AI boom
Politico: 25 mins ago
Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's use of models
Hugh Langley / Business Insider: 30 mins ago
Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: 40 mins ago
Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs
Jyoti Mann / The Information: 70 mins ago
Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram
Bloomberg: 1½ hours ago
Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA$8.5B, months after raising $20B
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: 2½ hours ago
Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates
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Bloomberg:
The US Commerce Department's CAISI says Google, Microsoft, and xAI join OpenAI and Anthropic in granting early access to evaluate models prior to public release
Reuters:
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying “AI is changing how we work”
The Information:
Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” Google disclosed last week
OpenAI:
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Instant, which it says is smarter, with more accurate and personalized responses, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant as ChatGPT's default model
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a “personalized” Siri in 2024
Reuters:
AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $10.25B, vs. $9.89B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMD jumps 7%+ after hours
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the group's leadership, including bringing over executives from Microsoft's CoreAI engineering unit where she worked before
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates
Juby Babu / Reuters:
Super Micro reports Q3 revenue up 123% YoY to $10.24B, vs. $12.33B est., forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted profit above estimates; SMCI jumps 17%+ after hours
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Anthropic unveils 10 new AI agents for the financial sector, including for drafting pitch decks, reviewing financial statements, and escalating compliance cases
Politico:
Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's use of models
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to let users choose from multiple third-party AI models to perform tasks like generating and editing text and images in iOS 27
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