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| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5% and early access to new models to secure JVs, beating Anthropic's terms — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is offering private-equity firms a sweeter deal than rival Anthropic as both artificial intelligence companies …
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| Lex Fridman: |
Q&A with Jensen Huang, who says “we've achieved AGI”, on running Nvidia, AI scaling laws, OpenClaw, future of coding, data centers in space, China, and more — - Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is preparing to introduce ads in its Maps app, allowing retailers and brands to bid for ad slots against search queries — Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce advertising in its Maps app, part of a broader push to generate more money from services.
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI hires Dave Dugan, a former top ad executive at Meta, to lead ad sales, reporting to COO Brad Lightcap; Dugan stepped down as a Meta VP earlier in March — The AI company seeks stronger ties with brands to boost its nascent ad business — OpenAI has hired Dave Dugan … | Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources describe how Meta's employees build and use internal AI tools; a source says Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO agent to help him get information faster — Meta Platforms chief uses the tool to get information faster as the company seeks to embrace artificial intelligence in all it does
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces WWDC 2026 for June 8-12, which will be an online event free for developers, with an in-person event at Apple Park on June 8 — Apple today said that its 37th annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to begin on Monday, June 8 and end on Friday, June 12.
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| Krystal Hur / Wall Street Journal: |
Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduce bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets, such as Kalshi and Polymarket — Sens. Schiff and Curtis seek to prevent CFTC-regulated entities, including Kalshi and Polymarket, from offering wagers on sports
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| Mike Sorrentino / CNET: |
Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions — AirDrop support will start with the Galaxy S26 this week and is planned for more Galaxy devices later.
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| Jake Roach / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus review: unbelievable app performance, big price cut, and improvements over the 265K, but mediocre at gaming and large power demands — Unbelievable productivity performance at an even more unbelievable price - shame gaming still takes a backseat.
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket unveils insider trading rules: no bets on stolen confidential info, illegal tips, or events whose outcomes the user can influence as an insider — Polymarket has moved to squash some types of insider trading after the prediction markets platform came under scrutiny for suspected manipulation.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Source: OpenAI is in talks to buy 5 GW of electricity by 2030 from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion; Altman has stepped down as Helion's board chair — OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy electricity from Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion Energy, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Interviews with Sundar Pichai and other Google executives on being blindsided by ChatGPT's launch, Gemini, Pichai's vision of useful AI everywhere, and more — Sundar Pichai was blindsided by ChatGPT. Soon after being named Google CEO in 2015, he'd declared that the world was entering an AI-first era.
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| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: |
Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of OnlyFans parent company Fenix, died at 43 from cancer; he acquired a majority stake in OnlyFans in 2018 — Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive billionaire owner of adult content platform OnlyFans, has died of cancer, the London-based company confirmed on Monday.
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
London-based luxury ride-hailing app Wheely launches in NYC, aiming to compete with Uber Elite; Wheely reports ~1,250 corporate accounts and ~100K active riders — Luxury ride-hailing app Wheely is making its debut in the US, presenting competition to Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. … | Bloomberg: |
South Korean AI startup Upstage says it is in talks to acquire 10K AMD MI355 chips, in a bid to “diversify to other chips” as “we have a lot of Nvidia chips” — Korean AI startup Upstage is in discussions with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to buy 10,000 …
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Doc: Kalshi and Polymarket CEOs are investing in a VC fund, led by two early Kalshi employees, that is raising up to $35M to back prediction market startups — The CEOs of Kalshi and Polymarket are locked in a brutal fight to dominate the white-hot prediction market sector.
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| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
A look at Andrej Karpathy's “autoresearch” experiment, where an AI agent runs in a recursive self-improvement loop to improve an AI model on one testable metric — Earlier this month, Andrej Karpathy, a well-known AI researcher who was one of the founding employees of OpenAI …
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Forums: r/artificial and r/singularity
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Canal+, ITV, Sky, and other broadcasters urge the EU to designate smart TV operating systems such as Android TV and Amazon Fire OS as gatekeepers under the DMA — Google (GOOGL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O), Apple (AAPL.O) and Samsung's (005930.KS) smart TVs and virtual assistants should fall under …
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| New York Times: |
The US plans to create a voluntary consortium of countries to invest $4T to secure supply chains for chips, energy, and minerals; the US will contribute $250M — Trump officials said on Monday that the war in Iran had emphasized the need to reduce vulnerabilities for energy and technology.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Meta hires the founders and team behind Dreamer, which lets users create AI agents; co-founder Hugo Barra is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs — Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the founders and team behind the artificial intelligence startup Dreamer, which launched earlier this year to help people create their own AI agents.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A profile of John Ternus, Tim Cook's likely successor who shapes Apple's hardware portfolio, as he expands his public visibility and his influence within Apple — Current and former employees and executives who've worked closely with Ternus, most of whom requested anonymity to discuss …
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| Brian Gormley / Wall Street Journal: |
Doctronic, which became the first company to use AI to write prescription refills through a pilot launched in Utah, raised $40M led by Abstract and Lightspeed — Doctronic, which just raised $40 million, links patients to human doctors in virtual visits and has a pilot program that refills prescriptions.Sponsor Posts
ElevenLabs:
ElevenAgents by ElevenLabs — You know us for voice. Now meet ElevenAgents — featuring Expressive Mode, our most human-sounding AI voice technology in 70+ languages with ultra-low latency. Hear it for yourself.
ElevenAgents by ElevenLabs — You know us for voice. Now meet ElevenAgents — featuring Expressive Mode, our most human-sounding AI voice technology in 70+ languages with ultra-low latency. Hear it for yourself.
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5G's most deployed platform — Powering live networks with built-in Inference across Core and RAN. That's the power of Intel Inside®
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Zoho:
5 common AI pitfalls in staffing and how to fix them — Staffing teams are turning to AI to keep up with growing hiring demands. It helps recruiters move faster, handle more applications, and stay on top of their pipelines.
5 common AI pitfalls in staffing and how to fix them — Staffing teams are turning to AI to keep up with growing hiring demands. It helps recruiters move faster, handle more applications, and stay on top of their pipelines.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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