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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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Forums: r/technology, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, r/artificielle, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/technology
| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
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
More: The Asia Business Daily and The Decoder
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @hunterwalk.com
| 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 … | 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 …
More: The Information, Reuters, and The Business of Fashion
| 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: Seoul Economic Daily and Nikkei Asia
| 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
X: @pandawatch88, @chrisrmcguire, @teortaxestex, and @kyleichan
| Hooyeon Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung announces a $200B+ contract to make chips for Broadcom through 2030, focusing on its 2nm and below process technologies for Broadcom's products — Samsung Electronics Co. won a contract worth more than $200 billion to make chips for Broadcom Inc., as the companies race to win a larger share of the AI infrastructure market.
More: Reuters, Benzinga, Seoul Economic Daily, The Korea Herald, Samsung Newsroom, Pulse 2.0, Wccftech, SamMobile, The Economic Times, KED Global, Motley Fool, and The Asia Business Daily
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Forums: r/business, r/DRAM_ETF, r/NvidiaStock, and r/technology
| 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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| Ima Jackson-Obot / Financial Times: |
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 surveillance| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora — Elio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions — AI developer Anthropic PBC has asked SK Hynix Inc., one of the world's biggest manufacturers of memory chips … Sponsor Posts
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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 issuesFind
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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 accessFind
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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-weaponsFind
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