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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Google releases Gemma 4 12B, an 11.95B-parameter unified, encoder-free open multimodal model that can run locally on devices with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory  —  While many AI open source model providers are pursuing larger and more powerful models, Google is still giving attention to the smaller, more local side of the market.
Google Developers Blog:
Google releases macOS versions of AI Edge Gallery, which lets users run open models on their devices, and AI Edge Eloquent, an on-device voice dictation app
Ted Chiang / The Atlantic:
A look at AI consciousness debates; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, but that doesn't deny how impressive LLMs can be  —  Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism.
Anthropic:
Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by Claude  —  Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.  —  For most of AI's history, humans drove every step in its development cycle.
Emily Mullin / Wired:
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are among the signatories on a public letter urging improved tracking of synthetic DNA that could be used in AI-developed bioweapons  —  Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta has repeatedly delayed Muse Spark API's release from April due to bugs and infrastructure needs; Meta now says it plans to release the API in June  —  The shifting timeline is a setback for Meta's ability to monetize its massive investments in building frontier AI models
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able to fulfill the demand led by US customers even as more capacity comes online in the US over the next few years  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s global chip supply will fall short of AI-fueled demand for years to come …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's competitive position, MAI models, OpenAI, the software business, GitHub Copilot, Project Solara, data centers, and more  —  An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about figuring out Microsoft's role in AI, the relationship with OpenAI, Capex …
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Financial Times:
Public First: 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, such as Brazil, Japan, the UK, and Canada  —  Americans are far more likely to oppose the construction of AI data centres than citizens of other big economies …
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source  —  VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare.  As part of this change, all team members of VoidZero are joining Cloudflare, too.
Bloomberg:
Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B  —  Ramp, a corporate spending management platform, has raised $750 million in a new funding round at a $44 billion valuation …
Nivedita Balu / Reuters:
Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups  —  Canada unveiled a new artificial intelligence strategy on Thursday that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031 and includes a new C$500 million …
Daniel Nishball / SemiAnalysis:
A deep dive into the case for data centers in space, as SpaceX prepares to go public: Elon Musk's claims, the wider debate, power supply issues, costs, and more  —  Space DC Total Cost of Ownership Explained.  Unpacking constraints from Terrestrial DCs and Chip Production.
Sarah White / Financial Times:
France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear reactors  —  Investors warn approvals and local opposition could slow France's massive data centre build-out
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Filing: SpaceX aims to raise $75B in its IPO, selling 555.6M shares for $135 each, which would value it at almost $1.77T, eclipsing Aramco's $29.4B IPO in 2019  —  SpaceX is seeking to raise $75 billion in an initial public offering that would be the biggest of all time, as Elon Musk's rocket …
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit claim that peptide companies are spamming their forum to get AI chatbots to scrape their posts and change their answers  —  Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.
Politico:NEW
Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans  —  But it's the proposal to preempt state rules on AI developers that has drawn the fiercest attacks from AI safety advocates and tech critics in both parties.
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Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg:
Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to step down in July, to be replaced by Head of Technology Donato Lucia; Yatsenko was Revolut's first employee  —  Revolut Ltd.'s chief technology officer, Vlad Yatsenko, and Chief Executive Officer Nik Storonsky's early partner …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple says users in Texas must confirm they are 18 years or older or get parental consent to create an Apple Account from June 4, after an appeals court ruling  —  Apple today said App Store rules in Texas are changing due to the enforcement of SB 2420, a law that adds age assurance requirements for app marketplaces and developers.

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Politico:
Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plansFind
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's account deactivations lack due process, violations are flagged without clarity, and there's little support for appealsFind
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Cloudflare:
Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ frameworks, and says the projects will stay open sourceFind
30 minutes ago
Anthropic:
Anthropic details its progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications, and says 80%+ of the code merged into its codebase is authored by ClaudeFind
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Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Coinbase and Better fund the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage that uses bitcoin as collateral, with a nationwide rollout planned in the coming monthsFind
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Nivedita Balu / Reuters:
Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startupsFind
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Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:
Honeycomb, which offers an AI-powered insurance platform for multi-unit residential properties, raised $40M led by Zeev, bringing its total funding to $95MFind
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From Mediagazer

Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
Hasbro launches Sixth Wall, an AI studio working with ElevenLabs and voice actors to create and license AI-native versions of its characters and franchises

Tyler Falk / Current:
NPR is overhauling its dues model so that fees are based on news stations' broadcast reach rather than donor revenues and projects dues will fall 15% to 18%

Amos Barshad / Columbia Journalism Review:
Some right-wing news influencers are using Meta's Ray-Ban sunglasses as a recording tool that unwilling subjects may not be aware of, leading to tension

More News

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters:
Foxconn says it will work with Intel to jointly develop and deploy next-gen AI infrastructure, including server racks with Intel Xeon processors and AI chips
Stephanie Findlay / Financial Times:
SpaceX wins a property tax exemption for its planned $55B Terafab chip facility in Texas, despite Texans threatening legal action, amid local opposition to AI
Bloomberg:
CoinGecko: Hyperliquid-linked HYPE token is up ~180% YTD, lifting its market value above $16B and pushing it into the top 10 digital assets by market cap
Mike Masnick / Liberalism.org:
Centralized control over the user experience not only leads to enshittification, but to “despotification”; decentralized protocols bring back democratic ideals
LinkedIn: Mike Masnick.  Bluesky: @wildebees, @daphnek, and @masnick.com.  Mastodon: @internetarchiveeurope ….  Forums: r/technology

Earlier Picks

Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg:
Quantinuum raised $1.68B in an upsized US IPO, selling 28M shares for $60 each, priced above its marketed range of $53 to $55, valuing the company at $15.6B
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.39B, above $1.36B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue of ~$1.44B, above $1.43B est.; CRWD drops 10%+
Reuters:
Broadcom reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $22.19B, below $22.27B est., and forecasts AI semiconductor revenue of $16B in Q3, below $16.36B est.; AVGO drops 10%+
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