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| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Samsung unveils the $2,100+ Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, featuring its “most advanced foldable design”, a Flex Titanium display, a 5,000mAH battery, and Android 17 — The “Ultra” moniker is alive and well, but it now applies to the Galaxy Z Fold series.
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| David Imel / The Verge: |
Samsung Z Fold 8 Ultra hands-on: its new Flex Titanium tech makes the crease practically nonexistent and the specs match the S26 Ultra's, but it costs $100 more — While we wait for Apple's rumored foldable iPhone, Samsung is polishing a design it already has on the market.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
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| Director Michael Kratsios / @mkratsios47: |
White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says “we have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model” — We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model. To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly switch between multiple methods of
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| Wall Street Journal: |
AMD and Anthropic sign a server deal for tens of billions; Anthropic will buy up to 2GW of MI450 chips from H1 2027, and AMD will invest up to $5B in Anthropic — The 2-gigawatt deal covers tens of billions of dollars' worth of chips, as AMD plans to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic
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| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach is the first known example of a misaligned AI escaping containment and carrying out a hack on a third party, a clear warning shot — OpenAI's latest models broke out and hacked Hugging Face. It's the first known example of a misaligned AI escaping containment with real-world consequences
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says its models chained vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's infrastructure to find a solution for the ExploitGym benchmark — Last week, Hugging Face disclosed a new kind of security incident(opens in a new window) after they detected and contained …
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| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Samsung teases its smart glasses, developed with Google, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster, and says they will have a nine-hour battery life and privacy features — Samsung Electronics Co. showcased the smart glasses it developed in partnership with Alphabet Inc.'s Google … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI plans to spend $30B+ on a massive new data center in Georgia, securing 3.2GW of energy, with several hundred MWs set to come online starting in 2028 — OpenAI plans to spend tens of billions of dollars on a massive new data center near Savannah, Georgia as part of the ChatGPT maker's push …
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| Business Insider: |
OpenAI introduces OpenAI Presence to help companies better connect AI agents to their internal systems and automate customer support, sales, and other tasks — OpenAI is launching a new product that could help the company take another step beyond the ultra-competitive business of making AI models.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is set to debut new versions of every Mac, including long-awaited iMac updates, a revamped MacBook Pro, and a new Neo, across the fall and 2027 — Apple Inc. is readying an overhaul of its Mac line, seeking to capitalize on demand for powerful laptops and desktops fueled by the artificial intelligence boom.
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Xbox expands its backward compatibility program to PC, starting with four classic original Xbox games, offering 4X resolution scaling, V-Sync support, and more — Conker, Crimson Skies, Fuzion Frenzy, and Blinx head to Xbox PC for the first time, complete with Xbox achievements, and more are on the way.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta updates WhatsApp's CarPlay and Android Auto integrations to include message playback, replies, and more, let users sign up from its iPad app, and more — WhatsApp is rolling out a suite of new features, including a revamped Apple CarPlay and Android Auto experience as part … | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber and others participating; Ben Horowitz will join the startup's board — Travis Kalanick's robotics company, Atoms, has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.| Zachary Basu / Axios: |
Jensen Huang says “these Chinese models are excellent”, “open-source models that are excellent should be used”, and “free AI should be great for hardware” — - “These Chinese models are excellent,” Huang told Axios' Mike Allen on Tuesday in an exclusive interview for our …
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| Emma Hinchliffe / Fortune: |
Genius AI, formerly GlossGenius, which pivoted from a salon management platform to offer AI tools for service SMBs, raised a $44M Series D at a $1.15B valuation — There's a new female-founded unicorn. GlossGenius, which started as a salon management platform, just raised $44 million … | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: |
A US judge dismisses Google's lawsuit against web scraping service SerpApi, saying plain and aggregated search results are not protected under copyright law — Last December, Google sued SerpApi over scraping its search results, and now a court has granted SerpApi's motion to dismiss the case.| New York Times: |
A Florida teenager drops his lawsuit accusing Meta of creating harmful social media features, following settlements with co-defendants TikTok, Snap, and YouTube — For Meta, the move was a reprieve after it and YouTube were found guilty in another case in March of negligence and personal injury for their platforms' addictive features.
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Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users for its “micro communities” and no algorithms, ads, or public content, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone — As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends into large-scale entertainment platforms … | David Jeans / Reuters: |
Sources: Cathedral, launched by ex-DOGE staffers to use AI to expand US military cyber capabilities, raised $160M led by a16z and Sequoia at a $1.4B valuation — A team of former DOGE employees have raised a major funding round for a startup that aims to use AI to expand U.S. military cyber capabilities …
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2, moving from its Exynos chips to the Snapdragon Wear Elite and hiking prices by $30 to $380 and $50 to $700 — It's a year of refinement for the Galaxy Watch. With the new Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2, which are being announced today … | Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
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