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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI backtracks, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and AGs of DE and CA — OpenAI has decided that its nonprofit division will retain control over its for-profit org, after the company initially announced …
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X: @josephjacks_, @ccadelago, @thezvi, @arpitrage, @haydenfield, @garrisonlovely, @jachiam0, and @openai. LinkedIn: Jonas Schuett
Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/artificial, and Slashdot
| Miles Klee / Rolling Stone: |
Some say ChatGPT fueled their loved ones' religious delusions of grandeur; experts warn that human-like chats can worsen tendencies toward psychological issues — Self-styled prophets are claiming they have ‘awakened’ chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT
More: Garbage Day, The Verge, New York Post, Futurism, and Don't Worry About the Vase
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| Micah Lee / micahflee: |
A hacker breaches TeleMessage, which makes modified versions of apps like Signal used by US officials including JD Vance, leaking some chats, contacts, and more — TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked. — 💡
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
TeleMessage's parent company says it is “investigating a potential security incident” and has suspended all of its services “out of an abundance of caution” — The messaging app that President Donald Trump's former national security advisor was seen using during …
More: Reuters, The Guardian, Axios, The Verge, and Rolling Stone
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| Lucia Moses / Business Insider: |
Sources: Google has quietly launched 100 Zeros, a film and TV production initiative aiming to promote a positive view of tech and drive adoption of its products — - Google has quietly launched a film and TV production initiative called 100 Zeros. — Google wants to promote its products … | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Trump has two crypto-focused dinners this month, for political donors and for $TRUMP holders; Chainalysis: trading fees alone have made $TRUMP insiders $324M+ — President Donald Trump has two crypto-focused dinners on the calendar this month — one aimed at deep-pocketed political donors, the other at meme coin millionaires.
More: New York Times, Yahoo Finance, The Independent, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, Benzinga, Cointelegraph, The Coin Republic, ZyCrypto, Bitcoin Insider, and Coinpedia Fintech News
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
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Bluesky: @flingjore. Threads: @senadamschiff. X: @senwarren, @eleanorterrett, and @senrubengallego. LinkedIn: Christopher Perkins
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers warn that open-source Go serialization tool easyjson, owned by Russia's VK Group and used by the US DOD and others, poses a national security risk — The open source software easyjson is used by the US government and American companies. But its ties to Russia's VK …
More: Hunted Labs. Bluesky: @andyjabbour. Mastodon: @eob@social.coop. X: @780thc. LinkedIn: George Barnes. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Meta AI brings more privacy risks than ChatGPT and Gemini, building a Memory file including the user's sensitive personal info, like fertility and payday loans — Meta's chatbot remembers everything, even what you might not want it to. — Mark Zuckerberg has a new way to invade your privacy: a creepier version of ChatGPT.
More: WinBuzzer, Sherwood News, and GB News
| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
A look at Waymo's Mesa, AZ plant, producing several retrofitted Jaguars per day and where plans to scale up with Chinese Zeekr vans may be derailed by tariffs — An exclusive look inside the facility turning Jaguar EVs into robotaxis with the AI-driven fleet's custom computing system, cameras, lidar and radar.
More: Waymo, Quartz, RetailWire, The Last Driver License Holder, CNBC, TipRanks Financial, San Francisco Chronicle, CNET, The Verge, Electrek, and CleanTechnica
Forums: r/teslainvestorsclub, r/SelfDrivingCars, and r/waymo
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia launches open-source transcription model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2, topping the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with a word error rate of 6.05% — Nvidia has become one of the most valuable companies in the world in recent years thanks to the stock market noticing how much demand … | TechCrunch: |
Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, which has raised $70m+ to date, steps down as CEO; CTO Prabhav Jain has been named the new CEO — Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, is stepping down from his role as CEO, Sukkar announced on LinkedIn this morning.| Reuters: |
Tel Aviv-based eToro Group says it's targeting a $4B valuation in a Nasdaq IPO, aiming to raise $500M, after pausing plans last month amid market volatility — Israel's eToro Group said on Monday it was targeting a valuation of up to $4 billion in its initial public offering in the United States …
More: PYMNTS.com, Business Wire, The Information, Globes Online, Yahoo Finance, Axios, The Paypers, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Tech in Asia
| Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt: |
Solana Foundation: enough validators were able to quietly patch a 0-day bug last month that could have allowed unlimited “Token-22” minting and account draining — The Solana Foundation disclosed that validators quietly patched a major bug, avoiding a potentially catastrophic exploit.
More: Blockworks, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, Coinspeaker, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, and The Block
| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announces Tether AI, an open-source AI runtime that supports USDT and Bitcoin payments with no API keys or a central point of failure — Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino Tether AI tech will enable an unstoppable peer-to-peer network of billions of AI agents — What to know:Sponsor Posts
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