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May 5, 2025, 5:50 PM

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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 …
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.  —  💡
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.
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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
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 …
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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.
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.
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 …
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.
More: Bloomberg
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
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