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NYT and Amazon agree to a content licensing deal for use in Amazon's AI platforms and to bring the NYT's “content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences” — In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to $44.06B, above $43.31B est., Data Center revenue up 73% to $39.1B, and net income up 26% to $18.78B; NVDA jumps 5%+ — Nvidia reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue on Wednesday, as the company's booming data center business recorded year-over-year growth of 73%.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Chinese AI rivals are filling the void left by US companies leaving China and Huawei has become “quite formidable” — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said that Chinese AI rivals are filling the void left by the departure of US companies … | Zachary Basu / Axios: |
Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending — Elon Musk pivoted to damage control in his final days as a “special government employee,” publicly recommitting to Mars …
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Sources detail factors that weakened Elon Musk's alliance with President Trump, including his frustrations with Trump's tariffs and his disillusionment with DC — The billionaire has made clear he is frustrated with the obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the federal bureaucracy.
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek says its R1 update can perform mathematics, programming, and general logic better than the previous version, and comes close to o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro — The Chinese startup DeepSeek said Thursday that its upgraded artificial-intelligence model can perform mathematics, programming … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
| Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press: |
The US Court of International Trade blocks Trump from imposing sweeping import tariffs under an emergency-powers law, finding Trump exceeded his authority — A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.
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| Axios: |
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI may wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike US unemployment to 10%-20% in the next one to five years — Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
GreyNoise researchers detail a novel botnet infecting 9K+ routers from Asus and others with a persistent SSH backdoor, enabling access after reboots and updates — Over 9,000 ASUS routers are compromised by a novel botnet dubbed “AyySSHush” that was also observed targeting SOHO routers from Cisco, D-Link, and Linksys.
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| Jennifer Young / Windows Central: |
Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% — You can download GeForce NOW on Valve's Steam Deck today and play PC titles outside of the handheld's capabilities over the cloud.
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| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta and Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries partner to build EagleEye, a new AI-powered weapons system, including rugged helmets, glasses, and other wearables — The Facebook and Instagram parent is partnering with Anduril Industries to develop combat VR headsets for the Army
More: Core Memory, Anduril Industries, YouTube, and TechCrunch
| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
Sources: the Trump administration suspends sales of more US tech, including chips and jet engines, in response to China's critical mineral export restrictions — President Trump has stopped some critical products and technologies made only in the United States from flowing to China …
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| Financial Times: |
The Czech Republic says that the state-sponsored Chinese hacking group APT31 has targeted its foreign ministry's unclassified communications network since 2022 — ‘Malicious’ assault blamed on group known as APT31 that has been linked with Chinese state security ministry
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Victoria's Secret replaces its website with a message saying “we identified and are taking steps to address a security incident”, and closes some store services — Fashion giant Victoria's Secret has taken down its website and some store services because of an ongoing security incident.| Bloomberg: |
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google unveils new Photos features, including a redesigned editor with AI features rolling out globally to Android next month and to iOS “later this year” — The UI has been redesigned to focus on Google's AI Magic Editor features.| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Beijing-based Kuaishou updates its Kling video-generation tool to cut the cost and time to create clips, and says it can generate 1080p videos in under a minute — 25 African Startups to Watch in 2025 … Explainers| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens Windows Update to any third-party app that needs to be updated, letting developers sign up for a private preview of a new orchestration platform — A new orchestration platform will let developers update any app through Windows Update.| Kieran Smith / Financial Times: |
Researcher: a Virgin Media O2 network security flaw exposed the locations of tens of million of users for up to two years; Virgin says it has fixed the issue — Company has reported issue to watchdogs and fixed the problem — Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.| Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: |
An Apple-funded study says the US App Store drove $406B in 2024 billings and sales, up from $142B in 2019, with developers paying no commission on 90% of sales — Perhaps to fight off the ire of legislators worldwide about App Store fees, Apple says that it has grown the global economy …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Making a short AI film with tools from Google, Runway, ElevenLabs, and Midjourney shows the tech has improved but it takes tedious work to get scene consistency — We tried to direct an AI film with Veo and Runway. The tools are magic. The process is madness. — Click for Sound
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| Rest of World: |
Migrant Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry say job brokers control everything from paychecks to dorm beds, leaving them feeling trapped and exploited — In Taiwan's AI-fueled chip boom, brokers control everything from paychecks to dorm beds, leaving workers feeling trapped and exploited.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung releases the first One UI 8 beta for Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra, with an updated Quick Share and more, in South Korea, the US, and other regions — Samsung just released its very first One UI 8 update in beta, and while it's not as big of an update as One UI 7 was … | Bloomberg: |
ClickHouse, which offers an OLAP database management system, raised $350M led by Khosla, a source says at a $6.35B valuation; it is nearing an ARR of $100M — The would-be Snowflake competitor has raised $350 million from investors. … Khosla Ventures led the $350 million financing, ClickHouse plans to announce Thursday.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
In a SCOTUS brief, the Trump administration backs Cox's argument that ISPs shouldn't have to terminate customers based on unproven copyright infringement claims — The Trump administration is backing cable company Cox in a battle that could determine whether Internet service providers are forced to disconnect users accused of piracy.| Financial Times: |
An Ada Lovelace Institute report urges the UK government to pass new laws to regulate the use of facial recognition tech by the police and private sector — Campaigners call on Keir Starmer's government to create clear laws to tackle growing use of the technology| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Grammarly raised $1B in non-dilutive funding from General Catalyst to expand its AI tools; 2005-founded Grammarly has $700M+ in annual revenue and is profitable — Grammarly has raised $1 billion in non-dilutive financing from General Catalyst to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) …
More: PYMNTS.com, Business Wire, and Cryptopolitan
| Anupriya Datta / Euractiv: |
EU Tech Commissioner Henna Virkkunen says that far more online content is being removed in the EU under the T&Cs of US platforms than as a result of the DSA — “Often in the US, platforms have more strict rules with content,” Virkkunen said. — Based on facts, either observed … | Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Chalk, which lets enterprises input proprietary data into AI and ML models quickly for inference, raised a $50M Series A led by Felicis at a $500M valuation — Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Chalk said Wednesday it had raised a $50 million Series A funding round, valuing the company at $500 million.
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