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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, which is turned off by default, and expands its availability from ChatGPT Pro to ChatGPT Plus users  —  Codex agent internet access.  Sam Altman, just now: … This is the Codex “cloud-based software engineering agent”, not the Codex CLI tool or older 2021 Codex LLM.
Molly White / Citation Needed:
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and the TRUMP memecoin team announce the “Official $TRUMP Wallet” and open a waitlist; Trump's sons deny any involvement or knowledge  —  UPDATE, June 3 at 3:00pm: Following publication of this story, Magic Eden pushed out its announcement for the Trump Wallet at 1:35pm.
Christopher Cruz / Rolling Stone:
An interview with Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki on accessibility, balancing the chaos, guardrails, base mechanics, and more, ahead of the June 5 debut  —  Mario Kart World producer Kosuke Yabuki discusses the challenges of a free roam racer and balancing the difficulty for new players
Hayden Field / The Verge:
Google pauses the rollout of Google Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and UX, per a Google product manager's post on X  —  'Ask Photos isn't where it needs to be,' says a product manager for Google Photos.
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Source: ~1,000 people have left CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750+ who took a buyout offer, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third  —  Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during the second Trump administration …
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Deel says it crossed a $1B annual revenue run rate in Q1 2025, has allocated an M&A budget of $200M to $500M for 2025, and is still aiming for a US IPO in 2026  —  Payroll startup Deel said on Tuesday it crossed $1 billion annual revenue run rate in the first quarter and has earmarked …
More: TechCrunch, CTech, Tech in Asia, and Deel
X: @rrhoover, @briannekimmel, and @illscience.  LinkedIn: Deel
Financial Times:
Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is seeking to raise $500M+ at a $5.5B+ valuation, after raising a $500M Series D at a $5.5B valuation in July 2024  —  Canadian group seeks valuation of up to $6.5bn but rivals have soared far higher in comparison  —  Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT …
Sophia Fox-Sowell / StateScoop:
A group of 260+ US legislators from all 50 states sign a letter opposing a federal budget bill provision that bans states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years  —  More than 260 state legislators from all 50 states have signed a letter opposing a provision in the federal budget reconciliation bill …
Kate Payne / Associated Press:
A US federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for kids under 14, saying the law is “likely unconstitutional”  —  A federal judge has barred state officials from enforcing a Florida law that would ban social media accounts for young children …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google NotebookLM now lets users share notebooks publicly; viewers can interact with a notebook's generated content, like audio overviews, briefings, and FAQs  —  Viewers can't edit the notebook, but they can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs.
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.1B, in line with est., forecasts Q2 revenue below est., approves a $1B share buyback; CRWD drops 6%+  —  CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) forecast second-quarter revenue below estimates, signaling soft enterprise spending on cybersecurity products …
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
The Trump administration plans to reorganize the Biden administration's US AI Safety Institute, set up in 2023, into the Center for AI Standards and Innovation  —  The Trump administration has announced plans to reorganize the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI) into the new Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).
Bloomberg:
Photos and partial footage of an FSD-enabled Tesla sideswiping a parked vehicle and hitting a woman in November 2023 shows FSD's limits; the NHTSA is probing it  —  The setting sun was blinding drivers on the Arizona interstate between Flagstaff and Phoenix in November 2023.
Blockworks:
Sources: Pump.fun plans to raise $1B via a token sale at a $4B valuation; Pump.fun has generated over $700M in cumulative revenue since its launch in early 2024  —  Pump.fun's own token is coming soon, sources tell Blockworks  —  Pump.fun plans to raise $1 billion via a token sale …
Ian King / Bloomberg:
GlobalFoundries plans to spend $16B to boost domestic chip production, including $13B for its New York and Vermont plants and $3B for advanced packing research  —  The company is budgeting $13 billion to expand existing plants in New York and Vermont and making a further $3 billion commitment …
More: Reuters
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
Qualcomm releases patches to fix a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips, including three zero-days that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”  —  Chipmaker giant Qualcomm released patches on Monday fixing a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips …
Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg:
NYSE Arca files with the SEC to list a Bitcoin ETF linked to Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social and Truth.fi  —  NYSE Group Inc. filed regulatory paperwork on Tuesday to list the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF, using the name of President Donald Trump's social network.

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New York Times:
A look at the advantages and pitfalls of AI use in major newsrooms: from sifting through big datasets to suggesting headlines to causing embarrassing errors

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
In an interview with Screen International, Eddy Cue says Apple currently has no plans for an ad tier on Apple TV and no plans for a bid for WBD, A24, or Disney

Jem Bartholomew / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Mohsin Hamid, co-founder of Equator magazine, which aims to be a “post-American” magazine of politics and culture, avoiding a “Western-centric gaze”

More News

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
How Morgan Stanley is using its DevGen.AI tool, built in-house on OpenAI's GPT models, to translate legacy code into modern coding languages
More: Entrepreneur.  Bluesky: @triangulator.org.  Mastodon: @timbray@cosocial.ca.  LinkedIn: Isabelle Bousquette and Steve Rosenbush
Théophane Hartmann / Euractiv:
TikTok bans the hashtag #SkinnyTok globally, saying it is “linked to unhealthy weight loss content”, following pressure from the French government

Earlier Picks

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TechCrunch shuts down its operations in Europe; one former staffer says new owner Regent thought “international startup coverage wasn't essential”
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Researchers detail a technique Meta used to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers
Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle:
Nintendo says it didn't send any Switch 2 review units to outlets as “important features and updates” will only be available via an update on its June 5 launch
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Some researchers say it looks like DeepSeek may have used Google Gemini to help train its R1-0528 reasoning model
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Epic Games launches MetaHuman, its game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6
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