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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging it accessed Reddit 100K+ times after saying it had stopped; Reddit has reached formal licensing deals with OpenAI and Google — The online discussion forum says Anthropic continued to access its site over 100,000 times after saying it stopped
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X: @andrewarruda, @alexjc, @essobi, @luke_metro, and @xlr8harder
Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/singularity
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI rolls out connectors for services like Dropbox and OneDrive for ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu users; MCP support is coming to Pro, Team, Enterprise — OpenAI's ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recordings …
More: PYMNTS.com, 9to5Mac, CNBC, Thurrott, Neowin, MarTech, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, TestingCatalog, Lifewire, Maginative, and Simon Willison's Weblog
X: @kevinweil, @openai, @dharmesh, @openai, @kevinweil, @thezvi, @openai, @openai, and @levie. Forums: Slashdot
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI says it has 3M “paying business users”, up from 2M in February; ChatGPT Team users can now use a “record mode” for taking notes during meetings — ChatGPT now has 3 million “paying business users” and is adding new features like meeting notes.| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure — The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk …
More: Gizmodo and Above the Law
Bluesky: @daphnek, @skiles.blue, and @mattbowen.net
Mastodon: @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social, @carnage4life@mas.to, @josephcox@infosec.exchange, and @jbhall56@infosec.exchange. LinkedIn: Alex Kasavin
Forums: Hacker News, r/UpliftingNews, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple may announce new features for AirPods at WWDC, including iPhone camera control, new head gestures, and sleep detection for pausing playback — Yesterday, 9to5Mac exclusively preported a handful of iOS 26 features that Apple has been working on and may announce on WWDC for its native apps.
More: MacRumors, The Verge, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada, iClarified, BGR, and The Mac Observer. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Epic v. Apple: a US appeals court rejects Apple's request to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring it to open the App Store to more competition — Apple (AAPL.O) has failed to persuade a U.S. appeals court to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring the iPhone maker … | 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.| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
The US DOJ seized ~145 domains and crypto linked to BidenCash, a dark web market that made $17M+ in revenue since 2022 by selling stolen credit cards and more — Earlier today, law enforcement seized multiple domains of BidenCash, the infamous dark web market for stolen credit cards, personal information, and SSH access.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple Intelligence's China rollout with Alibaba is delayed by Chinese regulators amid US trade war; the country approved 300+ domestic AI models so far — Partnership between US and Chinese tech groups stalled by Beijing regulator in wake of geopolitical tensions
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| Bloomberg: |
Photos and partial footage of an FSD-enabled Tesla sideswiping a parked SUV and hitting a woman in November 2023 show FSD's limits; the NHTSA is investigating — The setting sun was blinding drivers on the Arizona interstate between Flagstaff and Phoenix in November 2023.
More: CleanTechnica, Carscoops, Sherwood News, Benzinga, and EV
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Forums: r/RealTesla, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/TeslaFSD, r/SelfDrivingCars, and r/teslainvestorsclub
| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
Circle priced its upsized IPO at $31 per share, above its marketed range of $27 to $28, raising nearly $1.1B and valuing the company at approximately $6.9B — The firm and backers including co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeremy Allaire sold 34 million shares Wednesday for $31 each … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta reveals more information about its research glasses Aria Gen 2, including their form factor, computer vision cameras, sensors, and on-device compute — Aria Gen 2 is designed to help ‘shape the next computing platform’ with advanced eye- and hand-tracking capabilities.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta has talked with Disney, A24, and other companies about exclusive content for a premium VR device it plans to launch next year for less than $1,000 — Tech company has talked with Disney and A24 about exclusive content for a premium VR device — Meta Platforms is courting Hollywood …
More: UploadVR, The Verge, TVNewsCheck, and Sherwood News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mistral releases Mistral Code, an AI coding assistant forked from open-source project Continue, in private beta on JetBrains development platforms and VS Code — French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own “vibe coding” client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere's Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.
More: Mistral AI, TestingCatalog, VentureBeat, MarkTechPost, and WinBuzzer
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on “a 50% chance” of AGI in the next five to 10 years, bad actors and technical risks, AI regulation, jobs, and more — Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we'll need to radically change how we think and behave.
More: The Guardian, CNET, Mercury News, PC Gamer, Entrepreneur, The Hans India, Business Today, and Benzinga
| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
A comparison of GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4, and Copilot: Claude won overall, having the most consistent answers and no hallucinations — We challenged AI helpers to decode legal contracts, simplify medical research, speed-read a novel and make sense of Trump speeches.| 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 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Reddit now lets users hide posting and commenting history on their profiles via a “Content and Activity” setting, as part of a new “Curate your profile” section — Reddit on Tuesday announced a new feature that will offer its users more privacy when it comes to what's shared on their user profiles.
More: Associated Press, Reddit Upvoted, 9to5Mac, WeRSM, The Verge, Insider Monkey, Neowin, Business Standard, and Engadget
| Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: CrowdStrike says the DOJ and SEC have requested information about the July 2024 outage caused by an update and about its revenue recognition practices — The agencies in part also are seeking details about the company's revenue-recognition practices, CrowdStrike said
More: Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg Law, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, Investor's Business Daily, and Reuters. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon is creating an AI team within its Lab126 hardware R&D unit that will help develop an agentic AI framework for use in its robotics operations — Amazon has formed a new group within its consumer product-development arm that is focused on agentic artificial intelligence, the company said Wednesday.
More: Benzinga, Reuters, and Mercury News
| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Google says hackers loosely affiliated with the Com in the US, the UK, and Western Europe breached 20+ companies in the US and Europe to steal Salesforce data — - Hacker gang impersonate IT staff to gain access to Salesforce — Retailers warned to be vigilant after recent jump in attacks
More: Google Cloud Blog, The Register, Google Cloud Blog, BleepingComputer, Cybersecurity Dive, Livemint, Reuters, and The Record. Forums: r/cybersecurity
| Sam Clark / Politico: |
Microsoft says it didn't stop services to the International Criminal Court, after a May report stated it “cancelled” ICC prosecutor Karim Khan's email address — Chief prosecutor's email issues have spurred fears in Europe that Trump could trigger a “kill switch” through U.S. tech giants abroad.
Bluesky: @gateklons, @sambiddle.com, @robin.berjon.com, @robin.berjon.com, @marypcbuk, and @glynmoody. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
| Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese hackers breached a US telecom company in the summer of 2023, a year before US officials and cybersecurity firms detected the Salt Typhoon hacks — - Attackers said to lurk in victim systems after summer of 2023 — ‘Demodex’ malware previously used against targets in Asia| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 court order requiring it to preserve all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, arguing it poses a risk to users' privacy — OpenAI is now fighting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user logs—including deleted chats and sensitive chats logged through … | CNBC: |
SEC filing: Uber appoints Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora to its board of directors following a broader executive shakeup this week — Nikesh Arora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, is joining Uber's board of directors, the company announced in a regulatory filing Wednesday.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: JPMorgan aims to let clients use some crypto-linked assets as collateral for loans in the coming weeks, starting with BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust — The firm will start providing financing against crypto exchange-traded funds, beginning with BlackRock Inc.'s iShares Bitcoin Trust …
More: PYMNTS.com, DL News, Cryptopolitan, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, The Block, Benzinga, Decrypt, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, ZeroHedge News, CryptoSlate, Watcher Guru, CoinGape, The Coin Republic, and Crypto Briefing. Forums: r/Bitcoin
| Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: |
Two FCC commissioners announce they'll depart this week, creating three vacancies on the five-member panel amid a probe into EchoStar's 5G service obligations — Two members of the Federal Communications Commission announced they'll depart this week, leaving the agency with three vacancies … | Reuters: |
AI coding startups are at risk of being disrupted by Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI; a source says Microsoft's GitHub Copilot grew to $500M+ in revenue in 2024 — Two years after the launch of ChatGPT, return on investment in generative AI has been elusive, but one area stands out: software development.
More: The American Bazaar, Cautious Optimism, The Decoder, Neowin, Tech in Asia, and Cryptopolitan
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Court filings: Deel alleges Rippling's “competitive intelligence manager” Brett Alexander Johnson posed as a customer to access Deel's product and business info — HR start-ups Rippling and Deel trade allegations their leaders directed efforts to steal company secrets from one another| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
More: Semafor, CTech, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, and Deel
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