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Sources: Apple execs have held internal discussions about bidding for, or partnering with, Perplexity, seeking to address the need for more AI talent and tech — Apple Inc. executives have held internal discussions about potentially bidding for artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg recently discussed buying Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab, but the talks didn't progress to the formal offer stage — Mark Zuckerberg has been playing the field as he looks to reboot his AI strategy. … At this point, it's becoming easier …
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang, whose ties to influential people in the AI industry and the GOP could give Meta leverage over its competitors — Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang is such an enthusiastic networker that his former roommate — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman …
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| Philip Stafford / Financial Times: |
BitcoinTreasuries.net: about 130 publicly-listed companies currently hold a combined ~$87B in bitcoin, about 3.2% of all the bitcoins that will ever exist — Corporate treasuries now hold more than 3% of the world's biggest cryptocurrency, a stash worth $87bn| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Cluely, which wants to help users “cheat on everything”, including job interviews and exams, raised a $15M Series A led by a16z, two months after a $5.3M seed — Cluely, a startup that claims to help users “cheat” on job interviews, exams, and sales calls, has raised …
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
Insurance giant Aflac says a cybercrime group breached its systems and may have stolen data; source: the attack bears the hallmarks of Scattered Spider — Insurance company Aflac said a “sophisticated cybercrime group” breached its systems and may have stolen data.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Cloudflare says it mitigated a record-breaking 7.3Tbps DDoS attack in mid-May, which delivered 37.4TB of junk traffic to the target in just 45 seconds — Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger …
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| New York Times: |
Microsoft suspending an ICC judge's email account raised alarms across EU about how dependent its governments, businesses, and citizens are on US tech companies — To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently suspended the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised $2B led by a16z at a $10B valuation; Murati will hold board voting rights that outweigh all other directors — Six-month-old secretive AI start-up in one of the largest initial funding rounds in Silicon Valley's history
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Anthropic's test of 16 top AI models from OpenAI and others found that, in some cases, they resorted to malicious behavior to avoid replacement or achieve goals — Large language models across the AI industry are increasingly willing to evade safeguards, resort to deception and even attempt …
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| Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg: |
Kantar: the share of Indians consuming media exclusively on mobile phones grew to 23% in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, as TVs stay unaffordable for many — The number of users who only use digital channels ballooned to 23% in the March quarter of 2025, according to market research firm …
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| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Huawei unveils a beta version of HarmonyOS 6, making it available to developers, and announces the HarmonyOS Agent Framework to help developers create AI agents — The tech giant did not give a public launch date for the latest version of the operating system, but said it will be more intelligent and open
More: Tom's Hardware
| South China Morning Post: |
How Huawei has remained resilient in the face of US sanctions; Mizuho: about 700,000 units of Huawei's Ascend 910 series are expected to ship in 2025 — Huawei is expected to ship about 700,000 Ascend AI processors in 2025, according to Mizuho estimates — By Ann Caoin Shanghai and Wency Chenin Shanghai| Alex Riehl / BetaKit: |
Report: Vista Equity Partners and Blackstone buy out other investors in Assent for $400M, valuing the Ottawa-based supply chain software company at $1.3B — Company spokesperson denied that Assent had been acquired, but declined to break down post-deal ownership structure.
Source: Globe and Mail
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