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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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X: @modestproposal1, @patrickmoorhead, @markgurman, @alexeheath, @alexeheath, @markgurman, and @jdluk87
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/ios, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| 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| 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 … | 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 …
More: Wired, Y Combinator on YouTube, Benzinga, and Computerworld
X: @garrytan, @ycombinator, @rileyraygriffin, and @ellenhuet
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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.
More: SEC.gov, Aflac, The Register, BleepingComputer, DataBreaches.Net, PCMag, Bloomberg, ABC News, CNET, Wall Street Journal, CNN, eSecurity Planet, The Cyber Express, BankInfoSecurity.com, SC Media, New York Post, [your]NEWS, Quartz, Fox Business, Fast Company, Axios, USA Insurance News …, Reuters, The Hill, Cybersecurity Dive, CyberScoop, Baller Alert, Insurance Journal, UPI, WPXI-TV, Yahoo Finance, and Washington Examiner
| 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
More: Maginative, TechCrunch, PitchBook, and SiliconANGLE
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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 …
More: Ace of Spades HQ, BleepingComputer, SC Media, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, Cloudflare, Cyber Security News, Telecoms Tech News, and CyberInsider
X: @eastdakota. Forums: Hacker News, r/CloudFlare, r/technews, r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 …
More: Andreessen Horowitz, StrictlyVC, Bloomberg, Dror Poleg, and Business Insider
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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 …
More: Anthropic, The Economic Times, VentureBeat, PCMag, Simon Willison's Weblog, and TechCrunch
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X: @anthropicai, @teknium1, @simonw, @teortaxestex, @aengus_lynch1, and @anthropicai. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 …
More: Reuters. Bluesky: @henrymance.ft.com and @bencoates1. X: @jonflan. LinkedIn: Marietje Schaake
Forums: r/Economics, r/linux, and r/politics
| 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: GSMArena.com and Tom's Hardware
| 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
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: Reddit is exploring Tools for Humanity's World ID identity system to allow users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous — THE SCOOP — Reddit is considering using World ID, the verification system based on iris-scanning Orbs whose parent company was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.| Magdalena Del Valle / Bloomberg: |
A UN survey of 21 countries finds that trust in AI is strongest in low-income and developing nations; 83% in China and 37.5% in the US said they trust AI — A United Nations study found a sharp global divide on attitudes toward artificial intelligence, with trust strongest in low-income countries and skepticism high in wealthier ones.
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