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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he is leaving to “become a startup founder again”, with GitHub and its leadership team moving into Microsoft's CoreAI organization — GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday that he plans to step down, with Microsoft opting not to directly replace the position …
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| Skylar Woodhouse / Bloomberg: |
Trump says he met with Lip-Bu Tan and that the Intel CEO will continue talks with his Cabinet members in the coming days, after calling for his resignation — President Donald Trump said members of his Cabinet would continue discussions with Lip-Bu Tan in the coming days after meeting …
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Trump says “it's possible” to make a deal to let Nvidia sell Blackwell chips “enhanced in a negative way” in China and calls H20 “an old chip” China already has — US president confirms he negotiated ‘a little deal’ with chipmaker's chief Jensen Huang
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Trump family's World Liberty Financial is using a publicly listed company, ALT5 Sigma, to raise $1.5B for the purchase of its WLFI token — World Liberty Financial cofounders Zach Witkoff (left) and Eric Trump. — The Trump family's crypto business, World Liberty Financial … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing most of its pages after it caught AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine — The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it's going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.
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| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Paxos applies to create a US national trust bank, which would allow it to manage and hold assets for customers, following applications by Circle and Ripple — Paxos Trust Company, the cryptocurrency firm behind PayPal's stablecoin, said it is applying to create a national trust bank in the U.S. …
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| Omair Pall / Mashable India: |
xAI makes Grok 4 free for all users worldwide after making Grok Imagine free for all US users; Grok 4 Heavy remains exclusive to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers — xAI releases Grok 4 free, rivals GPT-5 launch. — Elon Musk-owned xAI has officially made the latest version of its AI model … | Charles Capel / Bloomberg: |
SEC filing: crypto exchange Bullish increased the size and price of its US IPO to sell 30M shares for $32 to $33 each, up from 20.3M shares for $28 to $31 each — Bullish increased the size and price of its initial public offering, boosting the potential deal size to $990 million … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Q&A with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Notion's evolution into an “AI workspace”, being profitable, B2B vs. B2C, usage-based pricing for AI, and more — This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. This is the second episode … | Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: |
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages — The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, has sued the generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement.| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges — The operator of Wikipedia on Monday lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain's Online Safety Act, which sets tough new requirements …
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| CNBC: |
Source: StubHub now aims to hold its IPO in September after pausing plans in April; it updated its IPO prospectus, reporting Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to $397.6M — StubHub, the ticketing marketplace that spun out of eBay in 2020, has resumed its plans to go public and is now aiming to hold its IPO next month, CNBC has learned.
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Nvidia announces two low-power Blackwell workstation GPUs, the RTX PRO 4000 SFF and RTX PRO 2000, both featuring compact designs and available later this year — NVIDIA updates RTX Pro Blackwell series with entry-level SKUs — Based on GB203 and GB206 GPUs.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Anthropic adds a memory feature for Claude to reference information from past chats, available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, and soon for other plans — Anthropic has introduced a helpful new feature for Claude that solves a problem similar to one ChatGPT already addressed.
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