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Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
The SEC and CFTC issue guidance on which digital assets are securities, carving out stablecoins, digital collectives, and digital commodities as non-securities  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a long-awaited “token taxonomy” on Tuesday, a key step forward laying out which types …
Reuters:
Sources: Nvidia is preparing to sell a version of Groq chips to the Chinese market that is expected to be available in May and will not be downgraded  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) is preparing a version of its Groq artificial-intelligence chips that can be sold to the Chinese market, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review:
Source: the Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for AI companies to train military-specific versions of their models on classified data  —  The Pentagon is discussing plans to set up secure environments for generative AI companies to train military-specific versions …
Steven Levy / Wired:
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM A.M. Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol  —  Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory.  Now they've been awarded the highest honor in computer science.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Brian Lynch, Apple's senior director in charge of home devices since 2022, leaves for Oura, a setback for a unit already contending with product delays  —  Apple Inc.'s top hardware engineering executive overseeing home devices is leaving for smart ring maker Oura Health Oy …
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
Meta says Quest users will lose access to Meta Horizon Worlds on the headsets on June 15; access will continue on the Meta Horizon mobile app  —  Meta Platforms Inc. said that users of its Quest headsets will lose access to Horizon Worlds, a virtual destination where cartoon versions of people …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app removed from the App Store that used YouTube to source music  —  Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy …
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows, and offering near GPT-5.4-level performance at a much lower cost  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — GPT-5.4 mini runs more than twice as fast as GPT-5 mini.  — New models aim at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows.
Jasmine Sun / The Atlantic:
How AI's post-training process suppresses the creativity and whimsicality seen in earlier models like GPT-2, leading to bad writing from many top AI models  —  Why can't language models write well?  —  In a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI's GPT-2 seven years ago.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Xbow, which uses AI to probe apps for security vulnerabilities, raised $120M led by DFJ Growth and Northzone at a $1B+ valuation, and reports 100+ clients  —  Xbow, a startup that builds AI software to probe applications for security vulnerabilities, has raised a new round of funding that values …
TechCrunch:
Mistral announces Mistral Forge to help enterprises build custom models actually trained on their own data, using Mistral open-weight models as a starting point  —  Most enterprise AI projects fail not because companies lack the technology, but because the models they're using don't understand their business.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Q&A with GV's Tom Hulme on the AI investment cycle, London and Europe's opportunities, Q.ai and Nothing investments, AI privacy issues, sovereign AI, and more  —  The head of the European office of GV talks about the AI investment cycle and predicts a comeback for Google Glass-style smart glasses
Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos / Bloomberg:
AI drone software company Swarmer closed up 520% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at $380M+; its tech has been deployed in 100K+ combat missions in Ukraine  —  Swarmer Inc. shares skyrocketed as much as 700% on Tuesday, making the artificial intelligence drone software company's debut …
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model  —  A powerful artificial intelligence model that appeared anonymously on a developer platform last week has sparked speculation …
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada  —  It's also facing a similar lawsuit in Nevada.  —  Kalshi has been sued by Arizona's attorney general for operating …

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Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Memo: the BBC says it will cut 550 jobs including in its news and content divisions by the start of FY 2027-2028 in the first phase of a plan to save $670M

Thomas Escritt / Bloomberg:
Viktor Orban's media empire collapses two months after his election defeat; about 400 journalists at Mediaworks outlets have been given notices of termination

The Colorado Sun:
The owner of The Denver Post agreed to pay the city of Denver $13.5M under a settlement to cover overdue rent for the news outlet's former building

More News

Simon Sharwood / The Register:
The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings

Earlier Picks

CoinDesk:
Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments, buying $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft says former Snap executive Jacob Andreou will lead Copilot for commercial and consumers; Mustafa Suleyman will focus on building new AI models
Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer:
Nvidia says game developers “have artistic control over DLSS 5's effects”, following backlash alleging that the AI rendering tech alters the source material
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