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OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to “help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates” — TBPN staff will help with marketing and communications at OpenAI but keep their editorial independence, the ChatGPT parent says
More: CNBC, OpenAI, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, Bloomberg, The Information, The Economic Times, The Verge, Reuters, Business Insider, Deadline, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, ZeroHedge News, TBPN on YouTube, TBPN, Yahoo Finance, Talking Biz News, and Daring Fireball
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Forums: Hacker News and r/OpenAI
| The Keyword: |
Google launches Gemma 4, its “most intelligent” open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license — C — O — Group Product Manager, Google DeepMind — Today, we are introducing Gemma 4 — our most intelligent open models to date.
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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches in-house AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, as it pursues “AI self-sufficiency” — Microsoft on Wednesday launched three new foundational AI models it built entirely in-house — a state …
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
An interview with Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft's AI reorg, how revising its OpenAI deal “unlocked [Microsoft's] ability to pursue superintelligence”, and more — Its new transcription model is a step towards those goals, says Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleyman.
More: GeekWire, Gadget Review, and Techstrong.ai
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| Financial Times: |
Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is “not able to build models in the very largest scale yet” but its “computation ramp is coming to enable us to do” it in 2026 — Tech giant's AI chief says it will have the resources to build frontier systems later this year
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta — It combines Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and other content into something that feels entirely new. … Surf is a slightly hard app to explain.| Cloudflare: |
Cloudflare debuts EmDash, an MIT-licensed, TypeScript-based CMS built on Astro, designed as a serverless “spiritual successor” to WordPress, available on GitHub — The cost of building software has drastically decreased. We recently rebuilt Next.js in one week using AI coding agents.
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model it launched within three days, saying it has “drastically enhanced” agentic coding — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has released its third proprietary AI model in as many days, reinforcing the company's intent … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase says it has won conditional approval from US banking regulators for a national trust company charter, which could let it issue stablecoins and more — Coinbase Global Inc., the largest US cryptocurrency exchange, said it has won conditional approval from banking regulators … | Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Ofcom: the share of adult UK social media users that actively post, share, or comment falls from 61% in 2024 to 49%, as users say they are being more selective — Ofcom research shows people also concerned old posts could affect personal or professional life
More: BBC, Ofcom, Financial Times, Creative Bloq, Neowin, ISPreview UK, and The Hollywood Reporter
| Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire: |
Tim Cook discusses 50 years of Apple and it still being Steve Jobs' company, the “very accessible” Trump administration, his “consistent” values, and more — Apple's iconic CEO speaks exclusively with Esquire about fifty years of Apple history—and the future the company is continuing to create.
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LinkedIn: Tony Fadell. Bluesky: @etk-nv, @petbugs13, and @karlbode.com. Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …. Forums: r/apple
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
How AI helped Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs with just two employees, hit $401M in 2025 sales; it's tracking for $1.8B in 2026 sales — Matthew Gallagher took just two months, $20,000 and more than a dozen artificial intelligence tools to get his start-up off the ground.
More: Bloomberg. X: @galligator, @seamushughes, @altmbr, @gavinpurcell, @turnernovak, @nic_carter, @synbio1, @katienotopoulos, @kyleboas_, @michaelalbertmd, @bryce, @chrissyfarr, @pitdesi, @nickadobos, @nikillinit, @villi, @anothercohen, @alexfmac, and @yrechtman. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Cursor launches Cursor 3, an “agent-first” coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage multiple AI agents — As Cursor launches the next generation of its product, the AI coding startup has to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic more directly than ever.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts and Veo 3.1 support — Google on Thursday added new features to its video editor app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts, Veo 3.1 support …
More: 9to5Google, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Neowin, The Keyword, Digital Trends, The Deep View, Decrypt, and CNET
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance — Instead, a mental health startup shut down and open-sourced its tech. … For the past seven years, the California-based startup Kintsugi … | Stephen Morris / Financial Times: |
Sources: AI startup Poolside held talks with Google and others to revive a Texas data center project after a CoreWeave deal and a $2B Nvidia-led round collapsed — AI start-up held talks with Google and other cloud providers in bid to revive ambitious 2-gigawatt Texas project| The Economic Times: |
Sources: Oracle has cut ~10,000 jobs in India, or ~20% of its Indian workforce, as part of a restructuring that reportedly affects 30,000 employees globally — Oracle has cut around 10,000 jobs in India, sources told ET. This is part of a global restructuring affecting 30,000 employees.
More: The American Bazaar, Reuters, Cyber Security News, Business Today, The Indian Express, Cautious Optimism, Dow Jones Newswires, The Register, and Moneycontrol
LinkedIn: Abhishek Gupta and Mithun Yaligar
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