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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products — In recent weeks, Fidji Simo has burst into public view as the OpenAI executive bringing much-needed discipline to the AI startup …
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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M+ in 2026, for “low hundreds of millions of dollars”; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent — ChatGPT-maker moves into broadcasting with deal for TBPN after it had pledged to abandon ‘side-quests’
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| Matt Mullenweg: |
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks WordPress' cross-platform democratization — So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security.
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| Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: |
Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior “in ways that matter,” such as driving it to act unethically — Can we teach machines to feel? Short answer: We don't know. But we can teach them to sound like they do.
More: Anthropic, PCWorld, Anthropic's Interpretability Research, and Digit
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| Maureen Farrell / New York Times: |
Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok — Mr. Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history.
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: |
Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK-based startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs — Cinemersive Labs will join the company's Visual Computing Group. — Sony Interactive Entertainment, owner of the PlayStation brand …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter text-only reasoning model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use — The baton of open source AI models has been passed on between several companies over the years since ChatGPT debuted in late 2022 …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option — Meta has told members of its independent Oversight Board that the company may stop funding it after 2028, sources familiar with the situation told Platformer.
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| Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment to sell their prior work materials for AI training, even if the IP could belong to ex-employers — AI models from the tech giants constantly need new training data. This $10 billion startup is on the hunt for fresh resources.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Chinese semiconductor companies like SMIC reported record 2025 revenue, driven by AI demand and China's self-sufficiency push as a result of US restrictions — Chinese semiconductor firms have reported record revenue last year driven by AI demand, a shortage of memory chips and U.S. export restrictions …
More: DigiTimes
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 — Israeli firm seeks critical funding through a SPAC merger amid mounting market pressures. — Israeli chip company Hailo … | Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
A US bill seeks to ban exports of DUV lithography tech to China, whose imports of chipmaking equipment reportedly grew from $10.7B in 2016 to ~$51.1B in 2025 — The MATCH Act would tighten existing restrictions on a critical choke point for the AI industry, banning exports of certain manufacturing tools across China.
More: Reuters, Reuters, NewsMax.com, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, and Hindustan Times. Bluesky: @whoknowsnow
| Rina Chandran / Rest of World: |
Some startups and researchers who can't access the most advanced chips are adopting a “frugal AI” approach, building smaller models on open-weight systems — Amid a widening global divide in AI adoption, low-cost AI models that can deliver sovereignty and efficiency …
More: Silicon Canals. LinkedIn: Rina Chandran. Mastodon: @oscarjiminy@aus.social and @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: Huawei's Ascend 950PR chip, set for mass production soon, saw prices rise 20% after Chinese tech giants placed bulk orders to run DeepSeek's V4 model — When DeepSeek introduces its next-generation model, likely in the next few weeks, it will mark a milestone in China's yearslong quest for semiconductor self-sufficiency.Sponsor Posts
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