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Erin Woo / The Information:
Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for “any lawful government purpose”; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract  —  Google and the Department of Defense signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use Google's AI models on classified work …
Ina Fried / Axios:
Amazon and OpenAI announce an expanded deal that will make OpenAI's models available from AWS, a day after OpenAI revised its Microsoft partnership  —  Amazon and OpenAI on Tuesday announced an expanded deal that will make the AI startup's models available from Amazon's cloud.
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more  —  As I noted yesterday, today's Stratechery Interview is early in terms of my timing — Tuesday instead of Thursday — and late in terms of delivery …
Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Microsoft and OpenAI remove a clause that would have given Microsoft IP rights until OpenAI achieved “AGI”; Microsoft retains use of OpenAI's models until 2032
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching 1B weekly active ChatGPT users by 2025's end, and missed multiple monthly revenue targets earlier in 2026  —  The company's CFO and board have questioned the wisdom of massive data-center spending in the face of slowing growth
Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg:
OpenAI describes a report that it has missed internal goals as “prime clickbait” and says its consumer and enterprise businesses are “firing on all cylinders”  —  OpenAI pushed back against concerns over its sales growth on Tuesday, saying its consumer and enterprise businesses are …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to extend, enhance, and reframe photos  —  Apple Inc. is planning a major overhaul of the built-in photo-editing features for the iPhone, iPad and Mac, leaning heavily on artificial intelligence to better compete with Android devices.
talkie:
AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical texts and with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific discoveries  —  Why vintage language models?  —  Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past?
Anthropic:
Anthropic partners with Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and others to launch connectors that integrate Claude directly into professional creative workflows  —  Creative professionals look to technology to expand what's possible in their work.  Claude can't replace taste or imagination …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its $2.5B Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns  —  The ban sends a message that China is intent on keeping its AI knowledge within the country  —  Meta Platforms is preparing …
Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:
Musk v. Altman: the judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse”, as opening statements begin  —  The judge overseeing a high-profile court case between Elon Musk and OpenAI has asked the tech executives involved …
Wired:
Some jurors selected in the Musk v. Altman trial expressed negative feelings about Elon Musk and AI, but assured the court they would put these concerns aside
Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted  —  Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search “experiment” that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+  —  ‘Ask YouTube’ is a new way to search that generates an AI Mode-like page of information.
Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog:
GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on “availability first, then capacity, then new features”  —  Here's what we've done—and what we're still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
Nellie Peyton / Reuters:
South Africa withdraws its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources that appeared to have been AI-generated  —  South Africa has withdrawn its first draft national AI policy after revelations that it contained fictitious sources in its reference list which appeared to have been AI-generated.
Bluesky: @logik.al.  Forums: r/southafrica
Joel Khalili / Wired:
Q&A with Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards, who says Bloomberg is overhauling the Terminal with chatbot-style interface ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta  —  WIRED spoke with Bloomberg's chief technology officer about the big, chatbot-style changes coming to the iconic platform for traders.
Forums: Slashdot
Financial Times:
Many US rural communities oppose adding AI infrastructure; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are rural, while 87% of existing data centers are in urban areas  —  Many rural communities are viscerally opposed to AI infrastructure, putting them at odds with the White House In Tazewell County …
Luke James / Tom's Hardware:
China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveils the Lingshen project, aiming for 2+ exaFLOPS performance using a domestic-made CPU-only architecture  —  Good luck with that. … China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen announced the Lingshen supercomputer project …
The Guardian:
Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is “simply wrong”  —  Google also rejects need for reform after Albanese government reveals draft news bargaining incentive scheme

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Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
SAG-AFTRA's board adopts a resolution to formally resist Paramount's WBD deal unless “enforceable safeguards” are established against a drop in production

A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
The Atlantic files to dismiss FBI Director Kash Patel's $250M defamation suit, calling it “politically motivated”, and seeks DOJ records to uphold its reporting

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
London-based European Technology Network, a TBPN-like news show livestreaming 5x per week on YouTube and X, raised a $1.6M seed from Axel Springer and others

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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
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Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter:
Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is now the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a “crucible” moment for Snap, and more

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OpenAI:
OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents
Scott Younker / Tom's Guide:
FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, with $794M originating on Facebook; WhatsApp and Instagram were a “distant” second and third
Josh Gerben / Gerben IP:
Taylor Swift's TAS Rights Management files applications to trademark the singer's image and “sound marks”, aiming to protect her against threats posed by AI
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple says iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and visionOS developers can offer monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment from May, except in the US and Singapore
Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines:
Leaked renders based on photos of Samsung's codenamed Jinju smart glasses, expected to launch in 2026, show a design that looks like the Ray-Ban Meta glasses
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