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Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay after quietly building a stake; GameStop had a market cap of ~$11B as of May 1, while eBay had ~$45B — Retailer's CEO Ryan Cohen has been eyeing a major deal, in part to clinch a huge payday — GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay …
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Apple has stopped offering a 256GB storage option for the Mac mini globally; Mac mini now starts at 512GB for $799 in the US — Apple this week stopped offering a 256GB storage option for the Mac mini worldwide. As a result, the desktop computer now has a higher starting price.
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A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO — The chief financial officer is managing Sam Altman—and ambitions for one of the biggest IPOs ever. She has pulled off impossible ones before.
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A look at casino-style games, considered gambling in some US states, where player “whales” spend tens of thousands via IAP on Apple, Google, and Meta platforms — “please remove this game from my computer ..thank you,” read the email to a customer service representative for High 5 Casino … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring “always-on reasoning”, 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices — While Elon Musk faces off against his former colleague and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman in court, Musk's rival firm xAI …
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Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing for a US IPO at a $4B valuation with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase advising — Opay Digital Services Ltd. is working with Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. as the Nigeria-focused payments platform prepares …
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| Taylor Lorenz / Wired: |
How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others — Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a “sustained, cross-border attack” — Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ever since …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/Ubuntu, Lobsters, and Ars OpenForum
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Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI inference chips from UK-based Fractile when they become available in 2027 — As Anthropic's sales explode, straining the servers it uses, the company is considering adding another source of AI server chips in addition to existing suppliers Google, Amazon and Nvidia.| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
A UK court orders Samsung to pay ZTE $392M for patents needed to enable phone network access; Samsung faces similar suits from ZTE in China, Germany, and Brazil — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) must pay a $392 million lump sum for a licence to use ZTE's (000063.SZ) patents for mobile phones …
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Ripple Labs investor and exec Chris Larsen plans to spend $3.5M to help Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation — Chris Larsen, who hails from California, plans to spend $3.5 million to help Alex Bores, a New York congressional candidate … | Lisa Richwine / Reuters: |
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issues new rules saying acting and writing must be performed by humans and not AI to be eligible for Oscars — Academy Awards organizers issued new rules on Friday to clarify that acting and writing must be performed by humans …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing AI models for robots; Assured Robot Intelligence's team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs — Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing artificial intelligence models for robots … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised $125M+ across seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1B valuation — Tyson Chen and Apurva Shrivastava were chasing restaurants when they found an HVAC company. — The two engineers had first met … Sponsor Posts
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