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Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors — Researchers say results mark a ‘profound change in technology that will reshape medicine’ — From George Clooney in ER … | Sanya Mansoor / The Guardian: |
Maryland becomes the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores, as other states including CO, CA, MA, IL, and NJ consider similar bills — Critics say Maryland's new law banning rapidly change product costs based on consumer data is full of carveouts| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
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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| Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable: |
Ask.com shutters, as its owner IAC “continues to sharpen its focus”; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google — “As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com.
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| Victor Swezey / Bloomberg: |
A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate staff just to replace them with AI, following a similar ruling by another Chinese court in December 2025 — A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems … | Reuters: |
Investigation: Nobitex was founded by two brothers from Iran's elite Kharrazi family; the crypto exchange processed hundreds of millions beyond US sanctions — Two brothers from the elite Kharrazi family, using an alternative surname, started up Nobitex in 2018.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: after Trump's World Liberty raised $550M from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions in USD were privately sold in “white glove” transactions — The pitch was straightforward: Invest in the cryptocurrency venture of Donald Trump and his family … | NIST: |
An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date — In April 2026, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) evaluated the open-weight AI model DeepSeek V4 Pro ("DeepSeek V4").
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Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at $120M-$140M — Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks is acquiring AI infrastructure startup Portkey to bolster its defences for autonomous AI systems.| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally over failures to alert law enforcement when users describe plans for real-world violence to ChatGPT — OpenAI's chatbot dispenses advice on weapons and role-plays mass shootings. The carnage is raising scrutiny on when and how companies intervene.| Rachyl Jones / Semafor: |
A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids — In recent months, a slew of top executives at Boston Dynamics have left the company, which Hyundai bought a majority stake in back in 2021.| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of BlackBerry's QNX division, whose operating system controls safety features in 275M cars and accounts for half of BlackBerry's revenue — John Wall has spent nearly his entire career working for the same company. And when he tells people where he works, nobody has any clue what he's talking about.| Javi West Larrañaga / Reuters: |
Amadeus IT Group, which operates the world's largest travel booking system, plans to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security, for €1.2B in cash — Spanish travel technology firm Amadeus (AMA.MC) on Wednesday announced a plan to acquire French biometrics company Idemia Public Security …
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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.Sponsor Posts
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