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Many npm packages for Mistral, UiPath, and TanStack's web developer tools like react-router were compromised, likely in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack — - Immediate triage: Run shasum -a 256 on all router_init.js files in your dependency tree.
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Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: Hacker News and r/reactjs
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Musk v. Altman: Satya Nadella says Elon Musk never contacted him with concerns that Microsoft's investments in OpenAI violated any special terms or commitments — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stand in the Musk v. Altman trial on Monday, where he testified that Elon Musk never contacted …
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Musk v. Altman: Ilya Sutskever testifies that his OpenAI stake is worth ~$7B, and he had concerns about Altman for a year before Altman's brief ouster as CEO — OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever said his stake in the ChatGPT maker is worth roughly $7 billion … | Thinking Machines Lab: |
Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, which can think and respond in real time, letting users and AI interact continuously for better collaboration — Today, we're announcing a research preview of interaction models: models that handle interaction natively rather than through external scaffolding.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/OpenAI
| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog AI News: |
OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities — OpenAI launches Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative integrating AI models and Codex Security to help organizations patch vulnerabilities.
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| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics: Grok's paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 — Adoption by business and consumer users has slowed as parent SpaceX rents out spare computing capacity to rival Anthropic
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| Dustin Volz / New York Times: |
Google's TIG reports the first known example of hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day; TIG's chief analyst says “this is the tip of the iceberg” — The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug.
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| Courtney Rozen / Reuters: |
The US Commerce Department removed from its website details about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models — The U.S. Commerce Department removed details from its website about its agreement with Google, xAI and Microsoft to test their artificial intelligence models …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
GitLab announces layoffs, saying they are “not an AI optimization or cost cutting exercise”, and plans to cut the number of countries it operates in — GitLab Inc., which makes software that helps developers on coding projects, said it is cutting jobs to free up money to spend …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its previous reboot shut down in March — Digg is back from the dead. Again. — Just months after launching, the reboot of Kevin Rose's once-popular link-sharing site shut down in March, as the company shifted course.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default — iOS 26.5 is now available to everyone after six weeks of beta testing. The update adds fresh wallpapers, new features to Apple Maps, and more.
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Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's payments to Microsoft at $38B; they previously could have totaled $135B through 2030 if long-term goals were met — OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar has plenty of things to worry about. But paying OpenAI's early backer Microsoft … | Wall Street Journal: |
The US House Oversight Committee launches a probe into potential conflicts in Sam Altman's personal investments; letter: several GOP AGs call for an SEC review — Republican-led House Oversight Committee says it is investigating, and six GOP state attorneys general are calling for SEC review after WSJ article| Jeremy Stern / Colossus: |
Q&A with Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which hit a $445M revenue run rate in its first 18 months, on his math competition roots, the Devin coding agent, and more — An afternoon with Cognition founder and nerd emperor Scott Wu … There is a familiar arc to the type of mathematical genius … | David Welch / Bloomberg: |
GM plans to lay off IT workers in an effort to trim costs and bring in staff with skills in other tech areas; sources say the cuts will affect 500 to 600 staff — General Motors Co. plans to cut hundreds of salaried workers from its information technology ranks in an effort to trim costs …
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| Ruth Fowler / Wired: |
A Hollywood writer recounts working as an “AI trainer” for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the “new waiting tables” for entertainment workers — For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables.| Financial Times: |
Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets — In-house MeshClaw tool enables employees to delegate jobs to AI agents and climb company's AI leaderboard
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Netflix for allegedly spying on consumers by collecting their data without consent, and designing its platform to be addictive — Netflix (NFLX.O) was sued on Monday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused the streaming company of spying on consumers …
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OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a $4B+ investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acquires AI consulting firm Tomoro — OpenAI said on Monday it is setting up a new company with more than $4 billion in initial investment to help organizations build …
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LinkedIn: Benjamin Schwartz, Sarah Friar, Aiman Ezzat, Colin Jarvis, Christopher Hooper, and Douglas Adams. Threads: @lessin
Forums: r/consulting and r/technology
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