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Nvidia says South Korea's Naver will use its technology to build AI factories at “gigawatt scale” to meet rising global demand for AI services and physical AI — Nvidia (NVDA.O) said on Monday that South Korean internet conglomerate Naver (035420.KS) would use its technology … | Choi Eun-Kyung / The Chosun Daily: |
Nvidia and LG expand their partnership in AI, robotics, and mobility tech, including building an AI Factory and co-designing future data center architectures — Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, visited the LG Group headquarters and shouted “Fighting LG,” emphasizing, “We are collaborating with LG … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
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UK PM Keir Starmer says tech companies must introduce safety measures on kids' phones to stop them from sharing nude images or face laws forcing them to do so — Big tech firms operating in Britain must introduce safety measures on children's phones to prevent them from circulating nude images …
More: Daily Mail, Politico, Metro.co.uk, and Mirror
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Report: UK PM Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on “harmful” online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some “safer” social media — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on “harmful” online platforms for children under 16 … | Eddie Makuch / GameSpot: |
Xbox EVP Matt Booty clarifies Microsoft's new exclusivity strategy, saying new games will be reviewed case-by-case and multiplayer games will stay multiplatform — Today's Xbox Games Showcase was the first under the leadership of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who has pledged to consider making changes to Xbox's exclusivity strategy.
More: XBOX Wire, GamesIndustry.biz, IGN, Video Games Chronicle, TheGamer, Gameranx, Push Square, Stevivor, Tech4Gamers, Pure Xbox, XDA Developers, DayOne, Kotaku, and Windows Central
Bluesky: @xboxgamedev and @aarongreenberg
Forums: r/XboxAlly and r/xcloud
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Inside the early 2025 senior exec meeting where Apple admitted its AI failures; Tim Cook became intimately involved in Apple's AI roadmap around the same time — Also: What to expect at WWDC 2026. — A top secret meeting finally got Apple to take its AI crisis seriously.
More: Gizmodo, CNN, Business Standard, The Hans India, TechRadar, T3, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, Barron's Online, Associated Press, Hindustan Times, The Independent, Appleosophy, ZDNET, ZeroHedge News, Daring Fireball, iPhone in Canada, Apple Must, The Deep View, PhoneArena, CNET, Tom's Guide, The Indian Express, Livemint, heise online, and MarketWatch
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Spotify has approached concert promoters about licensing music festival livestreams, as it pivots to video to become a one-stop shop for music fans — Spotify is looking to become a hub for live music — Good evening from New York. I just landed here so that I can help smuggle Charles Oakley … | Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
Fusion energy startup Helion raised a $465M Series G led by Thrive Capital at a $15.5B valuation, nearly tripling the valuation from its January 2025 round — Helion, the fusion startup backed by Sam Altman, announced on Thursday that it had raised $465 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15.5 billion.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Beijing-based Moonshot, which makes the Kimi chatbot, is in talks to raise $1B+ that would value it at $30B, up from a $20B valuation in a recent round — Moonshot AI is seeking as much as $2 billion in a new funding round that would value the startup at $30 billion … | Zack Whittaker / ~this week in security~: |
In a notice to Maine's AG, Meta says ~20K Instagram accounts may have been hacked during the months-long abuse of its Meta AI chatbot, starting April 17 — Meta fixed the bug that let anyone trick its Meta AI chatbot into resetting the password on Instagram accounts that didn't have two-factor authentication.
More: SecurityWeek, 9to5Mac, Security Affairs, Hackread, Maine AG, BleepingComputer, Infosecurity, Cyber Security News, and Memeburn
X: @heaney555. LinkedIn: Zack Whittaker. Bluesky: @yurrpost, @heaney555, @christinaayiotis, and @onthistangent.eurosky.social
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
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KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing — Only 26% of companies say they have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, according to a new survey
More: Digit. X: @eglyman. LinkedIn: Ritesh Patel. Bluesky: @whocouldsay, @oisinmcgann, and @edzitron.com
| The Guardian: |
Microsoft says it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry found Israel's Unit 8200 violated its ToS — Announcement seeks to close a difficult chapter for the company after the Guardian revealed its platform was used in mass surveillance of Palestinians
More: CTech
| Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: |
UK-based Creator Fund closes a $56M fund to back European PhD founders, reaching them in universities before they're pulled into academia, Big Tech, or US labs — Creator Fund has closed a $56 million European fund to back PhD founders before they have a pitch deck, let alone a company.
More: Tech.eu and Tech Funding News
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
London-based PhysicsX, which uses AI to design industrial parts like jet engines and semiconductors, raised a $300M Series C led by Temasek at a $2.4B valuation — PhysicsX, a British startup that develops artificial intelligence models for manufacturing components like jet engines and semiconductors …
More: Tech.eu, Sifted, Financial Times, Silicon Republic, The Next Web, and BusinessCloud
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