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Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France — Claude Guillemot, who co-founded French video-game publisher Ubisoft Entertainment SA with his brothers in 1986, has died, according to the company.
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| John Jumper / @johnjumpersci: |
John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize “for protein structure prediction”, says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic — A bit of news: After nearly 9 years, I have decided to leave Google DeepMind and join Anthropic (after taking some time to recharge). I am incredibly grateful for my time at GDM. @demishassabis took a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after finishing
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The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI — Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence, is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC.
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| Ella Creamer / The Guardian: |
Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner — Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore| Aisha Down / The Guardian: |
A speculative scenario titled “Europe 2031” projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race — A speculative thought-experiment warns the continent could pay a heavy price for lagging behind the US
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| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more — When Allbirds pivoted to AI in April, it felt like a joke from “Silicon Valley” breaking free of the TV: The direct …
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| Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online child safety efforts risk mass surveillance, leaving the markets that demand weakening of encryption, more — Meredith Whittaker has spent years arguing that privacy is a prerequisite for a free society.
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Sources: Bain Capital stands to make $15B+ in profits on its 2018 Kioxia buyout, a ~20x return, as Kioxia's stock has surged 5,000%+ since its December 2024 IPO — Bain Capital stands to pocket profits of $15bn on 2018 buyout of Kioxia, the former Toshiba Memory| Nikita Ostrovsky / Time: |
A look at Russia's push to develop homegrown AI talent, as the country is hampered by scarce access to AI hardware and a brain drain of top technical talent — Nikita Ostrovsky … In early April, on a stage in the southwestern outskirts of Moscow, a moderator at Russia's annual Data … | Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, raised $5M led by Lightspeed — You've probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it's been downloaded more than 6 billion times.| Wall Street Journal: |
How success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan is driving stock gains, bigger bonuses, and a retail investing frenzy in Asian markets — Global success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan stokes market fever — Na Se-bin has lost all sense of the value of money.
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amodei was “nice” and “smart” at G7 — President Trump reached the point last week of viewing Anthropic as a national security threat …
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Sources: PC makers, including HP, are in talks with their supply-chain partners about using CXMT's memory chips in products bound for Asia as DRAM prices soar — Prices soar because capacity isn't growing quickly, while China option is limited by national-security concerns| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis says the phonemaker won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone series due to surging memory prices — Nothing's CMF Phone series has released two models thus far and, at least for now, won't be getting a third …
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