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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.

More: The Next Web, Hindustan Times, RuntimeWire, The Economic Times, TechRadar, The Decoder, Business Insider, and Memeburn

Forums: r/singularity and r/technology

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

More: Reuters and The Verge

Bluesky: @ruoshuiresearch and @ai-nerd

Forums: Hacker News and r/claude

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 …

More: Bloomberg, StrictlyVC, Benzinga, The Next Web, Reuters, and Axios on YouTube

X: @andrewcurran_, @distributedkv, @juddrosenblatt, @yacinemtb, @scaling01, and @gailcweiner. Bluesky: @bnun

Financial Times:

Sources: the UK government is expected to consult as early as this month on rules to make public service news more prominent on social media and video platforms — Move expected in British government green paper would set stage for fresh battle with Big Tech over online misinformation

Erin Woo / The Information:

Docs: OpenAI burned through $3.7B in Q1, on revenue of $5.7B, and ended the quarter with $73B+ in cash and marketable securities vs. $40B at the end of December — OpenAI burned through $3.7 billion in the first quarter, more than half its $5.7 billion in revenue, according to documents the company shared with shareholders.

Bluesky: @jessefelder.com

Financial Times:

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

Wall Street Journal:

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

More: Yahoo Finance

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.

LinkedIn: Lightspeed

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 …

More: The Verge, Neowin, Digital Trends, Android Central, GSMArena.com, TechRadar, Android Authority, and Digit

X: @akisevangelidis, @akisevangelidis, @c4etech, @akisevangelidis, @sillycorns, and @techellatea

Forums: r/CMFTech, r/gadgets, and r/hardware

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:

DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of $8M+ in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for over eight hours in 2025 — Quick Take — Two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency after holding …

More: US Department of Justice, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin News, The Crypto Times, Decrypt, and FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul

Terje Solsvik / Reuters:

Norway imposes a near ban on gen AI use by elementary school children and restricts its use in older kids' education, to prevent a negative impact on learning — Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use …

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, The Decoder, The Verge, Digital Trends, The Next Web, and iPhone in Canada

X: @brexton and @brianmcc. Bluesky: @parismarx.com

Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and Slashdot

Tyler Cowen / Conversations with Tyler:

An interview with Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki on his early decision not to prioritize ad revenue, whether every mega platform becomes an everything app, and more — Dave Baszucki is co-founder and CEO of Roblox, the user-generated gaming platform where all the games are built by the community itself.

More: Conversations with Tyler on YouTube and Marginal Revolution

X: @cowenconvos and @davidbaszucki

Reuters:

South Korean media: Hyundai plans to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M to make the US robotics company a wholly owned subsidiary — Hyundai Motor Group plans to buy SoftBank Group's (9984.T) remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million …

More: Startup Fortune, The Next Web, Seoul Economic Daily, Dow Jones Newswires, DigiTimes, and Tech in Asia

Reuters:

Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX is exploring buying Singapore-based data center operator DayOne; last month, sources said DayOne planned a US IPO at a $20B valuation — Abu Dhabi-backed artificial intelligence investor MGX has been exploring buying Singapore-based data centre operator DayOne …

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