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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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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
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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| John Jumper / @johnjumpersci: |
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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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| Dana Goldstein / New York Times: |
A look at “humanizer” and “autotyper” apps that help students evade AI-detection software by slowly auto-typing essays and making AI text sound less robotic — Big tech companies and small start-ups are using social media to hype new tools that allow students to trick teachers and A.I. detectors.
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| Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Jane Street's push to supercharge trading with AI and become a major AI investor; it invested $1B in CoreWeave in April and has a stake in Anthropic — The firm has surged from a handful of staffers to 3,500 with plans to recruit more than 500 employees this year.| 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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| Mariana Catacci / CNN: |
Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states — An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning … | Financial Times: |
Inside Palantir's fight to save its £330M, seven-year contract with NHS England, as public and political pressure grows to end the deal via a 2027 break clause — Critics question how the tech giant won a showpiece contract. It complains about the politicisation of procurement.
More: UKTN
| 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: |
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 concernsSponsor Posts
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